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Title: Louise de La Vallière and the early life of Louis XIV
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Lair, Jules Auguste, 1836- (from old catalog) Mayne, Ethel Colburn, d. 1941, tr
Subjects: La Vallière, Françoise-Louise de La Baume Le Blanc, duchesse de, 1644-1710 Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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a rival. This is astonishing ;but it must be attributed to the juvenility of Louis,and to the fact that he, together with this sameGuiche, had been brought up quite familiarly withTr^ville, Rohan, Lesdiguieres, and Brienne. Theseyoung men, finding their comrade not quite so lively ^ There was once to be seen, at the Castle of Bures (Seine et Oise),a picture after the style of Le Febvre. It represented a young womanas Diana. In the background was Love pointing out Actseon to somenymphs. Dianas coiffure seems to indicate a time twenty or twenty-five years further on than that which we are occupied with ; but thisis not sufficient to establish that the picture was not painted in i66l ;it might have been a fancy-coiffure afterwards adopted by fashion.Assuredly we do not mean to identify the Diana of Bures with theDiana of Fontainebleau. It is worth noting, however, that, accordingto one tradition, it is a portrait of the Princesse de Conti. 2 He had received a terrible wound on the hand.
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From an engraving by R. Nanteuil LOUIS XIV. Louise de La Valli^re )^ as themselves, took it into their heads that he wassomewhat silly; and from that early companionship theyhad retained a certain contempt for the King, whonoticed it, and in whose mind it secretly rankled—to their ultimate undoing. At last, either from fear or from caprice, or elsein remembrance of his part in the Royal ballet ofLIm-patience^ Guiche decided to withdraw in favourof his kingly rival; but the imprudent boy did it witha very bad grace, and said most disagreeable thingsto Mile de La Valli^re. Then, since at twenty nothingcan last, the very next day—as in a game of settingto partners!—he took the Kings former place besideMadame Henrietta, and that with such ostentationthat Louis, who never allowed any one to adopt hisown methods, ordered him to leave Fontainebleau.Upon this the Venetian Ambassador (these Italiandiplomatists have often shown greater intelligence !)wrote to his Government that the union

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