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Title: Versailles and the court under Louis XIV
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Farmer, James Eugene, 1867-1915
Subjects: Versailles (France) -- Description France -- Court and courtiers
Publisher: New York, The Century co.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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all this crowd left directly.The bastards, a few favorites, and the valets alone were left.It was then a good opportunity for talking with the king,—for example, about plans of gardens and buildings,—and theconversation lasted more or less according to the personsengaged in it. All the court, meanwhile, waited for the kingin the gallery, the captain of the guards being alone in thechamber, seated at the door of the cabinet. During this pausethe king gave audiences when he wished to accord any, spoketo any persons he might wish to speak to secretly, and gavesecret interviews to foreign ministers in presence of Torcy.They were called secret simply to distinguish them fromthe uncommon ones by the bedside. The king then went to mass, where his musicians alwayssang an anthem. He came and went by the door of thecabinets into the gallery; and while he was going to andreturning from mass, everybody spoke to him who wished,after apprising the captain of the guards, if they were not 164 00.
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His Daily Life distinguished. He did not go below 1 except on grand fetesor at ceremonies. . . . During all his life, the king failedonly once in his attendance at mass; it was when he waswith the army during a forced march. He missed no fast-day, unless really indisposed. Some days before Lent hedeclared publicly that he should be very much displeased ifany one ate meat or gave it to others, under any pretext.He ordered the grand provost to look to this and report allcases of disobedience; but no one dared to disobey his com-mands, for they would soon have found out the cost. Theyextended even to Paris, where the lieutenant of police keptwatch and reported. For twelve or fifteen years the kinghimself, however, had not observed Lent. At church he wasvery respectful. During his mass everybody was obliged tokneel at the Sanctus, and to remain so until after the com-munion of the priest, and if he heard the least noise, or sawanybody talking during the mass, he was much displeased.At the

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