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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
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ed that she, the bastardof the king, had much honored the Due dOrleans in marry-ing him! The Due dOrleans often laughed at her pride, andcalled her Madame Lucifer in speaking to her, and she ad-mitted that the name did not displease her. She always re-ceived his advances with coldness and a sort of superiority ofgreatness. She was a princess to the backbone, at all hoursand in all places. Yet, at the same time, her timidity wasextreme. The king could have made her feel ill with a singlesevere look. 1 Madame has drawn a portrait of the Duchesse de Chartres,her most unwelcome daughter-in-law. In my opinion,says she, my sons wife has no charms at all. I dont knowwhether my son loves her much, but I know she does what shepleases with him. . . . She paints beyond all measure, so thatshe is often quite red. She is often ill, and always has afictitious malady in reserve. I believe that all her indispo-sitions and weaknesses come because she always lies in bed or 1 Saint-Simon, II, p. 337.326
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The Due and Duchesse de Chartres on a sofa; she eats and drinks reclining, through mere idle-ness. . . . She is so indolent that she will not stir; she wouldlike larks ready roasted to drop into her mouth. She is sovain that she thinks she has more sense than her husband, whohas a great deal. 1 The Due and Duchesse de Chartres lived with Monsieurand Madame at St. Cloud or in Paris at the Palais Royal.At Versailles they had apartments in the south wing of thechateau. 1 Memoirs of the Duchesse dOrleans, p. 175. 327 VIII THE KINGS CHILDREN THE children the king had had by his mistresseswere a source of continual difficulty at court.Louis never neglected any of his children; theymight be illegitimate, but he never on that accountfailed in his responsibility toward them as a father and a king.By the Duchesse de la Valliere, he had had the Comte de Ver-mandois and Mile, de Blois; by Madame de Montespan, eightchildren, four of whom died rather young, leaving the Due duMaine, Mile, de Nantes,

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