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Title: Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon on the times of Louis XIV. and the regency. Translated and abridged by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, from the ed. collated with the original manuscript by M. Chéruel. Illustrated with ports. From the original
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de, 1675-1755 Wormeley, Katharine Prescott, 1830-1908
Subjects: France -- History Louis XIV, 1643-1715 France -- History Regency, 1715-1723 France -- Court and courtiers
Publisher: Boston Hardy, Pratt
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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o be made marshal of France. She cous-ined and brought forward and took immense interestin all who had the honour to belong to her, being in this,though very haughty, entirely difierent from what theprinces of the blood have now become in that respect.She wore mourning scrupidously for very ordinary andeven very distant relatives, often explaining how and whythey were so. Monsieur and Madame never left her duringher illness. Besides the intimacy that had always existed,under all circumstances, between herself and Monsieur, thelatter was hovering over her rich inheritance, and was, infact, her residuary legatee. But the fattest morsels hadescaped him. The published Memoirs of this princess reveal plainlyher weakness for M. de Lauzun, and the folly of the latterfor not marrying her the moment he obtained the kings per-mission, in order to do so with more pomp and splendour.Their despair at the withdrawal of the kings permission wasextreme, but the donations given under the marriage con-
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^//y .y/■/////// ■ / f////f ////■/.)/ /// 1G93) IVIEMOIKS OF THE DUG DE SAINT-SIMON. 59 tract were already made, and confirmed by other deeds.Monsieur, prompted by M. le Prince, had urged the kingto retract; but Madame de Montespan and M. de Louvoishad even greater influence, and on them fell all the fury ofMademoiselle and the rage of the favourite, for M. de Lauzunwas really that. Though not for long ; he burst forth morethan once to the king, and oftener still to the mistress, andgave fine chances to the minister to ruin him. It endedfinally in his being arrested and sent to Pignerol, where hewas extremely ill-treated by Louvois orders and remainedfor ten years. Mademoiselles love did not cool during hisabsence. It was turned to profit in order to make a grandestabhshment for the Due du Maine ^ at her expense andthat of M. de Lauzun, whose hberty w^as thus purchased.Eu, Aumale, Dombes, and other estates were given to M. duMaine, to Mademoiselles great regret. And it was mider

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