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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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etes at Marly were given on the 23d of Julyand on the 3d of September, 1684. At the fete of the 21stof August, 1685, they played before supper the Sicilien ofMoliere, and after supper there was a ball. During the so-journ of the court in September, 1686, Madame de Mon-tespan, furious at her downfall, and yet unwilling to vanishfrom the scene, remarked bitterly to the king after dinnerthat she had a favor to ask of him during the stay at Marly—namely, that he would permit her to entertain the people ofthe second carriage, and to divert the antechamber. In 1687the sojourns of the court were longer and more frequent,and gambling began for high stakes. In September, 1689,there was a lottery, at which the ladies, with tickets whichcost them nothing, gained articles of jewelry adorned withpearls and diamonds, brocades, and silverware. At all courtlotteries, unless given for some special purpose, the objectswon were presents from the king. After the lottery the1 Saint-Simon, III, p. 25.136
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Marly comedy-ballet of the Bourgeois Gentilhomme was played inthe salon; the king was seated in the balcony. The winterof 1700 was especially gay at Marly. There were more ballsand masquerades than usual, and also small dances, which theking was fond of having at Marly, and at which he tookpleasure in seeing his daughters, Madame de Chartres andMme. la Duchesse, and his granddaughter-in-law, the Duch-esse de Bourgogne, dance. In the same year music becamethe fashion, and the kings musicians were summoned to giveconcerts in the apartments of Madame de Maintenon. It was at Marly, at a ball on the 23d of January, 1705,that the Princesse des Ursins, who had been exiled to Romein the previous year by Louis XIV, reappeared in triumph,and took, according to Saint-Simon, such a high flightthat its like had never been seen before. It is interesting tosee what this high flight was. Saint-Simons portraitof the Princesse des Ursins is to the life: She was rathertall than otherwise, a brunette, wi

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