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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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nd had hisdinner, as usual, with the ladies. Tears often ran down hischeek during the meal, which was short. Then he shut him-self up in Madame de Maintenon s apartments until sevenoclock, when he took a turn in the garden. Afterward heworked with Chamillart and Pontchartrain, and arranged allthe funeral ceremonies of Monsieur. He supped an hour be-fore his customary time, and went to bed soon afterward. Next morning, Friday, the 9th of June, the Due de Char-tres came to the king, who was still in bed, and who spoke tohim in a very friendly manner. He said that the duke mustfor the future regard him as his father, that he would takecare of his position and his interests, that he had forgotten allthe causes of anger he had had against him, and that he hopedthe duke would also forget them. It may easily be conceivedhow well M. de Chartres answered all this. ... As for M.de Chartres himself, he was prodigiously well treated. Theking gave him all the pensions Monsieur had enjoyed, be- 312
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imofBraun, CltmenttCo. Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchesse dOrleans, Princess Palatine Monsieur and Madame sides allowing him to retain his own, so that he had 1,800,-ooo livres a year, in addition to the Palais Royal, St. Cloud,and other mansions. He had a Swiss guard, which nonebut the sons of France had ever had before, and, in fact, heretained all the privileges his father had enjoyed, and tookthe title of Due dOrleans. All these honors, so great andso unheard-of, bestowed on M. de Chartres, and an income of100,000 crowns more than his father had had, were due solelyto the recent quarrel between Monsieur and the king. 1 In such fashion the king made amends for his quarrel withMonsieur, and a few years later the new Due dOrleans wasgiven command of an army in Italy. MADAME The second wife of Monsieur was an uncommon woman, andhad by no means an easy time at the court of Versailles. Shewas homely, blunt, and outspoken; she was first and last andalways a German; she had neither French tast

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