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CHAPTER IX
Death of Archbishop Harlay.—Scene at Conflans.—“The Good Langres.”— A Scene at Marly.—Princesses Smoke Pipes!—Fortunes of Cavoye.— Mademoiselle de Coetlogon.—Madame de Guise.—Madame de Miramion.—Madame de Sevigne.—Father Seraphin.—An Angry Bishop.—Death of La Bruyere.— Burglary by a Duke.—Proposed Marriage of the Duc de Bourgogne.—The Duchesse de Lude.—A Dangerous Lady.—Madame d’O.—Arrival of the Duchesse de Bourgogne.
CHAPTER X
My Return to Fontainebleau.—A Calumny at Court.—Portrait of M. de La Trappe.—A False Painter.—Fast Living at the “Desert.”—Comte d’Auvergne.—Perfidy of Harlay.—M. de Monaco.—Madame Panache.—The Italian Actor and the “False Prude”.
CHAPTER XI
A Scientific Retreat.—The Peace of Ryswick.—Prince
of Conti King of
Poland.—His Voyage and Reception.—King
of England Acknowledged.—Duc de
Conde in Burgundy.—Strange Death of Santeuil.—Duties
of the Prince of
Darmstadt in Spain.—Madame de Maintenon’s
Brother.—Extravagant Dresses.
Marriage of the Duc de Bourgogne.—The Bedding
of the Princesse.—Grand
Balls.—A Scandalous Bird.
CHAPTER XII
An Odd Marriage.—Black Daughter of the
King.—Travels of Peter the
Great.—Magnificent English Ambassador.—The
Prince of Parma.—
A Dissolute Abbe.—Orondat.—Dispute
about Mourning.—M. de Cambrai’s
Book Condemned by M. de La Trappe.—Anecdote
of the Head of Madame de
Montbazon.—Condemnation of Fenelon by the
Pope.—His Submission.
CHAPTER XIII
Charnace.—An Odd Ejectment.—A
Squabble at Cards.—Birth of My Son.—
The Camp at Compiegne.—Splendour of Marechal
Boufflers.—Pique of the
Ambassadors.—Tesse’s Grey Hat.—A
Sham Siege.—A Singular Scene.—
The King and Madame de Maintenon.—An Astonished
Officer.—
Breaking-up of the Camp.
CHAPTER XIV
Gervaise Monk of La Trappe.——His Disgusting Profligacy.—The Author of the Lord’s Prayer.—A Struggle for Precedence.—Madame de Saint-Simon.— The End of the Quarrel.—Death of the Chevalier de Coislin.—A Ludicrous Incident.—Death of Racine.—The King and the Poet.—King Pays Debts of Courtiers.—Impudence of M. de Vendome.—A Mysterious Murder.— Extraordinary Theft.
CHAPTER XV
