Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1922 Excerpt: ... Mademoiselle de la Valliere; and the story runs that the King, while hunting in the forests, heard her say to her companions, who were pressing her to tell whom she would like to marry if she might choose from all the men in France, that the Xing had always been her hero and her lover, and that if her dream didn't come true--and she knew well enough that it couldn't--she would never marry. This romantic avowal, overheard romantically, so flattered Louis that he ordered her to his Court, and loved her till he met Madame de Montespan, one of Mademoiselle de la Valliere's school-fellows. To be cut out by one of her school-fellows was Louise's fate. One is always robbed by one's best friend; and finding that the King was for ever wearied of her, and would never pick up her thread again, Louise retired to a convent. Madame de Montespan was superseded by Madame de Maintenon. But, Lewis, I cannot relate two centuries of French history in a single night." "Not in detail, but tell me who succeeded Louis XIV.?" "Louis XV." "Was he given to mistresses?" he asked. She answered: "More than any other man "; and he begged her to relate the rise and fall of the great Madame de Pompadour, her name having captured his imagination. "How we have declined," he said at the end of the long narrative. "Once I thought Julia Baron, Blanche d'Antigny, Marie Pellegrin and Leonie Leblanc wonderful. They are but cocottes, whereas Madame de Pompadour and Madame du Barry were courtesans in the finest sense of the word. But how is it that you know French history so well?" And Lucy answered that English history had no interest for her whatever, but French history was her favourite study, and of all periods the Napoleonic was her specialty. She had been collecting Napoleonic relics for years...
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