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selle Gives the Principalities of Eu and Dombes i

said to me: "If you had more patience, and a sweeter and more pliant temper, I would employ you to go and have a

hat she has made others endure. I cannot accept such a commission. But Madame de Maintenon, who is gentleness itself, is suitable-no one more so for

and both he and I begge

aine to

olours, and upon that Mademoiselle asked his permission to embrace him, and to tell him how amiable and worthy of belongin

ir fidelity, and their excellent discipline. The Marechal de Bassompierre made

nsier arms. The laurel crown, with which Triumphs were ornamenting her head, and the scaled cuirass of Pallas completed her decoration. M. le Duc du Maine praised, without affectation, the intelligence of the artist; and

adame de Maintenon. "His urbanity is of good origi

ouse; he spoke of it all the evening. He even added that you had ordered it all

diture and tyranny; I thanked him for his good intentions, and prayed him not to put himself out for me. I found there thickets already made, of an indescribable charm; he wanted, on the instant, to clear them away, so that one could testify that all this new park was his. If

en she had come to her bedroom, she showed the Marquise

Why do you give yourself this torture?" continued the ambassadress. "The continual presence of an unhappy and beloved being feeds your grie

never come," cri

the marshal's baton, which was offered him in despite of his youth, deeply offended the King, and the disturbance he allowed himself to make at Madame de Montespan's depicted him as a dangerous and wrong-headed man. Those are his sins. Rest assured, Princess, that I am well informed. B

he has betrayed us, she will betray us again; the offence of M. de Lauzun is always present in her memory, and she is a lady who does not easily forgive. As for you, madame, I know that the King consi

ould be offered to M. le Duc du Maine, and that, by assuring a part of her succession to that young prince, she had a sure method of moving

give, at once, to his dear and amiable child the County of Eu and my

who worships her pupi

omised to return and

y; she solicited the liberty of the Marquis de Lauzun, and the

onation of the two principalities which I have named. His Majesty, out of courtesy, left her the revenues, and, in