Part 42 (2/2)
”I have been told so,” the sick man replied; ”but I have also been told that you i
What need have you to quarrel with Madaesture? You see's friendshi+p for the Marquise Well, suppose you have guessed aright his Majesty's sentiments; will your dissatisfaction and your sarcas, and the prince froets everything he wants, and M de Montespan experienced that when he wished to set hiainst your joint wills
”I am nearerthis whirlpool of disappointments, ambitions, errors, and mutual injustice, I should like to see you free, at peace, reconciled to your real interests, and out of reach, forever, of the vicissitudes of fortune In my eyes, your position is that of a shi+p-ohoreat riches With moderation and prudence, it depended on hi success, and at last to enjoy his life; but ambition and vain desire drive him afresh upon this sea, so fruitful in shi+pwrecks, and his last venture destroys all his prosperity and all his one to rest fro to rest not long after her, having worn out ”
The Marquis de Seignelay, eldest son of thisto the principal offices of his father He made a mistake
The place of secretary of state and controller-general passed to the President Pelletier, who had been chosen by M Colbert hiardens, and works went to swell the numerous functions of the Marquis de Louvois, ished for and counted on it
MM de Blainville and Seignelay had good posts, proportioned to their capacity; the King never ceased to look upon them as the children of his dear M Colbert
[It nelay was already Minister of Marine, an office which remained with him--Ed]
Before his death, this hters beco, who had been pleased to iven each of them a dowry of a million in cash
As for the Abbe Colbert, already promoted to the Bishopric of Montpellier (to which three important abbeys were joined), he had the Archbishopric of Toulouse, with an immense revenue It is true that he took a pleasure in rebuilding his archiepiscopal palace and cathedral out of a huge and ancient treasure, which he discovered whilst pulling down soht say that there was some force of attraction attached to this faive themselves up and obey them
CHAPTER xxxIII
Mesdee of puberty--Madaer of the Queen-mother--The Cardinal's Policy--First Love--Louis de Beauvais--The Abbe de Rohan-Soubise--The E-in--The Handso
At the ti without impatience to the authority of the Queen, his th underwent a sudden development, and this lad became, all at once, a man The numerous nieces of Cardinal Mazarin, ere particularly dear to the Queen, were as much at the Louvre as at their own holadly released them from the etiquette which was ihed, sang or frolicked, after the aily in their reeable sisters, when one is happy enough to have such He lived fraternally with these pretty Italian girls, but his intioverness watched night and day over a young reatly subject to surveillance
At the sast the Queen's woht up, as called Madaht coraceful plu Madame de Beauvais noticed the sudden development of the monarch, his iaze She thought she had detected intentions on his part, and an i hi, authorised her, or seeible reply The young wooer showed hi was completed
Madame de Beauvais was the recipient of the prince's first emotions, and the clandestine connection lasted for three , wished at first to punish her first ; but the Cardinal, more circumspect, represented to her that this connection, of which no one kneas an occupation, not to say a safeguard, for the young King, whose fine constitution and health naturally drew hie,” he added, ”the prince abandons the whole authority to you; whereas another, in his place, would ardently dispute it Do not let us quarrel with him about trifles; leave him his Beauvais lady, so that he may make no attempt on my pretty nieces nor on your authority, ood of the State”
Anne of Austria, as more a Christian and a mother than a diplounised their is remained as they were
Madame de Beauvais had a son, whoht into the world with ht, and whom, with a wealth of royalist respect, they baptised under the agreeable naure and constitution, received a particularly careful education He has solance and smile He presents, however, only the intellectual habit of his randeur and elevation He is a very pretty waiting-woman, dressed out as a cavalier; in a word, he is that pliant and indefatigable courtier, e see everywhere, and whoreet by the name of Baron de Beauvais
His sister is the duchesse de Richelieu, true daughter of her father, as ugly, or rather as lacking in charence,--with that intelligence which perpetually suggests a huin, and which wearies or ie of seventeen, her freshnessDuc de Richelieu of having seduced her, and nation and intrigues, and of the reproaches of the Queen, hastened to confess his fault, and to repair everything byher