Excerpt: ...however exalted his rank, to contend against the king. Sorrow of the marquis. The injured marquis, finding all his efforts Pg 216 vain, returned wifeless and childless to his chateau. Announcing that to him his wife was dead, he assumed the deepest mourning, draped his house and the liveries of his servants in crape, and ordered a funeral service to take place in the parish church. A numerous concourse attended, and all the sad ceremonies of burial were solemnized. Vexation of Louis. The king was greatly annoyed ...
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Excerpt: ...however exalted his rank, to contend against the king. Sorrow of the marquis. The injured marquis, finding all his efforts Pg 216 vain, returned wifeless and childless to his chateau. Announcing that to him his wife was dead, he assumed the deepest mourning, draped his house and the liveries of his servants in crape, and ordered a funeral service to take place in the parish church. A numerous concourse attended, and all the sad ceremonies of burial were solemnized. Vexation of Louis. The king was greatly annoyed. The scandal, which spread throughout the kingdom, placed him in a very unenviable position. The marquis would probably have passed the rest of his life in one of the oubliettes of the Bastile had he not escaped from France. Madame de Montespan, in her wonderfully frank Memoirs, records all these facts without any apparent consciousness of the infamy to which they consign her memory. She even claims the merit of protecting her injured husband from the dungeon, saying, "Not being naturally of a bad disposition, I never would allow of his being sent to the Bastile." Petty jealousies. There were continual antagonisms arising between Madame de la Valli
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