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. 1839 Excerpt: ...Louvois, it would have given her sincere pleasure if the king had finished him with the tongs; but, knowing that this consummation could hardly take place, she mingled with her deadly hatred her usual deep dissimulation. As for Louvois, he hated her openly, and did his best to thwart her at all points. This was only ...
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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. 1839 Excerpt: ...Louvois, it would have given her sincere pleasure if the king had finished him with the tongs; but, knowing that this consummation could hardly take place, she mingled with her deadly hatred her usual deep dissimulation. As for Louvois, he hated her openly, and did his best to thwart her at all points. This was only natural; for it was not a little vexatious to see a woman rise up as his rival with the king, to establish himself in whose favour he had cut so many thousand throats. The fiend-like ferocity of Louvois, however, in the present war, became fatal to France. The French troops were beaten in Flanders, and Versailles was in alarm. The treasury, too, was exhausted; and, under these trying circumstances, Louis was compelled to melt a great part of the plate which enriched his palace, and even the silver throne on which he had received the ambassadors of Europe and Asia. He made an appeal to the nobles, and they sent, like their master, a portion of their gold and silver vessels to the mint; Madame de Maintenon, who did every thing in season, distinguishing herself in this necessary generosity. The command of the army was given to the Marshal de Luxenbourg, the only general of name remaining, and whom the jealousy of Louvois had kept in the back ground; but, to animate still more the courage of the soldiers, he determined to show himself at their head, and to carry on in person the siege of Mons. He intended, as usual, to carry Madame de Maintenon, and his other familiars, IMPERTINENT MINISTER. 127 along with him; but Louvois, under pretext of economy, succeeded in getting him to abandon this part of the plan. It was, however, the minister's last act of power; and from her closet in Versailles, Madame de Maintenon contrived to destroy her enemy while t...
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