The Private Memoirs of Madame Du Hausset —— Lady's Maid to Madame De Pompadour

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ISBN: 9781331777731 出版年：2016 页码：301 Forgotten Books

The amoursxof Louis XV. Were, for a long time, covered with the veil of mystery. The public talked of the parc-aux-cerfs, but were acquainted with none of its details. Louis XIV. Who, in the early part of his reign, had endeavoured to conceal his attachments, towards the close of it gave them a publicity which in one way increased the scandal; but his mistresses were all women Of quality, entitled by their birth to be received at Court. Nothing can better describe the spirit of the time, and the cha racter of the Monarch, than these words of Madame de Montespan: He does not love me, said She, but he thinks he owes it to his subjects, and to his own greatness, to have the most beautiful woman in his kingdom as his mistress.