MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV
By Duchesse d'Orleans
Elizabeth-Charlotte, Duchesse D'Orleans and Her Children
Louis Fourteenth
The Regent and His Mother
A pious Capuchin explained her dream to
her
Always has a fictitious malady in
reserve
Art of satisfying people even while he
reproved their requests
Asked the King a hundred questions,
which is not the fashion
Bad company spoils good manners
Because the Queen has only the rinsings
of the glass
But all shame is extinct in France
Duc de Grammont, then Ambassador,
played the Confessor
Duplicity passes for wit, and frankness
is looked upon as folly
Even doubt whether he believes in the
existence of a God
Exclaimed so long against high
head-dresses
Follies and superstitions as the
rosaries and other things
Formerly the custom to swear horridly
on all occasions
Frequent and excessive bathing have
undermined her health
Great filthiness in the interior of
their houses
Great things originated from the most
insignificant trifles
He had good natural wit, but was
extremely ignorant
He always slept in the Queen's bed
He was a good sort of man,
notwithstanding his weaknesses
Her teeth were very ugly, being black
and broken (Queen)
Honour grows again as well as hair
I thought I should win it, and so I
lost it
I never take medicine but on urgent
occasions
I wished the husband not to be informed
of it
I have seldom been at a loss for
something to laugh at
I am unquestionably very ugly
I had a mind, he said, to commit one
sin, but not two
I formed a religion of my own
If I should die, shall I not have lived
long enough?
It is an unfortunate thing for a man
not to know himself
It was not permitted to argue with him
Jewels and decoration attract attention
(to the ugly)
Like will to like
Louis XIV. scarcely knew how to read
and write
Made his mistresses treat her with all
becoming respect
My husband proposed separate beds
No man more ignorant of religion than
the King was
Nobility becoming poor could not afford
to buy the high offices
Not lawful to investigate in matters of
religion
Old Maintenon
Only your illegitimate daughter
Original manuscripts of the Memoirs of
Cardinal Retz
Provided they are talked of, they are
satisfied
Robes battantes for the purpose of
concealing her pregnancy
Seeing myself look as ugly as I really
am (in a mirror)
She never could be agreeable to women
Since becoming Queen she had not had a
day of real happiness
So great a fear of hell had been
instilled into the King
Soon tired of war, and wishing to
return home (Louis XIV)
Stout, healthy girl of nineteen had no
other sins to confess
Subject to frequent fits of abstraction
That what he called love was mere
debauchery
The old woman (Madame Maintenon)
Throw his priest into the Necker
To tell the truth, I was never very
fond of having children
To die is the least event of my life
(Maintenon)
You never look in a mirror when you
pass it
You are a King; you weep, and yet I go
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