Vulgar words in Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete (Page 1)
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Montespan had instilled this into him, in order that she might get rid of all his legitimate blood connections, and might suffer none about him but her bastards; she had even carried matters so far as to seek to confine the royal favour to her offspring or her creatures.
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He said,-- "Folks made love long before you came into the world, and they will always continue to do so.
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When Montespan was dismissed, the King had all his illegitimate children in his cabinet: this continued until the arrival of the last Dauphine; she intruded herself among the bastards to their great affliction.
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The good King was old; he stood in need of repose, and he could not enjoy it by any other means than by doing whatever that old Maintenon wished; thus it was that this artful hussy always accomplished her ends.
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She helped the Ministers to rob the King; by means of the Constitution she hastened his death; she brought about my son's marriage; she wanted to place bastards upon the throne; in short, she ruined and confused everything.
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In the first place, when she wished to have her near her children, she shut her ears to the stories which were told of the irregular life which the hussy had been leading; she made everybody who spoke to the King about her, praise her; her virtue and piety were cried up until the King was made to think that all he had heard of her light conduct were lies, and in the end he most firmly believed it.
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In the first place, he is incapable of the passion, or of being attached to any one for a long time; in the second, he is not sufficiently polished and gallant to make love, but sets about it rudely and coarsely; in the third, he is very indiscreet, and tells plainly all that he has done.
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He replied, "It is very true that I am not a hero of romance, and that I do not make love like a Celadon, but I love in my way."
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My son does not like him so well as his good-for-nothing brother, because he is too serious, and would not become his buffoon.
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He made a remonstrance against this, which was certainly effected at the instigation of the eldest bastard and his wife.--[The Duc and Duchesse du Maine.]
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I believe the plot would have succeeded better if the bastard and his wife had not engaged in it, for they were extraordinarily hated at Paris.
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He was formerly a great friend of my son's, and he did not change until he became attached to that little hussy.
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A letter of Alberoni's to the lame bastard has been intercepted, in which is the following passage: "As soon as you declare war in France spring all your mines at once."
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Can the Devil himself be worse than this bastard?
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"That little slut," said he to Madame Maintenon, "has deceived us."
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I think M. de Monmouth was much worse than the Comte de Guiche; because, although a bastard, he was the son of Madame's own brother; and this incest doubled the crime.
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Addressing herself to the coachman, she said, "Overturn here, you blockhead--overturn!"
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[Illustration: Overturn here, you blockhead--290] A servant had gained so much in the Rue de Quincampoix, that he was enabled to set up his equipage.
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These bastards are of so bad a disposition that God knows who was their father.
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This fills me with anxiety, for I know too well how expert the wicked old hussy is in the use of poison.
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The King of Denmark has the look of a simpleton; he made love to my daughter while he was here.
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It is therefore evident that all this proceeds from the bastards.
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That old Maintenon has continued pretty tranquil until the termination of the process relating to the legitimation of the bastards.
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This is the cause of those great disputes which the Princes of the blood have had with the bastards, as may be seen by their memorial.
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The confessor was then eighty years of age, and not unlike an ass; his ears were very long, his mouth very wide, his head very large, and his body very long.