Vulgar words in Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 11 (Page 1)
This book at a glance
|
~ ~ ~ Sentence 44 ~ ~ ~
The bastards, a few favourites; and the valets alone were left.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 61 ~ ~ ~
It was also the grand day taken advantage of by the bastards, the valets, etc., because the King had nothing to do.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 92 ~ ~ ~
This also was the time for the bastards and the valets.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 123 ~ ~ ~
He passed a little less than an hour there, seated in an armchair, with his legitimate children and bastards, his grandchildren, legitimate and otherwise, and their husbands or wives.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 208 ~ ~ ~
We found it already assembled, and a few Dukes who had not attended our meeting, but had promised to be guided by us, were also present; and then a quarter of an hour after we were seated the bastards arrived.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 232 ~ ~ ~
I will not dwell upon these two documents, in which nothing is provided but the grandeur and the power of the bastards, Madame de Maintenon and Saint-Cyr, the choice of the King's education and of the council of the regency, by which M. le Duc d'Orleans was to be shorn of all authority to the advantage of M. le Duc du Maine.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 377 ~ ~ ~
I am quite prepared, if ever these memoirs see the day, to find that this statement will be laughed at; that it will throw discredit on others, and cause me to be regarded as a great ass, if I think to make my readers, believe it; or for an idiot, if I have believed it myself.