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. 1858 Excerpt: ...you." This lady survived the king several years, and the Regent Duke of Orleans took care that the pension left her by the king should be regularly paid to her. When Peter the Great visited Paris, he was very desirous of seeing Madame de Maintenon. She was very infirm, and in bed when he visited her. He drew aside the ...
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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. 1858 Excerpt: ...you." This lady survived the king several years, and the Regent Duke of Orleans took care that the pension left her by the king should be regularly paid to her. When Peter the Great visited Paris, he was very desirous of seeing Madame de Maintenon. She was very infirm, and in bed when he visited her. He drew aside the curtains to look at that face which had captivated her sovereign.-A blush overpowered her pale and withered cheek, and the Czar retired. Such were the ladies upon whom the gallant Louis XIV. bestowed his love. If we must regard them as fallen, we are compelled to look upon them as beautiful flowers growing in a morass. Francis the First, another king of France, was also a model of gallantry in his way. Indeed he was an accomplished prince in all respects. When, after prodigies of valor, he lost the battle of Pa via, he sent his mother, Louisa of Savoy, the news of his captivity in a dignified and expressive sentence which will ever be remembered, " Tout est perdu, Madame, hormis Vhonneur"--"All is lost, Madam, except honor." When this accomplished prince delivered up his sword to Lannoi, the Spanish general, he said, " Sir, I deliver you the sword of, a monarch, who is entitled to some distinction, from having with his own hand killed so many of your soldiers before he surrendered himself, and who is at last a prisoner, from a wretched reverse of fortune, rather than from any cowardice.'" This monarch was as gentle and refined as a lover, as he was brave as a soldier, and great as a king. It was he who declared that, "A court without ladies, is like spring without flowers." And yet he once engraved upon a window at Eambouillet, with a diamond, the following verse: " Lovely sex, too given to rage...
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