Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King (51 page)

CHAPTER
6
The Rise of Another

1
Decker,
Louis
, p. 82; Saint-Maurice, pp. 105, 130; Couton, p. 84.

2
Carré,
Vallière
, p. 127; Genlis, p. 112.

3
Bertière, II, p. 197.

4
Decker,
Montespan
, p. 45.

5
Hilton, p. 18; Saint-Simon (1967), II, p. 131.

6
Scudéry,
Galant
, p. 112.

7
Petitfils,
Montespan
, pp. 1ff.

8
Hilton, pp. 119ff.

9
Couton, p. 98.

10
Scudéry,
Sapho
, p. 43; Duchêne,
Femme
, p. 268.

11
Backer, pp. 91—2.

12
Decker,
Montespan
, p. 29.

13
La Rochefoucauld, p. 38.

14
Saint-Simon (1856), I, p. 251; Burke, p. 5; Leroy & Loyau,
Sagesse
, p. 145; Petitfils,
Louis
, p. 322.

15
Lebrun, p. 50; Gady, p. 59; Sabatier, pp. 361—6.

16
Davis, ‘Women’, p. 168, Saint-Maurice, pp. 71ff.

17
Lair, pp. 170–1.

18
Furetière,
Dictionnaire
, ‘Légitimer’.

19
Louis,
Mémoires
, II, p. 313; Lair, pp. 176-80.

20
Letters of a Portuguese Nun
, p. 18.

21
Kay
et al.
, p. 167.

22
Hilton, p. 55.

23
Castro, p. 56.

24
Saint-Maurice, pp. 204ff.

25
Duchêne,
Molière
, pp. 511–12.

26
Castari, p. 478; Mainardi, p. 7; Couton, p. 135.

27
Norrington, p. 153.

28
Bertière, II, Annexe 1, p. 490, ‘a girl?’; Hilton, p. 71, ‘most likely a girl’ (Louise-Françoise).

29
Saint-Maurice, p. 527.

30 Flandrin, pp. 114—29; Grieco, p. 70; Duchêne,
Femme
, p. 223.

31
Duchêne,
Sévigné
, p. 132; Goreau, p. 107; Barker, p. 213.

CHAPTER
7
Marriages Like Death

1
Christout (1967), p. 118.

2
Christout (1967), p. 133, note 179; Saint-Simon (1856), II, p. 60.

3
Pepys, IX, p. 352; Fraser, p. 235.

4
Cowen, p. 181.

5
Dunlop, p. 173.

6
Bertière, II, p. 142; Norrington, p. 194.

7
Norrington, p. 195, Saint-Maurice, p. 402.

8
Visages du Grand Siècle
, p. 232.

9
Fraser, pp. 273ff.

10
Hartmann, p. 314.

11
La Fayette,
Mémoires
, pp. 76ff; Hartmann, pp. 326ff.

12
Dr Jean Fabre,
Sur la Vie et Principalement la Mort de Madame;
see Hartmann p. 333; Bertière, II, p. 152: ‘no symptoms of poisons … Everything points to natural death’; Barker, pp. 113ff.

13
Erlanger, p. 135.

14
Lear, pp. 157ff; Couton, pp. 103—4.

15
Lear, p. 107.

16
Sévigné
(1955), p. 43; La Fayette,
Mémoires
, p. 9.

17
Pitts, pp. 186ff; Bouyer, pp. 206ff.

18
Berwick
, I, pp. 75—6; Bertiére, II, p. 171.

19
Wolf, p. 312.

20
Hilton, p. 92.

21
Kroll, p. 46; Liselotte Briefe, p. 51; Forster, pp. 5, xxviii.

22
Kroll, pp. 106, 14; Forster, p. 10.

23
Saint-Simon (1967), II, p. 448; Kroll, p. 18.

24
Kroll, p. 27.

25
Cruysse, p. 121.

26
Cruysse, pp. 193fr.

27
Louis,
Mémoires
, II, p. 570.

28
Bertière, II, p. 319.

29 Kroll, p. 27; Bertière, II, p. 319.

CHAPTER
8
A Singular Position

1
Haldane, p. 75.

2
Carré,
Vallière
, p. 183.

3
Hilton, p. 117.

4
Norton,
Sun King
, pp. 67ff.

5
Fumaroli, p. 373; Couton, p. 138; Visconti, p. 70.

6
Fumaroli, p. 370.

7
Bluche,
Louis
, p. 196; Cowen, p. 92.

8
Molière,
Tartuffe
, Act IV, scene 3.

9
Mallet-Joris, pp. 211ff; p. 217, note 1.

10
Doscot, p. 172.

11
Saint-Évremond, p. 269.

12
Bertière, II, pp. 185ff.

13
Desprat, p. 19.

14
Castelot, p. 50; Desprat, p. 236; Bandenier, p. 52.

15
Cordelier, pp. 8–9; Chandernagor, ‘Maintenon’, pp. 936–7.

16
Guide Bleu: Les Antilles
, pp. 284–5.

17
Le Roy Ladurie, p. 101.

18
Leroy & Loyau,
Sagesse
, p. 41.

19
Leroy & Loyau,
Estime
, p. 28.

20
Bremond, p. 150.

21
Leroy & Loyau,
Sagesse
, pp. 37, 125.

22
Leroy & Loyau,
Sagesse
, p. 38.

23
Bray, p. 245; Mesnard, pp. 193ff.

24
Geffroy,
Maintenon
, p. 4.

25
Some kind of consummation –
‘manage gris’
as opposed to
‘blanc’ –
is a common verdict of historians: see Castelot, p. 43; Bertière, II, p. 226; Leroy & Loyau,
Sagesse
, p. 107.

26
Caylus
(1908), pp. 62–3; Leroy & Loyau,
Sagesse
, p. 288; Geffroy,
Maintenon
, II, p. 328; Scudéry,
Sapho
, p. 22.

27
Saint-Simon (1967), I, pp. 94–5.

28
Castelot, p. 60 & 2 note 1.

29
Haldane, p. 42; La Rochefoucauld, p. 46.

30
Norton,
First Lady
, p. 3, note 1.

31
Bremond, p. 146; Milhiet, p. 15.

32
This seems the most certain link; see
Demoiselles
, p. 19, which mentions the Allée but refers to the great house itself as having ‘disappeared’; Petitfils,
Montespan
, p. 295.

33
See Bryant (2001), pp. 15–16, for ‘subtle alterations to the original communications’ and ‘invented new letters’; Leroy & Loyau,
Sagesse
, p. 31; Desprat, p. 437.

34
Castelot, p. 79; Petitfils,
Montespan
, p. 117.

35
Geffroy,
Maintenon
, pp. 39, 57; see Chandernagor & Poisson,
passim.

CHAPTER
9
Throwing Off a Passion

1
Petitfils,
Montespan
, p. 123.

2
Burke, p. 23; J.-P. Landry, ‘Bourdaloue',
DGS
, I, p. 225.

3
Daeschler, p. 225;
Bourdaloue
, Preface; Saint-Simon (1967), I, p. 57, note 2.

4
Bourdaloue Sermons
, p. 41; Couton, p. 123; Daeschler, pp. 284ff.

5
Wolf, p. 319.

6
Hilton, p. 139.

7
Minois, p. 303.

8
Réflexions sur la Miséricorde
, no. 1, p. 17.

9
Minois, pp. 302ff.

10
Sévigné
(1955), p. 97.

11
Couton, p. 141; Decker,
Montespan
, pp. 132–3.

12
Decker,
Montespan
, p. 152.

13
Beaussant,
Lully
, pp. 579–92.

14
Fumaroli, p. 416.

15
Caylus
(1986), p. 44.

16
Visconti, p. 117.

17
Solnon,
Versailles
, p. 107; Kroll, p. 91.

18
Bussy-Rabutin, II, pp. 167–9.

19
Norton,
Sun King
, p. 90; Wolf, pp. 321ff.

20
Fumaroli, p. 425; La Rochefoucauld, p. 73; Saint-Évremond, p. 21.

21
Dangeau, I, p. 34; see Bassenne,
passim.

22
Mallet-Joris, p. 272.

23
Norton,
Sun King
, p. 91.

24
Bertière, II, p. 217.

25
Petitfils,
Vallière
, p. 293; Hilton, pp. 176ff.

26
Desprat, p. 192.

27
Chandernagor & Poisson, p. 66.

28
Dangeau, I, p. 220; Bertière, II, pp. 342ff.

29
Desprat, 1674 then not until 1679; Bertière II, end of December 1679 (when Dame d'Atour); Dulong,
Amoureuses
, 1680; Cordelier, 1680; Hilton,
c.
1680; Petitfils,
Montespan
, ‘doubtless in 1680, perhaps a little earlier, perhaps a little later'.

30
Geffroy,
Maintenon
, II, p. 527.

31
Duprat, p. 261.

32
Desprat, p. 187.

33
Sévigné
(1955)
, p. 253.