Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King (53 page)

CHAPTER
13
Becoming a Child Again

1
Melchior-Bonnet, p. 91.

2
Oresko, ‘Sabaudian Court', p. 231.

3
AST, fol. 170 (1698 nd); Saint-Simon (1967), II, p. 219.

4
Melchior-Bonnet, p. 76.

5
Norton,
First Lady,
pp. 15–16; Elliott, p. 50.

6
Norton,
First Lady,
p. 60.

7
Kroll, p. 68.

8
Forster, p. 54; Gourdin, pp. 31ff; Kroll, p. 80.

9
Carré,
Bourgogne
, p. 20; Melchior-Bonnet, p. 81.

10
Norton,
First Lady
, pp. 64–5.

11
Forster, p. 95.

12
Norton,
First Lady
, pp. 117–18; pp. 101ff.

13
Haussonville & Hanotaux, I, pp. 225–6.

14
Melchior-Bonnet, pp. 34ff; Saint-Simon (1967), II, pp. 53, 227.

15
Kroll, p. 74.

16
Saint-Simon (1967), I, p. 163; Forster, p. 95.

17
Maxwell, p. 46.

18
Haussonville & Hanotaux, I, p. 225; Norton,
First Lady
, p. 115.

19
Dubu, ‘Racine the Courtier', p. 127.

20
Bernot, p. 128; Kroll, p. 158.

21
Forster, p. 80; Bluche,
Vie quotidienne
, p. 71.

22
Leroy & Loyau,
Sagesse
, p. 137.

23
Lear, p. 525; Saint-Simon (1967), I, pp. 96–8.

24
AST, fol. 170 (1698 nd).

25
Desprat, pp. 311ff; Bryant, ‘Maintenon', pp. 8–9.

26
Desprat, p. 326; Saint-Simon (1967), II, pp. 112–14.

27
Bryant, ‘Maintenon', p. 8.

28
Haussonville & Hanoteaux, I, pp. 88, 112–14.

29
Saint-Simon (1908), XX, p. 254 & note 5; Sweetser, pp. 107–8; Leibacher-Ouvrard,
passim.

30
Burke, p. 137; Duprat, pp. 294–5;
Livres Défendus
, FF, 21743

31
Leibacher-Ouvrard, p. 110.

32
Bluche,
Louis
, p. 441.

33
Desprat, p. 366.

34
Wolf, p. 509; Kroll, p. 93.

35
Saule, pp. 104–5; Forster, p. 125.

CHAPTER
14
Gaiety Begins to Go

1
AST, fol. 170 (16 Nov. 1700).

2
Norton,
First Lady
, p. 177.

3
Prescott-Wormeley, p. 202.

4
AST, fol. 170 (16 June 1698 & 22 Jan. 1702).

5
Erlanger, p. 244; Saint-Simon (1967), I, pp. 158ff.

6
Cruysse, pp. 411ff.

7
Le Roy Ladurie, p. 52.

8
Nordmann, p. 91; Corp, ‘Jacobite Court', pp. 245–8; Saint-Simon (1967), II, p. 316.

9
Oman, p. 195; Bryant, ‘Maintenon', pp. 85–6; Blet, p. 174 (reference courtesy of Prof. Edward Corp).

10
Add. MSS, 20, 919, fol. 275; MacCarthy, ‘A Hundred Thanks to God', p. 101;
Sévigné
(1955), p. 315.

11
Southorn, p. 7.

12
Wolf, p. 109; Norton,
First Lady
, p. 566.

13
AST, fol. 11 (31 Dec. 1708).

14
Add. MS 20918 fol. 31; Wolf, p. 524.

15
Carré,
Bourgogne
, pp. 162–3; Norton,
First Lady
, p. 116.

16
She did not cross ‘the Rubicon', Melchior-Bonnet, pp. 155, 257;
Caylus
(2003), pp. 128–9.

17
Caylus
(2003), p. 128.

18
Niderst, p. 278.

19
AST, fol. 11 (3 May nd).

20
Marie-Adelaide, p. 29; AST, fol. 170 (14 Mar. 1707).

21
Leroy & Loyau,
Sagesse
, p. 65.

22
Bertière, II, p. 413;
Aumale
, p. 94.

23
AHG, A1 189 fol. 249.

24
Leroy & Loyau,
Estime
, pp. 85, 97, 94.

25
Le Roy Ladurie, pp. 107, 210; Petitfils,
Montespan
, pp. 262–7, 273; Hilton, p. 297; La Liborlière, p. 171.

26
Saint-Simon (1967), I, p. 337; Hilton, p. 297.

27
Kroll, p. 104; Lair, pp. 350–1.

28
Haussonville & Hanoteaux, I, pp. 106–7.

29
Leroy & Loyau,
Estime
, p. 58.

30
Leroy & Loyau,
Estime
, p. 58.

31
See
Aumale, passim;
Milhiet, p. 64 & note 233, p. 218 & note 260.

32
Leroy & Loyau,
Estime
, pp. 19–20,
66.

33
Leroy & Loyau,
Estime
, p. 72.

34
Saint-Simon (1967), I, p. 353.

35
Southorn, p. 7.

36
Norton,
First Lady
, pp. 253–4.

37
Saint-Simon (1967), I, p. 362; Norton,
First Lady
, p. 253.

38
Add. MSS, 20, 918 fol. 24.

39
Loyau,
Ursins Correspondance
, pp. 63, 67.

40
Prescott-Wormeley, p. 206.

41
Loyau,
Ursins Correspondance
, p. 63.

42
Marie-Adelaide, p. 16; Saint-Simon (1967), I, p. 390.

43
Melchior-Bonnet, pp. 237ff.

44
Elliott, p. 378.

45
Saint-Simon (1967), I, p. 403; AST, fol. 98 (4 Feb. 1709 & 23 Feb. 1709); Cruysse, pp. 457–8.

46
Loyau,
Ursins Correspondance
, p. 289; Egerton MS 23, p. 133.

47
Leroy & Loyau,
Estime
, p. 278.

48
Loyau,
Ursins Correspondance
, pp. 143ff; Leroy & Loyau,
Estime
, pp. 231–3.

CHAPTER
15
We Must Submit

1
Leroy & Loyau,
Estime
, p. 233; Saint-Simon (1967), I, pp. 440–1.

2
AST, fol. 98 (9 Dec. 1709); Add. MS 20, 919 fol. 270;
Aumale
, p. 185; Bryant (2001), pp. 27–8; Bluche,
Louis
, p. 574; see Chandernagor, ‘Maintenon', in
DGS
, II, pp. 936–7; Burke, pp. 137ff.

3
Burke, p. 137; Haldane, p. 224.

4
Barthélemy, I, pp. 296ff; Niderst, p. 271; Saint-Simon (1967) II, pp. 180ff.

5
Saint-Simon (1967), II, p. 65 & note; Kroll, p. 150.

6
Elliott, p. 406.

7
Saint-Simon (1967), II, p. 46.

8
Barthélemy, I, p. 41; AST, fol. 98 (23 June 1710 & 10 July 1710).

9
Saint-Simon (1967), II, pp. 332, 446ff; Le Roy Ladurie, p. 153.

10
Saint-Simon (1967), II, p. 185.

11
Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere; She's the tenant of the room, He's the ruffian on the stair.

– W. E. Henley (1849–1903)

12
Kroll, pp. 140ff; Saint-Simon (1967), II, p. 143.

13
Saint-Simon (1967), II, p. 144.

14
Beaussant,
Artiste
, p. 271.

15
Kroll, p. 148.

16
Elliott, pp. 430ff.

17
Saint-Simon (1967), II, p. 297.

18
Saint-Simon (1967), II, pp. 221–2.

19
Marie-Adelaide, pp. 49–50.

20
Melchior-Bonnet, p. 266.

21
AST, fol. 98 (7 Dec. 1711); Elliott, p. 205.

22
Saint-Simon (1967), II, pp. 217– 19; III, p. 321, Elliott, pp. 440ff; Melchior-Bonnet, pp. 284ff; Norton,
First Lady
, pp. 366ff.

23
Kroll, pp. 155–6; Carré,
Bourgogne
, p. 124.

24
Saint-Simon (1967), II, p. 234.

25
Kroll,
Sophie
, p. 271.

26
Saint-Simon (1967), II, p. 223.

27
Carré,
Bourgogne
, p. 219.

28
Bluche,
Vie quotidienne
, p 74.

29
Melchior-Bonnet, p. 294.

30
Adelaide is not believed to be a traitor by those who have studied her in detail; she was on the contrary ‘ardent for all that concerned the honour of her husband', Geffroy,
Maintenon
, II, pp. 307–8; Norton,
First Lady
, p. 234; Prescott-Wormeley, p. 182; Elliott, p. 321.

31
Melchior-Bonnet, pp. 21, 194ff.

32
Kroll, p. 340; Voltaire, p. 340.

33
Saint-Simon (1967), II, p. 223.