Louise De La Valliere and the Early Life of Louis XIV (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Lair, Jules

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331750075 ISBN 13: 9781331750079

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Louise De La Valliere and the Early Life of Louis XIV This History - or, to use a less pretentious word, this memoir - was begun in the little Chateau of Bures, in the heart of the Chevreuse Valley. There I found- conscientiously copied - the letters of Louise de La Valliere to the Marechal de Bellefonds, letters till then known only in a grandiloquent kind of adaptation. The house was peculiarly fitted to evoke the memory of that gracious, tender woman, whose disinterestedness and modesty threw a veil over her only error - one which the world forgave her, but which she chose to expiate by a penance of more than forty years' duration... In that house, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, lived a lady of the race of Bragelongne. In that house there died, a year ago, a good and noble woman who remembered being told, as a little child, by her grandmother, then aged eighty, of a Dowager-Princess of Conti having held her on her knees. "Ah, my children!" the old lady had said (she was a Wavrin Villers-au-Tertre), "if you could have seen, if you could have known!" And, as a sort of commentary to these wonderful tales, were to be seen then - are, indeed, to be seen now - ten or twelve pictures representing personages of the Grand Siecle: a Princess dressed as Diana; a Magdalen, whose conventual habit is very evidently painted over the splendid fripperies of a Court-dress;and, last but not least, a Carmelite nun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331750075
• ISBN 13: 9781331750079
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 470