Memoirs of the court of France from ... 1684 to ... 1720, tr. from the diary of the marquis de Dangeau with notes [by J. Davenport]. |
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Page 361 - August 20, 1715, he was attacked by senile gangrene, which gradually spread up the leg, until on the 3Oth it became fatal. His dying words were worthy of his better self : "Gentlemen, I desire your pardon for the bad example which I have set you. I have greatly to thank you for the manner in which you have served me, as well as for the attachment and fidelity which I have always experienced at your hands. I request from you the same zeal and fidelity for my grandson. Farewell, gentlemen. I feel that...
Page 62 - Votre beauté , grande princesse , Porte les traits dont elle blesse Jusques aux plus sauvages lieux ; L'Afrique avec vous capitule , Et les conquêtes de vos yeux Vont plus loin que celles d'Hercule.
Page 1 - ... council held at M. Amelot's, to examine the project of the bank. It will meet again to-morrow at M. d'Argenson's. Several bankers and principal merchants of Paris will attend. M. Law has only requested the Duke of Orleans to exclude Bernard.
Page 51 - ... inculcation of her sentiments upon justification and sanctification by faith alone, was soon arrested, and shut up for heresy in the Bastille, on the charge of holding sentiments similar to those of Molinos at Rome, of- whom it is recorded in the Memoirs of D'Angeau, that he " was put into the inquisition, accused of wishing to become the chief of the new sect called Quietists, whose principles are similar to those of the Puritans in England.
Page 364 - About seven in the morning, the King sent for father le Tellier, and while he was conversing with him about God, he perceived, in the mirror, two grooms of the bed-chamber, who were weeping at the foot of his bed, and said to them : " Why do you weep ? did you imagine that I was immortal ? for myself, I had no such idea, and at my age, you should have prepared yourselves to lose me.
Page 276 - ... consulship. Ney was confined here, and shot in the garden ; and, more recently, prince Polignac and his colleagues were confined here, previous to their trial. LUXEMBOURG (Francis Henry de Montmorenci), duke of, marshal of France, was born in 1628. He was the posthumous son of the count de Bouteville, who was beheaded in the reign of Louis XIII, for fighting a duel. He served, when young, under the prince of Conde ; and, in 1662, he was made a duke and peer of France ; and, in 1667, a lieutenant-general.
Page 25 - The king went again to St. Germain's at two o'clock — he immediately saw the King of England, who, when they told him the king was there, opened his eyes for a moment and closed them immediately again. The king told him that he had come to see him to tranquillize his mind on the subject of the Prince of Wales, and that he would acknowledge him King of England and Scotland.
Page 369 - I am come to assure you of my affection; my chancellor will inform you of my will.
Page 248 - Friday, the loth, in reply to his express demands, the King was informed of the extremely dangerous state of Monseigneur. He had said on the previous evening that he would go on the following morning to Meudon, and remain there during all the illness of Monseigneur whatever its nature might be. He was now as good as his word. Immediately after mass he set out for Meudon. Before doing so, he forbade his children, and all who had not had the smallpox, to go there, which was suggested by a motive of...
Page 364 - This resolution is difficult when we have an inordinate attachment to the things of this world ; when we have hatred in the heart, restitutions to make.