It's hard to keep straight, because a year later, the *next* Dauphin dies of measles, and a month after that, the *next* Dauphin also dies of measles! (Then the next Dauphin is locked in his room by his governess to protect him from all doctors.)
but Horowski also reports the Dauphin had a very limited vocabulary.
Yeah, and he's not the only one. All (modern) descriptions I've seen of him agree on him being basically friendly, but apathetic and unintellectual. Someone, maybe Horowski, maybe Wikipedia, said he could spend a whole day sitting in a chair just tapping his cane against his foot. Apparently, it was remarkable this one time when he got really animated about something, which was: "My son should *definitely* be King of Spain! Absolutely, one hundred percent."
Liselotte was mortified by the way Louis had used her to claim the Palatinate after her father's death
Totally in character from the Louis who signed a marriage contract saying he would not use his wife to claim Spain, and before the ink was dry, was like, "I found a loophole! I'm claiming Spain!"
(I do hope to do a Spanish Succession write-up at some point, but atm I can only go up to 1706 in any kind of detail, and Malplaquet is 1709, so I need to find time to study a bit more.)
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Re: Sophie of Hannover: Memoirs - II (Visiting France)
Date: 2021-03-30 04:44 pm (UTC)It's hard to keep straight, because a year later, the *next* Dauphin dies of measles, and a month after that, the *next* Dauphin also dies of measles! (Then the next Dauphin is locked in his room by his governess to protect him from all doctors.)
but Horowski also reports the Dauphin had a very limited vocabulary.
Yeah, and he's not the only one. All (modern) descriptions I've seen of him agree on him being basically friendly, but apathetic and unintellectual. Someone, maybe Horowski, maybe Wikipedia, said he could spend a whole day sitting in a chair just tapping his cane against his foot. Apparently, it was remarkable this one time when he got really animated about something, which was: "My son should *definitely* be King of Spain! Absolutely, one hundred percent."
Liselotte was mortified by the way Louis had used her to claim the Palatinate after her father's death
Totally in character from the Louis who signed a marriage contract saying he would not use his wife to claim Spain, and before the ink was dry, was like, "I found a loophole! I'm claiming Spain!"
(I do hope to do a Spanish Succession write-up at some point, but atm I can only go up to 1706 in any kind of detail, and Malplaquet is 1709, so I need to find time to study a bit more.)