Oh, yeah, right, as of course you know, Jude Morgan covers (if sometimes somewhat elliptically) the Louis-Minette stuff, both affair-ish and political (and de Guiche gets a couple of paragraphs too, though I don't think I realized quite the portent of it). I guess though that I hadn't realized that Minette was trusted more than Philippe politically speaking! (Though given the way he was portrayed in the book, that was clearly a conclusion one was supposed to draw.)

Was the Chevalier gone for all of Philippe's marriage with Liselotte? I had the vague idea from some vid of Versailles (...that you probably linked me, lol, I don't know who else would be linking me vids of Versailles) that he was around for some of it, but I'm probably extremely mixed up :)

(I don't think you linked me to the correspondence! Or at least not when I had any inkling of who these people were :) Heh, I could see menstruation horrifying Philippe... and not Charles :P )