"it was all a misunderstanding, Fritz wanted to be MT's champion and protector when he invaded Silesia!" school of thought, blaming "Austrian propaganda" for making this look like a cynical land grab and a protection racket.
looooool! (I always need these reminders, and it's great because I'm usually coming at it from a place of knowing more than I did last time it came up :) )
The author of the quote is Parliamentary Council Lefèvre d'Ormesson, who notes into his diary on July 1668:
Should we... find this guy's diary? :P (This is a terrible and interesting story, does he have more??)
Many have disliked this strict punishment and have said that the woman should have been treated as a madwoman and immeditaely brought to the Petites-Maisons, instead of letting oneself provoked into this punishment.
:(
In one version, this started out as a kind of beard/cover story for his flirtation with his sister-in-law, Minette, and then became real, in another, La Valliere approched with and she was so devoted and crushing that he was nice to her at first, what with her not being a great beauty (too thin, and a slight limp, the courtiers said), but then fell in love with her.
That's fascinating, the different versions! Is there any historian consensus as to which it was?
(According to Horowski, Madame de Monaco was actually bi and either flirted with or had an affair with Minette herself, and later made a pass to Liselotte as well, who said no. But there is no quote supporting this in this book.)
Gosh, if you ever find the supporting evidence, I want to know! Because I want this to be true :P
Poor Minette :(((( (I had to go read some articles about how people think she actually died. Ugh, it all sounds horrible. Poison might actually have been more pleasant!)
Re: Court of Louis XIV: Madame est morte
looooool! (I always need these reminders, and it's great because I'm usually coming at it from a place of knowing more than I did last time it came up :) )
like Madame de Sevigné saying the soldiers of the King make excellent missionaries (to force the Huguenots to convert), and the actual preachers can do the rest.
oh wow!
The author of the quote is Parliamentary Council Lefèvre d'Ormesson, who notes into his diary on July 1668:
Should we... find this guy's diary? :P (This is a terrible and interesting story, does he have more??)
Many have disliked this strict punishment and have said that the woman should have been treated as a madwoman and immeditaely brought to the Petites-Maisons, instead of letting oneself provoked into this punishment.
:(
In one version, this started out as a kind of beard/cover story for his flirtation with his sister-in-law, Minette, and then became real, in another, La Valliere approched with and she was so devoted and crushing that he was nice to her at first, what with her not being a great beauty (too thin, and a slight limp, the courtiers said), but then fell in love with her.
That's fascinating, the different versions! Is there any historian consensus as to which it was?
(According to Horowski, Madame de Monaco was actually bi and either flirted with or had an affair with Minette herself, and later made a pass to Liselotte as well, who said no. But there is no quote supporting this in this book.)
Gosh, if you ever find the supporting evidence, I want to know! Because I want this to be true :P
Poor Minette :(((( (I had to go read some articles about how people think she actually died. Ugh, it all sounds horrible. Poison might actually have been more pleasant!)