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deferentially as though she were their legitimate mother-in-law . The Duchess never showedany inclination to do otherwise , and
tenderly caressed this virtual , Dauphiness whenever she met her , although she used to say that she never saw her without thinking
of a farmhouse servant , and fancying she smelt of garlick . If Madlle . Chouin set to rule princesshe was in other respects a
up , irery unpretending person . She dressed like a hmisekeeper , always _refused to wear jewelry , or to appear outside of her room on gala
days . She addressed _gybtj one in the second person singular ; and allowed the servants of the Chateau to take the same liberty when
speaking to her . The Dauphin , who was stingy as his father was prodigal , allowed her for all her personal expenses 1 , 600 livres ,
which he counted down to her with his own hand—never hy sl single denier exceeding or falling short of it ; and when he died in
1711 she retired to live in a small apartment in Paris on her slight savings , and a pension of 2000 livres which she was with great
difficulty , prevailed on by the , king to accept . St . Simon draws a very animated picture of the last illness of
_jthe 6 i Grand Dauphin / ' and the aspect of his Court when a _gentle-^ man nd ladies of his bedch in the amb antich er announced amber . He his death describes to a crowd in his of peculiarl seig ? ieurs y
. graphic manner the confusion of some ; the hypocrisy of others ; the selfish calculations , the plots , plans , and intrigues improvised
hy nearly all , and communicated in whispers to one and another , -as well as the effect produced by the great Swiss guardsman , whom
_nobody suspected was there , awakening up among them , and too embarrassed by findinhimself in the presence of princes and
princesses to walk through g the room to get out , plunging in desperation beneath the covering of the bed upon which he had happened to
fall The asleep suite . of apartments to the left on ascending the . first flight
of the grand staircase was the stage on which this farce was acted ; Madame de Maintenon was , however , not among the performers .
Hypocrite as she was , she was not able to feign sorrow at the decease of the Dhinand Louis XIV . often reproached her for
Duchess heing absent de JBerri from aup never the ascribed , death-bed it to of any his incapacit only son y to , while go to the the
greatest lengths of dissimulation , but only to the fear of taking the small-pox from the dying prince , and losing her smooth
complex When r ion and . the the Daup furniture hin died and , Meudon jewelry was of that valued prince at 400 at , 000 1500 livres , 000 a .
They yea , were not Crown property , and money being very , scarce in 1711 it was decided that they should be sold by public auction .
p The ieces doer , to the ones tourists who point visiting out the divers Chateau fauteuils as relics , tabourets - of le grand or siecle time _, -
or of those , who then inhabited Meudon , are not therefore to obtain
370 Meudchst, A:Njd Its Past And
370 _meudchst , a : njd its past and
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 370, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/10/
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