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Title: Quotes and Images From Memoirs of Louis XIV.

Author: Duchesse d'Orleans
Edited and Arranged by David Widger

Release Date: September 10, 2004 [EBook #7563]

Language: English

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QUOTES AND IMAGES: MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV.--DUCH. D'ORLEANS

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV

By Duchesse d'Orleans

A pious Capuchin explained her dream to
her

Always has a fictitious malady in
reserve

Art of satisfying people even while he
reproved their requests

Asked the King a hundred questions,
which is not the fashion

Bad company spoils good manners

Because the Queen has only the rinsings
of the glass

But all shame is extinct in France

Duc de Grammont, then Ambassador,
played the Confessor

Duplicity passes for wit, and frankness
is looked upon as folly

Even doubt whether he believes in the
existence of a God

Exclaimed so long against high
head-dresses

Follies and superstitions as the
rosaries and other things

Formerly the custom to swear horridly
on all occasions

Frequent and excessive bathing have
undermined her health

Great filthiness in the interior of
their houses

Great things originated from the most
insignificant trifles

He had good natural wit, but was
extremely ignorant

He always slept in the Queen's bed

He was a good sort of man,
notwithstanding his weaknesses

Her teeth were very ugly, being black
and broken (Queen)

Honour grows again as well as hair

I thought I should win it, and so I
lost it

I never take medicine but on urgent
occasions

I wished the husband not to be informed
of it

I have seldom been at a loss for
something to laugh at

I am unquestionably very ugly

I had a mind, he said, to commit one
sin, but not two

I formed a religion of my own

If I should die, shall I not have lived
long enough?

It is an unfortunate thing for a man
not to know himself

It was not permitted to argue with him