Louise de La Vallière and the early life of Louis XIV (1908) (14761250621)

Identifier: louisedelavalli01lair (find matches)
Title: Louise de La Vallière and the early life of Louis XIV
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Lair, Jules Auguste, 1836- (from old catalog) Mayne, Ethel Colburn, d. 1941, tr
Subjects: La Vallière, Françoise-Louise de La Baume Le Blanc, duchesse de, 1644-1710 Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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r^wiwi^ ^L^ £dcm;^:m^/t:^^^&: LOUISE DE LA VALLIERE AND THE EARLY LIFE OF LOUIS XIV FROM UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENTSBy JULES LAIR Member of The Institute TRANSLATED FROM THE FOURTH FRENCH EDITIONBy ETHEL COLBURN MAYNE WITH ILLUSTRATIONS New York: G. P. PUTNAMS SONS 27 and 29 West Twenty-Third Street1908 07 FOREWORD THIS history—or, to use a less pretentious word,this memoir—was begun in the little Chateauof Bures, in the heart of the Chevreuse Valley.There I found—conscientiously copied—the letters ofLouise de La Valliere to the Marechal de Bellefonds,letters till then known only in a grandiloquent kind ofadaptation. The house was peculiarly fitted to evokethe memory of that gracious, tender woman, whosedisinterestedness and modesty threw a veil over heronly error—one which the world forgave her, butwhich she chose to expiate by a penance of more thanforty years duration. . . In that house, at the beginn-ing of the seventeenth century, lived a lady of the raceof Bragelongne.louisedelavalli01lair