Note 103 — II MADAME DE MAINTENON[73]
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Guy Fagon succeeded Daquin, a converted Jew, in 1693, through the influence of Mme de Maintenon. His great talent was combined with fearless honesty and much charm of manner. Saint-Simon did not like him, but he recognised his merits and attainments. See I. 105-6. Like William III, who once consulted him, he was an “asthmatic skeleton,” and like William’s opponent, Luxembourg, he was hunch-backed.