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Note 125 — III THE DAILY LIFE OF LOUIS XIV[106]

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At one time lady-in-waiting to Madame, who calls her “la pauvre Doudon,” and her husband “a monster.” He was, says Saint-Simon (XIV. 123), “un homme fort laid et fort contrefait, qui avec beaucoup d’esprit et de valeur, avoit toujours mené la vie la plus obscure et la plus débauchée.” She was a daughter of the Maréchale de La Mothe (see above, p. 77, n. 117).

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