Note 110 — LETTERS TO MADAME DE GRIGNAN[11] FROM 1671 TO 1690. (continued 2)

For more than three years she had only received at court insults from her rival and unkindness from the king. She remained there, she said, merely from a spirit of penitence, and added, “When the life of a Carmelite appears to me too severe, I have only to call to mind what those persons made me suffer,” pointing to the king and to Madame de Montespan.