Madame de Navailles
Family: French court · Role: court lady · First appears: Chapter 27
Life events
- Louis XIV dictates the nobles and officials to attend the ambassadors’ reception.(Chapter27)
- With: Louis XIV Colbert M. le Prince M. de Gramont M. de Manicamp M. de Saint-Aignan Madame de Motteville Madame de Chatillon
- “He therefore dictated: the queen-mother, the queen, Madame, Madame de Motteville, Madame de Chatillon, Madame de Navailles; and, for the men, M. le Prince, M. de Gramont, M. de Manicamp, M. de Saint-Aignan, and the officers on duty.”
- La Vallière was moved to a barred top-floor room under Madame de Navailles’s surveillance.(Chapter33)
- With: Mademoiselle de la Vallière
- “three days, or rather three nights afterwards, she had La Vallière removed. She gave the latter one of the small rooms on the top story”
Chapter 27
- with Louis XIV (Louis XIV named Madame de Navailles for attendance at the reception.) “The king’s face revealed a violent conflict between pride and love. The political conversation had dispelled a good deal of the irritation which Louis had felt, and La Vallière’s pale, worn features, in his imagination, spoke a very different language from that of the Dutch medals, or the Batavian pamphlets. He sat for ten minutes debating within himself whether he should or should not return to La Vallière; but Colbert having with some urgency respectfully requested that the list might be furnished him, the king was ashamed to be thinking of mere matters of affection where important state affairs required his attention. He therefore dictated: the queen-mother, the queen, Madame, Madame de Motteville, Madame de Chatillon, Madame de Navailles; and, for the men, M. le Prince, M. de Gramont, M. de Manicamp, M. de Saint-Aignan, and the officers on duty.”
Chapter 33
- ward: Mademoiselle de la Vallière (Madame de Navailles supervised and secured La Vallière.) “Mademoiselle de la Vallière, whose room now bore more resemblance to a cage than to anything else”
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