Queen Maria
Also known as: the queen · Family: French court · Role: queen · First appears: Chapter 62
Life events
- La Vallière reveals Queen Maria’s jealousy and warns Louis against pursuing her.(Chapter62 · 📍 Fontainebleau)
- With: Louis XIV La Vallière
- “The Queen Maria, with an attachment which can be well understood, follows with her eyes every step of your majesty which separates you from her.”
- Queen Maria visibly faints after witnessing Louis’s public courtesy toward La Vallière.(Chapter62 · 📍 Fontainebleau)
- “The queen closed her eyes as if she had been suddenly seized with a fainting-spell.”
Chapter 62
- married with Louis XIV “Your majesty belongs not to yourself alone: you are married; and every sentiment which would separate your majesty from the queen, in leading you to take notice of me, will be a source of profoundest sorrow for the queen.”
- rivals with La Vallière “The Queen Maria, with an attachment which can be well understood, follows with her eyes every step of your majesty which separates you from her. Happy enough in having had her fate united to your own, she weepingly implores Heaven to preserve you to her, and is jealous of the faintest throb of your heart bestowed elsewhere.”
Also listed in French Court — Minor Figures
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Extracted from the original text of Ten Years Later. Made with Rho MD.