Valot

Also known as: M. Valot / Monsieur Valot · Family: French court · Role: physician · First appears: Chapter 17

Life events

M. Valot reveals that M. de Guiche was shot, disproving the wild-boar story.(Chapter18 · 📍 Fontainebleau)
- With: De Guiche
- “M. de Guiche’s wounds are the result of a pistol-bullet that broke his ring-finger and the little finger of the right hand, and afterwards buried itself in the intercostal muscles of the chest.”
Louis XIV orders Valot to conceal his belief that De Guiche suffered a bullet wound.(Chapter19)
- With: Louis XIV
- “Do not speak of your dream to any one, Monsieur Valot, and, upon the word of a gentleman, you will have no occasion to repent it.”
M. de Guiche receives treatment from M. Valot while recovering outside the chateau.(Chapter20 · 📍 Rue du Feurre)
- With: De Guiche
- “his physician is M. Valot, his majesty’s private medical attendant. M. Valot is moreover assisted by a professional friend, to whose house M. de Guiche has been carried.”

employer: Louis XIV (Valot is identified as the king’s physician.) “the king’s physician”
with De Guiche (Valot is acting as De Guiche’s physician.) “Monsieur Valot, who has just been to see M. de Guiche”

with Louis XIV (The king questions Valot about carrying out his directions.) “Well, M. Valot,” said the king, “did you obey my directions?”

with D’Artagnan (D’Artagnan disputes Valot’s account of De Guiche’s wound.) “It is precisely like M. Valot,” said D’Artagnan, resuming the conversation where the king had left off; “he has been imagining all along, that not only was M. de Guiche wounded by a bullet, but still more, that he extracted it, even, from his chest.”

Extracted from the original text of Louise de la Vallière. Made with Rho MD.