I Am Louis XIV

   Chapter 444 Love and War (Part 2)

But after a pause, the big county master denied himself again: "No, wait, words do not represent the soul, and love does not necessarily only bring benefits to people." Even Marie Mancini is said to have thought Let the king renounce the throne and live in seclusion with her in Gayola.

"My mother is a Mancini." Joseph said, the history of the Mancini family is not so bright. Before Marie became the master of Gayola, the wizards always mentioned Mancini a bit ambiguous. Doctor Varro had to escape from the inner world because of his wife from the Mancini family.

   And because of this, the Mancini family is always especially sensitive to love affairs.

   "How did she let you know?" the Grand Princess asked again.

"During the interrogation," said Joseph, "when she heard people say that this conspiracy was against His Majesty, she immediately swore that she would never do this to a loved one." Wizard to wizard, vowed But effective.

  The Grand Princess smiled: "It may be true, or it may be false, perhaps she herself doesn't know if it is true or false."

"Why do you question your Majesty's charm so much?" Joseph said jokingly: "The people in the court hated Madame Marie Mancini first, then Madame Lavalier, then Madame Montespan, and even the queen. Your Majesty, it's not because even without the Crown and Scepter, our Majesty is still as impeccable and perfect as the sun god." He turned to look at the king's seat: "Time has been especially kind to him. My father said , he is like a diamond that has been sharpened and tempered to make it more dazzling, while others are like glass that has become smooth and dull due to constant damage and contamination."

The princess followed him and looked over: "I don't deny what you said," she said: "I am talking about Mrs. Montespan, she is not the kind of person who can be trusted, and no matter how true her heart is, Will change as circumstances change, and if she does come under scrutiny, she'll put love on the table as a bargaining chip and beg the king's forgiveness - but she's still here, it seems that It really has nothing to do with her."

   "I hope the Duke of Orleans doesn't care what I said to you." Joseph said: "But it is my mother's wish."

   "Does she hate Mrs. Montespan?"

"It's the same as a woman and a Mancini." Joseph said - the five sisters of Mancini, the eldest sister died early, and the four sisters have their own experiences, but the best relationship with Mary Mancini is Laura. Mancini, she is not as beautiful as Olympia, not as good as Marie, but she has a pure temperament and has talents in literature and music. Even if her background is awkward, after marrying the son of the Duke of Vendôme, the husband and wife The relationship between the two is still quite harmonious. Joseph, as their day, did not achieve anything like his father, and showed outstanding qualities when he was very young - the old duke bluntly said that this came from his mother rather than his father. Inheritance and nurture.

And what Laura Mancini has been brooding about is the emotional tragedy between Mary and the king. She has no way to criticize the choice of the king. After all, she is the most wise and wise among the sisters, but this does not mean that she There will be a good face for the other lovers of the king, especially Mrs. Montespan, Mary was framed, completely out of this witch's handwriting, and if Mary is still the Duchess of Colonna, those people may not choose her as her. "Introduction".

   In short, this lady is trying her best to get along with Mrs. Montespan.

The status of the Grand Princess in the Palace of Versailles is obvious to all. After she is married, she is the Crown Princess of Prussia and will be the Queen of Prussia in the future. Her attitude can indeed cause a fatal blow to Madame Montespan at some point - but Joseph found that he might It was unnecessary to do this, and the grand princess had a bad impression of this lady.

   "Because she once proudly declared that she will never fall in love with our king." The grand princess said: "She should begin to regret it now."

"A king's love is priceless," Joseph said, and he couldn't help but smile, no wonder Mrs. Montespan was getting restless recently, and she realized what a foolish mistake she had made, either for profit or for her own sake. For the true feelings... She really shouldn't treat His Majesty the King as those superficial and stupid mortals, and put on a contemptuous attitude - but such a woman who can kill her husband, of course, can't understand the relationship between the king and Marie Mancini. What does the entanglement mean?

At this time, Ferdinand was already dancing with Madame Montespan. No matter what their thoughts were, they were quite pleasing in terms of appearance and posture - Ferdinand had a typical Italian face, with high brow bones and eye sockets. Deeply sunken, with a protruding face, she looks very manly, which hides a bit of the immaturity of young people; although Mrs. Montespan is nearly full, it is the most beautiful time, from a different bloodline. The strange charm was unabashedly used by her to the fullest, making the people around her unable to take their eyes off her.

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   Does Mrs. Montespan regret it? certainly.

Ever since she was a child, she was used to seeing a man who was fascinated when she met her mother, from the inner world to the outer world, from the lowest coachman to the noble duke, all of whom were defeated by her mother, although she and her sister Failed to inherit everything from her mother, but she has surpassed the vast majority of women. No, it should be said that Mrs. Montespan never thought that anyone could beat her.

   She felt that since Louis XIV could be conquered by Marie Mancini, it would be easy for him to bend his knees under her skirt another day, but as time passed, she became more and more uncertain. Later, she gave birth to a son for the king, but was canonized as the Duke of Montreal, and she was even more indignant - Marie Mancini's son became the Duke of Colonna, and now the king is seeking the throne of Naples for him, Lavalli Mrs. El's son is the Duke of Halepur. People say that he will manage Flanders for the king in the future, but her son will be exiled to the northernmost part of the New World. Anywhere produced!

Seriously, if it wasn't for something like that in Brittany that terrified her, she might have had to play a little trick to get the king to change her mind - but as soon as she got back to Paris, she was thrown into the Bastille prison! It's not the kind of comfortable prison that Marie Mancini stayed in, but the real one, full of torture instruments, and the judges and executioners are the kind of wizards!

As a witch, Mrs. Montespan is incompetent. It is not that she is not smart, but that she lacks teaching in this area. She grew up in a women's monastery, and her biological father Varro has almost no contact with her. Mortmar The duke wasn't so insane enough to get her a wizard teacher...she almost broke down when she saw Barras.

After receiving the lesson, she really settled down a lot, and finally accepted the king's arrangement. The king gave her the power to sell her official position, so that someone would be willing to go to the distant and cold New World to fight - Louis XIV looked around Madame Montespan. Some of them are either small or medium nobles who want to fight, or the second or third sons of the great nobles. In France and even the whole of Europe, it is difficult for them to find a place to join, and they can only expect to find a show in the north of America. Opportunities for talent—among them those who thought they could be called back to Paris or Versailles if they made their mark, but they might soon discover that Montreal is not as barren and desolate as they thought, it is also Great place with honey", only now they're all covered under heavy snow and ice.

Today, the attention of many countries in Europa is still on this continent, but Louis XIV was very concerned about the colonies and the new lands because of his determination not to put the burden of war on the people from the very beginning. Portugal can see that the back-feeding the colony gave the suzerain country far exceeded the output of the suzerain country itself - although the use of the word "feedback" here is a bit ironic and disgusting, because except for the governor and army of Louis XIV, people from other countries The natives are not friendly, they see the latter as animals, tools, and do whatever they want with them - if the American Indians also bared their fangs, they might be slaves now, just like the black Africans.

Nor was Louis XIV's lenient treatment of the Indians out of sympathy or pity for them - France was undoubtedly a step behind other countries on the issue of colonies, which led to the instability of France's foundation in America or other colonies , but if it were possible to unite with the native Indians, a New France... not impossible, Louis XIV thought ambitiously.

As for people's contempt and disgust for the natives - Louis XIV was a ruler who could accept wizards and pagans. The beliefs of these Indians were still very primitive. According to the priests who went to America, they did not refuse to believe in God, since In this way, it would be nice to have one more race in France.

At the end of the war, Louis XIV had to devote some of his energy to Montreal, lest he won the battle of Europa, but lost control of the New World - so to speak, France, Spain, Holland, etc., It is the past and the present, but the New World is the future.

   What's more, with the support of the British and Austrians, the Dutch government-in-exile is also always ready to resurge in Quebec.

   He sat on the throne and took a deep breath, and the queen looked at him and put her hand on his arm soothingly.

   "Nothing," Louis said softly, "I just thought of something."

"You always have so many things to think about," said the Queen gently. "You might as well go and dance with Mrs. Montespan, talk to me, and relieve my mood. It always makes me feel bad to see you like this. ."

   "I can't say it's a bad thing, but you're right, I'm going to let the Duke of Montreal go to his fief ahead of time."

The Queen    was taken aback, but the King had already walked to Madame Montespan.

Mrs. Montespan expected it. "You don't love me, so you don't love that child." She said sadly: "You just send him away, Your Majesty, he can't walk by himself."

   "You've read, then you should know where the Prince of Wales came from," said Louis.

It's hard to say if this is a rumor - after King Edward I of England sent troops to conquer Wales, he promised the Welsh people that he would give them a "Prince who was born in Wales, could not speak English, and spoke Welsh at the first sentence of his life", the Welsh Of course, the idea is to let a Welshman rule Wales, even if he is controlled and assigned by the King of England, but how can Edward I let Wales continue to be a Welsh Wales, and he will give Queen Eleanor, who is about to give birth, to receive a new one in Wales. Caernarfon Castle, where the Queen gave birth to their fourth son, Edward the Younger, who announced in the presence of the Welsh that this was their Prince of Wales.

   This is indeed a prince who was "born in Wales, does not speak English, and speaks Welsh at the first sentence of birth". After all, no one can tell whether the baby's cry is in English or in Welsh.

   Mrs. Montespan showed a bit of hesitation, and she raised her head eagerly: "Are you saying that he will be your agent in America."

"He ruled Montreal for me," Louie said. "He'll grow up safe and sound." Without wizards, he wouldn't dare let a baby go to freezing Montreal, but with wizards it's a different story. Yes, after all, the wizards prepared many spells and medicines for their descendants when they escaped the pursuit of the church. Nor will the Duke of Montreal be asked to perform his duties immediately, he is a symbol.

   "I'll have General Schumberg accompany him to Montreal," added Louis, who felt a sudden relaxation of Madame Montespan, who seemed to have been worried about whether the king was about to expel her and her son.

Madame Montespan was relieved. In the past few years, she also learned something about Louis XIV. Although she was very angry, she still had to say that Louis XIV still loved his own flesh and blood, and in terms of importance, She's really not as good as General Schumberg.

There was a reason why Louis chose Schaumberg. After some Huguenots followed the princess to Sweden, there were also some Huguenots who were willing to go to Montreal - which was also one of the conditions put forward by the king, they were there can continue to be faithful to his faith, and General Schumberg, who is also a Protestant, and perhaps for that reason, prefers to be thousands of miles away than in Versailles or Paris, which are all Catholics. The New World serves its own king.

   He also promised that if the war required him, he would leave and return immediately.

Marshal Schumberg is also sixty-five years old. Although he is still in good health, Louis thought, but if it is not necessary, let him stay in Montreal. The new army in Montreal needs such experience, authority and cooperation. The powerful old man will rule.

He and Mrs. Montespan said this. After Mrs. Montespan finished dancing with the king, she immediately sent her maid to tell Marshal Schumberg that she was waiting for his invitation. It seemed that she could not wait. Wanting to finalize this matter, but this is exactly what Louis XIV meant, he went straight back to his seat, and then glanced at random, and found that the Duke of Orleans was not in his seat.

This is a bit strange. Before the king left, unless it was extremely urgent, no one could go away. The queen immediately took Louis' hand: "The Duke of Orleans asked me to tell you that someone suddenly said that Henrietta's situation... no Great..."

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Henrietta, she is the princess of England, the daughter of Charles I, the sister of Charles II, her husband is Philip, the brother of the king of France, Duke of Orleans, they have a son and a daughter together, and are deeply loved by the king and the king. The empress dowager's favor, it stands to reason that this ill-fated woman should have nothing to complain about.

   But she's dying now.

   (end of this chapter)