Vulgar words in Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 12 (Page 1)

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The Regent and all the Princes of the blood were there, the bastards also.

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At the first movements of the Parliament, of the bastards, and of those who had usurped the name of nobility, I had warned him.

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I was the oldest, the most attached, the freest spoken of all his servitors; I had given him the best proofs of this in the most critical times of his life, and in the midst of his universal abandonment; the counsels I had offered him in these sad days he had always found for his good; he was accustomed to repose in me the most complete confidence; but, whatever opinion he might have of me, and of my truth and probity, he was on his guard against what he called my warmth, and against the love I had for my dignity, so attacked by the usurpations of the bastards, the designs of the Parliament, and the modern fancies of a sham nobility.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 288   ~   ~   ~

M. le Duc, who had been admitted to our councils, and who was heart and soul against the bastards, proposed that at the Bed of justice the education of the young King should be taken out of the control of M. du Maine and placed in his hands.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 291   ~   ~   ~

I had seen the bastards grow in rank and importance with an indignation and disgust I could scarcely contain.

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Thus everything went on satisfactorily, and I began to count the hours, by day as well as by night, until the great day was to arrive on which the arrogant pride of the Parliament was to receive a check, and the false plumage which adorned the bastards was to be plucked from them.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 456   ~   ~   ~

The eyes of all, occupied with the Regent, had been removed from the door, so that the absence of the bastards was by no means generally remarked.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 459   ~   ~   ~

The Duc de Guiche, who sat on the other side of me, left a seat between us, and still waited for the bastards.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 473   ~   ~   ~

I denied it, and yet each seated himself slowly, because intent only upon looking around, and divining what all this could mean, and because it was a long time before any one could comprehend that we must proceed to business without the bastards, although nobody opened his mouth.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 493   ~   ~   ~

From the first moment of this reading and the departure of the bastards, everybody saw that something was in preparation against them.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 496   ~   ~   ~

All, according as they were allied to the Parliament or to the bastards, seemed to wait in fear what was to be proposed.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 540   ~   ~   ~

A profound silence followed this discourse, so unexpected, and which began to explain the absence of the bastards.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 653   ~   ~   ~

Scarcely had we risen when M. le Duc came to me, rejoiced at the success that had hitherto been had, and much relieved by the absence of the bastards.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 657   ~   ~   ~

I asked if he was not afraid the bastards would come to the Bed of justice; but he was certain they would not.

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The departure of the bastards from the cabinet of the Council had redoubled attention, but everybody did not know of that departure; now everybody perceived their absence.

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Others who had noticed the absence of the bastards, guessed it was something that affected them; but nobody divined what, much less its extent.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 760   ~   ~   ~

I compared the years and the time of servitude; the grievous days, when dragged at the tail of the Parliamentary car as a victim, I had served as a triumph for the bastards; the various steps by which they had mounted to the summit above our heads; I compared them, I say, to this court of justice and of rule, to this frightful fall which, at the same time, raised us by the force of the shock.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 833   ~   ~   ~

I represented to the Regent what an ill-chosen messenger I should be to carry to Madame la Duchesse d'Orleans news of the disgrace of her brother the Duc du Maine; I, who had always been such an open and declared enemy to the bastards!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 906   ~   ~   ~

She was delighted at the humiliation of the Parliament, and of the bastards, and that her son had at last displayed some firmness.

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The conspirators counted upon the Parliaments of Paris and of Brittany, upon all the old Court accustomed to the yoke of the bastards, and to that of Madame de Maintenon; and they flung about promises with an unsparing hand to all who supported them.

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