CHAPTER LXXVI.
Character of Madame de Maintenon .-- Her Conversation .-- Her Narrow- mindedness .-- Her Devotion .-- Revocation of the Edict of Nantes .-- Its Fatal Consequences .-- Saint Cyr .-- Madame de Maintenon Desires Her Marriage to be Declared .-- Her Schemes .-- Counterworked by Louvois .-- His Vigorous Conduct and Sudden Death .-- Behaviour of the King .-- Extraordinary Death of Seron..