CHAPTER LXXVII.
Daily Occupations of Madame de Maintenon .-- Her Policy--How She Governed the King's Affairs .-- Connivance with the Ministers .-- Anecdote of Le Tellier .-- Behaviour of the King to Madame de Maintenon .-- His Hardness .-- Selfishness .-- Want of Thought for Others .-- Anecdotes .-- Resignation of the King .-- Its Causes .-- The Jesuits and the Doctors .-- The King and Lay Jesuits.
VOLUME 11.
CHAPTER LXXVIII External Life of Louis XIV .-- At the Army .-- Etiquette of the King's Table .-- Court Manners and Customs .-- The Rising of the King .-- Morning Occupations .-- Secret Amours .-- Going to Mass .-- Councils .-- Thursdays .-- Fridays .-- Ceremony of the King's Dinner .-- The King's Brother .-- After Dinner .-- The Drive .-- Walks at Marly and Elsewhere .-- Stag--hunting .-- Play- tables .-- Lotteries .-- Visits to Madame de Maintenon .-- Supper .-- The King Retires to Rest .-- Medicine Days .-- Kings Religious Observances .-- Fervency in Lent .-- At Mass .-- Costume .-- Politeness of the King for the Court of Saint-Germain .-- Feelings of the Court at His Death .-- Relief of Madame de Maintenon .-- Of the Duchesse d'Orleans .-- Of the Court Generally .-- Joy of Paris and the Whole of France .-- Decency of Foreigners .-- Burial of the King..