[DUC DU MAINE with COMTE DE TOULOUSE were products of Louis XIV.

and Madame de Montespan:--"legitimated" by Papa's fiat in 1673, while still only young children; DISlegitimated again by Regent d'Orleans, autumn, 1718; grand scene, "guards drawn out" and the like, on this occasion (BARBIER, i.
8-11, ii.

181); futile Conspiracies with Alberoni thereupon; arrest of Duchess and Duke (29th December, 1718), and closure of that poor business.

Duc du Maine died 1736; Toulouse next year; ages, each about sixty-five.

"Duc de Penthievre," Egalite's father-in-law, was Toulouse's son; Maine has left a famous Dowager, whom we see.