There was an even more disgusting thing, which Louis XIV and the Duke of Orleans had seen but did not mention to anyone, that is, the Spaniards had found several more young ladies with blond brown hair and blue eyes for Carlos II, which undoubtedly greatly appeased the increasingly violent Carlos II, and they were still plotting— In the case of the Queen's pregnancy, although the Holy Roman Empire's Celestial Princess Antonia was in fact only eight years old, she was fourteen years old in the marriage papers, so she was a natural mother - Louis XIV suspected that they might go out of their way to make an illegitimate child the queen's firstborn.

This matter he handed over to the Spanish birdies to continue to investigate and monitor, and for the time being, he didn't have much concern - his plan for the Spanish strategy also reached a critical juncture, that is, his second son, the future Duke of Anjou, was about to be born!

Queen Teresa is no longer the best age to conceive and have children, but Queen Anne was forty years old when she gave birth to the Duke of Anjou, and Louis XIV never had any restrictions on Queen Teresa, she has the respect and love of the king, and in the court, except for the Queen Mother and the ministers who occasionally make trouble for her, she can be regarded as living like a fish in water- Her only regret is that her eldest son was raised by the Queen Mother at the beginning, and then came to study and serve under his father before he became an adult, and the relationship with her was not as close as that of ordinary mother and son, but for little Louis, this relationship with his mother was the most reassuring to the king and the French subjects.

She told Louis that she thought she would love the child more, because she was being persecuted by the Queen Mother and the ministers, and he came, and he did not let her suffer anything during the whole stage of her pregnancy, unlike the very mischievous little Louis, and then she worried that it would not be a princess, and the royal physician Vesalius had to use a time-honored method of pregnancy for a female rabbit.

The female rabbit pregnancy method came from shamans, shamans, priests, in short, those extraordinary people who were before the church took over, but because of its necessity and importance, it has been secretly preserved and used - the specific method is to inject the urine of a pregnant woman or suspected pregnant woman into the uterus of the female rabbit, and then after a while, cut open the female rabbit's uterus to see if there is a rabbit fetus inside, if so, most likely the subject is pregnant again- Vesalius was able to go one step further, he dissected the womb of the female rabbit and the body of the rabbit's fetus, and determined that the male rabbit was in the majority, and he was sure that the queen was indeed pregnant with a prince.

Speaking of which, this future prince was the first prince of the Bourbon family to be born in Versailles - the son of the Duchess of Orleans was born in the Palais Saint-Cloud, although Louis XIV did not care where his brother Philippe's children landed, but Philippe was always able to hold the line between himself and his brother very well, not to mention that it was more reasonable for his son to be born in his fiefdom.

"I decided to use your name for this child. In the small parlor outside the queen's bedchamber, the king and the Duke of Orleans beside him said this.

"It is a great honor," said the Duke of Orleans casually, and it would have been a sincere fear to have another minister, but he was sure that Louis would not be happy to see him like this, "what about the second name?"

"Charles. Louie said.

"Does it mean anything?"

"How blue the sky is today. Louis said, in exchange for a glance at his brother, of course, Charles means sky blue or blue sky in French, but in English it is Charlie, in Spanish it is Carlos, Louis gave the second son the name of course not because of Carlos II, the most likely should be Carlos II, of course, you can also call him: God's blessing, the Holy Roman Empire Habsburg Emperor Charles V, the Dutch monarch, the German king, the first king of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty Carlos I, the most powerful king of Europe in the sixteenth century, the founder and maintainer of Spain's prosperity。

"Carlos II, and Leopold I, were angry when they heard this. Said the Duke of Orleans.

"How much can we save. The king sighed, and the Duke of Orleans could not help laughing: "Then your generals and soldiers will have to blame them, for they have no chance of building and starting a business." ”

"You're right," said Louis, "the war is cruel, but the only way for the low-level civilians to make a fortune is through this," he said lightly, "even if you are a graduate of a junior school, you must first give me a job in the army and the garrison system." ”

"They're all good lads. ”

"More to be hung on the walls. Louis said that this was also a problem for the poor children, who were too easily bribed, and hoped that they would soon realize that why the king should bother with universal education, and not because he needed enough manpower to accept a certain amount of wear.

But even if a wise man could see it, he would only be more cautious and loyal, rather than cowardly avoiding, after all, there were too many prominent predecessors in front of them—after the Great War, the king managed to promote a number of legal men and low-ranking officials, and unlike the "procurators" class, who had gradually become the nobility in robes, their positions were not fixed, and they changed frequently, and the upper and lower levels were only between the thought of the king and his cronies. Such people, whose future and position were all in the hands of the king, and whose fate was uncertain, except that they had no fiefs and estates, and would not be good partners for marriage, naturally formed another class, roughly similar to the group of bankers, merchants, and factory owners under Colbert who opened their way with money.

But you can't see these people in this room, among the people who witnessed the queen's birth, even the nobles in robes are rare, most of them are common sword-wielding nobles, and their family history is even more than Bourbon, they see the Duke of Orleans affectionately sitting directly on the arm of the king's chair and talking to him, and their eyes can't help but be full of jealousy - not to mention that when this kind of thing is customary, the more power the king has, the more people will chase him, not to mention the Duke of Orleans, even Queen Teresa They dare to pull down.

It's just that this may only be a dozen feet away, and some people can't cross it in a lifetime.

Louis didn't care what they thought, he glanced at the dignitaries crowded at the other end of the room, and ordered Bontang to bring ice honey water, and asked Madame de Montespan to inquire how the queen's birth was going—yes, since the royal lady had received the royal family's money, she also had to do things for the royal family, and she was in charge of the communication between the two when most of the noblewomen were in the queen's bedchamber to witness the queen's birth.

As Madame de Montspan passed through the crowd, the men, whether they had always been quite dignified, the Marquis de Lois, or the frivolous Prince of Conti, could not help but look at her chest for a second or many seconds, for it was customary to open all the buttons and ribbons in order to avoid a difficult birth, so that the sight of the gentlemen was at once taken away from the gentlemen's minds, and Madame de Montspan smiled, and turned and went into the room.

Unlike the tights that had been opened, the room was tightly covered, and although scholars and craftsmen had developed microscopes, and Malbiqui and Sidonham had confirmed the existence of such a thing, the only thing the king could get the midwives and doctors to do was to bathe, wash their hands and change their clothes, wear a mask, and for some traditional practices, he remained silent under the deterrence of the Queen Mother— Anyway, the contents of the room had been washed, steamed and sun-dried, and the metal utensils, mainly the forceps, had been wiped with strong alcohol.

The doctor who delivered the queen today did not please the crowd, not because he was a man, who did not demand too much chastity in Europa, but because he was a Huguenot, and they feared that he would do something bad for the queen and the prince. Louis was reassured that Chambolance was not a radical in the first place, and that many of his relatives and friends were among the Huguenots who were about to move to Stockholm, and that he sincerely hoped that they would be able to live freely and quietly in a Protestant country, and he would do his best to do so.

This is Queen Teresa's third child, but the interval is too long, she is keenly aware that her strength may not be able to support the child born naturally, fortunately there are Chambolance and forceps, when he sees the top of the baby's hairy head, although it is not the last moment, Chambolance still resolutely uses forceps, in a nervous mood that is about to break, the red and crumpled baby falls into the hands of Chambolance, he trembles all over, courage and preparation are two completely different things from personal experience.

He thought of his relatives in London, who were proud to have delivered the firstborn child to Charles II, the future king of England, and that the baby that fell into his hands might also be a king in the future...... Such a thought, before he had even left the room, heard the deafening cheers became even more determined, of course it was a good thing to have a second heir to the throne, but the arrival of the Duke of Anjou was as worthy of joy as the arrival of the crown prince, and there was a great deal to be done.

Louis took the Duke of Anjou from the Duchess of Montpensier, the newborn baby was so ugly, he couldn't bear to make an evaluation, after opening the swaddling clothes to make sure that the child was indeed a boy, he handed the child to the Queen Mother, and threw his hat into the air first, which was a signal, and the men shouted long live while rushing to the door, throwing their hats at the corridor, outside the window, and under the terrace, announcing that the little prince had been born.

On the contrary, if it is a princess, they have to cross their hands on their chests in grief, as was the case when Queen Teresa gave birth to the eldest princess.

Louis looked at the child, waved his hand and let away another group of people who were ready to go outside the door, they were Spanish musicians who had been prepared to appease the queen, but there was the king, and none of them came in handy for the three births, and there were other people waiting outside the palace of Versailles.

In this era, people have many means to ensure the smooth delivery of pregnant women, and it is also the several births of Queen Teresa and the royal lady that opened the eyes of Louis XIV and the Duke of Orleans - the duke also asked the attendants to tell the warden of the Bastille that the prisoners used to inflict the whipping can be escorted back, and the queen gave birth smoothly, and they will not need it - he also heard that there was once a queen who was whipped at the same time because she saw twenty people, and she was so frightened that she gave birth to a child at once.

They waited for a few more hours, until the queen's birth was completely over—by this time the night had become unusually dark, the room was full of candles, and everywhere was full of gold, and the queen had been wiped clean and drank a little potion of pain, and really, this birth was faster and less painful than the previous two, after all, the wizards did not speak of God's tune that women must be tormented for childbirth, and neither did Louis XIV. She saw the king coming through the door, and the Duke of Orleans holding a velvet box for him.

Louis sat down on the edge of the bed and kissed the Queen's forehead—a wet, hot forehead, "Thank you," he said sincerely, "this is my gratitude to you." ”

The Duke opened the box, and inside was a sparkling gemstone strap, round diamonds surrounding square sapphires and rubies, all of which were cut in the latest way, like a beautiful dream.

"Your Majesty......"

"I have already told my mother," Louis XIV said, placing the shoulder strap simply on the queen's shoulder, "the Duke of Anjou will leave it to you to raise in person." ”

"Your Majesty......" Queen Theresa's chest rose and fell violently, as a mother, of course, she wanted her children to grow up by her side, but no French would be happy to see their prince in a Spanish woman—although the Queen Mother was also Spanish, she was almost already a French— But if he intends to compete for the throne of Spain in the future, it means that he will have a very advantageous bargaining chip if he grows up next to her as a Spaniard, speaks Spanish, reads Spanish articles, and knows Spain well.

Aren't the Spaniards who are so mad that they use black magic to give Carlos II an heir to the throne that there will be a Frenchman ruling Spain......? They were worried that the king of France would make Spain a second Flanders, but how could Louis XIV, who had never been a Flemish conquest, do anything to kill chickens and take eggs? From the moment the second son landed, he had a plan, if the Spaniards just wanted a king of Spain, then give them one!

"You'd love to get Charles back to Spain, too. Louis rubbed his wife's hand.

Queen Teresa was silent, her mother was the eldest daughter of King Henry IV of France, in view of the grievances between Spain and France, this queen was also the so-called "foreign" queen, she and Philip IV had eight children, in the end only Teresa survived and grew up, Philip IV did not think that this was his problem, only bet his anger and disappointment on the queen, and when the first queen died, he married Queen Maria, who was also of Habsburg blood. Queen Maria was even less fond of Teresa, and before her engagement to Louis XIV was confirmed, Teresa was in a similar position to Princess Isabel of Portugal - if it weren't for the fact that her sister was too young, she would have had to go to the convent and be depressed for the rest of her life.

Does she want her children to return to Spain?

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