"Probably because your mother never had a bitter relationship. Madame Milady said with a smile.

Accompanying her in the moonlight was the young Duke of Colonna, who was considered one of the king's ladies, but as far as the Duke of Colonna had seen in the past few years, the witch and spy chief seemed to be more interested in her career than begging for love from her father—which was an important reason why the Duke of Colonna was willing to confide in her and seek a solution. Milady stopped, sighing, thinking that she could not caress the little duke's head casually now, firstly, it would make the Duke of Colonna despised, and secondly, she should also keep her distance from the king's son—speaking of which, Miledi had also been on the island of Gayola for more than ten years, and compared to Marie, who was not so good at intrigues, she was half a teacher of the Duke of Colonna in terms of rule and management, and moreover, she was both a teacher of the Duke of Colonna, and she was taught by word and deed.

The little Duke of Cologna was not spoiled by his mother to the point of having to make Louis give up on him, and Milady was indispensable.

"Can you be more detailed?" asked the Duke of Colonna, worriedly.

"Let's go up further. Lady Milady said, and they went around the labyrinth of holly and along the perimeter of the palace to the lift, which led to the highest point.

As mentioned before, the Palace of Versailles is a Latin cross from the plane view, and then, you can say that it is a three-story building, or it can be said to have five floors, because it also has a half-basement, and the area is almost as large as the hall above, the hall on the first floor, on the left is the Bacchus Hall and the Neptune Hall, on the right is the Venus Hall and the Mars Hall, in the middle is the Victory Lady Hall, in front is the Grand Victory Gallery, and in the back is the Jupiter Room and Juno Room, which is the place where the king works and deserves - The second and third floors are suites of various sizes, only a few of which are occupied, including the King who left it for the Viscount of Tyrrene. The rooms of the Duke of Luxembourg and Captain Vauban and other generals, as well as the rooms of the Chancellor of the Exchequer Colbert, the father of the Marquis de Rois, the present Minister of War, and the Minister of the Navy, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, etc., the Duke of Lorraine and other princes who were willing to bow their allegiance to the king also had their own rooms, and some envoys also had rooms, but this room was only reserved for them during the celebration banquet, but the third floor was only for the members of the Bourbon royal family, and the third floor was a large and large platform with a beautiful large domed pavilion in the center of the platform, which was the place where the cross was crossed, and at the top of the pavilion was a gilded statue of Apollo similar in size to that of an adult maleAt intervals at the top of the parapet around the platform stand marble statues of muses holding musical instruments, about one-third the size of Apollo.

The platform is specially equipped with two hydraulic lifting devices for guests to go up and down, so that guests do not have to wait long in the stairs and corridors before and after enjoying the fireworks. This strange and novel machine also came from the king's academy of sciences, a man named Calles Pascal, of course, he only proposed the law that fluid can transmit pressure, and applied it to the hydrometer and syringe, this was 53 years, when the king was instructing Descartes and Colbert to build the Royal College of France, Pascal was also invited, so he brought his family to come, the king was always very generous to these scholars, and rarely interfered with their research, so Pascal soon came up with the most primitive hydraulic lifting device- Powered by a steam engine, the machine and the elevator are encased in oak and marble, making it look like a lovely little room from the outside and inside.

To us the device was undoubtedly unusually rudimentary, but to the people of the seventeenth century it was simply a kind of magic - though both Miledi and the Duke of Colonna knew no, at most an alchemy, and by this time the people had long since dispersed, and when they arrived on the terrace, there was only silence with it, and the evening breeze carried a slight chill, and Madame Milady stretched out her hand, and the invisible cloak gently shrouded the two of them.

"You know that I don't have any good background, and even a little unbearable," said Madame Miledy, "though a large part of it is caused by my frivolous stupidity— I naively thought that a bishop with real power was the men I had met before, and I thought that I could easily play with him, I was wrong, the price to pay was to go to prison, you may not understand the concept of a mortal prison, because the worst condition of wizards in the inner world is a hundred times better than that of mortals, Mr. Duke, it is a living hell, you can never imagine how much you have to pay to live, to still breathe, to eat, to see the sun...... Sometimes you can't afford it, and I'm lucky that I was young and beautiful, but every night I watched the last ray of light disappear, and I thought I was going crazy the next day. ”

She paused: "There you can see and hear, feel all the evil in the world, and everyone is struggling at all costs to survive, without morality and without thinking," she shook her head, "only instinct." ”

If another person said this, the Duke of Colonna would have said something comforting, but he knew that Madame Milady would never say these things to him for no reason, and he looked at Madame Milady, who smiled and raised an eyebrow: "The problem you want to talk about is that your mother has always had many unrealistic dreams for His Majesty......"

"......" The Duke of Cologna hesitated for a moment, but still nodded, he was already twelve years old, maybe two or three years later he would have to sign a marriage contract with the noble daughter that the king had chosen for him, it stands to reason that he had reached the age of the beginning of love, but he still couldn't understand his mother's obsession, her wayward behavior in the Venus Hall not only made His Majesty difficult to deal with, but also put Madame Lavallière in an embarrassing situation, fortunately, the Duke of Orleans immediately came over, invited Madame Lavallière to do a minuet, and took the other party's outstretched hand, otherwise Madame Lavallière would have become the biggest laughing stock of the night。

"I thought she was able to accept Madame Lavalier's existence. The Duke of Cologna said dryly that, in fact, Marie Mancini could not be compared with Queen Teresa or Madame Lavallière in terms of status, after all, she was the first royal lady recognized by the court, and even Madame Milady was more easily accepted by the people in the Paris court than her, but on the other hand, Marie also had places where the queen and Madame Lavallière could not reach, for example, in the island of Gayola and Calais, Marie was the only hostess.

"That is why I say that your mother, the Duchess of Cologna, has not suffered," said Madame de Milady, leisurely, "if she had ever been in a desperate situation, she would have understood and understood her situation. She said, "You too, you are fortunate to be born the son of a king, and your majesty is willing to acknowledge you, and has given you a distinguished and innocent status, and a bright future, which is difficult for you to understand—Madame de Cologna must have told you about the relationship between the king and her, then you know, your father, not always smooth sailing, he ascended the throne at the age of five, and the affairs of the affairs were all done by Cardinal Mazarin and the queen mother— He had not even a shred of power in his hands, and when he was ten years old, the riots of the Frondes forced him to flee from Paris overnight, from his capital, from his people— Such riots were not one, but two, the second time was led by his blood relatives, led by the Prince Condé and Prince Conti, and his uncle, the Duke of Gaston, who was intent on waiting for them to lose both, and then stealing the crown from them, and His Majesty fled from Paris to Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and from Saint-Germain-en-Laye to Herthale, and in the most difficult times, the Queen Mother was required to pawn her clothes in exchange for food and necessary expenses......"

"I've heard a few. ”

"But you are more focused on the present splendor of your Majesty," said Madame Milady, with a gesture, "though it is too contemptuous, even a blasphemy, to compare me, I must say that the life of the King was no less threatened than a prisoner in a prison at that time, but one thing is the same, my little Highness, it is difficult for a man who is struggling to support him under such pressure to have any beautiful thoughts— Even if he were to be liberated, his intellect would inevitably override his emotions forever because of this experience, and he might need comfort, but he would certainly want help and support more than empty words. ”

"Mother has done what he says. The Duke of Cologna muttered.

"Not enough," said Madame Milady, "she should think as you father think, like a ruler." ”

"Maybe I shouldn't have made that request. Said the Duke of Colonna.

"It is not a matter of whether you ask for it or not," said Madame de Milady, "and you have to make the Duchess of Cologna understand one thing, that love is a luxury, and that it must be given up many things before it can be had, including power and duty, but the problem is that if you lose them, the flower of love will be ravaged by the storm—so that if she wants the king's love, she must let His Majesty remove all worries......"

"How is this possible?"

"Then for the most part," said Madame Milady, "or take ten thousand steps back, and do not add any new troubles to your majesty." ”

"I can probably understand what you mean," said the Duke of Cologna, "just as when you were in prison, in order to survive, you would not care whether you could get love, and my father, the king of France, would not put love in an important place until he had stopped his conquests......

"That's right," said Madame Milady, clapping her hands, "you finally understand what I mean, and you have to make a statement to your mother—she should be grown up, too." ”

"I wish I could," said Cologne hopelessly, "she's too stubborn." ”

"If you want me to say, there are also bad things about your Majesty," said Madame Milady, "and he is too indecisive in this respect. ”

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His indecisive Majesty the King was in Madame de Lavallière's room when Madame de Milley was trying to persuade the Duke of Cologna, and the room of the First Madame of the Royal Family was second only to that of the Queen and her brother, and there were seven rooms, and her maids were already asleep, and because of today's events, the King had come to accompany Madame Lavallière, and what he did not expect was that Madame Lavallière did not feel sad: "Because when I saw her, it was like seeing another me, Your Majesty," she smiled palely: " You should have told me earlier, Your Majesty, that I am so ugly, that you do not love me, and who can love someone like that. ”

"You have done nothing wrong," Louis said calmly, "it is I who have no way to repay your love." ”

"For that is not what you need," said Madame de Lavalier, "but let us love you, Your Majesty, for we cannot be in love with anyone else." She followed the king's gaze out the window, and through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, she could see the labyrinth of holly, and thousands of fountains, large and small, embedded in turquoise patterns, each with sculptures of brass gilt or marble, from Neptune (the Roman god of the sea) to Diana (the god of hunting and the moon) to Hercules, and monsters and spirits, some of which could light a fire in the abdominal wall, some could make a chirping sound, and some could pour out a column of crystal water from the arrows in their hands, their puffed lips, and their poured water bottles- It is the Grand Canal of Versailles that provides pressure and water for these landscaping, and when you walk to the bedroom on the other side, you can see that it stretches from the foot of the Palace of Versailles to the heaven and earth, and this Grand Canal not only exists for the palace, but also solves the problem of drinking water and water for the nearly 100,000 inhabitants of Versailles.

She was suddenly relieved, yes, Mary and she were both losers, because there was no one who could be more worthy of His Majesty's love than this country.

"Your Majesty......"

"What?"

"No, nothing. Madame Lavallière turned: "It's time to rest, Your Majesty, you have much to do tomorrow." ”

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The little Duke of Cologna received Madame Milady's persuasion, or rather analysis, although his heart was still heavy, but at least he had already thought of a way to comfort his mother, as Madame Milady said, until France became an unshakable and powerful nation, Louis XIV's eyes would never remain on Marie Mancini or anyone else, he had so many things to bear that he had no time to care about personal love, and his mother would either continue to wait silently, or, like Madame Milady, become an indispensable wing and minion of the king- Even if you can't get love, you can still get the trust of Your Majesty.

He thought so, but before he could knock on the Duchess's door, the heavy oak door suddenly slammed open, and Madame de Colonna stood behind it, her eyes red: "She's pregnant! Lucy, she has Louie's baby!"