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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Etiquette And Prerogatives The position of Madame in France was so exalted as to make a short study of her prerogatives. well worth while. In the first place she was a Daughter of France. The enfants de France were the children of the King and the brothers of the King, as well as their wives and children. These were all entitled to be called your royal highness. The designation Madame was peculiarly distinctive. Apropos of letters, she once writes, when you write my address, put simply 'For Madame, ' but not 'Madame d'Orleans'; otherwise they will laugh at it here. Madame was provided with a household, or retinue, entirely separate from her husband's. She had her first almoner, her first equerry, her first master of the household, her captain of the guards, her squires and pages, her porte-manteau, her mistress of the robes, her maids of honor, her women of the bedchamber, not to speak of her legal adviser, her treasurer, her body-physician, her apothecary, her barber, etc. In all it is probable that she had more than two hundred attendants. Later Madames had as many as two hundred and fifty. Each of the higher officials at least had to swear regular feudal allegiance kneeling on a cushion at her feet, while she held his hands folded in hers during the whole of the taking of the oath. At first glance it might seem as if such households were not expensive, for the incumbents paid large sums for their posts. One of Madame's equerries paid 126,000 francs, while in the King's household, the prices rose into the hundreds of thousands. Another anomaly was that an enfant de France had to have four sets of retainers, each serving only three months. They have crazy customs in this country, Madame writes; another thing I can never get used to...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217427647
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 50
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217427642
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 109 gr


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