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Two hundred and three chapters Louis XIV's triumph (6)

This appetizing soup is tomato beef soup. Since the potatoes, the French have become very accustomed to their kings constantly introducing various fresh fruits and vegetables from the colonies. Tomato is the most popular one because it can be used as a fruit, a vegetable, or a seasoning. This sweet and sour soup is the best for appetizing, followed by another soup with a milder taste, mushroom cream pigeon soup, and pigeons only use pigeon minced meat, which tastes sweet and refreshing.

After using these two soups and removing the plates, the servants walked back and forth like shuttles in silk threads, changing tableware for the king and the guests, and wiping their fingers with a warm towel. The second dish was the result of several meals in one - pie in the palm of the palm, cream bread and sausage, and a little honey candied fruit. The third dish was the rich little lamb meat. The chefs filled the lamb's belly with oranges, lemons and olives, as well as potatoes, oranges and lemons to dissolve the strange taste of lamb, and the potatoes absorbed the fat of lamb, and the taste was not inferior to lamb.

Then there was fried quail. The meat of the quail was marinated and put in rosemary and parsley. Just like the cumin in the mutton before, these spices did not overestimate the main thing, but instead played a good auxiliary role. Everyone looked at the king. When he pinched a quail's legs and chewed it in big mouths, everyone did this - Louis didn't know at this time that his casual behavior made it possible for hundreds of years, from France to the entire Europa to eat quail with his hands, and it was called orthodox. When a tourist walked into a restaurant and ordered fried quails, the waiter would take away the tableware and give it a warm hand towel. Regarding this tradition, some people carefully studied the mystery and believed that this was the first time that the Sun King showed his authority in Versailles...

But just as an inexplicable tourist said on his online account: Maybe the Sun King at that time just thought it tasted more neatly.

His judgment was correct. Louis XIV is a person with a cleanliness, and many dishes should be made with spoons and forks, but it certainly does not include fried quails. First of all, this dish is too small. Secondly, the result of fried and pickled is that it is slippery, and finally the king has wiped his hands clean.

It is necessary to say what it means. It is probably that Louis no longer needs to suppress himself too much. He once accepted the arrangements of the bishop and the queen mother, but he also complained that the ministers were too concerned about his privacy. His indulgence towards himself was moved forward step by step according to all his rights. Fried quails may be the smallest thing. When he sat in his new palace, looking down at the nobles and important officials, even if someone speculated or imitated, he certainly would not care about his attitude of enjoying the quails - not to mention that even if the burnt and crispy quails were left for one more minute, it would be a great sin.

However, when he noticed that the prince, princess, and the princess were also carefully dealing with quails, he tore the quails for his prince, princess and princess, and then... Little Duke of Cologna, Little Duke of Cologna, as a special guest, was at the top of the long table closest to the king. Just look up and you can see the king. When the attendant placed a plate of torn quails to replace the previous plate of quails, the duke was even a little surprised.

At this moment, she even had an extremely sinful thought, and it would be great if Mary and Mary Mancini's children could disappear, but fortunately this thought was fleeting. After the cold cuts, that is, vegetables, she had suppressed the evil thought - after the cold cuts, fruits and desserts, they were put in a basket with hands, and served on the table - fresh or pickled apples, grapes, oranges and peaches, as well as cakes, marzipans and the queen's favorite chocolate.

The king personally took a chocolate wrapped in rum and gave it to the queen. The queen smiled back. Then, under the gaze of people, the king placed a few other chocolates on a plate and served them to La Vallier by his servant.

Mrs. Lavalier made a mistake at this time. She failed to thank the king immediately. You can say that it was a kind of arrogant behavior. It is very common in the royal family. But more people can see that Mrs. Lavalier was rude. I believe that in the next few days, there will be rumors in the palace. The Duke of Orleans immediately stretched out a plate to the king like a joke. The King glanced at him sideways and put some peas into the plate. The Duke of Orleans immediately showed a look of disappointment. What he disliked the most was vegetables. Even beans were the same.

This action came very timely, and people's attention was immediately pulled away by the king. They wrote down this interesting story in their hearts and prepared to mention it at the salon or banquet in the future. In this way, they could not boast about it to people that they were the king's guests. This was the first banquet in Versailles, so there would be so many guests. If you want to dine with the king again, the hope would be less great.

Prince Conte watched this good show with great enthusiasm. This may be more fascinating than the drama arranged by the king after the banquet. He was not worried at all whether he had the chance to eat with the king. Although he was not as brave and good as his brother Prince Conde, he had done both important tasks assigned to him well. It would be clear to see what he did today. When he retracted his sight, the Duke Motmal opposite attracted his attention. The Duke was also quite famous in the palace, mainly because he was not a title,

A woman with a surname and no dowry got married, and she used her merits to ask the king for permission. However, the Duchess of Motmal had never appeared in the palace. However, the heir she raised for Duke Motmal was already the best friend of Prince Louis. People say that the woman was a witch, and she made the Duke faint with her beauty. Prince Conte must say that she was also very curious, but given the sacrifices made by Duke Motmal for this lady, if he proposed to meet her, Duke Motmal would definitely throw the duel letter in his face.

This is better to avoid it. Prince Conte, who thought he was better at playing flutes or dancing than swords or muskets, thought that it was also said that the three daughters that the lady had brought before, the second approval obtained from the king, from the king. After obtaining the surname of Duke Motmal, they also received a dowry, and the eldest daughter seemed to have become a marquis' wife.

Prince Conte was strangely the expression of Duke Motmal. He had been watching the king, but unlike others, it was not admiration, love, fear, or desire - longing for the benefits that the king's power could bring to him, but another more subtle... like the one that was taken away by the king, but could not speak.

Even Louis probably didn't expect that Duke Motmal was the eldest daughter of the lady, the eldest daughter of Valo Visari. She is now the Marquis of Montespan. However, the marriage was not out of love or worldly pressure. In fact, the reason why this bold lady accepted this marriage was to go to the king, replace Madame Lavalier and become the king's royal wife. Duke Motmal couldn't help but be stunned - yes, his wife has not diminished in color for more than ten years, and has become more beautiful and charming because of her pampering life. Her daughter also seemed to inherit her beauty and charm. Although the Marquis of Montespan knew that the daughter of the duke was not worthy of her name, she still surrendered under her skirt as soon as she saw her and was willing to be her slave.

This time the king returned to Paris. If it weren't for Mrs. Montespan's belly, she agreed to give birth to an heir for her husband first. The date of birth was in these few days. The Duke and the Marquis of Montespan would never allow her to rush to Versailles for hundreds of miles, and she would not want the king to see her bloated appearance- Otherwise, in today's court, people's attention would never be only on Mrs. Lavalier or the queen.

No one knew the troubles of Duke Motmal. When Prince Conte went to watch the open-air drama together, he also tried a few words, but how could the Duke easily ask him to find out - he did not agree with Mrs. Montespan's idea. Although Mrs. Montespan was not his biological daughter, the two did not spend a long time together (three daughters grew up in the monastery), but his wife loved this daughter deeply, and he did not want her to worry and suffer for this daughter at all.

But he was really not sure to convince Mrs. Montespan that she was a child with great propositions and thoughts since she was a child, and it was not an exaggeration to say that she was a little cold-hearted, or very cold-hearted. Duke Motmal remembered that he had read the letter she wrote to Valo Visari. Although there were many instigations from the Count D'Artagnan, the letter, no exaggeration, was to let Valo Visari die.

This is because the Duke of Motmal is only willing to admit them and give them a dowry, but he never can love the house and accept them from the bottom of his heart, especially the eldest daughter.

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