When it comes to Madame de Maintenon (right) the usual cliches are trotted out. Even the language tells of thinly disguised animosity: Louis XIV ?fell? under her influence, she had him in her ?grip.? She turned the King into a devout man, and thus darkened the atmosphere at .... What's really interesting are the computer-generated images of Versailles as it progressed architecture-wise from the simple hunting pavillion of Louis XIII to his son's immense royal estate. ...
The none too savory ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common knowledge to the turgid sub-journalism of 1902. He had been coasting along ...
