Professor Christine Adams
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Right.
Does he send her away?
He is told that he's dying and he needs to sort of make himself right with God at that point.
So, I mean, this was something that always happened.
He had been quite ill in 1744.
He thought he was dying and he was persuaded to send away his mistress at the time.
And
And then he recovered and brought her back.
But this was to make yourself right with God, you had to get rid of an illicit presence at court.
So he does send her away.
And then when he dies, Louis, the new king, Louis XVI, sends her to a convent where she stays for about a year.
Get thee to a nunnery.
Yeah, that's always sort of the end result of mistresses once they lose their position.
No, no.
I mean, even people who like her, who say nice things about her do point out that she was really a spendthrift.
And I'm forgetting what the source was, but apparently spent something like 12.5 million livres per year, pounds a year on jewelry and clothing and various amusements.
She does love bling.
And she eventually, she is given this estate called Louveciennes, and that's where she goes after Louis dies and after she gets out of the convent.
And so, no, and I have mixed feelings about it.
I mean, not a good idea to, you know, when the French are starving, when the...
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