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Excerpt from The Correspondence of Madame, Princess Palatine, Mother of the Regent; Marie-Adélaïde De Savoie, Duchess De Bourgogne; Madame De Maintenon, in Relation to Saint-Cyr: Preceded by Introductions From C.-A. Sainte-Beuve
Elisabeth-charlotte, who married in 1671 Monsieur, brother of Louis XIV., was born at Heidelberg In 1652. Her father, charles-louis, was that Elector of the Palati nate who was restored to his States by the Peace of West phalia. From childhood elisabeth-charlotte was noted for her lively mind, and her frank, open, vigorous nature. Domestic peace had never reigned about the hearth of the elector-palatine; he had a mistress, whom he married by the left hand, and the mother of elisabeth-charlotte is accused of having caused the separation by her crabbed temper. The young girl was confided to the care of her aunt Sophia, Electress of Hanover, a person of merit, for whom she always retained the feelings and gratitude of a loving daughter. To her she addressed her longest and most confidential letters, which would certainly surpass in interest those that are published, but M. Menzel states that it is not known what became of them. All that part of the life and youth of Madame would be curious and very useful to recover. I was too old, she says, when I came to France to change my character; the foundations were laid. While subjecting herself with courage and resolution to the duties of her new position she kept her German tastes; she con fesses them and proclaims them before all Versailles and all Marly; and the Court, then the arbiter of Europe, to which it set the tone, would certainly have been shocked if it had not preferred to smile.
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