The King's Cameo
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Queen Marie Antoinette and her Husband, King Louis XVI, were at the Paris Royal Court presentation on behalf of the children of his grandfather, King Louis XV. Th e children were one-half royalty by birth and scheduled to be offi cially recognized as such by the King’s Court. Mlle. de St. Andre was one such child, every bit as beautiful as her mother, the low-born cobbler’s daughter, a lovely model known as La Morphise. Angelic paintings of her mother adorned the palace Royal Chapel halls. Indeed, Louise 0’Murphy, her mother’s birth name, was very pleased to have her daughter, the King’s child, accepted by royalty. Lady Natalie de Maunfort had also been invited to the royal festivities and stood fast, awaiting the time her daughter, a King’s child as well, would be so announced to the visitors of royalty and the King’s Court. Her daughter, Mlle. La Mouette St. Fontaigne, a King’s child of thirteen, was affectionately known as Musette. As it were, an American naval officer, Tyce Pringle, was in attendance, a person who truly enjoyed the opportunity of privileged invitation to the palace of the French King.
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The King’s Cameo, a novel about King Louis 15th and The Marguise de Pompadour.
All the King’s life had felt a vast sense of loneliness in his heart, from time to time, something in his nature that no woman could satisfy, and time went by slowly be began to realize that it was something in himself that kept him bored, constantly seeking new relationships and events of an exticiting nature; something that geoded him on to search for the new, untried and the unreachable: until he reached it, until bored, cast it aside and went searching again. The pattern repeated itself, over and over again. Only the Marguise du Pompadour with her listing to him, and her gentle understanding of his nature brought him any peace. She was his and more and more he began to realize how very she ment to him------a King!
With the new theater movement, the King converted the great beautiful Stairway of Lousi XIV, one the showpieces of
The King had eyes only for (Reinette) Madame de Pompadour and she had eyes only for him.
The King gave Madame de Pompadour the Cameo made with his likeness with 600 white diamonds on it.
The Marquise help the King’s Cameo to her soft cheek as she remember their days together as lovers-how passionate he had been, how thoughtful and generous, and she had been just as understanding of his Royal Majesty!
“Louis, -----Louis,” she murmured.
About the Author
Valinda Vassy, resides in
Valinda writes mostly historical fiction.