“What I would love to do is interview Madame de Maintenon.
She is an enigma.
What interests me is to understand how this woman, undoubtedly ambitious, having had a chaotic and adventurous life in her youth, manages to become the companion of King Louis XIV (1638-1715).
And the fact that for thirty-two years, more or less continuously, the King comes to her house every evening at 6 p.m. and that he really spends his life there.
I would ask him:
"How did you become indispensable to the king?"
She wouldn't answer my questions.
She will burn whatever she doesn't want to leave of her.
And from him.
She claims her silence.
It is said that she changed the king, as we attribute to her the climate of devotion and austerity which established itself in Versailles at the end of his reign.
For a journalist, it's even more exciting when someone refuses to speak.
Understand the mechanism of the influence she may have had with this monarch with such a dense life.
They met from 1669, when she arrived at court as governess of the natural children of Madame de Montespan.
It comes at the right time
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