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Excerpt from Madame, Mother of the Regent, 1652-1722 Arvede Barine (Mme. Charles Vincens) died November 14, 1908. The last chapter of her book Madame was planned, but not written. All her readers admired Mme. Arvede Barine's great charm of style, her extraordinary powers of psychological observation, her indefatigable industry, her conscientiousness, and especially her rare gift of making the people who appear in her books live and breathe, act, speak, hate, love before our very eyes. With all her many gifts, never was writer, man or woman, more truly modest. She never spoke of herself or of her works. To the world of letters, her death is a great loss; to those who loved her - and they were many - a great sorrow. This is no official history: it is a familiar and intimate story of Madame, of Louis XIV., and of those who surrounded him. Madame was a wide-awake witness; she opened her eyes, noted, and wrote - wrote unceasingly, abundantly, indiscreetly, and always with a spirit which made of her correspondence a mine for historians, especially for those who hated France. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."