Days Of Splendor, Days Of Sorrow (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Louis’s Chief Minister, the comte de Maurepas, attempted to convince the king that under the circumstances, it would be appropriate to be crowned in Paris, which would bolster the mood of the people and bring much needed revenue into the city. But overanxious about the potential for unpleasant or even violent demonstrations or disturbances, Louis insisted that tradition be upheld and the coronation take place at Rheims, where every French monarch had been crowned since the year 1027, and which lay nearly twenty-four leagues from Paris, a few days’ journey from the instability. As Minister of Finance, Anne-Robert Jacques Turgot, the baron de Laune, had also urged fiscal restraint in the coronation expenditures, reminding His Majesty that he would also be expected to host a grand fête in honor of the child of the comte and comtesse d’Artois, who was due to be born in August. The homely little comtesse’s flaunting of her fertility, which I found to be exceptionally distasteful, was the subject of our discourse one afternoon as I strolled with the comtesse de Polignac about the Neptune fountain.
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