How could he take a fancy to one, who was so much older than himself, who had been his father's mistress, and who, as I have heard, is still such to many others?" "'Tis certain," answered Madam de Chartres," it was neither the merit nor the fidelity of the Duchess of Valentinois, which gave birth to the King's passion, or preserved it; and this is what he can't be justified in; for if this lady had had beauty and youth suitable to her birth; and the merit of having had no other lover;
Nola lotu ahal izan zaio bera baino askozaz adintsuagoa den pertsona bati, haren aitaren maitale izandako bati, eta oraino beste askorena ere badenari, entzun dudan gisaz?