Devil's Dance

Episode 18

Devil’s Dance

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Louise de La Vallière

By Alexandre Dumas

Edited and Translated by Lawrence Ellsworth

In Last Week’s Episode

King Louis XIV and his sister-in-law Princess Henrietta, “Madame,” reveled in their illicit flirtation as the Court at Fontainebleau prepared to present the Ballet of the Seasons. Madame’s previous aspiring lover, the Comte de Guich…