At this new blow, Madame was thunderstruck, and stood like a statue.  There was nothing for it but to behave as before—­that is to say, shed tears, cry, ask pardon, humble herself, and beg for mercy.  Madame de Maintenon triumphed coldly over her for a long time,—­allowing her to excite herself in talking, and weeping, and taking her hands, which she did with increasing energy and humility.  This was a terrible humiliation for such a haughty German.  Madame de Maintenon at last gave way, as she had always meant to do after having satiated her vengeance.  They embraced, promised forgetfulness on both sides, and a new friendship from that time.  The King, who was not ignorant of what had occurred, took back Madame into favour.  She went neither to a convent nor to Montargis, but was allowed to remain in Paris, and her pension was augmented.  As for M. le Duc de Chartres, he was prodigiously well treated.  The King gave him all the pensions Monsieur had enjoyed, besides allowing him to retain his own; so that he had one million eight hundred thousand livres a year; added to the Palais Royal, Saint Cloud, and other mansions.  He had a Swiss guard, which none but the sons of France had ever had before; in fact he retained all the privileges his father had enjoyed, and he took the name of Duc d’Orleans.  The pensions of Madame de Chartres were augmented.  All these honours so great and so unheard of bestowed on M. de Chartres, and an income of a hundred thousand crowns more than his father, were due solely to the quarrel which had recently taken place between Monsieur and the King, as to the marriage M. de Chartres had made.  People accustom themselves to everything, but this prodigious good fortune infinitely surprised everybody.  The Princes of the blood were extremely mortified.  To console them, the King immediately gave to M. le Prince all the advantages of a first Prince of the blood, and added ten thousand crowns to his pension.

Madame wore deep mourning for forty days, after which she threw it almost entirely aside, with the King’s permission.  He did not like to see such sad-looking things before his eyes every day.  Madame went about in public, and with the Court, in her half-mourning, under pretence that being with the King, and living under his roof, she was of the family.  But her conduct was not the less thought strange in spite of this excuse.  During the winter, as the King could not well go to the theatre, the theatre cane to him, in the apartments of Madame de Maintenon, where comedies with music were played.  The King wore mourning for six months, and paid all the expenses of the superb funeral which took place on the 13th of June.