Versailles by Kathryn Davis

Author:Kathryn Davis [Davis, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Rat and the Frog

An evening in late summer, Palais Cardinal, the Paris residence of Louis de Rohan, Cardinal of the Holy Church and Grand Almoner of France, as well as Landgrave of Alsace, Provisor of the Sorbonne, Superior General of the Royal Hospital of the Quinze-vingts, Commander of the Order of the Holy Ghost, arid first cousin to the Princesse de Guéménée. Rohan is a tall man with a big flushed face and rosebud lips; his heavy legs, of which he is unreasonably vain, are crossed at the knee and clad in bright red stockings. When the curtain lifts he can be seen in rapt conversation with the seer Cagliostro, a dark-complected man in a blue silk coat and plumed tricorn hat who claims to have helped build the pyramids. The two men are seated in enormous wing chairs in Rohan's candlelit Salon of Monkeys, its dancing monkey wallpaper dimly visible in the background.

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