She never could forgive the king for not having declared her queen.
She gave herself out to the King of England as so pious and humble
that the queen took her for a saint. The old _guenipe_ knew very well
that I was a German who could never in my life endure a misalliance,
and she imagined that it was partly because of me that the king would
not acknowledge his marriage. The hatred she bore me came from that;
as long as the queen lived she did not hate me. After the death of
the king, and since we left Versailles, my son has not seen the old
woman. The mistresses of the late king did not tarnish his glory as
much as she did; she has drawn upon France the greatest misfortunes.
She occasioned the persecution of the Reformers; she caused the price
of wheat to rise, which brought a famine; she helped the ministers to
rob the king; she was guilty of the death of the king in consequence
of the worry she caused him about that Constitution [the bull
Unigenitus]; she made the marriage of my son, and tried to put the
bastards on the throne. In short, she threw all things into confusion
and ruined them. The ministers also served the king very ill. The
king never thought that his will would be sustained. He said to
several persons: "They made me write my will and other things; I did
it to get peace, but I know that all that will not stand hereafter."