- Louis meets Guillaume d'Orange in a relentless combat and returns to Versailles full of new energy. The court is in shock of two new deaths and Montespan feels herself increasingly isolated.
- William of Orange suggests an alliance with Louis, which is rejected, Louis citing a betrayal of William's former alliances whilst at Versailles the queen investigates Isabelle's death, suspecting Montespan's involvement and the splendid Liselotte discovers a way to arouse Philippe as well as coming to an arrangement with the Chevalier, whom she easily trumps. Thoroughly unstable and haunted by ghosts from the past, including a seductive courtier turned nun, Louis returns to Versailles having failed to come to any arrangement with the Dutch king.—don @ minifie-1
- Having turned down an alliance offered by William of Orange, Louis, whose nightmarish visions continue, returns to Versailles and the reins of power and to tighten the etiquette restraints on the reshuffled court nobility. He urges Gaston to hunt down the poison-monger, who strikes again. Philippe is bitterly disappointed that his prize for the Indian deal, the Languedoc tax profits, is reclaimed by the crown but makes up with Chevalier. The queen loses her political role but is satisfied when mistress Montespan, having overplayed her hand publicly, is shoved aside, albeit in favor of the queen's unambitious friend.—KGF Vissers
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