"I set no limit to my desires".
Madame de Maintenon, in a letter to GodetDesmarais

"Thou who holdest in Thy hands the hearts of Kings, open that of the King that I may set therein the good Thou desirest; enable me to please, console, encourage, and even, if it be necessary to Thy glory, to sadden him; let me hide none of the things he might learn from me which others have not the courage to tell him. Let me save myself together with him, love him in Thee and for Thee and let him love me in the same way. Grant that we may walk together in Thy paths without reproach until the day of Thy coming".
Prayer of Madame de Maintenon about the King

Scenes from the movie L'allée du Roi