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A more wide angle view of the queen's bedchamber at Versailles.
The Kiss of the Cardinal
France's most stylish and most powerful beauty had turned her beneficent gaze upon him...
The Cardinal de Rohan moved swiftly through the hedges in the moonlight-dappled Grove of Venus. Despite the August heat, he had donned a long black coat to cover his watered-silk vestments and stockings. Only his lace cuffs and collar flashed brightly against the dark sky....
Gradually he made out a...fair, dainty hand reaching out to give him...a rose: the Queen's signature flower. "You know what this means," the apparition whispered, already backing away. Deliriously the Cardinal lunged for the blossom. Clutching it to his chest, he fell to the ground to kiss the hem of her gaulle.