How has Lauzun prospered in his wooing of Mademoiselle de Montpensier?
Was it proved that Madame de Clermont had bought a phial from Le Vie, the poison woman, two days before the soup disagreed so violently with monsieur?
What did the Due de Biron do when his nephew ran away with the duchess?
Is it true that he raised his allowance to fifty thousand livres for having done it ?" Such were the two-year-old questions which had not been answered yet upon the banks of the Richelieu River.

Long into the hours of the night, when his comrades were already snoring under their blankets, De Catinat, blinking and yawning, was still engaged in trying to satisfy the curiosity of the old courtier, and to bring him up to date in all the most minute gossip of Versailles..