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She has great designs, and does not allow them to be easily penetrated.

As for her way of living, she is very fond of her ease and pleasure; she observes few rules; she eats and drinks a great deal; she considers that she makes up for it by taking a great deal of exercise a-foot and a-horseback; she goes a-hunting; and last year she always joined the king in his stag-chases, through the woods and thick forests, a dangerous sort of chase for anyone who is not an excellent rider.

She has an olive complexion, and is already very fat; accordingly the doctors have not a good opinion of her life.

She has a dower of three hundred thousand francs a year, double that of other queens-dowager.