In several stopping-places she and her suite were swimming in water which spread everywhere, and that in spite of the unparalleled pains that had been taken by a tyrannical ministry." It was under such sad auspices that Mary Leckzinska arrived at Versailles.

Fleury had made no objection to the marriage.

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accepted it, just as he had allowed the breaking-off of his union with the Infanta and that of France with Spain.

For a while the duke had hopes of reaping all the fruit of the unequal marriage he had just concluded for the King of France.

The queen was devoted to him; he enlisted her in an intrigue against Fleury.