Owing to the death of the king's son and grandson (not seen in the vision), Orleans became Regent when Louis XIV.

died in 1714.

Saint Simon is a reluctant witness, and therefore all the better.
THE DEATHBED OF LOUIS XIV.
"Here is a strange story that the Duc d'Orleans told me one day in a tete-a-tete at Marly, he having just run down from Paris before he started for Italy; and it may be observed that all the events predicted came to pass, though none of them could have been foreseen at the time.

His interest in every kind of art and science was very great, and in spite of his keen intellect, he was all his life subject to a weakness which had been introduced (with other things) from Italy by Catherine de Medici, and had reigned supreme over the courts of her children.

He had exercised every known method of inducing the devil to appear to him in person, though, as he has himself told me, without the smallest success.