There have been many negative comments and many positive comments about Louis XIV and his court. In the court of Louis XIV, the closer a person was to the king, or the more they did for a person, the more that person loved them. The further you were from the king, the more you disliked him. The people who were further away from the king did not love him more. Madame de Motteville's account of the Parisian troubles (which was a second-hand account) painted a positive picture of the court. Madame de Motteville was a person closer to the king. She painted a positive picture as she loved the king because of his good position at court. “And without considering the duty they had towards Marshal La Meilleraye, they threw stones at him.” (I, 24) The quote reflects that she views the nobles and upper class as better and assumes that they are right, while the peasants are inferior and wrong. She states in the quote above that the peasants threw stones without thinking of the duty they owed to the Marshal. She ignored the reasons why peasants threw stones and went straight to the reasons why peasants should not throw stones. Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who was a French minister, held the king in high esteem because he held a good position in the royal courts. . “He [Colbert] also thought that it would be necessary to strike a large number of medals, to consecrate for posterity the memory of the great actions that the king had already accomplished and which he foresaw would be followed by even greater and more significant actions. remarkable. .” (VIII, 200) Colbert had such esteem for the king that he assumed the above quote. He had such high regard for the king because of the good position he held and the affection he had for the king.Primi Visconti, in the middle of a paper......han the feeling that the heart belongs to another creature [Madame de Montespan] when God would like to have it. How difficult it must be to walk away from this arrangement! However, it must be done, Sire, otherwise there is no hope of salvation. (VII, 171) Bossuet said this to Louis ignore him, as he could with the nobles. The more positive things Louis XIV could do for a person, the more that person loved him (or at least pretended to love him), like those of Madame de Motteville and Jean-Baptiste Colbert. On the contrary, if Louis sd.