Ironical Affair

It is just little before 1661, I was the finance minister of Louis, the fourteenth who loved wine and pretty woman in lavish party I supplied him all including the much needed money as he was leading an extravagant lifestyle I was indispensible to him as he was to me, sometimes I outshined him by merit, he was very pleased with my charm and wit, I was very happy, too, as I was supposed to make the prime minister after the death of Jules Mazarin but the post was abolished by the king, I was not surprised at all as I knew it was the price he paid me for my brilliant service and I comprehended that I was falling out of his favour so I needed a smart thing to win back him, I was too stupid to arrange a party, I was supplied him all kinds of his enjoyments: wine, woman, poetry and cuisine from the orient which he had never tested before, after the seven-course dinner I showed him a promenade through the chateau’s gardens, I accompanied him to the shrubbery and flower beds , at the gardens’ canals he witnessed a fireworks display followed by the performance of Moliere’s play but in the morning next day I was banished from the court on the charges of outsmarting the king.