~Nineteen~As the midmorning sun found its way into the chateau, Jeanne found her way to Athénaïs's suite of rooms in the south wing. Her name gained her effortless entrance into the magnificent antechamber and the rooms grander and more lavishly opulent than those inhabited by the Queen. On the second floor as opposed to the third floor, there were twenty rooms to the Queen's twelve. The power this woman possessed both amazing and appalling.
Olympe had been quite willing, perhaps a trifle too eager, to school Jeanne on Athénaïs's glorious rise to power, how she had used the timid and shy Louise de La Vallière, the King's first real mistress, to bring herself before the King's eye.
Befriending La Vallière, acting as an empathetic, more experienced woman, Athénaïs had allowed Louise to use
