Voiture woke Count de Guiche at night to announce that he was married
The Comte de Guiche asked Vincent Voiture, a man renowned for his wit, whether it was true that he was married. Voiture gave no answer. But he came to the count after midnight, woke him and said: "I have come to tell you that I am married". De Guiche was furious.
And yes, you are not imagining it: the surname Voiture is "car" in French, but since we are speaking of the seventeenth century, it meant "cart, carriage" and pointed to the artisan origins of the court poet.
