27 AUGUST 1994, Page 25

Now, now

Sir: I was interested in Martyn Harris's views on sex in marriage (`No sex please, we're married', 20 August).

It is a pity that he wasn't part of the gold- en age at Versailles 300 years earlier. Louis XIV had sex twice a day, even after he mar- ried Mme de Maintenon in middle age.

Indeed, Mme de Maintenon wrote com- plaining that the King was wearing her out. Her name was certainly convenient; the King could shout: `Maintenant, Maintenon.'

Andy Garnett

Cannwood Farm, North Brewham, Bruton, Somerset