Arvède Barine - La Grande Mademoiselle

The first volume of Le Grand Cyrus appeared in 1649; the last in 1653.

Mademoiselle de Scudéry uses the word propre , meaning "elegant," etc.

In Clélie .

Tallemant.

The first number bears date 1605.

The first number appeared May 1, 1631.

Recueil , etc. Discours sur plusieurs points importants de l'état present des affaires de France.

Recueil , etc. Avertissement aux provinces sur les nouveaux mouvements du royaume , by the Sieur de Cléonville (1631).

Mémoires of Mademoiselle.

Relation de ce que c'est passé en l'affaire de la reyne au mois d'août, 1637, sui le sujet de la Porte et de l'Abbesse du Val-de-Grâce. See document in the Bibliothèque National.

The first part appeared in 1610, or perhaps [says M. Brunetière], in 1618. The rest followed at long intervals. The four last volumes bear date 1627 and consequently are posthumous. The part written by d'Urfé cannot be distinguished from the part written by Baro, who continued the work begun by d'Urfé.

Manuel de l'histoire de la littérature française , by M. Ferdinand Brunetière. Cf. En Bourbonnais et en Forez , by Emile Montégut, and Le roman (XVII. Century) by Paul Morillot in L'histoire de la langue et de la littérature française , published under the direction of M. Petit de Julleville. Les vendanges de Suresnes , by Pierre du Ryer.

Waliszeffski: Marysienka .

Paul Morillot, loc. cit.

In the Dedication of Place Royale .

In the Dedication of Place Royale .