Arvède Barine - Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle, 1652-1693

Henri de Lorraine reigned from 1608 to 1624.

Letter of August 10, 1657, to the Comte d'Auteuil.

André d'Ormesson died in 1665, dean of the Council of State. Some fragments of his memoirs have been published by Chéruel, in the course of the Journal of his son, Olivier d'Ormesson.

Turenne had conquered the troops of the Prince at Étampes (May, 1652), upon the occasion of a review in honour of Mademoiselle and of the disorder which resulted. See The Youth of La Grande Mademoiselle . Some weeks later, he besieged the town.

Letter to his wife, August 3, 1663.

Richelieu had declared war with Spain March 26, 1635.

The phrase is by Bussy-Rabutin.

See the Mémoires de Louis XIV. , edited by Charles Dreyss. The Mémoires of Louis XIV. were not written by himself. He dictated them to his secretaries afterward adding notes in his own handwriting and correcting the proofs. See the Introduction by M. Dreyss.

Mémoires de Mademoiselle de Montpensier. Mémoires de Montglat.

Montglat.

Id.

Letters of January 3, 1717, of September 27, 1718, and of July, 1722. Madame adds in this last: "Now, all the circumstances are known."

Letter to the Queen, Anne of Austria, October 27, 1651.

March 23, 1865, Père Theiner, Guardian of the Secret Archives of the Vatican, replied to some one who had pressed the question: "Our acts of December 16, 1641, in which Jules Mazarin was created Cardinal, do not say whether or not he was a priest. How could he then have been admitted to the order of Cardinal-priest? No doubt he was a priest." The letter of Père Theiner has been published by M. Jules Loiseleur in his Problêmes historiques .

Letters of Madame de Maintenon edited by Geoffroy.

For further details see the excellent volume of M. Lacour-Gayet, L'éducation politique de Louis XIV.

December 24th, Relations des ambassadeurs vénitiens .

The letter is dated April 21, 1654. Louis XIV. was then fifteen and a half years of age.

Mme. de Motteville had heard him express the same idea. Cf. his Mémoires , v., 101, ed. Petitot.

Les fragments des mémoires inédits by Dubois, valet of Louis XIV., published by Léon Aubineau in the Biblothéque de l'École des Chartes , and in his Notices littéraires upon the 17th century.

Cf. Lacour-Gayet, p. 203.

M. Dreyss dates the writing of this portion of the Mémoires about 1670.

Letters of June 9, 1654, and April 9, 1658.

Segraisiana. Louis XIV. was seventeen when he made this remark.

Journal de voyage de deux jeunes Hollandais à Paris (1656-1658).

Mémoires de Mme. de Motteville.

The fair of Saint-Germain was held between Saint-Sulpice and Saint-Germain-des-Prés, from February 3d to the evening before Palm Sunday. The Court and the populace elbowed each other there.

Journal de deux jeunes Hollandais.

Mémoires of Mademoiselle.

Journal de deux jeunes Hollandais.

Journal de deux jeunes Hollandais.

April 29th.

To the Duc de Bouillon and to the son of the Marshal Duc de La Meilleraye, who took the title of Duc de Mazarin.

It must not be forgotten that Saint-Simon was presented at Court in 1692. Louis XIV. was then fifty-four, and had reigned forty-nine years. Saint-Simon only knew the end of the reign.

Brother of the Superintendent of Finances.

In the summer of 1657.

Vers d'Atys , opera played in 1676, and d'Astrate , tragedy of 1663.

The phrase is M. Jules Lemâitre's.

See The Youth of La Grande Mademoiselle . For this chapter cf. La misère au temps de la Fronde et Saint-Vincent de Paul , by Feillet; La cabale des dévots , by by Raoul Allier; Saint-Vincent de Paul , by Emanuel Broglie; Saint-Vincent de Paul et les Goudi , by Chantelauze; Port-Royal , by Sainte-Beuve.

Village of the arrondissement of Provins.

Feillet, La misère au temps de la Fronde .

See the volume of Raoul Allier, La cabale des dévots .

Marie de Gonzague.

En Picardie.

M. Emanuel de Broglie.

Saul in the Journal des guerres civiles de Dubuisson-Aubenay . He mentions the date of December 2, 1650, upon which "large donations" were sent into Champagne, by Mmes. de Lamoignon and de Herse, Messieurs de Bernières, Lenain, etc.