Soissons, Comtesse de, 237, 271, 336, 341, 344
Soissons, Marie de Bourbon-, 291
Somaize, Le Dictionnaire des Précieuses, by, 13
Sourches, Marquis de, Mémoires of, 26
Souvenirs de Mme. de Caylus, 150, 347
Souvenirs et Correspondance of Mme. de Caylus, 300
Souvenirs sur Mme. de Maintenon, 150, 219, 230, 341
Spain, wars of, with France, 16, 20, 23, 38, 55, 59, 83, 361;
King of, 103, 104, 142, 149, 173;
etiquette of Court of, 104-111;
absolute monarchy an importation from, 118, 371;
war of Dévolution in, 154, 257;
marriage of Infanta of,—see Marie-Thérèse;
power of France over, 171, 331
Spanheim, Ézéchiel, Relation de la Cour de France, by, 374
Sports et jeux d'exercice dans l'ancienne France, Les (Jusserand), 7
Suite du Menteur (Corneille), 241
Tableau de la Pénitence, Le, 324
Tallemant, 31
Tarente, Princess of, 125
Tartuffe (Molière), 181, 182, 221, 222, 374
Terlon, Chevalier de, 293
Theiner, Père, 63
The Operas (Saint Evremond), 218
Thoinan. See Nuitter
Tingry, Princesse de, 344
Tolstoi, Kreutzer Sonata, by, 220
Torre, Don Diego de la, 282
Toulouse, Court at, 99
Tourraine, 50
Tours, 346
Trémouille, Mlle. de la, 125, 137
Trévoux, 95
Trianon, 235
Trichateau, Marquis de, 343
Tuileries, palace of the, 4, 19, 123
Turenne, 20, 23, 53, 54, 61, 137, 369;
visits and letters of, to Mademoiselle, 143-146, 160
Tuscany, Duke of, 138
Urfé, Honoré d', l'Astrée, by, 14, 80
Uzès, Emmanuel II. de Crussol, Duc d', 264
Valentinois, Duchess of, 75
Vallot, 270
Valois, Anne Marie de, daughter of the little Monsieur, 277;
marriage of, 277
Valois, Françoise-Madeleine, Mlle. de, daughter of Monsieur, 133;
marriage and death of, 185, 188
Vatel 128
Vaujours, duchy of, 154
Vendôme, Elisabeth de, 185
Vendôme, M. de, 117
Venice, opera houses of, 214
Versailles, palace of, 26;
Louis XIV. takes up residence at, 174, 370, 376;
fêtes, 176-182, 269, 333, 365, etc.;
expenses of, 336, 337
Vers d'Atys, 81
Vexin, Comte de, 235
Vie de Madame de Fouquerolles (Mademoiselle), 132
Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, 89
Villeroy, Maréchal de, 290
Villeroy, Mme. de, 75
Visé, Donneau de Mecure Galant, 365
Vittori, 214
Voiture, 131
Voyage de Chapelle et de Bachaumont, 32
Westphalia, peace of, 99
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[1] Letter of January 19, 1689.
[2] Mémoires de Mademoiselle de Montpensier. Edited by Chéruel.
[3] Mémoires de Mademoiselle de Montpensier. Edited by Chéruel.
[4] The Château of Saint-Fargeau still exists, but the interior has been transformed since a great fire which occurred in 1752; the apartments of Mademoiselle no longer remain. Cf. Les Châteaux d'Ancy-le-Franc, de Saint-Fargeau, etc., by the Baron Chaillou des Barres.
[5] Cf. Les Sports et jeux d'exercice dans l'ancienne France, by J. J. Jusserand.
[6] Les nouvelles françaises, ou Les divertissements de la princesse Aurélie, by Segrais, Paris, 2 vols., 1656-1657. The last of the "Nouvelles françaises," Floridon, ou l'amour imprudent, is the history of the intrigues in the harem which led to the death of Bajazet. Racine had certainly read it when he wrote his tragedy.
[7] See Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, in the Collection of Grands écrivains. Paris, Hochette.
[8] His Polexandre had appeared, 1629-1637; his last romance, La Jeune Alcidiane, in 1651; Cassandre and Cléopâtre, by La Calprenède, in 1642-1647. Arlamène, ou le Grand Cyrus, by Mlle. de Scudéry, was published 1649-1653.
[9] Letters of the 12th and 15th of July, 1671, to Mme. de Grignan.
[10] See Le dictionnaire des Précieuses, by Somaize.
[11] Eugénie, ou la force du destin.
[12] Mademoiselle commenced her Mémoires shortly after her arrival at Saint-Fargeau. She interrupted them in 1660, resumed them in 1677, and definitely abandoned them in 1688, five years before her death.
[13] Oriane was the mistress of Amadis.
[14] La relation de l'Isle imaginaire, printed in 1659, also L'histoire de la Princesse de Paphlagonie. We shall again refer to them.
[15] These representations took place in the grand hall of the Petit Bourbon, near the Louvre. (Cf. L'Histoire de Paris, by Delaure.)
[16] Letter of October 12th, to the Abbé Foucquet.
[17] Mémoires de Montglat.
[18] Mémoires du Marquis de Sourches. Cf. L'Histoire du château de Blois, by La Saussaye.
[19] Letter of September 3, 1663.
[20] Nicolas Goulas, Mémoires.
[21] Gazette of August 22, 1654.
[22] Four, but the last died at an early age.
[23] Mémoires de Bussy-Rabutin.
[24] Voyage de Chapelle et de Bachaumont.
[25] Mémoires de Nicolas Goulas.
[26] Saint-Simon, Écrits inédits.
[27] Henriette-Catherine, Duchesse de Joyeuse, first married to Henri de Bourbon, Duc de Montpensier, by whom she had Marie de Bourbon, mother of Mademoiselle; married for the second time to Charles de Lorraine, Duc de Guise, by whom she had several children.
[28] Henri de Lorraine reigned from 1608 to 1624.
[29] Letter of August 10, 1657, to the Comte d'Auteuil.
[30] 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.
[31] 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.
[32] Letter to his wife, August 3, 1663.
[33] Richelieu had declared war with Spain March 26, 1635.
[34] The phrase is by Bussy-Rabutin.
[35] 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.
[36] Mémoires de Mademoiselle de Montpensier. Mémoires de Montglat.
[37] Montglat.
[38] Id.
[39] Letters of January 3, 1717, of September 27, 1718, and of July, 1722. Madame adds in this last: "Now, all the circumstances are known."
[40] Letter to the Queen, Anne of Austria, October 27, 1651.
[41] 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.
[42] Letters of Madame de Maintenon edited by Geoffroy.
[43] For further details see the excellent volume of M. Lacour-Gayet, L'éducation politique de Louis XIV.
[44] December 24th, Relations des ambassadeurs vénitiens.
[45] The letter is dated April 21, 1654. Louis XIV. was then fifteen and a half years of age.
[46] Mme. de Motteville had heard him express the same idea. Cf. his Mémoires, v., 101, ed. Petitot.
[47] 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.
[48] Cf. Lacour-Gayet, p. 203.
[49] M. Dreyss dates the writing of this portion of the Mémoires about 1670.
[50] Letters of June 9, 1654, and April 9, 1658.
[51] Segraisiana. Louis XIV. was seventeen when he made this remark.
[52] Journal de voyage de deux jeunes Hollandais à Paris (1656-1658).
[53] Mémoires de Mme. de Motteville.
[54] 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.
[55] Journal de deux jeunes Hollandais.
[56] Mémoires of Mademoiselle.
[57] Journal de deux jeunes Hollandais.
[58] Journal de deux jeunes Hollandais.
[59] April 29th.
[60] To the Duc de Bouillon and to the son of the Marshal Duc de La Meilleraye, who took the title of Duc de Mazarin.