Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle, 1652-1693. Arvede Barine
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.
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Letter of October 12th, to the Abbé Foucquet.
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Letter of September 3, 1663.
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Nicolas Goulas,
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Gazette of August 22, 1654.
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Four, but the last died at an early age.
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Saint-Simon,
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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.
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Henri de Lorraine reigned from 1608 to 1624.
29
Letter of August 10, 1657, to the Comte d'Auteuil.
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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
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Letter to his wife, August 3, 1663.
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Richelieu had declared war with Spain March 26, 1635.
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The phrase is by Bussy-Rabutin.
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See the
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Montglat.
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Letters of January 3, 1717, of September 27, 1718, and of July, 1722. Madame adds in this last: "Now, all the circumstances are known."
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Letter to the Queen, Anne of Austria, October 27, 1651.
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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
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For further details see the excellent volume of M. Lacour-Gayet,
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December 24th,
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The letter is dated April 21, 1654. Louis XIV. was then fifteen and a half years of age.
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Mme. de Motteville had heard him express the same idea.
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M. Dreyss dates the writing of this portion of the
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Letters of June 9, 1654, and April 9, 1658.
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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.
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April 29th.
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To the Duc de Bouillon and to the son of the Marshal Duc de La Meilleraye, who took the title of Duc de Mazarin.
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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.
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Brother of the Superintendent of Finances.
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In the summer of 1657.
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The phrase is M. Jules Lemâitre's.
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See
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Village of the arrondissement of Provins.
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Feillet,
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See the volume of Raoul Allier,
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Marie de Gonzague.
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En Picardie.
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M. Emanuel de Broglie.
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Saul in the