FOOTNOTES:
[242] Not du Tendre, as it is often erroneously cited in French and English works.
[243] The learned editor of Tallemant des Réaux calls her Marie Hortense. She also wrote verses and plays. There were many other romance writers of the period now forgotten, or remembered only for other things, such as the Abbé d'Aubignac.
[244] I cannot boast of an intimate or exhaustive acquaintance with the 'heroic' romances; but I have taken care to satisfy myself of the accuracy of the statements in the text.
[245] Ed. Dillaye. 2 vols. Paris, 1881.
[246] The full title is Histoire Comique des États de la Lune et du Soleil. Cyrano's works have been edited by P. L. Jacob. 2 vols. Paris, 1858.
[247] Ed. Colombey. Paris, 1877.
[248] Ed. Jannet. 2 vols. Paris, 1878.
[249] Ed. Garnier. Paris, 1864.
[250] Madame de la Fayette also wrote La Comtesse de Tende, and interesting Memoirs of Henrietta of England. Zaïde was published under the name of Segrais, who was a nouvelle-writer of no great merit, though a pleasant poet.
[251] See H. Bonhomme, Le Cabinet des Fées.
[252] Ed. Lefèvre. Paris, 1875. Ed. Lang. Oxford, 1888.