FOOTNOTES:
[408] Mémoires de Brienne, vol. ii. pp. 195-197. Mémoires sur Nicolas Fouquet, vol. ii. p. 237.
[409] In this letter Louis XIV. thought it right to explain why, after having authorised the marriage of Lauzun with Mademoiselle, he had withdrawn his word. The letter is dated December 19, 1670. It is amongst the Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, section France, vol. cxcii. p. 150.—See Madame de Montespan et Louis XIV., by M. P. Clément, p. 32.
[410] Mémoires de Saint-Simon, vol. xiii. p. 73.
[411] La Bruyère’s Caractères, chapter De la Cour. Lauzun is designated in it by the name of Straton.
[412] Madame de Sévigné.
[413] M. P. Clément has given with respect to this a very characteristic letter from Lauzun to Colbert. See Madame de Montespan et Louis XIV., p. 30, note 1.
[414] He had given some very witty answers—that, amongst others, made to the Regent, whom he had asked for an abbey for his nephew, the famous De Belsunce, bishop of Marseilles. It was some time after the plague, during which the prelate had behaved like a hero. Despite the promise made to Lauzun, the Regent forgot to include his relation in the distribution of benefices, and when Lauzun questioned him on the subject, remained silent and confused. Lauzun, with a great appearance of respect, said, “Monsieur, he will do better another time.”
[415] Saint-Simon, whose brother-in-law Lauzun had the good fortune to become towards the end of his life, by marrying at sixty-two years of age the daughter, aged sixteen, of the Marshal de Lorges, is more indulgent for his relation, whose meanness, however, he does not try to hide.
[416] Letter of Bussy-Rabutin, vol. viii. p. 265. of Monmerqué’s edition of the Lettres de Madame de Sévigné; Mémoires de Saint-Simon, vol. xiii. p. 83.
[417] Mémoires de Saint-Simon, vol. xiii. p. 74.—Letters from Louvois to Saint-Mars, October 14, November 15 and 22, 1672, March 16, and November 23, 1676.
[418] Saint-Mars only discovered the hole in the wall after the death of Fouquet:—Letter from Louvois to Saint-Mars, April 8, 1680.
[419] Mémoires de Saint-Simon, vol. xiii. p. 70.
[420] Souvenirs de Madame de Caylus.
[421] Racine, Fragments Historiques. Mémoires de Saint-Simon, vol. xiii. p. 69.
[422] Mémoires de Saint-Simon, Ibid.
[423] Mémoires de Saint-Simon, vol. xiii. p. 72. Segrais, a contemporary, adds Madame de Maintenon to these two undoubted authors of the second disgrace of Lauzun. (Segrais, Mémoires et Anecdotes.
[424] Mémoires sur Nicolas Fouquet, vol. ii. p. 450.
[425] Unpublished letter from Saint-Mars to Louvois, June 20, 1672:—Archives of Ministry of War, vol. ccxcix. fol. 48.
[426] Letter from Louvois to Saint-Mars, June 16, 1676.
[427] Letter from Seignelay to Lauzun, November 9, 1672.
[428] Letters from Louvois to Saint-Mars, November 27, and December 5, 1672.
[429] Mémoires de Mademoiselle de Montpensier, vol. iv. p. 456.
[430] Letters from Louvois to Saint-Mars, November 27, 1672, and January 16, 1674. Delort, Histoire de la Détention des Philosophes, p. 43.
[431] Letter from Louvois to Saint-Mars, November 10, 1675. Delort, Histoire de la Détention des Philosophes, p. 43.
[432] It was then that he discovered Lauzun often had a telescope in his hand, and it was taken from him.
[433] Delort, Histoire de la Détention des Philosophes, p. 241.
[434] Saint-Simon relates that for fear he should be imposed upon with a false priest, to act as a spy upon him, Lauzun had asked for a capucin, and that as soon as he saw him he seized him by the beard and pulled it very hard, in order to assure himself that it was not false. Saint-Simon says he had this from Lauzun himself. Mémoires, vol. xiii. p. 73.
[435] Mémoires sur Nicolas Fouquet, vol. ii. p. 450.
[436] Letter from Louvois to Saint-Mars, October 18, 1672.
[437] Ibid., April 10, 1674.
[438] Letter of Madame de Sévigné, February 27, 1697. “Memorandum of the manner in which the King desires Monsieur de Saint-Mars to guard for the future the prisoners in his custody,” Jan. 20, 1679:—Archives of the Ministry of War.
[439] Letters from Louvois to Saint-Mars, May 10 and 28, 1679.
[440] Letter from the same to the same, December 18, 1679.
[441] Letter from the same to the same, January 24, 1680.
[442] Mémoires de Mademoiselle de Montpensier, vol. iv. pp. 401 and 473; Delort, Histoire de la Détention des Philosophes, p. 52.