5 ([return])
[ Dumas here, and later in the chapter, uses the name Roncherat. Roncherolles is the actual name of the man.]
6 ([return])
[ In some editions, “in spite of Milady” reads “in spite of malady”.]
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[ “Pie” in this case refers to magpies, the prey for the falcons.]
8 ([return])
[ Anne of Austria did not die until 1666, and Dumas sets the current year as 1665.]
9 ([return])
[ Madame de Montespan would oust Louise from the king’s affections by 1667.]
10 ([return])
[ De Guiche would not return to court until 1671.]
11 ([return])
[ Madame did die of poison in 1670, shortly after returning from the mission described later. The Chevalier de Lorraine had actually been ordered out of France in 1662.]
12 ([return])
[ This particular campaign did not actually occur until 1673.]
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[ Jean-Paul Oliva was the actual general of the Jesuits from 1664-1681.]
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[ In earlier editions, the last line reads, “Of the four valiant men whose history we have related, there now no longer remained but one single body; God had resumed the souls.” Dumas made the revision in later editions.]