[34] See note, p. 10.**
[35] Description of the city of Paris, by Germain Brice, ed. of 1698, Vol. I, p. 124 et seg.
[36] Recueil d'antiquités dans les Gaules, by La Sauvagère, Paris, 1770, p. 329 et seq.
[37] D.5.D. 78.
[38] In this story, I have followed M. Bonnaffé. Loc. cit., p. 57.
[39] Inventory and valuation of the books found at Saint-Mandé on the 30th July, 1665. Biblio. Nat. MSS., p. 9438. The whole was valued at 38,544 livres.
[40] Conseils de la Sagesse, p. x.
[41] Lines presented to Monseigneur le procureur général Foucquet, Superintendent of Finance, at the opening of the tragedy of Œdipe, 1659.
[42] One of the earliest French theatres. It was founded by the Confrères de la Passion in 1548.
[43] Cf. La Vie de Corneille, by Fontenelle.