[64] Mémoires de Choisy, p. 581. Chéruel, Mémoires sur Nicolas Foucquet, Vol. II, p. 97.
[65] Mémoires de Choisy, p. 249.
[66] Mémoires de Choisy, p. 249.
[67] Choisy, p. 586. "I learnt these details," said Choisy, "from Perrault, to whom Colbert related them more than once."
[68] Ibid., p. 586. Cf. also Guy Patin, letter to Falconnet, 2nd September, 1661.
[69] Histoire d'Henriette d'Angleterre, by Mme de Lafayette. Paris, Charavay frères, 1882, p. 53.
[70] See Part II for the story of this entertainment.
[71] Cf. Mémoires sur Nicolas Foucquet, by Chéruel, Vol. II, pp. 179-180.
[72] Mémoires de Brienne, Vol. II, p. 153.
[73] La Fontaine, letter to his wife, Ed. Marty-Laveaux, Vol. III, p. 311 et seq.