[120] Journal (Rathery), I. p. 45.
[121] Cf. a very significant remark of the Marquis de Balleroy in a letter of July 26, 1722. See note 72.
[122] See p. 33.
[123] Journal (Rathery), IV. p. 30.
[124] Journal (Rathery), IV. pp. 28, 29. Cf. also Caumartin de Boissy's letters of May 12 and 14, 1721. (Barthélemy, II. pp. 328, 329.) See also Marais, II. p. 147.
[125] Journal (Rathery), I. p. 58.
[126] Ibid., I. pp. 55-61.
[127] The word is d'Argenson's, and characteristic of him.
[128] Journal (Rathery), I. p. 57.
[129] Ibid., I. p. 49.