[190] Ibid., I. p. 137.
[191] Goumy, "L'Abbé de St. Pierre," p. 60. In reference to another memoir, relating to a method of procuring cavalry horses, St. Pierre writes: "I shall not preach to you the necessity of enthusiasm in undertaking—you have quite enough,—but assiduous work in order to perfect" (Goumy, p. 59).
[192] Journal (Rathery), I. p. 184.
[193] Ibid., I. p. 205.
[194] Ibid., I. p. 206.
[195] Ibid., I. p. 207.
[196] Ibid., I. pp. 207-9.
[197] See his mournful complaint to Chauvelin (Ibid., I. p. 141).
[198] This was the real nature of the "divorce" he speaks of. See below, note 207.
[199] On November 31. See the Marquis de Balleroy's letters of November 31 and December 1, where a circumstantial account is given of the ceremony (Barthélemy, I. pp. 378, 379). Cf. pp. 33, 43, 47, 71-73. Notes 94, 202, 207.