[115] Among other emoluments he had 800,000 livres.
[116] Mémoires of Lenet.
[117] Manuscript Mémoires published in fragments with Olivier d'Ormesson's Journal, by M. Chervel (who appears to have been a member of the House of Condé).
[118] Mazarin lived in a palace which became the Bibliothèque Nationale.
[119] In Mazarin's letters the words in italics are either in cipher or in words which he had agreed upon with the Queen when arranging the details of his absence; in this instance we have used the translation given by M. Ravenel in his Lettres du Cardinal Mazarin à la Reine, etc.
[120] La Porte.
[121] Mémoires of La Porte.
[122] Mémoires of de Brienne, junior.
[123] See the journal of Olivier d'Ormesson. This scene took place March 19, 1645.
[124] Motteville.