[1] Letter of January 19, 1689.
[2] Mémoires de Mademoiselle de Montpensier. Edited by Chéruel.
[3] Mémoires de Mademoiselle de Montpensier. Edited by Chéruel.
[4] The Château of Saint-Fargeau still exists, but the interior has been transformed since a great fire which occurred in 1752; the apartments of Mademoiselle no longer remain. Cf. Les Châteaux d'Ancy-le-Franc, de Saint-Fargeau, etc., by the Baron Chaillou des Barres.
[5] Cf. Les Sports et jeux d'exercice dans l'ancienne France, by J. J. Jusserand.
[6] Les nouvelles françaises, ou Les divertissements de la princesse Aurélie, by Segrais, Paris, 2 vols., 1656-1657. The last of the "Nouvelles françaises," Floridon, ou l'amour imprudent, is the history of the intrigues in the harem which led to the death of Bajazet. Racine had certainly read it when he wrote his tragedy.
[7] See Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, in the Collection of Grands écrivains. Paris, Hochette.
[8] His Polexandre had appeared, 1629-1637; his last romance, La Jeune Alcidiane, in 1651; Cassandre and Cléopâtre, by La Calprenède, in 1642-1647. Arlamène, ou le Grand Cyrus, by Mlle. de Scudéry, was published 1649-1653.
[9] Letters of the 12th and 15th of July, 1671, to Mme. de Grignan.
[10] See Le dictionnaire des Précieuses, by Somaize.