[11] Eugénie, ou la force du destin.

[12] Mademoiselle commenced her Mémoires shortly after her arrival at Saint-Fargeau. She interrupted them in 1660, resumed them in 1677, and definitely abandoned them in 1688, five years before her death.

[13] Oriane was the mistress of Amadis.

[14] La relation de l'Isle imaginaire, printed in 1659, also L'histoire de la Princesse de Paphlagonie. We shall again refer to them.

[15] These representations took place in the grand hall of the Petit Bourbon, near the Louvre. (Cf. L'Histoire de Paris, by Delaure.)

[16] Letter of October 12th, to the Abbé Foucquet.

[17] Mémoires de Montglat.

[18] Mémoires du Marquis de Sourches. Cf. L'Histoire du château de Blois, by La Saussaye.

[19] Letter of September 3, 1663.

[20] Nicolas Goulas, Mémoires.