[61] It must not be forgotten that Saint-Simon was presented at Court in 1692. Louis XIV. was then fifty-four, and had reigned forty-nine years. Saint-Simon only knew the end of the reign.
[62] Brother of the Superintendent of Finances.
[63] In the summer of 1657.
[64] Vers d'Atys, opera played in 1676, and d'Astrate, tragedy of 1663.
[65] The phrase is M. Jules Lemâitre's.
[66] See The Youth of La Grande Mademoiselle. For this chapter cf. La misère au temps de la Fronde et Saint-Vincent de Paul, by Feillet; La cabale des dévots, by by Raoul Allier; Saint-Vincent de Paul, by Emanuel Broglie; Saint-Vincent de Paul et les Goudi, by Chantelauze; Port-Royal, by Sainte-Beuve.
[67] Village of the arrondissement of Provins.
[68] Feillet, La misère au temps de la Fronde.
[69] See the volume of Raoul Allier, La cabale des dévots.
[70] Marie de Gonzague.