Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle, 1652-1693

by Arvède Barine

[91] He was even twenty-four when he asked Péréfixe again to give him Latin lessons.

[92] Letter of June 27th to the Queen of Poland (Archives de Chantilly). The King dined at one o'clock.

[93] Letter of July 15, 1661.

[94] "Portrait de Mademoiselle fait par elle-même" (Nov., 1657) in La Galerie des Portraits de Mademoiselle de Montpensier, edited by Éduard de Barthélemy (Paris, 1860).

[95] Mme. de Rambouillet died very aged in 1665. Her influence ended in 1650.

[96] Le Grand Cyrus. The greater part of the friends of Mlle. de Scudéry are given assumed names. Mlle. Bocquet is called Agélaste.

[97] Cf. La Société française au XVII^e. siècle, vol., ch. xv.

[98] This is the friend of Mme. de Sévigné.

[99] Sister-in-law of the preceding. She married, in 1662, Bernard, Duke of Saxe-Jena.

[100] Mademoiselle says in her Mémoires that they "had" them written. This is an error.