[101] La Galerie des Portraits.
[102] M. de Barthélemy, editor of the Galerie des Portraits, called Honorat de Bueil, marquis de Racan; born in 1589, died in 1670.
[103] Or forty-six, depending upon the date of the Portrait, 1658 or 1659.
[104] L'École des Femmes was issued in 1662.
[105] The expression is from the beautiful Marquise de Mauny, who formed part of the little Court of Saint-Fargeau.
[106] From Mme. de Sainctôt, wife of the master of ceremonies and introducer of ambassadors under Louis XIV. She was a friend of Voiture.
[107] The others are, Vie de Madame de Fouquerolles, supposed autobiography of a lady mixed up with Fronde intrigues (MS. exists in the library of the Arsenal), and La Relation de l'Isle imaginaire (1658), badinage upon an episode in Don Quixote.
[108] Mémoires. François-Timoléon de Choisy was born in 1644. There is some question as to who was his mother.
[109] Marguerite Louise d'Orléans was born July 28, 1645; Elisabeth, called Mlle. d'Alençon, December 26, 1646; Françoise-Madeleine, called Mlle. de Valois, October 13, 1648.
[110] Born at Tours in 1644. Her father, Laurent de La Baume Le Blanc, Seigneur de La Vallière, dying in 1654, her mother remarried Jacques de Courtavel, marquis de Saint-Remi, maître d'hôtel de Gaston d'Orléans.