[121] Mignet, Négociations relatives à la succession d'Espagne.

[122] Élisabeth de France, daughter of Henry IV., born in 1602. She married Philip IV., in 1615, gave birth to Marie-Thérèse in 1638, and died in 1644.

[123] This was the Marshal de Gramont, father of the Comte de Guiche. The "magnificence" and the "galanterie" of his journey to Madrid to demand the Infanta have left lively memories.

[124] Souvenirs de Madame de Caylus, Mémoires de Mme. de Motteville, Souvenirs sur Madame de Maintenon, published by the Comte de Haussonville and M. G. Hanotaux.

[125] Married on April 1, 1661, at seventeen. Monsieur (Philippe de France, duc d'Orléans) was then twenty-one.

[126] Histoire de Madame Henriette d'Angleterre, by Mme. de La Fayette.

[127] Histoire de Madame de Henriette, etc.

[128] Mémoires de Mme. de Motteville.

[129] War between relations in regard to property.

[130] Letter of July 9, 1749, and passim, in his correspondence.