[171] La Fontaine: La Fille, fable, published for the first time in the edition 1679.

[172] Marie-Jeanne-Baptiste de Nemours married Charles Emmanuel II., May 11, 1665.

[173] And not Madame Henriette, as has been said in error.

[174] Bethléem was a suburb of Clamecy.

[175] Mme. de La Fayette, Histoire de Madame Henriette.

[176] Mémoires de Mme. de Motteville.

[177] See Raoul Allier, La Cabale des Dévots.

[178] Lenten sermons for the year 1662.

[179] Letter of March 29, 1680.

[180] Archives de la Bastille, by François Ravaisson, vols. iv., v., and vi., passim.