[181] See the review of the play in Molière of the Grands Écrivains de la France (Hachette).
[182] Allusion to certain talismans.
[183] Archives de la Bastille: Rapport de la Reynie, lieutenant-general of police, à Louvois (1680, no other date).
[184] La Magie dans l'Inde antique, by Victor Henry.
[185] Interrogatory of June 30, 1668. Mme. de Bougy was the widow of the Marquis of this name, lieutenant-general. La Duverger was occupied with magic. The Marquis de Ravetot had married Catherine de Grammont, daughter of the Marshal.
[186] Another name for Lesage.
[187] Histoire de l'Opéra en Europe, by M. Romain Rolland. Cf. Histoire de la Musique dramatique en France, by Chouquet, Les Origines de l'Opéra français, by Nuitter and Thoinan.
[188] The first opera worthy of the name was Pomone, by Cambert. It will be learned in special works how French opera differed from Italian and through what a chain of circumstances it occurred that a Florentine, Baptiste Lulli, was the true founder.
[189] See above.
[190] A selection of the operas of Lulli, for piano and voice, has appeared in the Collection Michaelis.