[201] Mémoires sur la vie et les ouvrages de Jean Racine, by Louis Racine.
[202] See the volume by MM. Jean Lemoine and André Lichtenberger, De La Vallière à Montespan.
[203] Souvenirs sur Mme. de Maintenon.—Les Cahiers de Mlle. d'Aumale, with an Introduction by M. G. Hanotaux.
[204] May 27, to M. de Montchevreuil.
[205] "Frappez" would have been misunderstood.
[206] Remerciement au Roi (1663).
[207] The Convent of Saint-Joseph, rue Saint Dominique; Mme. de Montespan had constructed in it an apartment for herself.
[208] The Comte de Vexin, who died young.—Mme. de Sévigné, letter dated June 14, 1675.
[209] The Grande Equerry, Louis de Lorraine, Comte d' Armagnac.
[210] The Marquis de Puyguilhem (written Péguilin) had taken the name of Comte de Lauzun the following January. The latter title will be used in this volume.