[211] See the portrait of Straton in the chapter entitled "De la Cour."
[212] Saint-Simon, Écrits inédits.
[213] Lauzun became Captain of the Body Guard in July, 1669.
[214] Letter to Mme. de Sévigné, dated February 2, 1669.
[215] Mémoires et Réflexions of the Marquis de la Fare.
[216] The sister of the Grand Condé. Upon her part in the Fronde, see The Youth of La Grande Mademoiselle.
[217] M. de Saint-Paul began toward this time to bear the name of de Longueville.
[218] This conversation, which gives the key to the conduct of Lauzun, is reported in Le Perroquet or Les amours de Mademoiselle, an anonymous recital printed by M. Livet following the Histoire amoureuse des Gaules (Paris, Jannet, 1857); and in the Histoire de Mademoiselle et du Comte de Losun (Bibl. Saint-Geneviève MS. 3208), not always sources to be relied on, but to be trusted here.
[219] War between relatives for the succession.
[220] Lettres historiques. Pellison accompanied the Court as historiographer.