[251] Philibert Delamare, loc. cit.
[252] Mme. de Maintenon, Lettres historiques et édifiantes; cf. Mémoire de Mlle. d'Aumale, published by M. le Comte d'Haussonville.
[253] The Abbé de Choisy relates the same scene, but attributes it to the Princesse de Carignan (Marie de Bourbon-Soissons, 1666-1692).
[254] The French Chargé d'Affaires in Sweden and Germany, Archives de la Bastille.
[255] Philibert Delamare, loc. cit.
[256] This exclusion probably refers to the Prince de Condé, with whom an alliance would have been considered a danger to the peace of France.
[257] La Correspondance de Pomponne (Bibl. de l'Arsenal, 4712, 1598, 11. F.), fol. 373. M. Chéruel in the appendix to volume iv. of the Mémoires de Mademoiselle, and M. Livet in l'Histoire amoureuse des Gaules, have published this letter after an inexact copy.
[258] Letter dated December 24, 1670.
[259] Letter dated December 31, ——.
[260] Souvenirs et Correspondance.