[281] Mémoires de la Fare.
[282] Mémoires de Mlle. de Montpensier.
[283] Mémoires de l'Abbé de Choisy.
[284] Souvenirs sur Mme. de Maintenon.—Les Cahiers de Mlle. d'Aumale, with an introduction by M. G. Hanotaux.
[285] Ibid.
[286] Letter to the Marquis de Trichateau.
[287] Note by La Reynie (December 27, 1679). The documents of the Affaire des poisons form more than 1300 pages of the Archives de la Bastille, and they are not complete. Certain especial depositions, particularly compromising for Mme. de Montespan, are lacking, and were probably burned by order of Louis XIV.
[288] Louvois to Boucherat, President of the Chambre, February 4, 1680.
[289] It included the Comtesse de Soissons, the Marquise d'Alluye (the King saved both), the Duc de Luxembourg (victim of an error), the Vicomtesse de Polignac, the Marquis de Feuquières, the Princesse de Tingry, the Maréchale de la Ferté, the Duchesse de Bouillon, etc.
[290] Cf. Archives de la Bastille, the "Note autographe" of La Reynie, dated September 17, 1679. Was this the first time that these names had appeared? The destruction of portions of the testimony through the orders of the King does not permit the real truth to be disclosed.