[130] Extract of Dujonca’s journal, in Mr. Craufurd’s article upon “L’Homme au Masque de fer.”
[131] Delort.
[132] Papon in his “Histoire générale de Provence” informs us that he went to see the room.
[133] “Histoire générale de Provence, du Père Papon.”
[134] See “Mélanges d’Histoire et de Littérature,” by Mr. Quintin Craufurd.
[135] See the same work of Mr. Quintin Craufurd.
[136] This must have been Lewis Francis Le Tellier, Marquis de Barbezieux, who, in the preceding year, had succeeded his father, Louvois, in the post of Secretary of State for the War Department. He was an indolent but intelligent Minister.—Died in 1701, aged 33.
[138] Delort.
[139] Delort, quoting from an unpublished letter (probably from Barbezieux), dated August 4th, 1698.—It may be as well to mention here that M. Delort frequently quotes portions of letters from the French Archives, but does not publish them in his appendix. When in the course of this narrative the name of M. Delort is given as an authority, it is, for the most part, under these circumstances.