[11] The letter in which this soirée is spoken of has not been found. There seems reason to believe it is that suggested in the note of Madame de Merteuil, which is also mentioned in the preceding letter of Cécile Volanges.
[12] Madame de Tourvel then does not dare to say that it was by her order!
[13] We continue to omit the letters of Cécile Volanges and of the Chevalier Danceny, these being of little interest and containing no incidents.
[14] See Letter the [Thirty-Fifth].
[15] Piron, Métromanie.
[16] Those who have not had occasion sometimes to feel the value of a word, an expression, consecrated by love will find no meaning in this sentence.
[17] This letter has not been recovered.
[18] The reader must have guessed already, by the conduct of Madame de Merteuil, how little respect she had for religion. This passage would have been suppressed, only it was thought that, whilst showing results, one ought not to neglect to make the causes known.
[19] We believe it was Rousseau in Émile: but the quotation is not exact, and the application which Valmont makes of it entirely false; and then, had Madame de Tourvel read Émile?
[20] We have suppressed the letter of Cécile Volanges to the Marquise, as it contained merely the same facts as the preceding letter, but with less detail. That to the Chevalier Danceny has not been recovered: the reason of this will appear in letter the[ sixty-third], from Madame de Merteuil to the Vicomte.