[158] See above, p. 98, [n. 147].
[159] Mlle de Lislebonne and Mme d’Espinoy were daughters of Anne, Comtesse de Lislebonne, a legitimatised daughter of Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, and widow of a younger brother of the Duc d’Elbeuf. They were both tall and had good figures; the elder, Mlle de Lislebonne, was plain, and the younger, wife of Louis de Melun, Prince d’Espinoy, was handsome. Mlle de Melun was her sister-in-law.
[160] Godefroi-Maurice, Duc de Bouillon, was a nephew of Turenne.
[161] Saint-Simon called Mlle Choin the Maintenon of Monseigneur, but he twice says that they were never married, and this view is confirmed by other evidence.
[162] For Saint-Simon’s enmity with the “Cabale de Meudon,” see the [Introduction].
[163] Saint-Simon spent Easter in every year at his country-seat of La Ferté-Vidame.
[164] The first Sunday after Easter or Low Sunday, so called because the Introit of the Mass for that day begins with Quasi modo geniti (as new-born babes) from 1 Pet. ii. 2.
[165] See [Introduction].