[218] Ed. Chéruel, VI. 271-275; ed. Boislisle, XVII. 121 ff. Cp. with this full-length portrait the following in miniature by Mme de Caylus. “Avec toutes les connoissances et l’esprit qu’on peut avoir il n’en montroit qu’autant qu’il convenoit à ceux qu’il parloit: simple et naturel, profond et solide, frivole même quand il falloit le paroître, il plaisoit à tout le monde” (Souvenirs, p. 118). Cp. also Massillon’s Oraison funèbre. He dwells on Conti’s wide knowledge, and his affability towards high and low alike. “Un héros et un prince humain.” But, as is inevitable in a funeral oration, he omits the contre-partie.
[219] See above, p. 14, [n. 38].
[220] See above, p. 73, [n. 112].
[221] Claude Rouault, Marquis des Gamaches.
[222] Cheverny, D’O, and Gamaches.
[223] First valet to the Duke.
[224] Ed. Chéruel, IX. 195 ff.; ed. Boislisle, XXII. 279 ff.
[225] The Abbé Claude Fleury (1640-1723) was sous-précepteur to the Dauphin under Bossuet, and to the Duc de Bourgogne under Fénelon. The first volume of his great Histoire ecclésiastique appeared in 1691, and in 1696 he succeeded La Bruyère in the Académie Française.
[226] This is the text of the manuscript.
[227] Ed. Chéruel, IX. 209 ff.; ed. Boislisle, XXII. 305 ff. Sainte-Beuve (Caus. du Lundi, X. 42 ff.) notes that Saint-Simon gives one a more favourable impression of the Duc de Bourgogne than we get from Fénelon’s letters.