Footnote [9] These two ladies, Marie and Olympe Mancini, were sisters, nieces of Mazarin. The latter was promoted to be head of the Queen's household, and thus provoked the hatred of Madame de Montespan (the King's mistress) and Louvois, through whose machinations she was accused before the Chambre Ardente.]
Footnote [10] François Henry de Montmorency, Duke of Luxembourg, was known until 1661 by the name of Bouteville. His name stands high on the roll of distinguished French Marshals.]
Footnote [11] François Michel Le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois (1639-91), Louis XIV.'s minister at this time.]
Footnote [12] Her real answer was, "Je le vois en ce moment; il est fort laid et fort vilain; il est déguisé en conseiller d'état." (I see him at this moment; he is very ugly and very hideous; he is disguised as a state councillor.)]
Footnote [13] The Marquis de la Fare had liaisons, first with Madame de Rochefort, with Louvois for rival, and afterwards with Madame de la Sablière.]
Footnote [14] This incident is not an invention of the author's. He states that he got it from Wagenseil's Chronik von Nürnberg (1697), the said Wagenseilius having been to Paris and paid a visit to Mademoiselle de Scudéry herself. The answer this lady gave the king is also historically true, according to Hoffmann, and it was spoken under circumstances almost exactly like those represented in the text.]
Footnote [15] [The old Louis d'Or of Louis XIV. = about £1, 0s. 3d.] (Cf. A Frederick d'or was a gold coin worth five thalers.--Note, p. 281, vol. I.)]
Footnote [16] One of Louis XIV.'s former mistresses--Marie de Roussille, Duchess de Fontanges (1661-1681)--is described as being of great beauty, but deficient in intellectual grace and charm of manner, and as being arrogant and cold-hearted.]
Footnote [17] Jean de la Chapelle (1655-1723) attempted to fill the gap left in the dramatic world by Racine's retirement from play-writing, though,--it is said, with but indifferent success.]
Footnote [18] It was constructed after plans by this Claude Perrault in 1666-1670.]