Note 23, p. [283]

Now the military hospital of the Val de Grâce, 277, Rue Saint-Jacques. Anne of Austria having been married twenty-two years without issue, vowed that she would build a new church within the convent, if she bore an heir to the throne. After the death of her husband, Louis XIII., she fulfilled her vow. The first stone of the present church was laid in 1645, by her son, Louis XIV.

END OF VOLUME I.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] [See Note 1].

[2] [See Note 2].

[3] [See Note 3].

[4] [See Note 4].

[5] [See Note 5].

[6] [See Note 6].