[182] “Archives de Chantilly,” cited by the Duc d’Aumale.
[183] Mademoiselle de Montpensier, “Mémoires.”
[184] “La Femme du Grand Condé.”
[185] Letter of Henri Arnauld to the President Barillon, cited by MM. Homberg and Jousselin, “la Femme du Grand Condé.”
[186] Letter of 30 July, 1643, published by the Duc d’Aumale.
[187] According to some chroniclers, such was his emotion at parting from his inamorata, that he fell down in a swoon at her feet.
[188] There were two convents of Carmelite nuns in Paris at this period, one in the Faubourg Saint-Jacques, the other in the Rue Chapon. The first, which was the parent-house of the order in France, was known as the “Grandes Carmélites.”
[189] Published by MM. Homberg et Jousselin, “la Femme du Grand Condé.”
[190] Letter of Mère Agnes de Jésus, Prioress of the Carmelites of the Faubourg Saint-Jacques, to Mlle. d’Épernon, cited by Victor Cousin, “la Jeunesse de Madame de Longueville.”
[191] Voiture.