[192] Lenet, “Mémoires.”
[193] Marie de Bretagne, daughter of the Comte de Vertus, and wife of Hercule de Rohan, Duc de Montbazon.
[194] Madame de Motteville, “Mémoires.”
[195] Letter of 18 August, 1646, Archives de Chantilly, cited by MM. Homberg and Jousselin, “la Femme du Grand Condé.”
[196] Madame de Motteville, “Mémoires.”
[197] “Histoire des Princes de Condé.”
[198] It must be admitted that she had some excuse for her conduct, as the deceased duke had been far from a faithful husband, and had gone into his last fight with a garter of his lady-love, Mlle. de Guerchy, bound round his arm.
[199] Duchesse de Nemours, “Mémoires.”
[200] On his father becoming Prince de Condé, the little Duc d’Albret had assumed the title of Duc d’Enghien.
[201] La Rochefoucauld, “Mémoires.”