[233] Jean Auguste Deschamps, Sieur de Cotecoste.
[234] Duc d’Aumale, “Histoire des Princes de Condé.”
[235] Louis Armand de Bourbon (1661–1685). He must not be confused with his younger, and far more celebrated brother, François Louis de Bourbon (1664–1709) who succeeded him in the title, up to which time he was known as the Prince de la Roche-sur-Yon.
[236] “I will tell you a great piece of news; it is that Monsieur le Prince was shaved yesterday. This is no mere rumour or gossip; it is a fact; all the Court witnessed it; and Madame de Langeron, choosing the time when he had his paws folded like a lion, made him put on a justaucorps with diamond buttons. A valet de chambre also, taking advantage of his patience, curled his hair, powdered it, and at last reduced him into being only the best-looking man at Court, and with a head of hair that puts all wigs out of competition. This was the prodigy of the wedding.”—Letter of 17 January, 1680.
[237] The Great Condé, who was tall, used to say, laughing, that, if his race thus continued to dwindle, it would at last come to nothing.
[238] “Souvenirs et Correspondance de Madame de Caylus.”
[239] “Souvenirs et Correspondance de Madame de Caylus.”
[240] Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, “Histoire de la Maison de Bourbon.”
[241] Mademoiselle de Montpensier, “Mémoires.”
[242] MM. Homberg & Jousselin, “la Femme du Grand Condé.” During the Revolution, some ruffians forced open the chapel in which was the tomb of the unfortunate princess, carried off the leaden coffin and scattered its contents.