As she was unfortunate in life, so she has been unfortunate in death; for a people whose historical judgments were stereotyped by the revolution of 1688 has remembered her failings and forgotten her charms. It is only within recent years that the justice of history, working on the materials which are slowly unfolding the secrets of time, has been able to redress the balance and to reveal the personality of the woman who, amid all her misfortunes and all her faults, never lacked while living the devotion of love and friendship.
[ [421]Lettres de Henriette Marie à sa soeur Christine, p. 121.
[ [422]This fine old house is still standing in the Rue François Mirron.
[ [423]Loret: La Muse Historique, t. 3, p. 252.
[ [424]This friar seems to have been more highly esteemed than, to judge by his memoirs, he quite deserved. La Muse Historique has a long panegyric of him beginning—
Ce père a beaucoup de science De vertue d'esprit d'eloquence Faizans quelque fois des Sermons A pouvoir toucher des Demons.—T. IV, p. 116.
[ [425]Archives of See of Westminster.
[ [426]Pepys: Diary, November 22nd, 1660.
[ [427]Mme de Motteville: Mémoires (1783), VI, pp. 307, 308.