[34] Mémoires de Madame de Motteville, p. 16. Mercure Français, 1625, p. 366.
[35] Mercure Français, ibid.
[36] Mémoires de Madame de Motteville, p. 18. “In our time,” adds Madame de Motteville, “there has existed what the Spaniards call fucezas.” “This word,” remarks the commentator on these Memoirs, “appears to come from huso, a distaff. It seems to express the idea of spinning love.”
[37] Ibid.
[38] Mémoires de La Porte. Mémoires de Madame de Motteville, p. 16. Mémoires de la Rochefoucauld, p. 340.
[39] Mémoires de Madame de Motteville.
[40] Mémoires de La Porte, pp. 8, 9. Madame de Motteville assures us that her mistress was informed of this visit by Madame de Chevreuse, which is possible. It is the only point, and moreover, a very secondary one, in which La Porte’s account differs from Madame de Motteville’s. But we must not forget that the former was an eye-witness, whilst the latter, who entered the service of Anne of Austria afterwards, learnt the events, which she describes at the commencement of her Memoirs, long subsequent to their occurrence.
[41] Retz places the Amiens scene at the Louvre, and does not neglect the opportunity of blackening the Queen’s honour.
[42] Mémoires de La Porte, p. 10.
[43] Mémoires de Madame de Motteville, p. 18.