[94] Dulaure, Histoire de Paris; Simonde Sismondi, Histoire des Français; Dufey de l’Yonne, Histoire de la Bastille; The Chevalier de Cubières, Voyage à la Bastille.
[95] The Old Pretender.—Trans.
[96] M. Topin is in error. William was, in fact, remonstrated with by the Whigs for having publicly acknowledged a birth which the great majority of the English people at that time believed to be a feigned one.—Trans.
[97] The child was said to have been brought in in a warming-pan.
[98] Journal d’Héroard, September 26, 27, 1601.
[99] Corps Universel Diplomatique du Droit des Gens, of Dumont, Supplement, vol. iv. p. 176. Letter from Chavigny to the Cardinal de Richelieu, September 6, 1638. Despatch from Louis XIII. to M. de Bellièvre, his ambassador in England, September 5, 1638.—Manuscripts of the Imperial Library, fonds Saint-Germain, Harlay, 364²⁷, fol. 170.
[100] “The King was present all the time, and his two attacks of fever have not in any way diminished his strength,” writes Chavigny in the letter in which he relates to Richelieu, then absent from the court, the birth of the Dauphin. This precise statement destroys that of M. Michelet, who, from an anonymous Life of Madame de Hautefort, says that “Louis XIII. would have consoled himself without difficulty at seeing his Spaniard die, and that during the pains he had history read to him to find an example of a King of France having married his subject.”—M. Michelet, Histoire de France, vol. xii. p. 211.
[101] Dumont, Corps Diplomatique du Droit des Gens, vol. iv. p. 176.
[102] Letter from Chavigny to the Cardinal de Richelieu, September 6, 1638. Louis XIII. made his brother a present of six thousand crowns, “which consoled him a little,” says Chavigny.
[103] Letters of Louis XIII.:—Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, section France, 5. Journal d’Héroard. Lettres Missives d’Henri IV., vol. v. p. 507.