[124] Mémoires de Mademoiselle de Montpensier, vol. vii. p. 91.
[125] We shall see, in the course of this work, that they succeeded in securing at least a portion of this enormous fortune, thanks to the imprisonment of Lauzun, the husband of Mademoiselle de Montpensier.
[126] Mémoires already cited, vol. vii. p. 92.
[127] Such as Lauzun, who was present at the siege of Courtray, and the Présidente d’Osembray.—See Lettres de Bussy-Rabutin, already cited, vol. vi. p. 13.
[128] Dated November 4, 1683. The King to the Marquis de Montchevreuil. “Monsieur le Marquis de Montchevreuil—I have received the letter which you wrote to me from the camp of Courtray. I am very well pleased with what you tell me of my son, the Count de Vermandois. But I am not the less uneasy, as the Sieur d’Aquin has told me that the fever has become continuous. You have done well to take him to Lille” (we shall see that they did not have the time to remove him to Lille); “he may remain there as long as may be needful for his health; but as soon as it allows him to travel I shall be pleased at his returning here. Having nothing else to add, except that I am always very well pleased at your conduct, I pray God to take you, Monsieur le Marquis de Montchevreuil, into his holy keeping.—Louis.”
[129] See ante, p. 67.
[130] See, amongst others, the excellent work of M. Jules Loiseleur, Problèmes Historiques; the review, La Philosophie Positive, of M. Littré; the fourth volume of the Histoire de Louvois, of M. Camille Rousset, already cited; the very curious appendices given by M. Chéruel at the end of each volume of his fine edition of the Mémoires de Saint-Simon, &c.
[131] Archives of the Ministry of War; Letter from Marshal d’Humières to Louvois, “Camp of Courtray, November 7, 1683.”
[132] Ibid. Marshal d’Humières to Louvois, “Camp of Harlebeck, November 8, 1683.”
[133] Ibid. D’Humières to Louvois, “Camp of Rousselaer, November 12, 1683.”