[134] Ibid. Boufflers to Louvois, “Courtray, November 13, 1683.”
[135] Ibid. D’Humières to Louvois, “Courtray, November 14, 15, 1683,” and Boufflers to Louvois, “Courtray, November 15, 1683.”
[136] Ibid. Boufflers to Louvois, “Courtray, November 16, 1683.”
[137] Letter from Madame de Maintenon to Madame de Brinon, of November 15, 1683.
[138] Archives of the Ministry of War; Boufflers to Louvois, “Courtray, November 19, 1683.”
[139] Letter of Madame d’Osembray, December 22, 1683.
[140] Siècle de Louis XIV.
[141] Lettres de Bussy-Rabutin, vol. vi. p. 135.
[142] The letter which we extract is from a learned article of Baron de Hautecloque, ex-mayor of Arras, published in the Chroniques Artésiennes of M. P. Roger, member of the Society of Antiquarians of Picardy; of the Count d’Allonville, Councillor of State, and of M. Dusevel, Inspector of Historical Monuments for the Department of the Somme:—
“Very dear and well-beloved—Having learnt with very sensible sorrow, that our very dear and well-beloved son, the Duke de Vermandois,[A] Admiral of France, has lately died in the town of Courtray in Flanders, and desiring him to be placed in the cathedral church of our town of Arras, we send word to the Sieur Bishop of Arras to receive the body of our said son, when it is brought to the said church, and to have it buried in the choir of the said church with the ceremonies observed at the burial of persons of his birth.