[353] Belle-Isle. [Off Quiberon on the Breton coast.—Trans.]

[354] The island of Santa Lucia, then called Sainte-Alouzie. [One of the Caribbee Islands.—Trans.]

[355] By himself or his friends, Fouquet ruled over Havre, Calais, Amiens, Hesdin, Conearneau, Guingamp, Guérande, Mount Saint-Michel, and Croisic.

[356]

“Nessun maggior dolore,
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.”—Inferno, v. 41.

[357] Mémoires de Louis XIV. Dreyss’s edition, vol. ii. p. 388.

[358] Mémoires de Choisy. Michaud and Poujoulat’s edition, p. 581.

[359] Mémoires de Louis Henri de Loménie, Comte de Brienne, vol. ii. pp. 155 and 157; Mémoires de Choisy, p. 582.

[360] Mémoires de Louis XIV., vol. i. p. 37; Mémoires de Choisy, p. 582.

[361] Mémoires de Choisy, p. 581.