[370] So Madame de Motteville terms it in her Mémoires.
[371] Mémoires de Choisy, p. 189.
[372] The office was sold in 1661 to M. de Harlay. See on the subject of the reports of this sale, Lettres de Guy-Patin, July 12 and 15, 1661.
[373] Mémoires de Brienne, vol. ii. p. 178.
[374] Order of arrest given to D’Artagnan, with the memorandum published by Ravaisson in his Archives de la Bastille, vol. i. p. 347-351: Letters of the Marquis de Coislin to the Chancellor Séguier, September 5, 1661:—Ibid. p. 351-355.
[375] Procès-verbal of the Registrar Foucault, already referred to; Mémoires de Brienne; Mémoires de l’Abbé de Choisy.
[376] The Marquis de Gesvres, whom Louis XIV. did not dare to entrust with the mission of arresting Fouquet.
[377] Défenses de Fouquet, vol. iii. p. 357. Edition of 1665.
[378] Mémoires sur Nicolas Fouquet, vol. i. p. 398.
[379] This is the title which Fouquet’s friends gave to this province.