[434] Saint-Simon relates that for fear he should be imposed upon with a false priest, to act as a spy upon him, Lauzun had asked for a capucin, and that as soon as he saw him he seized him by the beard and pulled it very hard, in order to assure himself that it was not false. Saint-Simon says he had this from Lauzun himself. Mémoires, vol. xiii. p. 73.
[435] Mémoires sur Nicolas Fouquet, vol. ii. p. 450.
[436] Letter from Louvois to Saint-Mars, October 18, 1672.
[437] Ibid., April 10, 1674.
[438] Letter of Madame de Sévigné, February 27, 1697. “Memorandum of the manner in which the King desires Monsieur de Saint-Mars to guard for the future the prisoners in his custody,” Jan. 20, 1679:—Archives of the Ministry of War.
[439] Letters from Louvois to Saint-Mars, May 10 and 28, 1679.
[440] Letter from the same to the same, December 18, 1679.
[441] Letter from the same to the same, January 24, 1680.
[442] Mémoires de Mademoiselle de Montpensier, vol. iv. pp. 401 and 473; Delort, Histoire de la Détention des Philosophes, p. 52.