[[19]] Lionne's own account of his negotiations in Recueil des Instructions données aux Ambassadeurs Français. Ed. Morel Fatio, Paris, 1894.
[[20]] On Good Friday, 1657, for instance, the procession, as usual, passed before the palace of Madrid, and as the carved group representing the Flight into Egypt passed the royal balconies a large flight of white doves was let loose. One of the doves, Barrionuevo says, flew direct to the window where the Infanta was standing, and settled upon her head, whilst another alighted upon the King's hat. Both birds were caught and liberated by the King's command, and all Madrid was soon talking of the good omen the event presented.
[[21]] On the day of St. Blas, writes Barrionuevo, the King and Queen go to the Retiro, and on the 8th February (1658) there will be the great comedy there which will cost 50,000 ducats, with unheard of machines. There will be 132 performers, 42 of them musical women brought from all parts of Spain.... One of them, the Bezona, is a very fine lady from Seville, and another one, the Grifona, has escaped from her prison, so that the feast will be brilliant, and will last from Shrove Sunday to Ash Wednesday.
[[22]] Cartas de Sor Maria.
[[23]] Barrionuevo.
[[24]] Barrionuevo.
[[25]] There are three French MS. narratives of it in the Bibliotheque Nationale, written by various hands, as well as a Journal du Voyage d'Espagne, by Bertaut, in print, Paris, 1669, and La Veritable Rélation du Voyage, etc., Toulouse, 1659. Several Spanish narratives of the embassy also exist in print and MS. in the Biblioteca Nacional.
[[26]] Journal du Voyage d'Espagne, par l'Abbe Bertaut, Paris, 1669.
[[27]] So jealous were the nations of one another still, that Mazarin strictly forbade any of his French followers from crossing the Spanish line during the conference: "Dans la crainte qu'il avail que les Français, accoutumés à mépriser les étrangers et à se moquer de tous ceux qui ne sont pas vétus à leur mode, ne fissent quelques déplaisirs aux espagnols, dont le procédé est plus serieux et plus modeste." "L'isle de la Conference et le Mariage du Roi," 1660.
[[28]] Avisos anonimos. Appendix to Barrionuevo.