[[29]] A full account of the progress from day to day, written by an eyewitness, is Viage del Rey Nuestro Señor à la Frontera de Francia. Madrid, 1667.
[[30]] So few were they at this time, that it was projected to repopulate the rural districts by large immigration of Irish and Dalmatian families (Barrionuevo).
[[31]] Palamino, Life of Velazquez.
[[32]] An eye-witness, from whose unpublished MS. description of these ceremonies I have condensed some passages, says they were "de los mayores y de mayor lucimiento que ha visto Europa en muchos siglos." MS. Biblioteca Nacional, P. v. c. 27.
[[33]] In one of the narratives of the ceremonies from day to day, written by Roque de la Luna, one of Philip's household (MS. Biblioteca Nacional, P. v. c. 31, transcribed by me), he says "Don Francisco took an hour and a half to read it, and as we were all standing it seemed a very long time to us."
[[34]] "The noise was so great that it seemed as if the world was crumbling," says the narrator from whose manuscript I am quoting.
[[35]] Narrative of Roque de Luna, MS., Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid. P. v. c. 31.
[[36]] Narrative of Roque de Luna, MS., Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, P. v. c. 31.
[[37]] MS. narrative of an anonymous eye-witness. Biblioteca National, Madrid, P. v. c. 27.
[[38]] Contemporary descriptions of these ceremonies in French are numerous. One, published in Paris in June 1660, is specially interesting. It is called "Le mariage du Roy, célébré à St. Jean de Luz." The occasion remains one of the great glories of St. Jean de Luz, where the house in which Maria Teresa lodged still stands, and is called "La maison de l'Infante." A series of interesting tapestry pictures of the ceremonies may be seen in the exhibition palace in the Champs Elysées, Paris.