[215] The colonel-generalship of the Swiss Guards.
[216] The Princesse de Conti, whom he privately married.
[217] The Cardinal de Richelieu, who was exasperated at his marriage, and through whose agency Bassompierre incurred his subsequent disgrace and long imprisonment in the Bastille.
[218] Rambure, MS. Mém. vol. vi. pp. 380-386.
[219] Conference of Loudun at the close of the Mém. of Philippeau de Pontchartrain, vol. vii. p, 315.
[220] Richelieu, Mém. vol. vii. p. 287. Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 450.
[221] Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 509. Richelieu, Mém. book vii. p. 288. Pontchartrain, Conférence de Loudun, p. 406. Rohan, Mém. p. 134. D'Estrées, Mém. p. 411.
[222] Richelieu, Hist. de la Mère et du Fils, vol. ii. p. 14.
[223] Sismondi, vol. xxii. p. 361.
[224] Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 514.