[477] Louis XV. used part of the materials of the Maintenon Aqueduct to construct a château for Madame de Pompadour, which has since been demolished.—T.
[478] Paul Duc de Noailles (1802-1885) took his scat in the Upper House in 1827. In 1830, he took the oath to Louis-Philippe, but employed all his oratorical power in favour of the alleviation of the laws against the exiled Bourbons of the Elder Branch and kindred subjects. He retired into private life after the Revolution of 1848. In 1849, he was elected to the French Academy on the strength of some historical works of no particular merit and of not the slightest originality. The Duc de Noailles was Ambassador to St. Petersburg for two or three months from May to July 1871.—T.
[479] Langhome's Plutarch: Julius Cæsar.—T.
[480] Mademoiselle de Beauvilliers Saint-Aignan, later Princesse de Chalais-Périgord (vide infra, p. 245).—T.
[481] The distance from Rambouillet to Maintenon is about 13 miles.—T.
[482] Alice de Rochechouart-Mortemart, Duchesse de Noailles (1800-1887), married to the Duc de Noailles in 1823.—T.
[483] Cf. Vol. V., p. 153.—T.
[484] Paul Duc de Beauvilliers (1648-1714), a soldier and statesman of austere virtue, was, in 1685, appointed President of the Board of Finance and governor to the Duc de Bourgogne, Louis XIV.'s grandson, and his brothers, the Duc d'Anjou, afterwards Philip V. King of Spain, and Charles Duc de Berry. Beauvilliers took Fénelon to assist him and the two became very firm friends. He survived the death of the Duc de Bourgogne by only two years.—T.
[485] Cf. Vol. II., pp. 71-72. The "books" are numbered differently in the original edition of the Memoirs.—T.
[486] I omit five lines of verse from La Fontaine on Madame de Montespan.—T.