[19] Observation of M. Asse.
[20] Asse, op. cit., Preface, pp. xiii, xiv.
[21] Letter to Mme. de Grignan in vol. ii., page 284, of the edition of Paris 1862.
[22] Asse, op. cit., Preface, p. xv.
[23] Director for a time of the Gazette de France, and a friend of Mme. de Sévigné and Racine. Boileau described him as
‘Esprit né pour la cour et maitre en l’art de plaire
Guilleragues qui sais et parler et se taire.’
[24] Quoted by Cordeiro, op. cit., p. 21, 1st ed.
[25] One of those ecstasies so common in conventual annals is here meant.
[26] No. 4 in all editions and translations except that of Cordeiro.