To this nephew, the cardinal also leaves his library, but with the proviso that it is to be at the service of all members of the family, and also of the public; and he desires, therefore, that on his decease, a full and complete catalogue be made under the directions of his executors, who are to call to their assistance two Doctors of the Sorbonne, who shall be present during the making of the said inventory; which, being made in duplicate, one copy was to be deposited in his own library, signed by his executors and by the said Doctors of the Sorbonne; and the other copy, similarly signed, in the Sorbonne itself. There are further conditions attached to the ownership of the library, viz., that a librarian shall be appointed at a salary of one thousand livres per annum; three candidates having first been chosen by the Sorbonne and nominated by his successors. He desires further that a person shall be kept to sweep out the library every day, and to beat, dust, and wipe the books at stated and frequent intervals, at a yearly wage of four hundred livres. He also stipulates that one thousand livres shall be put by every year for the purchase of additional books. He explains that his “niessce la Duchesse d’Enghien” having displeased him by her marriage, he leaves her nothing, “moyennant ce que je lui ai donné en dot, dont je veux et ordonne qu’elle se contente.” After several clauses relating to the edifice of the Sorbonne, to his burial, to several constructions to be added to the Hostel de Richelieu, and to a legacy of sixty thousand livres to the “vingt pères de la mission établie à Richelieu,” he adds a very characteristic clause as follows: “Et d’autant plus qu’il a plu à Dieu benir mes travaux et les faire considérer par le roy mon bon maistre, en les reconnoissant par sa munificence royale, audessus de ce que je pouvoir espérer, j’ay estimé, en faisant ma disposition présente, devoir obliger mes héritiers à conserver l’établissement que j’ay fait en ma famille, en sorte qu’elle se puisse maintenir longuement en la dignité et splendeur qu’il a plu au roi lui donner, afin que la posterité connoisse que si je l’ay servi fidellement, il a sçu par une vertu toute royale m’aymer et me combler de ses bienfaits.” And here follow certain conditions which need not be detailed. In the next clause the pride of family crops up again: “Je defends à mes héritiers de prendre alliance en des maisons qui ne soient pas vrayement nobles, les laissant assez à leurs aise pour avoir plus d’égards à la naissance et à la vertu qu’aux commodités et aux biens.” The clause relating to servants and their bequests is worth quoting, as testimony to the magnificence of his Eminence’s retinue: