[30] Œuvres complètes de La Fontaine, published by Ch. Marty Laveaux, Vol. III (1866), p. 26 _et seq._ [31] The inventory of the 26th February, 1666 (Bonnaffé, loc. cit., p. 61), classes them as follows: "Two antique mausoleums representing a king and queen of Egypt, 800 livres." [32] At least, this is the hypothesis propounded by M. Bonnaffe. It is founded on the fact that an anonymous document of 1648, published in _Les Collectionneurs de l'ancienne France_ (Aubry, ed. 1873), mentions le sieur Chamblon, of Marseilles, as a professor "of Egyptian idols to enclose mummies." But it seems as if the anonymous document referred not to sarcophagi of marble or basalt, but rather to those boxes of painted and gilt pasteboard, with human faces, which abound in the necropolises of ancient Egypt. The port of Marseilles must at that time have received a fairly large number of such. We must remember that the mummy was in those days considered as a remedy, and was widely sold by druggists. [33] Cf. Mlle, de Scudéry, _Clélie._ "Méléandre (Lebrun) had caused to be built, on a small, somewhat uneven plot of ground, two small pyramids in imitation of those which are near Memphis." [34] See note, p. 10.** [35] Description of the city of Paris, by Germain Brice, ed. of 1698, Vol. I, p. 124 _et seg._ [36] _Recueil d'antiquités dans les Gaules,_ by La Sauvagère, Paris, 1770, p. 329 _et seq._ [37] D.5.D. 7^8. [38] In this story, I have followed M. Bonnaffé. Loc. cit., p. 57. [39] Inventory and valuation of the books found at Saint-Mandé on the 30th July, 1665. Biblio. Nat. MSS., p. 9438. The whole was valued at 38,544 livres. [40] _Conseils de la Sagesse,_ p. x. [41] Lines presented to Monseigneur le procureur général Foucquet, Superintendent of Finance, at the opening of the tragedy of _Œdipe,_ 1659. [42] One of the earliest French theatres. It was founded by the Confrères de la Passion in 1548. [43] Cf. _La Vie de Corneille,_ by Fontenelle. [44] _Histoire de la Vie et des Ouvrages de La Fontaine,_ by Mathieu Marais, 1811, p. 125. [45] _Ouvrages de prose et de poésie des sieurs de Mancroix et La Fontaine,_ Vol. I, p. 99. [46] There are two blank spaces in the 1685 edition. I have filled them with the two names in brackets. For the first I have put the name of Foucquet, which is given in the _Œuvres diverses_ (Vol. I, p. 19). To fill the second space I have followed the suggestion of Mathieu Marais. Walkenaer puts Pellisson, which is not admissible. [47] Edit Marty-Laveaux, VOL V, pp. 15-17.