As she was unfortunate in life, so she has been unfortunate in death; for a people whose historical judgments were stereotyped by the revolution of 1688 has remembered her failings and forgotten her charms. It is only within recent years that the justice of history, working on the materials which are slowly unfolding the secrets of time, has been able to redress the balance and to reveal the personality of the woman who, amid all her misfortunes and all her faults, never lacked while living the devotion of love and friendship. [Footnote 421: _Lettres de Henriette Marie à sa soeur Christine_, p. 121.] [Footnote 422: This fine old house is still standing in the Rue François Mirron.] [Footnote 423: Loret: _La Muse Historique_, t. 3, p. 252.] [Footnote 424: This friar seems to have been more highly esteemed than, to judge by his memoirs, he quite deserved. _La Muse Historique_ has a long panegyric of him beginning-- Ce père a beaucoup de science De vertue d'esprit d'eloquence Faizans quelque fois des Sermons A pouvoir toucher des Demons.--T. IV, p. 116.] [Footnote 425: Archives of See of Westminster.] [Footnote 426: Pepys: _Diary_, November 22nd, 1660.] [Footnote 427: Mme de Motteville: _Mémoires_ (1783), VI, pp. 307, 308.] [Footnote 428: Hist. MSS. Com. MSS. of Duke of Buccleuch at Montagu House. Vol. I, p. 438.] [Footnote 429: There are several accounts of Henrietta's death differing considerably in detail, especially as to the time when the opiate was given. Vallot was much blamed for the advice he had given.] [Footnote 430: Hist. MSS. Com. MSS. of Duke of Buccleuch at Montagu House. Vol. I, p. 440.] [Footnote 431: "A nos chers et bien aimez le grand Prieur et Religieux de l'Abbaye Royalle de S. Denis en France" (September 12th, 1669).--Arch. Nat., K. 119, No. 7.] [Footnote 432: The official account of the Queen's death and of the three funeral services is contained in MS. Cinqants de Colbert, p. 142.] [Footnote 433: "Oraison funèbre de Henriette Marie de France Reyne de la Grande Bretagne prononcée dans l'Eglise de Saint Denys en France par Monseigneur l'Evesque d'Amiens" (1670).] [Footnote 434: Her confessor at the time of her death was Father Lambert, who succeeded Father Viette.] [Footnote 435: MS. Cinq cents de Colbert, p. 142.] [Footnote 436: Cinq cents de Colbert, p. 142.] [Footnote 437: On the first day of the year 1670 Walter Montagu "Voulant temoyner sa reconnaissance envers la Reine d'Angleterre ... indiqua dans son église [S. Martin's, Pontoise] un service solemnel par le repos de son âme."--Histoire de l'Abbaye de S. Martin de Pontoise, 1769. Bibliothèque Mazarine, MS. 3368.] [Footnote 438: Arch. Nat., K. 1303, No. 6. The portion sold realized £4143.]