[Footnote 60: Mademoiselle was ten years old at that time.] [Footnote 61: The Palais-Royal of to-day.] [Footnote 62: _Alex. Hardy et le théâtre français_, Eugène Rigal.] [Footnote 63: Sorel, _La maison des jeux_. The book was published in 1642, but M. E. Rigal supposes that the disorders and the complaints cited in it date from a previous epoch.] [Footnote 64: _La pratique du théâtre._] [Footnote 65: Certainly the desire was not lacking.--AUTHOR.] [Footnote 66: _Le théâtre au temps du Corneille_, Gustave Reynier. The first representation of the _Cid_ took place either in December, 1636, or in January, 1637.] [Footnote 67: See dedicatory letter accompanying a comedy played in 1632 and published in 1636. _Galanteries du duc d'Ossonne._ Mairet.] [Footnote 68: _Aminta_ was played in 1573, but it was not imprinted until 1581, when it was first known outside of Italy.] [Footnote 69: _Pierre Corneille_, Petit de Julleville.] [Footnote 70: _Pierre Corneille_, Petit de Julleville.] [Footnote 71: Jules Lemaître.] [Footnote 72: _Manual de l'histoire de la littérature française._ F. Brunetière.] [Footnote 73: _Corneille_, Lanson.] [Footnote 74: _Cyrano de Bergerac_, E. Rostand.] [Footnote 75: "There are agreeable things in _Bejazet_, but there is nothing perfectly beautiful in it, nothing to carry you away in spite of yourself, none of the tirades which make you shiver when you read Corneille. My daughter, take good care not to compare Racine to him. Distinguish the difference between them" (16th March, 1672).] [Footnote 76: Henriette, third daughter of Henry IV., was "accorded with" or promised in betrothal to Comte de Soissons a few months after her birth; the Comte was between five and six years old. Marie de Médicis did not consider the infantile betrothal binding; when she saw fit to marry her daughter she bestowed her hand upon Charles I., the King of England (1625).] [Footnote 77: Ferdinand, third son of Philip III.] [Footnote 78: The Cardinal-Infant had been forced to leave his camp and go to Brussels to recover his health. He died in Brussels soon after his arrival, more beloved by the French people--so it was said--than was becoming to a King of Spain. (See _l'Histoire de la France sous Louis XIII_. A. Bazin.)] [Footnote 79: _Mémoires de Michel de Marolles_ (Abbé de Villeloin); _La Conspiration Cinq-Mars_ (Mlle. J. P. Basserie).] [Footnote 80: Dulaure's _Histoire de Paris_.] [Footnote 81: _Mémoires_, Montglat.] [Footnote 82: Fontenelle's _Vie de Pierre Corneille_.] [Footnote 83: Cinq-Mars had been promoted to the position of Grand Equerry.] [Footnote 84: Motteville.] [Footnote 85: Motteville.] [Footnote 86: Montglat.] CHAPTER IV