[Footnote 28: The first part appeared in 1610, or perhaps [says M. Brunetière], in 1618. The rest followed at long intervals. The four last volumes bear date 1627 and consequently are posthumous. The part written by d'Urfé cannot be distinguished from the part written by Baro, who continued the work begun by d'Urfé.] [Footnote 29: _Manuel de l'histoire de la littérature française_, by M. Ferdinand Brunetière. Cf. _En Bourbonnais et en Forez_, by Emile Montégut, and _Le roman_ (XVII. Century) by Paul Morillot in _L'histoire de la langue et de la littérature française_, published under the direction of M. Petit de Julleville. _Les vendanges de Suresnes_, by Pierre du Ryer.] [Footnote 30: Waliszeffski: _Marysienka_.] [Footnote 31: Paul Morillot, _loc. cit._] [Footnote 32: In the Dedication of _Place Royale_.] [Footnote 33: In the Dedication of _Place Royale_.] [Footnote 34: M. Lemaître's address, delivered at Port Royal. (Racine's Centennial.)] [Footnote 35: _Histoire de l'art, pendant la renaissance._] [Footnote 36: Sauval, _Les antiquités de Paris_.] [Footnote 37: Dulaure, _Environs de Paris_.] [Footnote 38: _Astrée._] [Footnote 39: Montégut, _loc. cit._] [Footnote 40: Somaize's _Dictionnaire des Précieuses_.] [Footnote 41: _Mémoires_, Conrart.] [Footnote 42: _Gazette de Loret._ (Letter bearing date August 13, 1651.)] [Footnote 43: Tallemant.] [Footnote 44: _Mémoires_, de Richelieu.] [Footnote 45: Young Louvigny was killed in a duel in 1629; he was entering his twenty-first year.] [Footnote 46: Vicomte d'Avenel, _Richelieu et la Monarchie absolue_.] [Footnote 47: See Gamboust's map, _Paris en 1652_.] [Footnote 48: Tallemant.] [Footnote 49: In one of the angles at the end of the courtyard (Tallemant).] [Footnote 50: M. Bourciez _loc. cit._] [Footnote 51: _Ibid._] [Footnote 52: Bussy-Rabutin, _Histoire amoreuse des Gaules_.] [Footnote 53: Oh, no! not such a good boy as all that!--Arvède Barine.] [Footnote 54: Mme. de Sévigné.] [Footnote 55: _Valentin Conrart_, Réné Kerviler and Ed. de Barthélemy.] [Footnote 56: Mme. de Kerviler and Ed. de Barthélemy, _loc. cit._] [Footnote 57: Tallemant.] [Footnote 58: Cardinal La Valette.] [Footnote 59: Near Enghien.] CHAPTER III I. The Earliest Influences of the Theatre--II. Mademoiselle and the School of Corneille--III. Marriage Projects--IV. The Cinq-Mars Affair--Close of the Reign. I