It consoles me much to find you in the state of mind which your letter shows. I willingly forget the past and permit you not only to pass through Paris, but also either to dwell there, or to choose any other place of residence which may be agreeable to you, and even to come here in case you wish it, if you assure me that your conduct will always give me reason for cherishing you and for treating you properly as a personage so nearly related. I thank you for the affection with which you write to me of the Queen's pregnancy and pray, etc. LOUIS. Some days later Mademoiselle was _en route_ for Fontainebleau, well resolved to show herself. She was transported with joy at having recovered liberty of movement, but the Court at this time inspired her with terror. The ground had become too slippery for a person of her temperament, loving so much her independence and rebellious to all discipline. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 94: "_Portrait de Mademoiselle fait par elle-meme_" (Nov., 1657) in _La Galerie des Portraits de Mademoiselle de Montpensier_, edited by Eduard de Barthelemy (Paris, 1860).] [Footnote 95: Mme. de Rambouillet died very aged in 1665. Her influence ended in 1650.] [Footnote 96: _Le Grand Cyrus._ The greater part of the friends of Mlle. de Scudery are given assumed names. Mlle. Bocquet is called Agelaste.] [Footnote 97: Cf. _La Societe francaise au XVII{e}. siecle_, vol., ch. xv.] [Footnote 98: This is the friend of Mme. de Sevigne.] [Footnote 99: Sister-in-law of the preceding. She married, in 1662, Bernard, Duke of Saxe-Jena.] [Footnote 100: Mademoiselle says in her _Memoires_ that they "_had_" them written. This is an error.] [Footnote 101: _La Galerie des Portraits._] [Footnote 102: M. de Barthelemy, editor of the _Galerie des Portraits_, called Honorat de Bueil, marquis de Racan; born in 1589, died in 1670.] [Footnote 103: Or forty-six, depending upon the date of the Portrait, 1658 or 1659.] [Footnote 104: _L'Ecole des Femmes_ was issued in 1662.] [Footnote 105: The expression is from the beautiful Marquise de Mauny, who formed part of the little Court of Saint-Fargeau.] [Footnote 106: From Mme. de Sainctot, wife of the master of ceremonies and introducer of ambassadors under Louis XIV. She was a friend of Voiture.] [Footnote 107: The others are, _Vie de Madame de Fouquerolles_, supposed autobiography of a lady mixed up with Fronde intrigues (MS. exists in the library of the Arsenal), and _La Relation de l'Isle imaginaire_ (1658), badinage upon an episode in _Don Quixote_.] [Footnote 108: _Memoires._ Francois-Timoleon de Choisy was born in 1644. There is some question as to who was his mother.] [Footnote 109: Marguerite Louise d'Orleans was born July 28, 1645; Elisabeth, called Mlle. d'Alencon, December 26, 1646; Francoise-Madeleine, called Mlle. de Valois, October 13, 1648.]