[Footnote 110: Born at Tours in 1644. Her father, Laurent de La Baume Le Blanc, Seigneur de La Valliere, dying in 1654, her mother remarried Jacques de Courtavel, marquis de Saint-Remi, maitre d'hotel de Gaston d'Orleans.] [Footnote 111: Cf. _Madame, Memoirs of Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans_, by Julia Cartwright (London, 1894).] [Footnote 112: Lady Derby was a La Tremouille. The sister-in-law to whom the letters are addressed was the sister of Turenne.] [Footnote 113: Or Charles IV.; there are two methods of counting the Dukes of Lorraine.] [Footnote 114: See the very curious volume by M. Rodocanachi, _Les Infortunes d'une petite-fille d'Henri IV._ The marriage of the Princess Marguerite with the Duke of Tuscany took place April 19, 1661.] [Footnote 115: _Memoires_ of Mademoiselle.] [Footnote 116: Par Fortin de la Hoguete (1645).] [Footnote 117: _L'Image du Souverain_ (1649).] [Footnote 118: _Memoires pour 1667._ Ed. by Charles Dreyss.] [Footnote 119: Portugal had again become independent in 1640.] [Footnote 120: _Memoires_ for the year 1661.] [Footnote 121: Mignet, _Negociations relatives a la succession d'Espagne_.] [Footnote 122: Elisabeth de France, daughter of Henry IV., born in 1602. She married Philip IV., in 1615, gave birth to Marie-Therese in 1638, and died in 1644.] [Footnote 123: This was the Marshal de Gramont, father of the Comte de Guiche. The "magnificence" and the "_galanterie_" of his journey to Madrid to demand the Infanta have left lively memories.] [Footnote 124: _Souvenirs de Madame de Caylus_, _Memoires de Mme. de Motteville_, _Souvenirs sur Madame de Maintenon_, published by the Comte de Haussonville and M. G. Hanotaux.] [Footnote 125: Married on April 1, 1661, at seventeen. Monsieur (Philippe de France, duc d'Orleans) was then twenty-one.] [Footnote 126: _Histoire de Madame Henriette d'Angleterre_, by Mme. de La Fayette.] [Footnote 127: _Histoire de Madame de Henriette_, etc.] [Footnote 128: _Memoires de Mme. de Motteville._] [Footnote 129: War between relations in regard to property.] [Footnote 130: Letter of July 9, 1749, and _passim_, in his correspondence.] [Footnote 131: Cf. _La Cabale des Devots_, by M. Raoul Allier.] [Footnote 132: _Journal d'Olivier Lefevre d'Ormesson._] [Footnote 133: _Memoires de Bussy-Rabutin._] [Footnote 134: _A nos Seigneurs de Parlement._--Archives of the Chateau of Eu. Mgr. le Duc d'Orleans has thrown open to me the Archives of Eu with a liberality for which I here heartily express my gratitude.] [Footnote 135: _Declaration par le Menu du Comte d'Eu_ (May 8, 1660), and _Inventoire general du Comte d'Eu_ (July 1, 1663).] [Footnote 136: The Norman acre contains 81 acres and 71 _centiares._] [Footnote 137: Her request to the King was dated February 9, 1661 (Archives of Eu).]