[Footnote 138: The debts amounted exactly to 2,700,718 frs. 18 sols. (_Liste des Creanciers_ in Archives of the Chateau of Eu). It will be remembered that Mademoiselle paid for Eu 2,550,000 frs.] [Footnote 139: The account of the entry of Mademoiselle is in the Archives of the Chateau of Eu.] [Footnote 140: Motteville.] [Footnote 141: _Histoire de France_, by Leopold Ranke.] [Footnote 142: _Numero_ of September 14, 1663.] [Footnote 143: The marriage took place on January 28th.] [Footnote 144: Philippe IV. died September 17, 1665.] [Footnote 145: Cf. _La Relation des Divertissements que le Roi a donnes aux Reines_, etc., by Marigny (June, 1664).] [Footnote 146: Number of July, 21, 1663, and _passim_.] [Footnote 147: Louis XIV. had bought Dunkerque from the King of England. The city was delivered November 27, 1662. For account of the entrance of the King, see the _Gazette_.] [Footnote 148: Louis XIV. was installed at Versailles, as a residence, May 6, 1682.] [Footnote 149: Letter to the Queen of Poland, Marie de Gonzague (Archives of Chantilly). The Duc d'Enghien had married, December 11, 1663, Anne de Bariere, daughter of the Princess Palatine and niece of Marie de Gonzague.] [Footnote 150: _Journal d'Olivier d'Ormesson._] [Footnote 151: Letter of October 31st to the Queen of Poland (Archives of Chantilly).] [Footnote 152: Cf. _De La Valliere a Montespan_, by Jean Lemoine and Andre Lichtenberger.] [Footnote 153: Letter dated December 28, 1663, to the Queen of Poland (Archives of Chantilly).] [Footnote 154: See the _Moliere_ of the _Grands Ecrivains_, v., iv.] [Footnote 155: See the contemporary engravings. Some reproductions will be found in the beautiful work of M. de Nolhac, _La Creation de Versailles_.] [Footnote 156: See the _Youth of La Grande Mademoiselle_.] [Footnote 157: From the 7th to the 11th of May, the first two days and the last two not counted.] [Footnote 158: Number of February 3, 1663, apropos of a ball given at the Louvre by the King on January 31st.] [Footnote 159: For this portion, see the _Gazette_ of May 17th, the letters from Loret of the 10th and 17th, various _Relations du temps_, the _Moliere_ of the _Grands Ecrivains_, etc.] [Footnote 160: _Louise de La Valliere_, by J. Lair.] [Footnote 161: See _La Cabale des Devots_, by M. Raoul Allier.] [Footnote 162: A doubtful phrase.] CHAPTER IV. Increasing Importance of the Affairs of Love--The Corrupters of Morals--Birth of Dramatic Music and its Influence--Love in Racine--Louis XIV. and the Nobility--The King is Polygamous. It was neither through compassion nor through friendship that Louis XIV. had recalled from exile a second time his cousin Mlle. de Montpensier. He had renounced the idea of marrying her to Alphonse VI. since she persisted in her refusal, but he pursued the plan of giving her in marriage "where it would be useful to his service."