[Footnote 182: Allusion to certain talismans.] [Footnote 183: _Archives de la Bastille_: Rapport de la Reynie, lieutenant-general of police, a Louvois (1680, no other date).] [Footnote 184: _La Magie dans l'Inde antique_, by Victor Henry.] [Footnote 185: Interrogatory of June 30, 1668. Mme. de Bougy was the widow of the Marquis of this name, lieutenant-general. La Duverger was occupied with magic. The Marquis de Ravetot had married Catherine de Grammont, daughter of the Marshal.] [Footnote 186: Another name for Lesage.] [Footnote 187: _Histoire de l'Opera en Europe_, by M. Romain Rolland. Cf. _Histoire de la Musique dramatique en France_, by Chouquet, _Les Origines de l'Opera francais_, by Nuitter and Thoinan.] [Footnote 188: The first opera worthy of the name was _Pomone_, by Cambert. It will be learned in special works how French opera differed from Italian and through what a chain of circumstances it occurred that a Florentine, Baptiste Lulli, was the true founder.] [Footnote 189: See above.] [Footnote 190: A selection of the operas of Lulli, for piano and voice, has appeared in the Collection Michaelis.] [Footnote 191: Letter dated December 1, 1673.] [Footnote 192: _Introduction par M. le Comte d' Haussonville, aux Souvenirs sur Mme. de Maintenon._] [Footnote 193: _Kant als Mensch_, by Erich Adickes.] [Footnote 194: Romain Rolland.] [Footnote 195: _Memoires_ of Mademoiselle.] [Footnote 196: _OEuvres galantes en vers et en prose_, by M. Cotin.] [Footnote 197: For this see _Les Ennemis de Racine_, by F. Deltour; _Les Epoques du Theatre francais_, and _Les Etudes critiques sur l'Histoire de la Litterature francaise_ by M. F. Brunetiere; the memoirs and correspondence of the times; the collection of _Mercure galant_; _les prefaces de Racine_, etc.] [Footnote 198: Criticism by Boursault.] [Footnote 199: Deltour, _Les Ennemies de Racine_.] [Footnote 200: _Gazette de Loret_, January 13, 1663.] [Footnote 201: _Memoires sur la vie et les ouvrages de Jean Racine_, by Louis Racine.] [Footnote 202: See the volume by MM. Jean Lemoine and Andre Lichtenberger, _De La Valliere a Montespan_.] [Footnote 203: _Souvenirs sur Mme. de Maintenon._--_Les Cahiers de Mlle. d'Aumale_, with an _Introduction_ by M. G. Hanotaux.] [Footnote 204: May 27, to M. de Montchevreuil.] [Footnote 205: "_Frappez_" would have been misunderstood.] [Footnote 206: _Remerciement au Roi_ (1663).] [Footnote 207: The Convent of Saint-Joseph, rue Saint Dominique; Mme. de Montespan had constructed in it an apartment for herself.] [Footnote 208: The Comte de Vexin, who died young.--Mme. de Sevigne, letter dated June 14, 1675.] CHAPTER V The Grande Mademoiselle in Love--Sketch of Lauzun and their Romance--The Court on its Travels--Death of Madame--Announcement of the Marriage of Mademoiselle--General Consternation--Louis XIV. Breaks the Affair.