Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle, 1652-1693Barine, Arvède
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Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle, 1652-1693
Barine, Arvède
Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715; Montpensier, Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans, duchesse de, 1627-1693
[Footnote 231: _Histoire de Madame Henriette d'Angleterre._]
[Footnote 232: Mme. de Sevigne to Bussy-Rabutin. Letter of July 6,
1670.]
[Footnote 233: Mme. de Sevigne to Bussy-Rabutin (letter dated January
15, 1687), speaking of Conde's death.]
[Footnote 234: Charles d'Harcourt, chevalier, afterward Comte de
Beuvron, was one of those whom rumour accused of having contributed to
the death of Madame.]
[Footnote 235: Monsieur had two daughters by his first marriage;
Marie-Louise d'Orleans, who married, in 1679, Charles II. of Spain, and
Anne-Marie de Valois, married, in 1684, to Victor-Amedee II., Duc de
Savoie.]
[Footnote 236: Cf. _Memoires de Louis XIV_. "for the year 1666." Edited
by Charles Dreyss.]
[Footnote 237: Cf. _Segraisiana._]
[Footnote 238: _Memoires de l'Abbe de Choisy._]
[Footnote 239: Don Miguel de Iturrieta to Don Diego de la Torre.
_Archives de la Bastille._]
[Footnote 240: _Mme. de Montespan et Louis XIV._, by P. Clement.]
[Footnote 241: _Histoire_ etc. (Bibl. Sainte-Genevieve, MS. 3208). The
same version is found with slight variations in _Le Perroquet_, etc.]
[Footnote 242: _Memoires de la Fare._]
[Footnote 243: Letter dated January 26, 1680.]
[Footnote 244: Second son of Louis XIV. He died young.]
[Footnote 245: _Cf._ for this chapter, the _Melanges_ of Philibert
Delamare (Bibl. Nationale, French MS. 23,251), the _Journal_ of
d'Ormesson, and generally the memoirs, correspondences, pamphlets, and
songs of the period.]
[Footnote 246: Philibert Delamare, _loc. cit._]
[Footnote 247: _Journal_ of Olivier d'Ormesson.]
[Footnote 248: Letter to Coulanges, December 31st. The letter announcing
the marriage, too well known to quote, is dated the 15th.]
[Footnote 249: _Memoires de la Fare._]
[Footnote 250: Ancient Governor of the King, who had kept a strong
affection for his pupil.]
[Footnote 251: Philibert Delamare, _loc. cit._]
[Footnote 252: Mme. de Maintenon, _Lettres historiques et edifiantes_;
_cf. Memoire de Mlle. d'Aumale_, published by M. le Comte
d'Haussonville.]
[Footnote 253: The Abbe de Choisy relates the same scene, but attributes
it to the Princesse de Carignan (Marie de Bourbon-Soissons,
1666-1692).]
[Footnote 254: The French Charge d'Affaires in Sweden and Germany,
_Archives de la Bastille_.]
[Footnote 255: Philibert Delamare, _loc. cit._]
[Footnote 256: This exclusion probably refers to the Prince de Conde,
with whom an alliance would have been considered a danger to the peace
of France.]
[Footnote 257: _La Correspondance de Pomponne_ (Bibl. de l'Arsenal,
4712, 1598, 11. F.), fol. 373. M. Cheruel in the appendix to volume iv.
of _the Memoires de Mademoiselle_, and M. Livet in _l'Histoire amoureuse
des Gaules_, have published this letter after an inexact copy.]
[Footnote 258: Letter dated December 24, 1670.]
[Footnote 259: Letter dated December 31, ----.]
[Footnote 260: _Souvenirs et Correspondance._]
[Footnote 261: Philibert Delamare, _loc. cit._]
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