[Footnote 10: See _Le dictionnaire des Precieuses_, by Somaize.] [Footnote 11: _Eugenie, ou la force du destin._] [Footnote 12: Mademoiselle commenced her _Memoires_ shortly after her arrival at Saint-Fargeau. She interrupted them in 1660, resumed them in 1677, and definitely abandoned them in 1688, five years before her death.] [Footnote 13: Oriane was the mistress of Amadis.] [Footnote 14: _La relation de l'Isle imaginaire_, printed in 1659, also _L'histoire de la Princesse de Paphlagonie_. We shall again refer to them.] [Footnote 15: These representations took place in the grand hall of the Petit Bourbon, near the Louvre. (Cf. _L'Histoire de Paris_, by Delaure.)] [Footnote 16: Letter of October 12th, to the Abbe Foucquet.] [Footnote 17: _Memoires de Montglat._] [Footnote 18: _Memoires du Marquis de Sourches._ Cf. _L'Histoire du chateau de Blois_, by La Saussaye.] [Footnote 19: Letter of September 3, 1663.] [Footnote 20: Nicolas Goulas, _Memoires_.] [Footnote 21: Gazette of August 22, 1654.] [Footnote 22: Four, but the last died at an early age.] [Footnote 23: _Memoires de Bussy-Rabutin._] [Footnote 24: _Voyage de Chapelle et de Bachaumont._] [Footnote 25: _Memoires de Nicolas Goulas._] [Footnote 26: Saint-Simon, _Ecrits inedits_.] [Footnote 27: Henriette-Catherine, Duchesse de Joyeuse, first married to Henri de Bourbon, Duc de Montpensier, by whom she had Marie de Bourbon, mother of Mademoiselle; married for the second time to Charles de Lorraine, Duc de Guise, by whom she had several children.] [Footnote 28: Henri de Lorraine reigned from 1608 to 1624.] [Footnote 29: Letter of August 10, 1657, to the Comte d'Auteuil.] [Footnote 30: Andre d'Ormesson died in 1665, dean of the Council of State. Some fragments of his memoirs have been published by Cheruel, in the course of the Journal of his son, Olivier d'Ormesson.] [Footnote 31: Turenne had conquered the troops of the Prince at Etampes (May, 1652), upon the occasion of a review in honour of Mademoiselle and of the disorder which resulted. See _The Youth of La Grande Mademoiselle_. Some weeks later, he besieged the town.] [Footnote 32: Letter to his wife, August 3, 1663.] [Footnote 33: Richelieu had declared war with Spain March 26, 1635.] [Footnote 34: The phrase is by Bussy-Rabutin.] Chapter II The Education of Louis XIV.--Manners--Poverty--Charity--Vincent de Paul, a Secret Society--Marriage of Louis XIV.--His Arrival at Power, on the Death of Mazarin--He Re-educates himself. The remembrance of the Fronde was destined to remain a heavy weight during the remainder of the reign of Louis XIV. Its shadow dominated for more than half a century interior politics and decided the fate, good and bad, of the great families.