[190] Letter of Mère Agnes de Jésus, Prioress of the Carmelites of the Faubourg Saint-Jacques, to Mlle. d’Épernon, cited by Victor Cousin, “la Jeunesse de Madame de Longueville.” [191] Voiture. [192] Lenet, “Mémoires.” [193] Marie de Bretagne, daughter of the Comte de Vertus, and wife of Hercule de Rohan, Duc de Montbazon. [194] Madame de Motteville, “Mémoires.” [195] Letter of 18 August, 1646, Archives de Chantilly, cited by MM. Homberg and Jousselin, “la Femme du Grand Condé.” [196] Madame de Motteville, “Mémoires.” [197] “Histoire des Princes de Condé.” [198] It must be admitted that she had some excuse for her conduct, as the deceased duke had been far from a faithful husband, and had gone into his last fight with a garter of his lady-love, Mlle. de Guerchy, bound round his arm. [199] Duchesse de Nemours, “Mémoires.” [200] On his father becoming Prince de Condé, the little Duc d’Albret had assumed the title of Duc d’Enghien. [201] La Rochefoucauld, “Mémoires.” [202] In his negotiations with the Court, Madame de Châtillon had persuaded Condé to stipulate that her services in the cause of peace and concord should be recognized by a _gratification_ of 100,000 écus. [203] In the night of 19–20 September, 1652, the Princesse de Condé gave birth to a son. The little prince, who was baptized Louis de Bordeaux and received the title of Duc de Bourbon, only lived a few weeks. [204] Lenet, “Mémoires.” [205] Archives de Chantilly, cited by the Duc d’Aumale. [206] “Gazette de France,” January, 1660. [207] “J’ai vu le temps de la bonne régence, Temps où régnait une heureuse abondance, Temps où la ville aussi bien que la cour Ne respirait que les jeux et l’amour.” Saint-Évremond, “Stances à Ninon.” [208] Louise Marie de Gonzague. She had married in 1645 Ladislas IV. King of Poland, and, after his death, she became wife of his brother, John Casimir. [209] Letters of 28 September, 7 and 8 October, published by the Duc d’Aumale. [210] “Gazette de France,” 17 January, 1671. [211] By a separate deed, the princess was permitted to dispose as she wished of her jewels and plate. [212] Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy (1618–1693), the celebrated letter-writer and author of the scandalous “Histoire amoureuse des Gaules,” which procured him a year in the Bastille and a sixteen years’ exile from the Court. [213] Letter of 23 January, 1671. [214] The best informed of all, the Duc d’Aumale, adopts a neutral attitude, being of opinion that there is not sufficient evidence to condemn either Condé or his wife. [215] “Life of Louis, Prince of Condé, surnamed the Great.” It should be mentioned that the distinguished historian declines to believe that the princess had as yet exhibited any signs of insanity, but in this he is quite mistaken.