[270] This letter has been published in full by M. Thirion, in his interesting monograph on Madame de Prie. [271] Maréchal de Villars, “Mémoires.” These orders were not to receive _Monsieur le Duc_, in case he should present himself at her apartments, and, on no consideration, to make any allusion in the presence of the King to that prince, Madame de Prie, or Pâris-Duverney. [272] See page 280, supra. [273] “MS. of the Bastille,” published in “la Nouvelle Revue rétrospective.” Transcriber’s Notes: 1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently. 2. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the original. 3. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original. 4. Italics are shown as _xxx_.