[410] _Mémoires de Saint-Simon_, vol. xiii. p. 73. [411] La Bruyère’s _Caractères_, chapter _De la Cour_. Lauzun is designated in it by the name of Straton. [412] Madame de Sévigné. [413] M. P. Clément has given with respect to this a very characteristic letter from Lauzun to Colbert. See _Madame de Montespan et Louis XIV._, p. 30, note 1. [414] He had given some very witty answers--that, amongst others, made to the Regent, whom he had asked for an abbey for his nephew, the famous De Belsunce, bishop of Marseilles. It was some time after the plague, during which the prelate had behaved like a hero. Despite the promise made to Lauzun, the Regent forgot to include his relation in the distribution of benefices, and when Lauzun questioned him on the subject, remained silent and confused. Lauzun, with a great appearance of respect, said, “Monsieur, he will do better another time.” [415] Saint-Simon, whose brother-in-law Lauzun had the good fortune to become towards the end of his life, by marrying at sixty-two years of age the daughter, aged sixteen, of the Marshal de Lorges, is more indulgent for his relation, whose meanness, however, he does not try to hide. [416] Letter of Bussy-Rabutin, vol. viii. p. 265. of Monmerqué’s edition of the _Lettres de Madame de Sévigné_; _Mémoires de Saint-Simon_, vol. xiii. p. 83. [417] _Mémoires de Saint-Simon_, vol. xiii. p. 74.--Letters from Louvois to Saint-Mars, October 14, November 15 and 22, 1672, March 16, and November 23, 1676. [418] Saint-Mars only discovered the hole in the wall after the death of Fouquet:--Letter from Louvois to Saint-Mars, April 8, 1680. [419] _Mémoires de Saint-Simon_, vol. xiii. p. 70. [420] _Souvenirs de Madame de Caylus._ [421] Racine, _Fragments Historiques_. _Mémoires de Saint-Simon_, vol. xiii. p. 69. [422] _Mémoires de Saint-Simon_, _Ibid._ [423] _Mémoires de Saint-Simon_, vol. xiii. p. 72. Segrais, a contemporary, adds Madame de Maintenon to these two undoubted authors of the second disgrace of Lauzun. (Segrais, _Mémoires et Anecdotes_. [424] _Mémoires sur Nicolas Fouquet_, vol. ii. p. 450. [425] Unpublished letter from Saint-Mars to Louvois, June 20, 1672:--Archives of Ministry of War, vol. ccxcix. fol. 48. [426] Letter from Louvois to Saint-Mars, June 16, 1676. [427] Letter from Seignelay to Lauzun, November 9, 1672. [428] Letters from Louvois to Saint-Mars, November 27, and December 5, 1672. [429] _Mémoires de Mademoiselle de Montpensier_, vol. iv. p. 456. [430] Letters from Louvois to Saint-Mars, November 27, 1672, and January 16, 1674. Delort, _Histoire de la Détention des Philosophes_, p. 43. [431] Letter from Louvois to Saint-Mars, November 10, 1675. Delort, _Histoire de la Détention des Philosophes_, p. 43. [432] It was then that he discovered Lauzun often had a telescope in his hand, and it was taken from him. [433] Delort, _Histoire de la Détention des Philosophes_, p. 241.