[365] François Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1605 or 1613-1680). He played a small part in the Fronde through his infatuation for Madame de Longueville. The _Maxims_ were published in 1665, under the title of _Réflexions et sentences, ou Maximes morales._ He spent his old age in the society of Madame de La Fayette and Madame de Sévigné.--T. [366] Marie Madeleine Comtesse de La Fayette (1634-1693), _née_ Pioche de La Vergne, author of a number of successful novels and a History of Henrietta of England.--T. [367] Charlotte Marguerite Princesse de Condé (1594-1650), _née_ de Montmorency, and married in 1609 to Henry II. Prince de Condé, who removed her to Brussels out of the reach of King Henry IV. "That poor wretch," the Duchesse de Longueville, was her daughter.--T. [368] Madame de Brienne was the wife of Henri Auguste Comte de Loménie de Brienne, author of the curious Memoirs.--T. [369] BÉRANGER, _Le Vieux Caporal_, 49, 50: "Who is sobbing and weeping down yonder? Ah, 'tis the drummer's widow so sad."--T. [370] BÉRANGER, _Le Vieux Caporal_, chorus: "Conscripts, keep step; do not weep; . . . Keep step, the step keep." --T. [371] Jules Cardinal Mazarin (1602-1661), Prime Minister to the Regent Anne of Austria, and eventual victor over the Fronde.--T. [372] The Duc de La Rochefoucauld left _Mémoires sur la règne d'Anne d'Autriche_, in addition to the _Maximes._--T. [373] Marie Caroline Ferdinande Louise Duchesse de Berry (1798-1870), daughter of King Ferdinand I. of Naples, and married to the Duc de Berry in 1816.--T. [374] The Duchesse de Berry brought Dieppe into fashion in the later years of the Restoration; she visited it yearly, with her children, during the bathing season.--B. [375] RABELAIS.--_Author's Note._ [376] Now the Place de la Concorde.--T. [377] Migneret's book-shop was at No. 1186, Rue Jacob. The houses were at that time numbered by districts, not by streets.--B. [378] "Both through his virtues and his charms To be their father he deserved." --T. [379] Étienne Gaspard Robertson (1762-1837), a professor of physics who perfected or improved the Archimedean mirror, the magic-lantern, and the parachute.--T. [380] Now the Quai Malaquais.--T. [381] The Theatines, or "Regular Clerks," a very strict congregation, founded in 1524 by St. Cajetan and Giovanni Pietro Caraffa, Bishop of Chieti, or Theate, from which the Order takes its name.--T. [382] The Requisition was a sort of levy in mass decreed by the Committee of Public Safety on the 23rd of August 1793, and produced 1,400,000 men. It was the immediate forerunner of the Conscription.--T.