[Footnote 306: Sevigne.]
[Footnote 307: _Memoires de la Cour de France_, by Mme. de La Fayette.]
[Footnote 308: Sevigne, January 6, 1689.]
[Footnote 309: Letter of M. d"Amfreville, general-officer of the marine to Seignelay, in the _Histoire de Louvois_, by Camille Rousset.]
[Footnote 310: Saint-Simon, _ecrits inedits_.]
[Footnote 311: _[Oe]uvres completes_, of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (Paris, 1830), vol. i.; _Essai sur la Vie_ by Aime-Martin.]
[Footnote 312: Cf. the _Gazette_ for 1693, and the series of the _Mercure Galant_ monthly periodical, founded in 1672 by Donneau de Vise.]
[Footnote 313: Saint-Simon, _Memoires_.]
[Footnote 314: Saint-Simon says fifteen. He is mistaken; the act of marriage says fourteen.]
[Footnote 315: _Memoires_, Saint-Simon.]
[Footnote 316: Saint-Simon, _Memoires_.]
[Footnote 317: The royal ordinance is dated July 7, 1668. Louis XIV. was ever ignorant of the fact that the councillors of the Hotel de Ville had pa.s.sed nights in copying what was to be burned, so that the doc.u.ments supposed to be destroyed still exist.]
[Footnote 318: From La Riviere to Bussy-Rabutin.]
[Footnote 319: _Relation de la Cour de France_, by ezechiel Spanheim, envoy extraordinary from Brandenbourg.]