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CHAPTER
10
Madame Now

1
Sévigné (1959)
, p. 104.

2
See also Mongrédien (1953); Mossiker (1972).

3
Hilton, p. 187.

4
Bluche,
Louis
, p. 275.

5
Sévigné (1959)
, p. 120.

6
Hilton, p. 49.

7
Decker,
Montespan
, pp. 157ff.

8
Mossiker, p. 223.

9
Whittaker, pp. 104–5.

10
Saint-Simon (1967), I, p. 146; Bluche,
Vie quotidienne
, p. 41; Solnon,
Cour
, p. 360.

11
Bonneville, pp. 40ff; Vigarello, pp. 22ff; Somerset, p. 64; Saint-Simon (1967), I, p. 69; see Da Vinha,
passim.

12
Somerset, pp. 287–8.

13
Bluche,
Louis
, p. 280.

14
Beaussant,
Fully
, p. 617,
et seq.

15
Petitfils,
Montespan
, p. 246.

16
Lear, pp. 220–1; Saint-Simon (1856), I, p. 241; Brême, p. 99; Norton,
First Lady
, p. 75.

17
Beaussant,
Lully
, p. 617; Visconti, p. 155.

18
Réflexions sur la Miséricorde
, no. V, p. 30.

19
Visconti, p. 155.

20
Kroll, p. 43.

21
Journal de la Santé
, p. 387; Norton,
First Lady
, p. 77.

22
Kroll, pp. 37ff.

23
Kroll, p. 113.

24
See Liselotte Briefe,
passim.

25
Spanheim, p. 45; Visconti, pp. 296–7.

26
Solnon,
Versailles
, pp. 119ff.

27
See Himmelfarb, pp. 307ff.

28
Chandernagor & Poisson, p. 50.

29
Aumale
, p. 81.

30
Petitfils,
Montespan
, p. 232; Desprat, p. 212.

31
Haldane, p. 264.

32
Levron, p. 36.

33
See Solnon,
Versailles, passim.

34
Saint-Simon (1967), I, p. 15, note 3.

35
Dunlop, p. 211; see Solnon,
Versailles
, p. 369, Annexe no. 2: ‘La Cour de Versailles'.

36
Cortequisse, pp. 153ff.

37 See Cortequisse, Annexe, pp. 165–89.

CHAPTER
11
The King's Need

1
Saint-Simon (1967), II, p. 470 & note 1; Kroll, p. 47.

2
Voltaire, p. 296.

3
Kroll,
Sophie
, pp. 178–9.

4
Chandernagor & Poisson, p. 50.

5
Wolf, p. 332.

6
Bouyer, p. 252; Pitts, p. 208.

7
Duchêne,
Femme
, p. 151; Kroll,
Sophie
, p. 120.

8
Kroll, p. 41.

9
Solnon,
Cour
, p. 190; Bottineau, p. 290.

10
Caylus
(1908), pp. 154ff; Desprat, pp. 215ff.

11
Desprat, pp. 216–17.

12
Dangeau, I, p. 92.

13
The following recent writers are among those who propose October 1683: Bertière, Chandernagor, Desprat, also Sarmant, AHG, to the author; but see Bryant for January 1684.

14
Chandernagor & Poisson, p. 38; Kroll, pp. 47, 49.

15
Langlois, ‘Saint-Siège’, pp. 33–72; Bryant, ‘Maintenon', p. 33; Neveu, ‘Institut', p. 141.

16
Chandernagor & Poisson, p. 47;
Aumale
, p. 81.

17
See Himmelfarb,
passim;
Sarmant, p. 344.

18
Wolf, pp. 423–4; p. 648, note 30.

19
Dangeau, I, p. 81.

20
Recent historians accept that her role has been exaggerated; see Petitfils,
Louis
, p. 478, for the effect of La Baumelle's forgeries; Goubert, p. 118; Garrison,
passim.

21
Kroll, p. 46; Molière,
Dom Juan
, Act I, scene 1;
Vie des Français
, p. 51.

22
Burke, p. 102; Petitfils,
Louis
, p. 459.

23
Leroy & Loyau,
Estime
, p. 38.

24
Les Petits Cahiers Secrets de Madame de Maintenon
, BMV, Registre 28; Langlois, ‘Petits livres secrets',
passim.

25
Leroy & Loyau,
Estime
, pp. 36ff.

26
Leroy & Loyau,
Estime
, p. 40; Leroy & Loyau,
Sagesse
, p. 261.

27
See
Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr, passim.

28
Desprat, p. 270.

29
Leroy & Loyau,
Estime
, p. 39;
Aumale
, p. 81.

30
Milhiet, pp. 19ff; Chandernagor & Poisson, pp. 10ff.

31
Chandernagor & Poisson, pp. 33, 153.

32
Beaussant,
Artiste
, p. 245; Blanc, pp. 330ff.

33
Dubu,
Racine
, p. 117; Racine,
Esther
, Prologue.

34
Duchêne,
Sévigné
, pp. 492ff.

35
See
Journal de la Santé, passim;
Beaussant,
Roi-Soleil
, p. 50.

36
Forster, p. xxvi.

37
Bluche,
Louis
, pp. 468–9.

38
Wolf, pp. 443–4; Burke, p. 16.

39 Kroll, pp. 60ff.

40
Visconti, p. 151.

41
Beaussant,
Roi-Soleil
, p. 115.

42
Bertière, II, p. 354.

CHAPTER
12
Grandeurs of the World

1
MacCarthy, ‘A Hundred Thanks to God', p. 99.

2
Sévigné
(1955), p. 313.

3
Oman, pp. 18–19.

4
Strickland, pp. 301ff;
Sévigné (1959)
, p. 313.

5
Dangeau, III, p. 166.

6
Corp, ‘Elizabeth Hamilton'; Saint-Simon (1967), I, pp. 216–17; Dangeau IV,
passim.

7
Louis,
Gardens
, pp. 10ff.

8
MacDonogh, p. 139; Saint-Simon (1967), III, p. 115, note 2; Dangeau, II, p. 105.

9
Dangeau, III, p. 216.

10
Evelyn, II, p. 232; Goubert, pp. 166ff.

11
Dangeau, V, p. 180, ‘Annexe sur l'Argenterie du Royaume'; pp. 261–2.

12
Bluche,
Louis
, p. 444, Leroy & Loyau,
Estime
, pp 73–5.

13
Bassenne, pp. 11ff; p. 310.

14
La Fayette, p. 159.

15
Dangeau, IV, p. 228; Kroll, p. 62.

16
Dangeau, IV, p. 230.

17
Pitts, p. 231; Bouyer, p. 231.

18
Dangeau, V, pp. 175, 198.

19
Kroll, p. 104.

20
Caylus
(1986), p. 98.

21
Saint-Simon (1856), I, pp. 15–16.

22
Saint-Simon (1967), II, p. 442; Kroll, pp. 72ff.

23
Saint-Simon (1967), II, pp. 442–3.

24
Kroll, p. 40; Wolf, p. 284; Ariès,
Childhood,
pp. 79–80; Farmer, pp. 366ff.

25
Bluche,
Vie quotidienne
, pp. 65ff; Farmer, p. 366.

26
Farmer, p. 370.

27
See Maroteaux,
passim;
Dangeau II, pp. 90, 112; Strong, pp. 62–3; Oresko, ‘Banquets', p. 75; Kroll, p. 108.

28
Racine,
Athalie,
Act II, scene 2, Barthes, p. 128.

29
Dubu, pp. 121ff.

30
Neveu, ‘Institut', pp. 143ff; Pepys, IV, p. 100.

31
Kroll, pp. 64, 144 note 1, 149.

32
Melchior-Bonnet, p. 34.

33
Cornette, ‘Bossuet', p. 466.

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