Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King (50 page)

CHAPTER
2
Vigour of the Princess

1
See especially Wolf, pp. 46, 85, & 626, note 4 to ch. 8, who suggests ‘a secret marriage'; but Kleinman, p. 226, refers to the ‘lack of solid evidence' for it.

2
Madeleine Laurain-Portemer, see Kleinman ref. 63, p. 322.

3
Visconti, p. 6; Ziegler, p. 193.

4
Dulong,
Amoureuses,
p. 26; Dulong,
Mazarin,
p. 137.

5
Clairambault MSS, 1144, fols 90–100.

6
Muhlstein, p. 193; Leroy & Loyau,
Sagesse,
p. 780.

7
Maximes d'Éducation, passim;
Leroy & Loyau,
Sagesse,
p. 33.

8
Cornette, ‘Éducation', p. 217; Pitts, p. 16; La Rochefoucauld, p. 121.

9
Muhlstein, p. 398;
Maximes d'Éducation.

10
Motteville, I, p. 236.

11
Halfax,
p. 55.

12
Motteville, II, pp. 282fr.

13
Motteville, II, p. 341.

14
Pitts, pp. 5, 231.

15
Déon, p. 284.

16
Louis,
Mémoires,
I, p. 120.

17
Evelyn, I, pp. 268–9.

18 For the Court Ballet, see especially Christout (1967); Christout (1987); Guest, p. 12; also Hilton,
Dance;
Quirey.

19
Christout (1987), p. 153.

20
Wolf, p. 115.

21
Petitfils,
Louis,
p. 171, describes his short stature as ‘a myth'; see Bertière, I, p. 490 & note.

22
Verney,
III, pp. 65–6.

23
Beaussant,
Louis,
pp. 14fr.

24
See Oresko, ‘Marriages',
passim.

25
Doscot, p. 33; Egerton MS 23, fol. 32, 91.

26
Mallet-Joris, pp. 9ff.

27
Although Bertière, I, p. 23, correctly describes this story as an ‘unverifiable tradition', it has been generally accepted; see also Carré,
Vallière,
p. 18; Decker,
Louis,
p. 120.

28
Saint-Simon (1856), I, p. 34.

29
Motteville, IV, p. 158.

CHAPTER
3
Peace and the Infanta

1
Oresko, ‘Marriages',
passim,
for the careers of the seven Mazarin nieces and their interaction with the politics of Savoy.

2
Buckley, pp. 238, 296.

3
Pitts, p. 160.

4
Motteville, IV, p. 85.

5
La Fayette,
Secret History,
p. 16.

6
Corneille,
Le Cid,
Act V, scene 3.

7
Loyau,
Correspondance 1709,
p. 51; Davis,
Society,
p. 124.

8
Davis, ‘Women in Politics', p. 178; Craveri, p. 358; Duchêne,
Sévigné,
p. 72.

9
Scudéry,
Sapho,
pp. 45, 58.

10
Doscot, p. 107.

11
Doscot, p. 215, note 2; Doscot points out that even if Saint-Bremond edited them, he used Marie's own Italian text; and see Wolf, p. 627, note 3: ‘If … not written by Marie Mancini herself, it was obviously written by someone who knew her and her career very, very well.'

12
Beaussant,
Louis,
p. 35.

13
Motteville, IV, p. 118.

14
Buckley, p. 308.

15
Dunlop, p. 43; Motteville, IV, p. 110.

16
Journal de la Santé
, note 2, ‘Maladie du Roi à Calais’, pp. 372–8; Meyer,
éducation,
p. 151.

17
Journal de la Santé
, note 2, ‘Maladie du Roi a Calais’, pp. 372–8.

18
Bouyer, p. 147.

19
Dunlop, p. 49.

20
Doscot, p. 109.

21
Wolf, p. 105 & note 5, p. 627.

22
Motteville, IV, p. 144.

23
Voltaire, p. 283.

24
Motteville, IV, pp. 147, 156.

25
Racine,
Bérénice
, Act IV, scene 5; Act V, scene 6; La Rochefoucauld, p. 29; La Fayette,
Mémoires
, p. 12.

26
Motteville, IV, p. 133.

27
Caylus
(1908), p. 41.

28
Bertiere, II, pp. 43ff.

29
Cortequisse, p. 32.

30
Pitts, p. 151.

31
Cortequisse, pp. 33ff.

32
Motteville, IV, pp. 165fr.

33
Bluche,
Louis
, p. 90.

CHAPTER
4
Our Court's Eaughing Face

1
Geffroy,
Maintenon,
I, p. 70.

2
Brandi, p. 488; Wolf, p. 124.

3
Motteville, IV, p. 322.

4
Cortequisse, p. 87.

5
For the composition of the
Mémoires,
see Déon, pp. 55ff; Petitfils,
Louis
, p. 217.

6
Oresko, ‘Marriages’, p. 145.

7
La Fayette,
Mémoires
, p. 30.

8
Loret, IX, p. 29; Motteville, IV, p. 256.

9
Saint-André, pp. 96ff.

10
Bussy-Rabutin, p. 250.

11
Saint-André, p. 34.

12
Hamilton, p. 91; Cowen, p. 6; Burke, p. 2; Dunlop, p. 142.

13
The title of Nicolas Poussin's allegorical picture
A Dance to the Music of Time
, painted about twenty years earlier; La Fayette,
Mémoires
, p. 35.

14
La Fayette,
Mémoires
, p. 32.

15
Déon, p. 301.

16
Loret, p. 129; Bottineau, p. 728.

17
Decker,
Louis
, p. 51.

18
La Fayette,
Mémoires
, pp. 31ff.

19
Motteville, IV, pp. 260ff.

20
Saint-Simon (1967), II, p. 790.

21
Lair, p. 61, note 4.

22
Sonnet, p. 151; Loyau,
Correspondance 1709
, p. 65, note 1; Duchêne,
Femme
, p. 75.

23
Petitfils,
Vallière
, pp. 34ff.

24
Bertière, II, p. 93.

25
Carré,
Vallière
, p. 45.

26
Lair, pp. 52ff.

27
Bussy-Rabutin,
Mémoires
, II, p. III.

28
Dunlop, p. 87.

29
Loret, XI, p. 173; Decker,
Louis
, p. 63.

30
Loret, XI, p. 173.

31
Déon, p. 162.

32
Petitfils,
Masque de Fer
, p. 58.

33
For Jansenism see Doyle, p. 29 and
passim
; Couton, pp. 61ff & note 9.

34
Lear, pp. 75, 107; J. P. Landry, ‘Bossuet',
DGS
, I, pp. 215–17; Minois,
passim.

35
Carré,
Vallière
, p. 36; Lair, p. 75.

36
Couton, p. 31; Bajou, p. 28.

CHAPTER
5
Sweet Violence

1
Petitfils,
Vallière
, p. 106; Couton, p. 43; Bardon, p. 302 & notes 107 & III.

2
Hamelin, p. 8.

3
Haskins, pp. 15ff.

4
Jardine, p. 245; Norton,
Sun King
, p. 29.

5
Molière,
Dom Juan
, trans. Frame, Act I, scene 2.

6
See Gaimster
et al.
‘Dudley Castle condoms'.

7
Le Roy Ladurie,
Saint-Simon
,

8
p. 113; Dulong,
Vie quotidienne
, pp. 90ff.

9
Pitts, pp. 174—5; Hufton,
Prospect
, p. 182.

10
Carré,
Vallière
, p. 80.

11
Castro, p. 28;
Ormesson
, p. 496, note 2.

12
Saint-Maurice, II, p. 60.

13
Bussy-Rabutin, II, p. 151; Christout (1967), pp. 111ff.

14
See Solnon,
Versailles, passim;
Norton,
Sun King
, p. 44; Grasse, p. 29.

15
Farmer, p. 100. 1
)
Mitford, p. 20.

16
Bluche,
Louis
, p. 180.

17
Beaussant,
Lully
, p. 800.

18
Solnon,
Cour
, p. 256; pp. 274ff.

19
Mallet-Joris, p. 39.

20
Solnon,
Cour
, p. 260; Duchêne,
Molière
, pp. 381ff.

21
Pitts, p. 250, note 30; Molière,
Tartuffe
, Act V, scene 7.

22
Motteville, IV, pp. 344ff.

23
Motteville, IV, p. 357.

24
Kleinman, pp. 283ff.

25
Motteville, IV, p. 392.

26
Georges Matoré, ‘Galant, Galanterie’,
DGS
, I, p. 632—3; Scudéry,
Galant
, p. 21; Scudéry,
Clélie
, I, pp. 178ff.

27
Sarti, p. 134.

28
Saint-Simon (1967), III, p. 463; Hilton, p. 157; Pitts, pp. 177–8.

29
Motteville, IV, pp. 339ff.

30
Louis,
Mémoires
, I, p. 117.

31
Motteville, IV, pp. 437ff.

32
Pitts, pp. 174–5.

33
Sévigné (1955), p. 169.

34
Motteville, IV, p. 447; Dulong,
Amoureuses
, p. 11.

35
Racine,
Bajazet
, Act I, scene 1, trans. Hollinghurst.