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CHAPTER
6
The Rise of Another
1
Decker,
Louis
, p. 82; Saint-Maurice, pp. 105, 130; Couton, p. 84.
2
Carré,
Vallière
, p. 127; Genlis, p. 112.
3
Bertière, II, p. 197.
4
Decker,
Montespan
, p. 45.
5
Hilton, p. 18; Saint-Simon (1967), II, p. 131.
6
Scudéry,
Galant
, p. 112.
7
Petitfils,
Montespan
, pp. 1ff.
8
Hilton, pp. 119ff.
9
Couton, p. 98.
10
Scudéry,
Sapho
, p. 43; Duchêne,
Femme
, p. 268.
11
Backer, pp. 91—2.
12
Decker,
Montespan
, p. 29.
13
La Rochefoucauld, p. 38.
14
Saint-Simon (1856), I, p. 251; Burke, p. 5; Leroy & Loyau,
Sagesse
, p. 145; Petitfils,
Louis
, p. 322.
15
Lebrun, p. 50; Gady, p. 59; Sabatier, pp. 361—6.
16
Davis, ‘Women’, p. 168, Saint-Maurice, pp. 71ff.
17
Lair, pp. 170–1.
18
Furetière,
Dictionnaire
, ‘Légitimer’.
19
Louis,
Mémoires
, II, p. 313; Lair, pp. 176-80.
20
Letters of a Portuguese Nun
, p. 18.
21
Kay
et al.
, p. 167.
22
Hilton, p. 55.
23
Castro, p. 56.
24
Saint-Maurice, pp. 204ff.
25
Duchêne,
Molière
, pp. 511–12.
26
Castari, p. 478; Mainardi, p. 7; Couton, p. 135.
27
Norrington, p. 153.
28
Bertière, II, Annexe 1, p. 490, ‘a girl?’; Hilton, p. 71, ‘most likely a girl’ (Louise-Françoise).
29
Saint-Maurice, p. 527.
30 Flandrin, pp. 114—29; Grieco, p. 70; Duchêne,
Femme
, p. 223.
31
Duchêne,
Sévigné
, p. 132; Goreau, p. 107; Barker, p. 213.
CHAPTER
7
Marriages Like Death
1
Christout (1967), p. 118.
2
Christout (1967), p. 133, note 179; Saint-Simon (1856), II, p. 60.
3
Pepys, IX, p. 352; Fraser, p. 235.
4
Cowen, p. 181.
5
Dunlop, p. 173.
6
Bertière, II, p. 142; Norrington, p. 194.
7
Norrington, p. 195, Saint-Maurice, p. 402.
8
Visages du Grand Siècle
, p. 232.
9
Fraser, pp. 273ff.
10
Hartmann, p. 314.
11
La Fayette,
Mémoires
, pp. 76ff; Hartmann, pp. 326ff.
12
Dr Jean Fabre,
Sur la Vie et Principalement la Mort de Madame;
see Hartmann p. 333; Bertière, II, p. 152: ‘no symptoms of poisons … Everything points to natural death’; Barker, pp. 113ff.
13
Erlanger, p. 135.
14
Lear, pp. 157ff; Couton, pp. 103—4.
15
Lear, p. 107.
16
Sévigné
(1955), p. 43; La Fayette,
Mémoires
, p. 9.
17
Pitts, pp. 186ff; Bouyer, pp. 206ff.
18
Berwick
, I, pp. 75—6; Bertiére, II, p. 171.
19
Wolf, p. 312.
20
Hilton, p. 92.
21
Kroll, p. 46; Liselotte Briefe, p. 51; Forster, pp. 5, xxviii.
22
Kroll, pp. 106, 14; Forster, p. 10.
23
Saint-Simon (1967), II, p. 448; Kroll, p. 18.
24
Kroll, p. 27.
25
Cruysse, p. 121.
26
Cruysse, pp. 193fr.
27
Louis,
Mémoires
, II, p. 570.
28
Bertière, II, p. 319.
29 Kroll, p. 27; Bertière, II, p. 319.
CHAPTER
8
A Singular Position
1
Haldane, p. 75.
2
Carré,
Vallière
, p. 183.
3
Hilton, p. 117.
4
Norton,
Sun King
, pp. 67ff.
5
Fumaroli, p. 373; Couton, p. 138; Visconti, p. 70.
6
Fumaroli, p. 370.
7
Bluche,
Louis
, p. 196; Cowen, p. 92.
8
Molière,
Tartuffe
, Act IV, scene 3.
9
Mallet-Joris, pp. 211ff; p. 217, note 1.
10
Doscot, p. 172.
11
Saint-Évremond, p. 269.
12
Bertière, II, pp. 185ff.
13
Desprat, p. 19.
14
Castelot, p. 50; Desprat, p. 236; Bandenier, p. 52.
15
Cordelier, pp. 8–9; Chandernagor, ‘Maintenon’, pp. 936–7.
16
Guide Bleu: Les Antilles
, pp. 284–5.
17
Le Roy Ladurie, p. 101.
18
Leroy & Loyau,
Sagesse
, p. 41.
19
Leroy & Loyau,
Estime
, p. 28.
20
Bremond, p. 150.
21
Leroy & Loyau,
Sagesse
, pp. 37, 125.
22
Leroy & Loyau,
Sagesse
, p. 38.
23
Bray, p. 245; Mesnard, pp. 193ff.
24
Geffroy,
Maintenon
, p. 4.
25
Some kind of consummation –
‘manage gris’
as opposed to
‘blanc’ –
is a common verdict of historians: see Castelot, p. 43; Bertière, II, p. 226; Leroy & Loyau,
Sagesse
, p. 107.
26
Caylus
(1908), pp. 62–3; Leroy & Loyau,
Sagesse
, p. 288; Geffroy,
Maintenon
, II, p. 328; Scudéry,
Sapho
, p. 22.
27
Saint-Simon (1967), I, pp. 94–5.
28
Castelot, p. 60 & 2 note 1.
29
Haldane, p. 42; La Rochefoucauld, p. 46.
30
Norton,
First Lady
, p. 3, note 1.
31
Bremond, p. 146; Milhiet, p. 15.
32
This seems the most certain link; see
Demoiselles
, p. 19, which mentions the Allée but refers to the great house itself as having ‘disappeared’; Petitfils,
Montespan
, p. 295.
33
See Bryant (2001), pp. 15–16, for ‘subtle alterations to the original communications’ and ‘invented new letters’; Leroy & Loyau,
Sagesse
, p. 31; Desprat, p. 437.
34
Castelot, p. 79; Petitfils,
Montespan
, p. 117.
35
Geffroy,
Maintenon
, pp. 39, 57; see Chandernagor & Poisson,
passim.
CHAPTER
9
Throwing Off a Passion
1
Petitfils,
Montespan
, p. 123.
2
Burke, p. 23; J.-P. Landry, ‘Bourdaloue',
DGS
, I, p. 225.
3
Daeschler, p. 225;
Bourdaloue
, Preface; Saint-Simon (1967), I, p. 57, note 2.
4
Bourdaloue Sermons
, p. 41; Couton, p. 123; Daeschler, pp. 284ff.
5
Wolf, p. 319.
6
Hilton, p. 139.
7
Minois, p. 303.
8
Réflexions sur la Miséricorde
, no. 1, p. 17.
9
Minois, pp. 302ff.
10
Sévigné
(1955), p. 97.
11
Couton, p. 141; Decker,
Montespan
, pp. 132–3.
12
Decker,
Montespan
, p. 152.
13
Beaussant,
Lully
, pp. 579–92.
14
Fumaroli, p. 416.
15
Caylus
(1986), p. 44.
16
Visconti, p. 117.
17
Solnon,
Versailles
, p. 107; Kroll, p. 91.
18
Bussy-Rabutin, II, pp. 167–9.
19
Norton,
Sun King
, p. 90; Wolf, pp. 321ff.
20
Fumaroli, p. 425; La Rochefoucauld, p. 73; Saint-Évremond, p. 21.
21
Dangeau, I, p. 34; see Bassenne,
passim.
22
Mallet-Joris, p. 272.
23
Norton,
Sun King
, p. 91.
24
Bertière, II, p. 217.
25
Petitfils,
Vallière
, p. 293; Hilton, pp. 176ff.
26
Desprat, p. 192.
27
Chandernagor & Poisson, p. 66.
28
Dangeau, I, p. 220; Bertière, II, pp. 342ff.
29
Desprat, 1674 then not until 1679; Bertière II, end of December 1679 (when Dame d'Atour); Dulong,
Amoureuses
, 1680; Cordelier, 1680; Hilton,
c.
1680; Petitfils,
Montespan
, ‘doubtless in 1680, perhaps a little earlier, perhaps a little later'.
30
Geffroy,
Maintenon
, II, p. 527.
31
Duprat, p. 261.
32
Desprat, p. 187.
33
Sévigné
(1955)
, p. 253.