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21
. Rav. VI, p. 435.

22
. Montpensier IV, p. 48.

23
. Ibid., p. 52.

24
. Saint-Maurice I, pp. 407, 426.

25
. Norton,
SSV,
pp. 275, 283–4.

26
. Bussy II, p. 362; Scott-Stevenson I, pp. 208–9.

27
. Lemoine & Lichtenberger, pp. 231, 237, 248.

28
. Scott-Stevenson II, p. 257, Saint-Maurice I, pp. 231–2; Caylus, p. 140.

29
. Clement,
Mme de Montespan,
p. 266.

30
. Lemoine & Lichtenberger, pp. 265–6; Primi Visconti, p. 10; Lemoine & Lichtenberger, p. 269.

31
. Saint-Maurice I, pp. 231–2.

32
. Saint-Maurice I, p. 300.

33
. Lemoine & Lichtenberger, p. 278.

34
. Patin III, p. 751; Saint-Maurice II, p. 206.

35
. Lavallée II, p. 460; Maintenon,
Conseils et Instructions,
pp. 43–4.

36
. Lavallée II, p. 73.

37
. Caylus, p. 18; Norton,
SSV,
p. 272; Aumale I, p. 51; Sév. II, pp. 514, 464.

38
. Maintenon,
op. cit.,
pp. 43–4.

39
. Saint-Maurice I, p. 226.

40
. Ormesson II, p. 562; Bussy I, p. 343; Sév. II, p. 24.

41
. La Vallière I, pp. 25, 102.

42
. Bussy I, p. 379; Sév. II, pp. 62, 70.

43
. Bussy I, p. 382; Sév. II, p. 62; Bussy I, pp. 386, 382.

44
. Sév. II, p. 84, Saint-Maurice II, p. 32; Montpensier IV, p. 261.

45
. Scott-Stevenson II, p. 211; La Vallière I, p. 52.

46
. Bossuet,
Oeuvres
XVII, p. 29.

47
. Bussy II, pp. 344–5.

48
. Montpensier IV, p. 337.

49
. Sév. V, pp. 106–7.

50
. La Vallière I, p. 155.

51
. Clement,
Mme de Montespan,
pp. 365–74.

52
. Ibid., pp. 248–9.

53
. Scott-Stevenson II, p. 257.

54
. Marie I, pp. 4–6.

55
. Ibid., p. 17; Primi Visconti, p. 110; Marie I, p. 24.

56
. Maintenon,
Lettres
II, pp. 128–9.

57
. Montpensier IV, p. 406.

58
. Bussy III, p. 34; Sév. III, p. 521; Clement,
Mme de Montespan,
p. 225.

59
. Bossuet XVII, p. 46.

60
. Ibid., p. 45.

61
. Sévigné, ed. Duchêne II, p. 21; Montpensier IV, pp. 439, 455; Maintenon,
Lettres
II, p. 142n.

62
. Primi Visconti, pp. 112–13.

63
. Sév. III, p. 534.

64
. Ibid., IV, p. 527.

65
. Saint-Maurice I, pp. 256, 342; SS (Norton) I, p. 412; Primi Visconti, pp. 305–6.

66
. Spanheim, pp. 75–6; SS (Truc) I, p. 525.

67
. SS (Norton) II, p. 264.

68
. Sév. V, pp. 56, 82, 49, 82.

69
. Sév. III, p. 295; Primi Visconti, p. 42.

70
. Bussy III, pp. 213, 226; Primi Visconti, pp. 186–7.

71
. Bussy III, pp. 223–4; ibid., IV, p. 32; ibid., III, p. 269.

72
. Sév. V, pp. 170, 175.

73
. Bussy III, p. 283.

74
. Ibid., IV, pp. 21, 43; Sév. VII, p. 96.

75
. Bussy III, pp. 354, 381.

76
. Ibid., IV, p. 45; Clement,
Mme de Montespan,
p. 97.

77
. Bussy IV, pp. 106–7.

78
. Primi Visconti, pp. 206–7.

79
. Scott-Stevenson II, p. 105; Choisy II, p. 35.

80
. Bussy IV, p. 258; Primi Visconti, p. 208.

81
. Bussy IV, p. 320.

82
. Primi Visconti, p. 208.

83
. Bussy IV, pp. 319, 340.

84
. Ibid., pp. 344–5.

85
. Clement,
Mme de Montespan,
pp. 250–1.

86
. Bussy IV, pp. 386, 428; Clement,
Mme de Montespan,
p. 133.

87
. Bussy IV, pp. 344–5; Primi Visconti, p. 241.

88
. Bussy IV, p. 386.

89
. Sophia, pp. 212–13; Bussy IV, p. 469.

90
. Ibid., V, pp. 8, 4, 469, 461.

91
. Ibid., p. 38.

92
. Sév. VI, p. 283.

93
. Ibid., pp. 316–17.

94
. Ibid., p. 347.

95
. Bussy IV, p. 461; Caylus, p. 33; Bussy V, p. 117; Sév. V, pp. 361–2, 365–6.

96
. Bussy V, pp. 107–8.

97
. Ibid., pp. 110–11.

98
. Sév. VI, pp. 510, 534.

99
. Ibid., VII, p. 50.

100
. Bussy V, pp. 110, 116.

101
. Sév. VI, p. 419.

102
. Ibid., p. 445.

103
. Maintenon,
Lettres
II, p. 207.

104
. Ibid., p. 88.

105
. Ibid., p. 331.

106
. Ibid., pp. 189, 107.

107
. Caylus, pp. 45, 49; Clement,
Mme de Montespan,
pp. 225–6.

108
. Maintenon,
Lettres
II, pp. 401–2.

109
. Caylus, p. 45; Maintenon,
Lettres
II, pp. 401–2; Montpensier IV, p. 451; Clement,
Mme de Montespan,
pp. 257–9.

110
. Ibid., p. 271; SS (Norton) I, p. 19; Clement,
Mme de Montespan,
pp. 241–2, 245; Scott-Stevenson I, p. 103.

111
. Maintenon,
Lettres
II, pp. 91, 180, 270, 87; Sév. IV, pp. 22–3.

112
. Lavallée II, pp. 454–5, 458; Maintenon,
Lettres
II, p. 93.

113
. Ibid., pp. 109–10, 92; Dangeau III, p. 301n.

114
. Maintenon,
Lettres
II, pp. 119, 133; Sév. IV, pp. 22–3, 434–5, 534.

115
. Maintenon,
Lettres
II, p. 180; Sév. V, p.49; Bussy III, p. 269; ibid., IV, p. 109.

116
. Sév. VI, p. 142.

117
. Ibid., pp. 316–17.

118
. Ibid., pp. 322, 348; Bussy V, p. 94; Sév. VI, pp. 348, 438, 475.

119
. Ibid., pp. 475, 511.

120
. Ibid., p. 534.

121
. Choisy I, p. 205; Spanheim, pp. 86–7.

122
. Primi Visconti, p. 268.

123
. Ibid.

124
. Maintenon,
Lettres
II, pp. 26–7.

125
. Caylus, pp. 135–6; Sév. VII, p. 43; Bussy V, p. 195.

126
. Sév. VII, pp. 77–8.

127
. Lavallée II, p. 458.

128
. Ibid., p. 457; Aumale, pp. 67–8.

129
. Lavallée II, pp. 73–4.

130
. Maintenon,
Lettres
II, p. 302; Lavallée II, pp. 74–5.

131
. Maintenon,
Lettres
II, p. 350; Clement,
Mme de Montespan,
pp. 100, 254–5.

4: The First Arrests

1
. Rav. VII, p. 150; BA 10359, fo. 98.

2
. Saint-Maurice I, p. 66; Dangeau VII, p. 66; Scott-Stevenson II, p. 48; Rav. VII, p. 143.

3
. Saint-Maurice II, p. 32; La Fare, p. 209.

4
. Rav. IV, p. 285.

5
. Stead, p. 16.

6
. Ibid., p. 15.

7
. Bernard, p. 41.

8
. Ibid., p. 162; Primi Visconti, p. 154.

9
. Clement,
Trois Drames,
pp. 264–5.

10
. SS (Truc) I, p. 364.

11
. Saint-Simon, ed. A. de Boislisle (1884) IV, p. 12; Saint-Germain,
La Reynie,
p. 21; Sourches I, p. 343; Saint-Germain,
La Reynie,
p. 21.

12
. Rav. IV, p. 287.

13
. Ibid., V, pp. 180–1n.

14
. Ibid., IV, p. 325.

15
. Ibid., p. 406.

16
. Ibid., p. 431.

17
. Ibid., p. 432.

18
. Ibid., p. 451.

19
. Ibid., pp. 464–5.

20
. Ibid., V, p. 37.

21
. Ibid., pp. 8–9.

22
. Ricotti VI, p. 234.

23
. Rav. V, p. 129.

24
. Ibid., pp. 107, 109, 485.

25
. Thomas, p. 271; Marshall, pp. 304–5; Nicholl, pp. 3–4.

26
. Thomas, p. 270; Segur,
Tapissier,
p. 11; King, p. 27; Levron in Hatton, p. 151; SS (Norton) II, p. 114; Amiel, p. 283.

27
. Rav. V, pp. 157–8; Primi Visconti, p. 298.

28
. Rav. V, p. 252.

29
. Ibid., pp. 170, 399, 440; AN 1127, fo. 85; Rav. VI, p. 184.

30
. Ibid., V, p. 412.

31
. Ibid., VI, p. 340; ibid., VII, p. 153.

32
. Ibid., V, p. 241.

33
. Ibid., p. 220.

34
. Ibid., VI, pp. 59, 388.

35
. Ibid., V, pp. 270, 280, 443.

36
. Ibid., p. 312.

37
. Ibid., pp. 373, 443, 445; Nass, pp. 154–5; AN 1127, fo. 85.

38
. Colbert VI, p. 407.

39
. BN Mss Français 7608, fos. 321–3.

40
. Drevillon,
Lire et écrire l’avenir,
pp. 62, 66.

41
. Ibid., pp. 23–4, 34.

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