book xi. vol vi. p. 296. Letter from Father Suffren, already quoted.

[82] A similar and as perfect return of lively affection and reciprocal tenderness was produced anew on the occasion of the illness of February, 1643, to which Louis XIII. succumbed. See the _Mémoire fidèle des choses qui se sont passées à la mort de Louis XIII._, written by Dubois, his valet-de-chambre. The ingenuousness and the precision in details which it exhibits does not permit us to doubt the exactitude and authenticity of this account. See also Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: _Mémoires Manuscrits de Lamothe-Goulas, Secrétaire des Commandements du Duc d’Orléans_, vol. ii. p. 368.

[83] Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: _Mémoires Manuscrits de Lamothe-Goulas, Secrétaire des Commandements du Duc d’Orléans_, vol. ii. p. 367.

[84] November 11, 1630--known in French history as “the Day of the Dupes”--when the Duke de Saint-Simon, father of the famous memoir writer, brought about a secret interview between Richelieu, who, in disgrace, was on the eve of retiring to Havre, and Louis XIII., then at his hunting-seat of Versailles. At the moment when every one believed the downfall of the once all-powerful Minister to be complete, the latter succeeded in recovering his lost influence over the King, of which he had been deprived through the intrigues of Marie de Medicis, who had demanded of her son whether he was “so unnatural as to prefer a valet to his mother.” Richelieu, when firmly reinstated in power, did not spare the queen-mother’s partisans, upon several of whom he avenged himself with his accustomed severity.--_Trans._

[85] This date is given in Richelieu’s Journal, of which we are about to speak.

[86] M. Jules Loiseleur, _Revue Contemporaine_, of July 31, 1867, p. 223. This Journal has been published in the _Archives Curieuses de l’Histoire de France_, of Cimber and Danjou, 2nd series, vol. v.

[87] Imperial Library. Manuscripts, _ancien fonds Français_, No. 9241.

[88] _Lettres et Papiers de Richelieu_, published in the collection of _Documents inédits de l’Histoire de France_, by M. Avenel, Conservator of the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, with a profound knowledge of the period with which he is concerned, and an exactitude, an intelligence and a care for which one cannot too highly praise him.

[89] _Lettres et Papiers de Richelieu_, vol. iv. p. 115.

[90] _Mémoires de Bassompierre._

[91] Marie de Rohan, Duchess de Chevreuse, who possessed so great an influence over Anne of Austria, was the daughter of Hercule de Rohan, Duke de Montbazon, Governor of Paris, and one of the first noblemen of France. In 1617, she espoused Albert de Luynes, favourite of Louis XIII., who on the occasion of the marriage created his confidant a duke and appointed his wife Superintendent of the Queen’s Household. Shortly after the death of her husband, in 1621, from fever caught at the siege of Montauban, she married Claude de Lorraine, Duke de Chevreuse, the son of that Duke de Guise whom Henry III. caused to be assassinated at Blois. The Duchess de Chevreuse was a charming and beautiful woman, gifted with extraordinary powers of intellect and proud of her high lineage, but incorrigibly given to intrigue.--_Trans._