[Illustration: LOUIS XIII., KING OF FRANCE AND OF NAVARRE
We have now to determine how much of their false exalted sentiment and their false ambition the princes, the chevaliers of the Fronde, and all the gallants of the quality owed to the dramatic theatre of their day; that estimated, we shall have gained a fair idea of the chief elements of the social body idealised by Corneille,--of all the elements save one, the element of Religion; that was a thing apart, to be considered especially and in its own time.
[Footnote 27: _Relation de ce que c'est passé en l'affaire de la reyne au mois d'août, 1637, sui le sujet de la Porte et de l'Abbesse du Val-de-Grâce._ See document in the Bibliothèque National.]
[Footnote 28: The first part appeared in 1610, or perhaps [says M. Brunetière], in 1618. The rest followed at long intervals. The four last volumes bear date 1627 and consequently are posthumous. The part written by d'Urfé cannot be distinguished from the part written by Baro, who continued the work begun by d'Urfé.]
[Footnote 29: _Manuel de l'histoire de la littérature française_, by M. Ferdinand Brunetière. Cf. _En Bourbonnais et en Forez_, by Emile Montégut, and _Le roman_ (XVII. Century) by Paul Morillot in _L'histoire de la langue et de la littérature française_, published under the direction of M. Petit de Julleville. _Les vendanges de Suresnes_, by Pierre du Ryer.]
[Footnote 30: Waliszeffski: _Marysienka_.]
[Footnote 31: Paul Morillot, _loc. cit._]
[Footnote 32: In the Dedication of _Place Royale_.]
[Footnote 33: In the Dedication of _Place Royale_.]
[Footnote 34: M. Lemaître's address, delivered at Port Royal. (Racine's Centennial.)]
[Footnote 35: _Histoire de l'art, pendant la renaissance._]
[Footnote 36: Sauval, _Les antiquités de Paris_.]
[Footnote 37: Dulaure, _Environs de Paris_.]
[Footnote 40: Somaize's _Dictionnaire des Précieuses_.]
[Footnote 42: _Gazette de Loret._ (Letter bearing date August 13, 1651.)]
[Footnote 45: Young Louvigny was killed in a duel in 1629; he was entering his twenty-first year.]
[Footnote 46: Vicomte d'Avenel, _Richelieu et la Monarchie absolue_.]
[Footnote 47: See Gamboust's map, _Paris en 1652_.]
[Footnote 49: In one of the angles at the end of the courtyard (Tallemant).]