[231] Mezeray, vol. xi. p. 540.

[232] Mezeray, vol. xi. pp. 541, 542.  Le Clerc, vol. ii. pp. 496-519.  Aubery, vol. ii. p. 736.  Siri, Mem.  Rec. vol. ii. p. 15.

[233] Claude de Rouvroy, Sieur de Saint-Simon, was the descendant of a family of Vermandois in Picardy.  His relative Isaac de Rouvroy resigned in his favour (in 1635) the paternal estate, which, when he became the favourite of Louis XIII, that monarch erected into a duchy in his favour.

[234] Henri Coiffier Ruze-d’Effiat, Marquis de Cinq-Mars, was the second son of Antoine Coiffier, Marquis d’Effiat, Marechal de France.

[235] Siri, Mem.  Rec. vol. ii. p. 571.

[236] Rambure, Unpublished MS. vol. xx. pp. 6-13.

[237] Montresor, Mem. p. 162.  Le Clerc, vol. ii. pp. 543-562.  Mezeray, vol. xi. pp. 544-552.  Capefigue, vol. ii. pp. 99-125.

[238] Sismondi, vol. xxiii. p. 510.

[239] Dreux du Radier, vol. v. pp. 258, 259.

[240] MS. Dupuy, vol. 590.

[241] Le Vassor, vol. x. book 1. p. 589.  Capefigue, vol. vi. pp. 121, 122.  Sismondi, vol. xxiii. pp. 509, 510.  Le Clerc, vol. ii. p. 558.  Mezeray, vol. xi. p. 542.

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