Berlue = lésion de la vue. Avoir la berlue = mal voir

6. Jeter sa langue aux chiens = to give up guessing, ' give up.'

7. Antoine de Caumont Lauzun, Comte de Puyguilhem, a Gascon who succeeded in winning favour at Court.

8. First a hunting-lodge, then a fortress, a palace, and now a muséum.

9. Louise- Françoise, daughter of Laurent de la Baume le Blanc, Marquis de la Vallière, who spent the last thirty-six years of her life in the convent of the Grandes Carmélites, where she died in 17 10.

iû. Paule-Françoise-Marguerite de Gondi, daughter and heiress of Pierre de Gondi, brother of the Cardinal.

11. Plenrietta-Louise Colbert, second daughter of Colbert, Minister of Louis XIV.

12. Madeleine, only daughter and heiress of the Duke of Crequy, married Charles - Belgique - Hollande de la Trémouille, Prince of Tarentum.

13. Mademoiselle was the Court name of Anne-Marie d'Orléans, Duchesse de Montpensier, etc., daughter of Gaston, Duc d'Orléans, brother of Louis XIII. She was cousin-german or first-cousin of King Louis XIV.

14. Philippe of Orléans, brother of Louis XIV. He was known as Monsieur.