Scipion. Probably Scipio Africanus (234-183 B.C

NOTES

Page 183 * — i. Mais puisque Dieu, etc. Suggested by Matthew v>45-

2. ce grand th&tre du monde. An idea found in Descartes and La Bruyfcre, “ De la Cour,” No. 99.

Page 184 . — 1. & leur id!e. Our idea of them.

2. sans etre press!. Conde’s conversion took place not more than three years before his death. Cf. page 192, lines 29-32.

3. Un sage religieux. The Jesuit, £tienne- Agard Deschamps (1613-1701).

Page 185 * — 1. Ses conseils, in regard to his private matters and the management of his household, to which y must refer in line 2.

2. son petit-fils. Louis, duke of Bourbon (1668-1710), La Bruyfcre’s pupil, present at the ceremony. See page 162, note 1.

3. domestiques. Applied at this time to all who were attached to a great family.

4. nourris dans l’erreur, etc. Bossuet refers to Protestantism, which was u tolerated ” in France previous to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.

5. la maladie de la duchesse de Bourbon. This young princess, the daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan, was married to Conde’s grandson in 1685. Her illness was small-pox.