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[2»« S. No 113., Feb. 27. '58. 



to the text a multitude of notes taken from the famous 

 MS. Recueil de Maurepas, and other authentic sources. 



M. Jannet's Bibliothegue Elz6virienne is also daily re- 

 producing fresh treasures in historical literature. Out of 

 the two hundred volumes which are to form our modern 

 Elzevir's Collection de Mimoires, the following have al- 

 ready appeared. 



Memoires de Madame de la Guette.* — This work, which 

 had not been reprinted since 1681, was thought to be a 

 pseudonymous composition, even by the learned M. Leber, 

 who says of it : " Livre rare. . . . Les details qu'il ren- 

 ferme sur les troubles de la Fronde sont de nature k piquer 

 la curiosite, et I'on y remarque meme des faits d'une cer- 

 taine importance qu'on ne trouve point dans d'autres 

 relations." M. Moreau, however, has conclusivel}' iden- 

 tified Madame de la Guette, and shown the merit of her 

 narrative as a picture of French society during the mino- 

 rity of Louis XIV. and the government of Cardinal Ma- 

 zarin. 



M(moires et Correspondance de la Marquise de Cour- 

 celles.\ — A perfect contrast to the above. Madame de 

 Courcelles might have occupied a fit place in the Histoire 

 Amoureuse des Gaules, and the autobiography now edited 

 by M. Pougin exhibits the seventeenth century from 

 that point of view which is generally connected with the 

 better known names of La Valliiire, Fontanges, and Mon- 

 tespan. 



Memoires du Marquis d' Argenso7i.X — These memoirs, 

 alread}' partly printed in 1825, contain under their pre- 

 sent shape a mass of hithei to unpublished matter from a 

 MS. in the library of the Louvre. They comprise some 

 of the principal events which occurred whilst Louis XV., 

 or rather his mistresses, governed France; and the notice 

 they give of English politics recommends them in an 

 especial manner to our readers. 



Memoires de Henri de Campion. § — Published for the 

 first time in 1807, by General de Grimoard. This is an- 

 other interesting work relating to the troublous times of 

 la Fronde, and its historical merits have been very for- 

 cibly stated by no mean judge, M. Cousin. (Cf Madame 

 de Hautefort, 8», Didier, 1857). " On apprendra dans ces 

 pages," says the editor, "h connoitre quelques-unes des 

 oppositions que rencontroient I'exercise du pouvoir royal 

 et I'execution des lois, la maniere dont une partie de la 

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