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the Memoires" of 1733. After par Pindignite de sa conduite," Paris 

 "Memoires," p. 24, Villars' Memoires," p. 25, is added ef de sa nais- 

 sance,'''' fol. 6. In the passage, Yillars' Mem.," p. 25, beginning ^' ces 

 derniers pas," we have (fol. 6) ^'premiers pas," which is also the read- 

 ing of the Paris edition ; for la situation de la Peine," we have ''la 

 hauteur naturelle de la Peyne mere ;" for ' ' infamies passees," ' ' infidelites 

 passees;" for ''la Jeunesse du Poy," "la foihlesse dn Poy plus enfant 

 par son genie que par son age,''"' and several other differences of a similar 

 character. At p. 26 of Yillars, after the words " un grand nombre 

 d'espions" is added ^^jusques dans la maison de la Reyne,''"' fol. 6. The 

 general summing up of the character of Don John of Austria, at p. 33 

 of Yillars, is given more fully at fol. 8 of the MS. At fol. 24 (Yillars, 

 81) the following reference to the Queen is strongly underlined in 

 darker ink than the text — -" On creut meme, quelque temps que la 

 reyne estoit grosse, mais cette esperance finit au commencement de Janvier 

 de Vannee 1680."*-' 



N'early the entire of pp. 82 and 83 (of the Yillars' " Memoires"), from 

 "Quelques jours" to "remplis d'un nombre infini de spectateurs," is 

 omitted, at least in this place, from the Arsenal MS., fol. 24. After 

 " qui la gouvernoit comme un enfant" (Yillars, p. 84) is added (fol. 24) 

 "e^ sans cesse avec le Roy accompagne de deux nains qui seuls faisoient 

 sa conversation et son plaisiry f This, omitted by all the others, is 

 given somewhere by Madame d'Aulnoy. j Arsenal MS., fol 32, " Les 

 instances du nonce;" Yillars' "Memoirs," p. 110, "Les interets du 

 nonce." The extracts given by Elassan in his "Plistoire de Diploma- 

 tie" are from fol. 35, commencing "Les Ministres Etrangers," to fol. 

 39, " s 'illes avoit fait demander :" it is the only part of the MS. which 

 has marks in the margin, as if they were directions either to the tran- 

 scriber or compositor. La fin de Janvier,''^ Arsenal MS., fol. 36. 

 Yillars' " Memoires," p. 123, is heavily underlined by the same hand as 

 before. 



Eolio 44 contains the following passages omitted in the Yillars' 

 " Memoires," p. 150, after the words " ny de la saluer" : — 



" Elle [la Duchesse de Terra JSTova, el Camerera Mayor] ne laissoit 



* *' La Reine n'est plus grosse."-~Lettres de Madame de Villars, 12th January, 

 1680, p. 49. 



t " Le Roi a un petit nain Flamand qui entend et qui parle tres-bien Francois. II 

 n'aidoit pas peu a la conversation." — Lettres de Madame de Villars, p. 25. And 

 again, p. 60, " II y a deux nains qui soutiennent toujours la conversation." 



X This mania for dwarfs does not seem to have been peculiar to the court. Madame 

 d'Aulnoy, in her "Travels," has the following passage: — " They keep also both Male and 

 Female Dwarfs, and very ugly ones : the Females, particularlv, have very frightful looks, 

 their heads are bigger than their Bodies ; they always wear their hair loose about their 

 Ears, and hanging down to tlie ground. At first sight, one would wonder what these 

 little Figures were when they present themselves before one's Eyes. They wear rich 

 cloaths, they are their Mistresses Confidents, and for this Reason, they are denied 

 nothing they have a mind to." — The Ladies Travels into Spain, 1708, p. 137 ; Voyage 

 d'Espagne, t. ii., p. 123. 



