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Footnotes for "My Reading of the Evidence, 1678"

1. Archivio di Stato, Florence, Med. del Prin., 4767, February 18 and April 22, 1678.

2. Med. del Prin., 4767, February 18 and April 22, 1678.

3. Mazarine, A 16599, Reglemens des Confreries de la Charité ... et Confreries du grand S. Charles Boromée..., dated 1676, which focused on converting heretics and creating charitable services in each parish of the city.

4. After lunch on March 25, 1678, Mme de Guise went to Saint-Sulpice for a charitable meeting, and on April 21 she went to the "assemblée des pauvres chez la présidente de Nicolai," as she had done the preceeding January 14: Med. del Prin, dossier 1. For this assembly, see Mazarine, A 100694, pièce 84 (for Miramion), pièce 88 (Miramion and Nicolai). In the Règlement, Mme de Guise is named on p. 32, as "superior" for the parish of Saint-Sulpice," an "Assemblée et Confréries" having been created in that parish (p. 6). For the devotions of the Assemblies, see pp. 11 and 13.

5. Med. del Prin., 4820, March 14, April 2, April 29, 1678.

6. Mercure galant, February 1678, pp. 131-132.

7. A.N., M.C., V, 98, wedding contract of July 16, 1644.

8. Jacques Laurent, Lettres en vers, Lc2 30, March 31, 1678.

9. A.N., M.C., LXXV, 190, transport, May 7, 1678.

10. Med. del Prin., 4769, dossier 1, July 22, 1678.

11. Règlement, p. 51.

12. Jean Gourhand, Alençon, Cité des ducs (1970), Mazarine: 8o 84379 (32).

13. Mercure galant, June 1678, p. 200.

14. Med. del Prin., 4769, May 3, 1678, which points out that it was not desirable that Mme de Toscane go to court with Mlle de Guise as a chaperon: this made the Grand Duchess independent, because she did not go to the Queen's apartment, where the usual spies could keep tabs on her behavior.

15. Med. del Prin., 4674, March 28, June 27 and October 6, 1678.

16. Med. del Prin., 4820, December 16, 1678.

17. Laurent, Lettres en vers, December 17, 1678, B.N., Lc2 30.