[29] Vie de Du Plessis-Mornay, book iv.

[30] Matthieu, Hist, des Derniers Troubles, book iii. p. 636.

[31] Le Vassor, vol. ii. p. 102.  Deageant, Mem. pp. 203, 204. Vie du Due d’Epernon, book viii.

[32] Mezeray, vol. xi. pp. 179-181.  Sismondi, vol. xxii. pp. 452, 453.  Bassompierre, Mem. p. 129.  Richelieu, Hist. de la Mere et du Fils, vol. ii. p. 356.  Siri, Mem.  Rec. vol. iv. pp. 626, 627.

[33] Siri, Mem.  Rec. vol. iv. pp. 631, 632.

[34] Vie du Duc d’Epernon, book viii.

[35] Siri, Mem.  Rec. vol. iv. pp. 632, 633.  Le Vassor, vol. ii. p. 115.  Sismondi, vol. xxii. p. 454.  Bassompierre, Mem. p. 129.  Fontenay-Mareuil, Mem. pp. 436-450.  Richelieu, Hist, de la Mere et du Fits, vol. ii. p. 372.

[36] Francois Le Clerc du Tremblay, known as the Capuchin Father Joseph, was the elder son of Jean Le Clerc, President of the Court of Requests at Paris, and of Marie de la Fayette.  His sponsors were the Due d’Alencon (brother of Francis II) and the Duchesse d’Angouleme, the natural sister of that Prince.  He was a man of great learning and talent, but cunning, ambitious, and unscrupulous, who had attached himself to the fortunes of Richelieu, of whom he was the ame damnee, and who endeavoured to cause him, in his turn, to be admitted to the honours of the conclave.  He died suddenly at Ruel on the 18th of December 1638; and some years subsequently the Duchesse de Guise having, at her own expense, repaved the choir of the Capuchin church, the tomb of la petite Eminence Grise, as he was familiarly called by the Parisians, was placed beneath that of Pere Ange (the Cardinal-Due de Joyeuse), in front of the steps of the high altar.  Richelieu had caused an eulogistic and lengthy inscription on marble to be affixed to his sepulchre; but the Parisians, who more truly estimated his merits, added others considerably more pungent, among which the most successful was the following:—­

     “Passant, n’est-ce pas chose etrange
      Qu’un demon soit aupres d’un ange?”

[37] Le Vassor, vol. ii. pp. 118, 119.  Siri, Mem.  Rec. vol. v. pp. 49-51.  Mezeray, vol. xi. pp. 184, 185.

[38] Henri de Gondy, Master of the King’s Oratory, and subsequently Archbishop of Paris, on the resignation of his uncle Pierre, Cardinal de Gondy, who died in 1616.

[39] Matthieu, Hist. des Derniers Troubles, book iii. p. 639.

[40] Le Vassor, vol. ii. pp. 121, 122.

[41] Siri, Mem.  Rec. vol. v. pp. 53-56.

[42] Sismondi, vol. xxii. pp. 453, 454.  Mezeray, vol. xi. pp. 187, 188.  Bassompierre, Mem. p. 129.  Brienne, Mem. vol. i. p. 339.  Richelieu, Hist. de la Mere et du Fils, vol. ii. pp. 306-309.

[43] Mercure Francais, 1619.  Le Vassor, vol. ii. pp. 150, 151.  Siri, Mem.  Rec. vol. v. pp. 59-63.  Mezeray, vol. xi. pp. 188-191.