Note 402 — Chapter XI · THE FOUNDRESS OF CHAILLOT
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"Mon inclination est de me retirir dans les Carmelites ... car après ma perte je ne puis avoir un moment de aucune joye."—Lettres de Henriette Marie à sa soeur Christine, p. 71.
[403]Jeanne Chantal.
[404]A New Description of Paris (1887), p. 121. The chapel is now a church of the église réformée.
[405]Queen Anne of Austria was very fond of this convent. Mazarin, in the early days of his power, believed that the nuns tried to influence her against him.
[406]Mme de Motteville: Mémoires (1783), I, 72.
[407]This account is taken from that written by Caussin, an old copy of which is preserved in the Bibliothèque S. Geneviève, in Paris. Caussin's manuscript was only seen by Mother de la Fayette shortly before her death.
[408]Her profession took place in July, 1637.
[409]Louise Eugénie de la Fontaine. During the second war of the Fronde this lady received into the convent a number of religious (among them the Chaillot nuns) who were afraid to remain outside Paris. "Il sembloit que cette maison étoit un petit Paradis Terrestre ou une arche qui vaguoit en assurance dans un repos admirable pendant que tout étoit dans une confusion épouvantable et qu'on entendoit de tous cotez les canons et les mosquets qui se tiroient à la batail de la porte S. Antoine."—Vie de la Ven. Mère Louise Eugénie de la Fontaine.
[410]Evelyn: Diary. December 5th, 1643.
[411]MS. 2436, Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris. From this history many of the details of this chapter are taken.
[412]He was an old friend and disciple of Bérulle.
[413]She was apparently a sister of Sir William Hamilton, the Queen's late agent in Rome.
[414]Miscellanea Spiritualia, Pt. II (1653).
[415]Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn (1859), Vol. IV, p. 352.
[416]Madame de Motteville: Mémoires, VI, p. 212 (1783).
[417]The Superiors of the Order of the Visitation are chosen for three years. Mother de la Fayette held office three times, from 1654-7, from 1657-60, and from 1663 until her death in the following year.
[418]C[arlo] C[otolendi]: Vie de la très haute et très puissante Princesse Henriette Marie de France Reyne de la Grande Bretagne, p. 311.
[419]D. G. Rossetti.
[420]Of Chaillot literally not one stone remains upon another. The convent was destroyed in the Revolution, and its site is occupied by the Trocadero.