Note 477 — IX. OF THE GREAT.

Pamphilus is the Marquis de Dangeau, of whom we have already spoken (see page 156, note 311), and who made himself ridiculous by his excessive vanity. Saint-Simon, in his Mémoires, calls the Marquis un Pamphile, but our author speaks of les Pamphiles, and describes them at three different times, namely, in 1681, 1691, and 1692.