Note 194 — LETTERS TO MADAME DE GRIGNAN[11] FROM 1671 TO 1690. (continued 5)
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Madame de Sévigné alludes to the banishment of M. de Bussy, the chief of her house, and the confinement of M. de Fouquet, her intimate friend. To which may be added, the exile of the Arnaulds, and, further back still, the misfortunes of Cardinal de Retz, her relation and friend.