Note 385 — Chapter XVI

M. Feuillet de Conches, Causeries d’un Curieux, vol. ii. p. 529. “M. d’Artagnan told me,” says Olivier d’Ormesson in his Journal, “that M. Fouquet, during the first three weeks, was very unquiet and amazed, but that his mind grew calmer, and that he became very self-possessed afterwards, giving himself up largely to devotion; that he fasted every week on Wednesday and Friday, and besides this, lived on Saturday on bread and water; that he rose before seven o’clock, said his prayers, and after that worked till nine o’clock; that he subsequently heard mass.”—Journal d’Olivier d’Ormesson, vol. ii. p. 52.