Note 73 — LETTER XLII.

Here should have been added, of the Poet Paul Scarron. She was the Daughter of Constans d’Aubigny, Baron of Surincan, and of Joan de Cardillac. Charles d’Aubigny, Governor of Berry, and Knight of the King’s Orders, who died in 1703, was her Brother. Her Grandfather was Theodore Agrippa d’Aubigny, Admiral of Bretagne and Guienne, celebrated for his Zeal for the Protestant Religion, and Author of a History of his own Time, of the Confession of Saney, and of the Baron de Faneste. Every body knows, that the Attachment of his Widow Scarron to Madame de Montespan, made her Way to Lewis XIV. who was so pleas’d with her Humour, that she continued in the highest Favour till that Monarch’s Death; and enjoy’d a Pension of 50,000 Livres, which was punctually paid her by Lewis XV. every Year as long as she liv’d. After her Death, the Duke de Noailles became Marquis de Maintenon in Right of his Wife.