Note 120 — Chapter I · 1619 to 1635.

Manuscript of André d’Ormesson, fol. 332, verso.—It was on the occasion of the ballet of the 18th of February, 1635, that the Gazette de France cited, for the first time, the name of Mademoiselle de Bourbon. The extra of the 21st of February, gives a full account of the fête of the 18th. It describes all the scenes of the ballet of the king, names all the great lords who danced in it, and concludes thus: “Such was the grand ballet of the queen, which so delighted all who were present that they were unable to decide which was most charming, the beauties who adorned, the gems with which they glittered, or the figures which represented those sixteen divinities of which it was composed: the queen, Mademoiselle de Bourbon, Mesdames de Longueville (the first wife of the Duke de Longueville), de Montbazon, de Chaulnes, de La Valette, de Retz, Mademoiselle de Rohan, Mesdames de Lyancourt and de Mortemart, Mesdemoiselles de Senecé, de Hautefort, d’Esche, de Vieux-Pont, de Saint-Georges and de La Fayette, who did not quit it until three o’clock in the morning. Every one left this place of marvels with the feelings of Jacob, who, having seen angels in the night, thought that he was standing upon the spot where heaven and earth united.”