Note 167 — Chapter II · 1635 to 1642.
Frederick W. (Frederick William) Ricord translation
Tallemant, vol. ii., p. 337, attributes these couplets to Bachaumont; Madame de Motteville, vol. iii., p. 230, gives them without the author’s name, and they are found with many others in a long mazarinade, entitled, Triolets de Saint-Germain, in-4ᵒ, 1649.