Note 198 — Chapter II · 1635 to 1642.

Supplément Français, No. 925. The author seems to be called Maupassant. “It is the custom,” says he, in commencing, “of all those who write history, to wish to appear faithful, disinterested, and exempt from all passion. For my part, I do not pretend to persuade any one of my sincerity, but I dare to declare that I have seen most of the things which I undertake to write about.”