Note 218 — Chapter III · 1642 to 1644.

Letters de Monseigneur Godeau sur divers sujets, Paris, 1713, letter 76, p. 243: “Degrasse, December 13, 1642.... As to your face, another will rejoice, with much more propriety, that it will not be spoiled. Mademoiselle Paulet tells me so. I have so good an opinion of your sense, that I believe you would have been easily consoled if your disease had left its marks. Scars are often given by Divine Mercy to make persons, who have loved too well their complexions, see that it is a flower liable to fade even as it begins to bloom.”