A quel degré d'honneur ne peut-il pas monter S'il s'élève tousjours par son propre courage? Son nom et sa vertu lui donnent l'advantage De pouvoir tout prétendre et de tout mériter.
[23] A summary of the inventory at Saint-Mandé: MS. of the Bibliothèque Nat. Manusc. Suppl, fr. 10958, cited by M. Edm. Bonnaffé, _Les Amateurs de l'ancienne France_.--Le Surintendant Foucquet, librairie de l'Art, 1882.
[25] Description of the city of Paris, 1713, p. 60.
[26] _Mémoire des Académiciens_, Vol. I, p. 21. Bonnaffé, loc. cit., p. 15.
[27] Preface to _Œdipe, Collect. des grands écrivains,_ Vol. VI, p. 103.
[30] Œuvres complètes de La Fontaine, published by Ch. Marty Laveaux, Vol. III (1866), p. 26 _et seq._
[31] The inventory of the 26th February, 1666 (Bonnaffé, loc. cit., p. 61), classes them as follows: "Two antique mausoleums representing a king and queen of Egypt, 800 livres."
[32] At least, this is the hypothesis propounded by M. Bonnaffe. It is founded on the fact that an anonymous document of 1648, published in _Les Collectionneurs de l'ancienne France_ (Aubry, ed. 1873), mentions le sieur Chamblon, of Marseilles, as a professor "of Egyptian idols to enclose mummies." But it seems as if the anonymous document referred not to sarcophagi of marble or basalt, but rather to those boxes of painted and gilt pasteboard, with human faces, which abound in the necropolises of ancient Egypt. The port of Marseilles must at that time have received a fairly large number of such. We must remember that the mummy was in those days considered as a remedy, and was widely sold by druggists.
[33] Cf. Mlle, de Scudéry, _Clélie._ "Méléandre (Lebrun) had caused to be built, on a small, somewhat uneven plot of ground, two small pyramids in imitation of those which are near Memphis."
[35] Description of the city of Paris, by Germain Brice, ed. of 1698, Vol. I, p. 124 _et seg._
[36] _Recueil d'antiquités dans les Gaules,_ by La Sauvagère, Paris, 1770, p. 329 _et seq._
[38] In this story, I have followed M. Bonnaffé. Loc. cit., p. 57.
[39] Inventory and valuation of the books found at Saint-Mandé on the 30th July, 1665. Biblio. Nat. MSS., p. 9438. The whole was valued at 38,544 livres.
[41] Lines presented to Monseigneur le procureur général Foucquet, Superintendent of Finance, at the opening of the tragedy of _Œdipe,_ 1659.