xxxvi, 1908.
[70] P.de l'Estoile, _Memoires-Journaux_, vol.ii, p.

326.
[71] Laborde, _Le Palais Mazarin_, p.

128.
[72] Thus she writes in 1701 (_Correspondence_, edited by Brunet, vol.i, p.

58): "Our heroes take as their models Hercules, Theseus, Alexander, and Caesar, who all had their male favorites.

Those who give themselves up to this vice, while believing in Holy Scripture, imagine that it was only a sin when there were few people in the world, and that now the earth is populated it may be regarded as a _divertissement_.