[1] An American translation was published in 1890. _Vide_ Bibliography.
[2] Cordeiro, _op. cit._, p. 131, 1st ed.
[3] Cf. Cordeiro, _op. cit._, pp. 147-8 and 300, 1st ed.
[4] This was partly owing to the ideas of the time, and partly for
reasons already mentioned, and also because her father wished to build
up an estate, to be entailed on heirs-male.
[5] Letter v.
[6] Asse, _op. cit._, Preface, p. vi. For an account of the somewhat
relaxed character of convent discipline at the time _vide_ Cordeiro,
pp. 156-164, 1st ed.
[7] ‘Muita era a liberdade das grades naquelle miseravel tempo.’
[8] Cordeiro, _op. cit._, pp. 326-7, 1st ed.
[9] Cordeiro, _op. cit._, pp. 139-40, 1st. ed.
[10] Cordeiro, _op. cit._, p. 182, 1st ed.
[11] For a good comparison of the Letters of Marianna and Heloïse see
an article entitled ‘La Eloísa Portuguesa’ in the June number of the
review _España Moderna_, 1889, written by Emilio Pardo Bazán.
[12] Cordeiro, _op. cit._, p. 299, 1st ed.
[13] This syntactical extension of the sex to the patronymic was
general in the seventeenth century. _Vide_ Cordeiro, _op. cit._, p. 91,
1st ed.
[14] This should be 83. Cf. the extract from the Baptismal Register in
Cordeiro, p. 285, 1st ed.
[15] This document was found and transcribed by Cordeiro on pp. 328-9
of his oft-referred-to work, 1st ed.
[16] _Op. cit._, Preface, p. xi.
[17] _Memoires_, vol. iii. pp. 372-3; Paris, 1873.
[18] Observation of Senhor Cordeiro, _op. cit._, p. 6, 1st ed.
[19] Observation of M. Asse.
[20] Asse, _op. cit._, Preface, pp. xiii, xiv.
[21] Letter to Mme. de Grignan in vol. ii., page 284, of the edition of
_Paris_ 1862.
[22] Asse, _op. cit._, Preface, p. xv.
[23] Director for a time of the _Gazette de France_, and a friend of
Mme. de Sévigné and Racine. Boileau described him as
‘Esprit né pour la cour et maitre en l’art de plaire
Guilleragues qui sais et parler et se taire.’
[24] Quoted by Cordeiro, _op. cit._, p. 21, 1st ed.
[25] One of those ecstasies so common in conventual annals is here
meant.
[26] No. 4 in all editions and translations except that of Cordeiro.
[27] A province in the extreme south of Portugal.
[28] The Mother Superior of the convent.
[29] Gates in the city of Beja: so called because they are on the
side which looks toward Mertola, 54 kilometres distant. Both Beja and
Mertola are in the province of the Alemtejo.
[30] Hérard Bouton and Catherine Lecomte de Nonant.
[31] Both Cordeiro and the French texts read ‘first,’ which does not
make sense.
[32] No. 2 in all editions and translations except that of Cordeiro.
[33] Two of Chamilly’s servants.
[34] The treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, which was signed May 2nd, 1668,
ratified this peace and put an end to the war called ‘of Devolution.’
[35] D. Brites de Noronha was a professed nun and a companion of
Marianna in the convent of the Conception at Beja.
[36] Marianna refers to her condition as a Franciscan nun in a small
provincial town, not to the rank of her family, which was as good as
that of her lover.
[37] Marianna was about twenty-six years of age when she first met
Chamilly. She had naturally made her profession at sixteen and had been
confided to the care of the convent at twelve, or even much earlier,
like her sister.