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Footnotes
[Footnote 1: "He is patient because he is eternal." is how the Latin translates.
It is from St. Augustine. This motto was sometimes applied to the Papacy, but not to the Jesuits.]
[Footnote 2: In the five-volume edition, Volume 4 ends here.]
[Footnote 3: It is possible that the preceding conversation is an obscure allegorical allusion to the Fronde, or perhaps an intimation that the Duc was the father of Mordaunt, from Twenty Years After, but a definite interpretation still eludes modern scholars.]
[Footnote 4: The dictates of such a service would require Raoul to spend the rest of his life outside of France, hence Athos's and Grimaud's extreme reactions.]
[Footnote 5: Dumas here, and later in the chapter, uses the name Roncherat.
Roncherolles is the actual name of the man.]
[Footnote 6: In some editions, "in spite of Milady" reads "in spite of malady".]
[Footnote 7: "Pie" in this case refers to magpies, the prey for the falcons.]
[Footnote 8: Anne of Austria did not die until 1666, and Dumas sets the current year as 1665.]
[Footnote 9: Madame de Montespan would oust Louise from the king's affections by 1667.]
[Footnote 10: De Guiche would not return to court until 1671.]
[Footnote 11: Madame did die of poison in 1670, shortly after returning from the mission described later. The Chevalier de Lorraine had actually been ordered out of France in 1662.]
[Footnote 12: This particular campaign did not actually occur until 1673.]
[Footnote 13: Jean-Paul Oliva was the actual general of the Jesuits from 1664-1681.]
[Footnote 14: In earlier editions, the last line reads, "Of the four valiant men whose history we have related, there now no longer remained but one single body; G.o.d had resumed the souls." Dumas made the revision in later editions.]
