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 d'Attichy). In the romance, these two ladies appear under the names of Princesse Parthénie and the Reine de Mionie.

Still later in 1669. when the most uncompromising of the Port Royalists seemed to tax Madame do Sablé with lukewarmness that she did not join them at Port-Royal-des-Champs, we find her writing to the stern M. de Sévigny: "En vérité, je