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115 For the congregation’s records of this event, see Archives Nationales MM 623 f. 91.
116 Le Pas de Sécheval, "Politique artistique," 419-20.
117 For the congregation’s records, which state that the crown would have to reimburse the
French Oratory, see Archives Nationales MM 623 f. 90.
Charles de La Vieuville served as superintendent of finance two different times, from January
1623 to August 1624 and again from September 1651 to January 1653. During his first
superintendency he enacted policies that reduced military expenditures from 23 million livres to
12 million livres while non-justified expenses by the king and operating costs in departments
such as ordinary receipts and extraordinary expenses similarly fell. For more on his financial
policies, see Françoise Bayard, Joël Félix, and Philippe Hamon, Dictionnaire des surintendants
et contrôleurs généraux des finances du XVIe siècle à la Révolution française de 1789 (Paris:
Comité pour l'Histoire Économique et Financière de la France, 2000), 50-53.
118 Anne Le Pas de Sécheval and Charles Williams believe that the reason for La Vieuville’s
actions against the Oratorians was his preference for the Society of Jesus. This claim is based on
a phrase found in the Oratory’s annals where a powerful but unnamed friend of the congregation
accuses La Vieuville of wanting to cause trouble for the Oratorians because another religious
community, assumed to be the Jesuits, was jealous of their royal support. For more on this
argument, see Le Pas de Sécheval, "Politique artistique," 421; Williams, French Oratorians, 211.
I have not found any evidence that La Vieuville had any preference for the Jesuits. In fact the
only religious group that he is known to have supported was the Parisian convent of the
Minimes, where he was buried. For more on this support, see Bayard, Félix, and Hamon,
Surintendants, 53.
119
For La Vieuville characterized as a bon français, see Chevallier, Louis XIII, 280; Moote,
Louis XIII, 135.
120 Bayard, Félix, and Hamon, Surintendants, 52; Chevallier, Louis XIII, 280.
121 Archives Nationales MM 623 f. 91.
122
Archives Nationales MM 623 f. 93. This occurred on 13 September 1623 in a private
meeting with the king.
123 Fumaroli, "Cross," 89-102.
124 The publications were Justus Lipsius’s De Cruce libri tres, published in 1594, and the ninth
volume of Cesare Baronius’s Annales Ecclesiastici, published in 1600. For further discussion of
these texts, see ibid.; 89-91. For a discussion of the tapestry, Fumaroli, "Cross," 93.
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