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SURRENDER OF THE LIBRARY
OF
CARDINAL MAZARIN
We reproduce, in its entirety, this curious document, a copy of which it is now almost impossible to find. The original is a quarto of four pages and bears no title. The title which we give it is taken from the catalogue of all the works of Gabriel Naudé, published by L. Jacob at the end of the Tumulus Naudaei.
TO-DAY, February 14th, 1651, a certain Mathieu, attendant in waiting at the palace of Monsignor the Most Eminent Cardinal Mazarin, came to my lodgings in the court of the Abbey of St. Geneviève to inform me that Monsieur Tubeuf, president of the Chamber of Ac-
