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9* s. vi. JULY 28, i9oo.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 69 under the above surname ? Does the name, under any variety of spelling, occur in the ' Catalogue of the Gentrye of the Countye of Northumberland,' Lansdowne MS. 865, f. 97, referred to by ME. STROTHEK in a back volume? I have vols. vii., viii., and ix. of the Genealogist. Direct communication pre- ferred. H. R. LEIGHTON. East Boldon, R.S.O., Durham. ARCHIDIACONAL RECORDS.—May I ask once more as to the existence and whereabouts of sixteenth-century archidiaconal and epis- copal records and churchwardens' answers and presentments, specified in my query in ' N. <fe Q.,' 9th S. v. 4961 There must be many besides myself to whom the information would be useful. J. V. KITTO. Bottingdean, Brighton. DUMAS AND 'THE SON OP PORTHOS.'—Did Alexandre Dumas (jdre) write 'The Son of Porthos ' ? I can find no mention of it any- where ; and, if he did not write it, why do Messrs. Routledge include it in their edition t It is not part of the' Vicomte de Bragelonne,' like their ' Man in the Iron Mask,' ifec. CHARLES K. DAWES. [Dumas signed so much that he merely improved or supervised that the question is difficult.] FRENCH SOCIETY IN THE LAST CENTURY. (9*8. v. 67, 232, 501.) MADAME DE ST. PEIEST was either Louise Sophie Jacqueline de Barral, born 28 June, -1713, daughter of Joseph de Barral, Mar- quis de la Bastie d Arvillars, President a Mortier au Parlement de Grenoble, by Marie Franchise Blondel (she was the wife of Jean £mmanuel Guignard, Vicomte de St. Priest, born 21 May, 1714 ; President au Grand Conseil 14 June, 1747 ; Intendant de, Languedoc 1 Jan., 1751; (Jonseiller d'Etat 1764), or Mile, de Ferrieres, who married (before 1774) Marie Joseph de Guignard de St. Priest, son of the preceding, Intendant of Languedoc, 1764 ; guillotined 27 June, 1794. He was brother of the cele- brated diplomatist Francois Emmanuel, Comte de St. Priest. More probably the former. Madamed'Egmont.—There were three ladies of this name at the period in question. The third was the wife of Casimir Pignatelli d'Eguiont, who succeeded his brother Gui Felix in 1753, and was living in 1773. She was his second wife, and was Sophie Jeanne Louise Armande Septimanie do Richelieu, daughter of Louis Francois Arruand, Marechal Due de Richelieu, by Elizabeth Sophie de Lorraine-Guise. She was married 10 Feb., 1756. I find that the widow of Gui Felix d'Egmont took the veil at the Filles de Cal- vaire, near the Luxembourg, 18 June, 1754. M. de Pignatelli must, I think, be either Gui Felix d'Egmont Pignatelli or his father. Due de Brancas.—Louis Paul de Brancas, Comte de Forcalquier, Premier Chretien par la grace de Dieu et do St. Pierre, Prince Souverain Titulaire de Nisaro (in the Archi- pelago), Grandee of Spain, born 25 May, 1718 ; married, 9 March, 1747, Marie Anne Renee Jacqueline Grand Homme de Giseux, only daughter and heir of Rene Simon, Seigneur de Giseux, Maitre Ordinaire des Ceremonies de France, by Marie Anne de la Motte. The duke was living 1771. Vicomtesse de Cambis was Gabrielle Charlotte Franchise de Chimai, the wife of Jacques Francois, Vicomte de Cambis. Madame de Caraman was Anne Gabrielle de Chimai. They were both daughters of Alex- andre Gabriel d'Alsace Hennin Lietard, Prince de Chimai, Grandee of Spain, Knight of the Golden Fleece, by Gabrielle Francoise de Beauvau-Craon, daughter of Rene Marc de Beauvau. Prince de Craon, Knight of the Golden Fleece, Grandee of Spain, by Mar- guerite de Ligniville, n£e Comtesse de Ligni- ville. Madame de Blot.—Marie Cecile Pauline d'Ennerie, Dame de Compagnie de feu la Duchesse d'Orleans, married, 18 Nov., 1749, Gilbert de Chauvigni.. Baron de Blot le Chateau et de Blot lEglise, Marechal de Camp 1761 ; both living 1771. Madame d'Entragues.—Either Marie Char- lotte Aimee Heron, daughter of Claude Heron, Conseiller Honoraire au Parlement de Paris, who married (9 Feb., 1728) Louis Cesar de Cremaux, Marquis d'Entragues, Lieutenant- General au Maconnais (he died 1 Sept., 1747); or Louise Olive Felicite Bernard, daughter of Samuel Jacques Bernard, Seigneurde Coubert, de Longueil, de Grisol, Maitre de Requetes, Sur-Intendant de la Maison de la Reine, Grand Croix, Prev6t et Maitre des Cerdmonies de I'Ordre Royal et Militaire de St. Louis, by Elizabeth Louise Olive Frolier de la Coste Messeliere, who married Nicholas Hyacinthe de Montvallat, Comte d'Entragues, Marechal de Camp. He died 21 Dec., 1771, and his wife survived him. Ducde Gontaut.—Charles Antoine Armand de Gontaut, younger brother of the Mare'chal Due de Birou, was the sixtli son of Charles Armand de Gontaut, Due de Biron, Pair et