P. 213: E. Pasquier, (Euvres, 1723, t. II, p. 38. "Which of the two," says Pasquier, "brings more satisfaction to a lover—to feel and touch his love without speaking to her, or to see and speak to her without touching her?" In the dialogue between Thibaut de Champagne and Count de Soissons, Thibaut preferred to speak.
P. 215: Brantôme aims here at Queen Catherine de'Medici and her favorites.
P. 215: Cf. Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, c. xxi.
P. 216: Id., Demetrius, cap. xxvii. Brantôme is mistaken; the woman in question was Thonis.
P. 216: Eighteenth Tale.
P. 216: The "wheel of the nose" was a sort of "mask beard" that women wore in cold weather; it was attached to the hood below the eyes.
P. 220: It was François de Compeys, lord of Gruffy, who sold his estate in 1518 in order to expatriate himself. è P. 221: It is not three but four S's that the perfect lover must carry with him, according to Luis Barabona (Lagrlmas de Angelica, canto IV.), and these four S's mean:
SABIO, SOLO, SOLICITO ET SEGRETO.
These initial letters were much in vogue in Spain during the sixteenth century.
P. 224: This story was popular in Paris; it was amplified and embellished into a drama and ascribed to Marguerite de Bourgogne. Was it not Isabeau de Baviere?
P. 224: Isabeau, or Isabelle, de Bavière, wife of the half imbecile Charles VI. of France, and daughter of Stephen II., Duke of Bavaria, was born 1371; died 1435. Among countless other intrigues was one with the Due d'Orléans, her husband's brother. One of her lovers, Louis de Boisbourdon, was thrown into the Seine in a leather sack inscribed Laissez passer la justice du roi. The famous story of the Tour de Nesles seems mythical.
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