P. 302: Brantôme undoubtedly aims here at Marguerite de Clermont.
P. 303: Jean de Bourdeille.
P. 303: Renée, daughter of Louis XII., married to the Duke of Ferraro. She was ungainly but very learned.
P. 304: Marguerite d'Angoulème.
P. 312: Meung-sur-Loire, dep. Loiret, on right bank of the Loire, eleven miles below Orléans.
P. 312: Eclaron, dép. Maute-Marne.
P. 312: Leonor, Duke de Longueville.
P. 312: François de Lorraine, Duke de Guise.
P. 313: Louis I., Prince de Condé.
P. 313: Captain Averet, died at Orléans in 1562.
P. 313: Compère was the name King Henri II. gave the Constable de Montmorency.
P. 316: Octavius is translated Octavie by Brantôme. Cf. Suetonius, Caligula, XXXVI., and Octavius Augustus, LXIX.
P. 316: Suetonius, Nero, XXXIV.
P. 318: Brantôme undoubtedly refers to Henri III. and to the Duke d'Alençon, his brother.
P. 319: Plutarch names this woman Aspasia and makes her a priestess of Diana. Cf. Artaxerxes-Mnemon, Chap. XXVI.
P. 319: Collenuccio, liv. V., p. 208.
P. 319: Artaxerxes I. (Longimanus), King of Persia for forty years, B. C. 465 to 425; he succeeded his father Xerxes, having put to death his brother Darius.
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