P. 125: Du Guast or Lignerolles. However, it may refer to Bussy d'Amboise.
P. 126: Marie Babou de la Bourdaisière, who married Claude de Beauvillier Saint-Aignan in 1560.
P. 128: Plutarch, Sylla, cap. XXX.
P. 129: Queen Maria of Hungary, ruler of the Netherlands, and sister of Charles V.
P. 129: Plutarch, Cato of Utica, cap. XXXV.
P. 132: The personages in question are Henri III., Renée de Rieux-Châteauneuf, then Mme. de Castellane, and Marie de Clèves, wife of the Prince de Condé.
P. 132: Louis de Condé, who deserted Isabeau de La Tour de Limeuil to marry Françoise d'Orléans. The beauty of which Brantôme speaks can scarcely be seen in the portrait in crayon of Isabeau de Limeuil who became Mme. de Sardini.
P. 135: Mottoes were constantly used at that time.
P. 136: Anne de Bourbon, married in 1561 to François de Clèves, Duke de Nevers and Count d'Eu.
P. 146: The empress was Elizabeth of Portugal; the Marquis de Villena, M. de Villena; the Duke de Feria, Gomez Suarez de Figueroa, Duke de Feria; Eleonor, the Queen of Portugal, later married to François Ier; Queen Marie, the Queen of Hungary.
P. 147: Elizabeth, daughter of Henri II.
P. 151: The MS. of this discourse is at the Bibliothèque Nationale (Ms. fr. 3273); it is written in a good hand of the end of the sixteenth century. It is dedicated to the Duke d'Alençon.
P. 152: Opere di G. Boccaccio, Il Filicopo, Firenze, 1723, t. II., p. 73.
P. 159: La Tournelle in the original. This was the name given to the Criminal Court of the Parliament of Paris.
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