P. 161: Barbe de Cilley; she died in 1415.
P. 166: Brantôme is undoubtedly referring to Mme. de Villequier.
P. 172: This is again Isabeau de La Tour Limeuil.
P. 178: See XXVth Tale in Cent Nouvelles nouvelles.
P. 188: Honoré Castellan.
P. 188. Baron de Vitteau was this member of the Du Prat family; he killed Louis de Beranger du Guast.
P. 190: Chicot was Henri III.'s jester who killed M. de La Rochefoucauld on Saint Bartholomew's Day.
P. 194: Alberic de Rosate, under the word "Matrimonium" in his Dictionary reports an exactly similar instance. Barbatias has something even more extraordinary, how a boy of seven got his nurse with child.
P. 195: The Queen Mother Catherine de Medici. The author gives her name in his book of the Dames Illustres, where he tells the same story.
P. 207: Jean de Rabodanges, who married Marie de Clèves, mother of Louis XII. She was reine blanche, that is, she was in mourning; at that time the women of the nobility wore white when in mourning.
P. 207: These eighteen chevaliers, who were elevated in one batch, caused a good deal of gossip at the court.
P. 214: Louis de Béranger du Guast.
P. 216: She was thirty-five; she died three years later.
P. 217: It is the Château d'Usson in Auvergne.
P. 218: Louis de Saint-gelais-Lansac.
P. 220: Jeanne, married to Jean, Prince of Portugal. She died in 1578.
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