P. 247: The seneschal's lady of Poitou was Mme. de Vivonne.
P. 249: Nicolas de Lorraine-Vaudemont, father-in-law of Henri III.
P. 249: Françoise d'Orleans, widow of Louis, Prince de Condé.
P. 250: Louise, daughter of Nicolas de Lorraine-Vaudemont, married in 1575; she died in 1601.
P. 252: Jean de Talleyrand, former ambassador at Rome.
P. 256: Marguerite de Lorraine, whose second marriage was with François de Luxembourg, Duke de Piney.
P. 256: Mayenne, Duke du Maine.
P. 256: Aymard de Chastes.
P. 256: Refers of course to the assassination of Henri III., by the monk Clément (1589).
P. 257: Catherine de Lorraine.
P. 273: Jean Dorat, died in 1588. Louis de Beranger du Guast.
P. 280: Cæsar Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI.
P. 280: Thomas de Foix, lord of Lescun, brother of Mme. de Châteaubriant.
P. 280: Piero Strozzi, Field Marshal of France.
P. 281: Jean de Bourdeille, brother of Brantôme. He died at the age of twenty-five at the siege of Hesdin. It was from him that the joint title of Brantôme passed on to our author.
P. 281: Henri de Clermont, Viscount de Tallard.
P. 281: André de Soleillas, Bishop of Riez in Provence, in 1576. He had a mistress who was given to playing the prude, but whose hypocrisy did not deceive King Henri IV. That Prince, one day
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