◆The Comtesse de Senizon was accused of having contrived his escape, and brought to book for it. [89] P. 155: ◆According to his habit, Brantôme disfigures what he quotes. Vesta Oppia alone has the right to the name of “good woman”; Cluvia was a profession-courtesan. (Cf. Livy, XXVI., Chap. xxxiii.) [90] P. 156: ◆This more human reason is probably truer than the one generally given of Jean’s chivalrous conduct regarding his pledge. ◆Jean (surnamed le Bon), King of France, 1350–1364. Taken prisoner by Edward the Black Prince at the battle of Poitiers. [91] P. 159: ◆Proverb marking the small connection that often exists between gifts of body and good qualities of mind and character. [92] P. 161: ◆The quotation as given in the text is mutilated and the words transposed. It should read: “Si tibi simplicitas uxoria, deditus uni Est animus: ... ... Nil unquam invita donabis con juge: vendes Hac obstante nihil; nihil, haec si nolit, emetur.” Juvenal, Sat. VI, 205 sqq. That is to say, “If you are attached solely and entirely to your wife, ... you will not be able to give a thing away, or sell or buy a thing, without her consent.” [93] P. 164: ◆They used to say of those Italian infamies: “_In Spagna, gli preti; in Francia, i grandi; in Italia, tutti quanti._” ◆Why not let Boccaccio have the responsibility of this baseness? (Decameron, Vth day, Xth story.) [94] P. 168: ◆Christine de Lorraine, daughter of Duke Charles, married to Ferdinand I. de Medici. This young princess had arrived in Italy adorned in her rich French gowns, which she soon cast off in favor of Italian fashions. This concession quickly made her a favorite. It was at the wedding of Christine that the first Italian operas were performed. (Litta, _Medici di Firenze_, IV., tav. xv.) [95] P. 171: ◆Brantôme is very likely thinking of Princess de Condé, whom Pisani brought before the Parliament, which acquitted her. [96] P. 174–175: ◆Probably an allusion to Mme. de Simiers and not to Marguerite de Valois, as Lalanne thinks. More tenacious if not more constant than the princess, Louise de Vitry, Lady de Simiers, lost successively Charles d’Humières at Ham, Admiral de Villars at Dourlens, and the Duke de Guise, whom she deeply loved and who gave her so little in return; this does not include Count de Randan, who died at Issoire, and others of less importance. When she reached old age, old Desportes alone remained for her. He had been her first lover, a poet, whom she had forgotten among her warriors; but it was much too late for both of them. ◆Brantôme is mistaken; it is Seius and not Séjanus. [97] P. 177: ◆Théodore de Bèze, the Reformer; born at Vézelais, in the Nivernais, 1519. Author, scholar, jurist and theologian. Died 1595. [98] P. 178: