◆Thibaut, sixth of the name, Comte de Champagne et Brie, subsequently King of Navarre, was born 1201. Surnamed _Faiseur de Chansons_ from his poetic achievements. Brought up at the Court of Philippe-Auguste. The whole romance of his love for Queen Blanche of Castille is apparently apocryphal; it rests almost entirely on statements of one (English) historian, Matthew Paris. She was 16 years older than he, and is never once mentioned in his poems. ◆E. Pasquier, _Œuvres_, 1723, t. II, p. 38. “Which of the two,” says Pasquier, “brings more satisfaction to a lover—to feel and touch his love without speaking to her, or to see and speak to her without touching her?” In the dialogue between Thibaut de Champagne and Count de Soissons, Thibaut preferred to speak. [112] P. 215: ◆Brantôme aims here at Queen Catherine de’Medici and her favorites. ◆_Cf._ Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, c. xxi. [113] P. 216: ◆_Id._, Demetrius, cap. xxvii. Brantôme is mistaken; the woman in question was Thônis. ◆Eighteenth Tale. ◆The “wheel of the nose” was a sort of “mask beard” that women wore in cold weather; it was attached to the hood below the eyes. [114] P. 220: ◆It was François de Compeys, lord of Gruffy, who sold his estate in 1518 in order to expatriate himself. [115] P. 221: ◆It is not three but four S’s that the perfect lover must carry with him, according to Luis Barabona (_Lagrimas de Angelica_, canto IV.), and these four S’s mean: SABIO, SOLO, SOLICITO ET SEGRETO. These initial letters were much in vogue in Spain during the sixteenth century. [116] P. 224: ◆This story was popular in Paris; it was amplified and embellished into a drama and ascribed to Marguerite de Bourgogne. Was it not Isabeau de Bavière? ◆Isabeau, or Isabelle, de Bavière, wife of the half imbecile Charles VI. of France, and daughter of Stephen II., Duke of Bavaria, was born 1371; died 1435. Among countless other intrigues was one with the Duc d’Orléans, her husband’s brother. One of her lovers, Louis de Boisbourdon, was thrown into the Seine in a leather sack inscribed _Laissez passer la justice du roi_. The famous story of the Tour de Nesles seems mythical. [117] P. 225: ◆See under _Buridan_, in Bayle’s _Dict. Critique_. Compare also Villon, in his Ballade of the _Dames des Temps Jadis_ (Fair Dames of Yore): Semblablement où est la reine, Qui commanda que Buridan Fust jeté en un sac en Seine? (Likewise where is the Queen, who commanded Buridan to be cast in a sack into the Seine?) [118] P. 227: ◆Plutarch, Anthony, Chap. xxxii. [119] P. 229: ◆Livy, lib. XXX., cap. xv. Appien, _De Rebus punicis_, XXVII. ◆Joachim du Bellay, _Œuvres poétiques_, 1597. ◆_La Vieille Courtisane_ (“The Old Courtesan”), fol. 449. B. of the _Œuvres poét._ of Joachim du Bellay, edition of 1597. [120] P. 230: