◆The queen arrived at Nice, June 8, 1538, where the king and Pope Paul III. were. The ladies of whom Brantôme speaks should be the Queen of Navarre, Mme. de Vendôme, the Duchess d’Etampes, the Marquess de Rothelin—that beautiful Rohan of whom it was said that her husband would get with child and not she—and thirty-eight gentlewomen. (Clair., 336, fol. 6549.) ◆John Stuart, Duke of Albany, grandson of James II., King of Scotland. He was born in France in 1482 and died in 1536. The anecdote that Brantôme relates is connected with the journey of Clement VI. to Marseilles at the time of the marriage of Henri II., then Duke d’Orléans, with the niece of the pope, Catherine de Medici. The marriage took place at Marseilles in 1533. [62] P. 100: ◆Louise de Clermont Tallard, who married as her second husband the Duc d’Uzes. Jean de Taix was the grand master of artillery. [63] P. 107: ◆He was called Pierre de La Mare, lord of Matha, master of the horse to Marguerite, sister of the king. (Bib. Nat., Cabinet des Titres, art. Matha.) Aimée de Méré was at the court from 1560 to 1564. Hence this adventure took place during that time. (Bib. Nat. ms. français 7856, fol. 1186, v^o.) [64] P. 108: ◆Povided with “bards,” plate-armour used to protect a horse’s breast and flanks. [65] P. 109: ◆This Fontaine-Guérin was in all likelihood Honorat de Bueil, lord of Fontaine-Guérin, gentleman of the king’s bed-chamber, councillor of State, who died in 1590. He was a great favorite of Charles IX. [66] P. 112: ◆The lady in question was Françoise de Rohan, dame de La Garnache, if we are to believe Bayle in the _Dict. Critique_, p. 1817, 2nd. ed., though there would seem to be some doubt about it. The “very brave and gallant Prince” was the Duc de Nemours. ◆A German dance, the _Facheltanz_. [67] P. 113: ◆Marie de Flamin. [68] P. 114: ◆The son of this lady was Henri d’Angoulème, who killed Altoviti and was killed by him at Aix, and not at Marseilles, June 2, 1586. Philippe Altoviti was the Baron of Castellane; he had married the beautiful Renée de Rieux-Châteauneuf. [69] P. 115: ◆_Le Tigre_—a pamphlet by François Hotman directed against the Cardinal de Lorraine and the Duchesse de Guise, 1560. [70] P. 116: ◆Philibert de Marcilly, lord of Cipierre. [71] P. 117: ◆That pamphlet was aimed at Anne d’Este, Duchess de Guise, at the time of her marriage with the Duc de Nemours. [72] P. 119: ◆Brantôme alludes to the hatred of the Duchess de Montpensier. [73] P. 120: ◆Marie de Clèves, who died during her lying-in in 1574. ◆Catherine Charlotte de La Trémolle, Princess de Condé. [74] P. 122: ◆Not found anywhere in Brantôme’s extant works. [75] P. 125: ◆Du Guast or Lignerolles. However, it may refer to Bussy d’Amboise. [76] P. 126: ◆Marie Babou de la Bourdaisière, who married Claude de Beauvillier Saint-Aignan in 1560. [77] P. 128: ◆Plutarch, _Sylla_, cap. XXX. [78] P. 129: