◆Queen Maria of Hungary, ruler of the Netherlands, and sister of Charles V. ◆Plutarch, _Cato of Utica_, cap. XXXV. [79] P. 132: ◆The personages in question are Henri III., Renée de Rieux-Châteauneuf, then Mme. de Castellane, and Marie de Clèves, wife of the Prince de Condé. ◆Louis de Condé, who deserted Isabeau de La Tour de Limeuil to marry Françoise d’Orléans. The beauty of which Brantôme speaks can scarcely be seen in the portrait in crayon of Isabeau de Limeuil who became Mme. de Sardini. [80] P. 135: ◆Mottoes were constantly used at that time. [81] P. 136: ◆Anne de Bourbon, married in 1561 to François de Clèves, Duke de Nevers and Count d’Eu. [82] P. 146: ◆The empress was Elizabeth of Portugal; the Marquis de Villena, M. de Villena; the Duke de Feria, Gomez Suarez de Figueroa, Duke de Feria; Eleonor, the Queen of Portugal, later married to François I^{er}; Queen Marie, the Queen of Hungary. [83] P. 147: ◆Elizabeth, daughter of Henri II. [84] P. 151: ◆The MS. of this discourse is at the Bibliothèque Nationale (Ms. fr. 3273); it is written in a good hand of the end of the sixteenth century. It is dedicated to the Duke d’Alençon. [85] P. 152: ◆_Opere_ di G. Boccaccio, _Il Filicopo_, Firenze, 1723, t. II., p. 73. [86] P. 159: ◆_La Tournelle_ in the original. This was the name given to the Criminal Court of the Parliament of Paris. [87] P. 161: ◆Barbe de Cilley; she died in 1415. [88] P. 166: ◆Brantôme is undoubtedly referring to Mme. de Villequier. [89] P. 172: ◆This is again Isabeau de La Tour Limeuil. [90] P. 178: ◆See XXVth Tale in _Cent Nouvelles nouvelles_. [91] P. 188: ◆Honoré Castellan. ◆Baron de Vitteau was this member of the Du Prat family; he killed Louis de Béranger du Guast. [92] P. 190: ◆Chicot was Henri III.’s jester who killed M. de La Rochefoucauld on Saint Bartholomew’s Day. [93] 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. [94] 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. [95] 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. [96] P. 207: ◆These eighteen chevaliers, who were elevated in one batch, caused a good deal of gossip at the court. [97] P. 214: ◆Louis de Béranger du Guast. [98] P. 216: ◆She was thirty-five; she died three years later. [99] P. 217: ◆It is the Château d’Usson in Auvergne. [100] P. 218: ◆Louis de Saint-gelais-Lansac. [101] P. 220: ◆Jeanne, married to Jean, Prince of Portugal. She died in 1578. [102] P. 225: