◆Sébastien, died in 1578. This passage in Brantôme is not one of the least irreverent of this hardened sceptic. [103] P. 226: ◆The portraits of Marie disclose a protruding mouth. She is generally represented with a cap over her forehead. This feature is to be found in a marked degree in Queen Eleanore; and her brother Charles V. also had a protruding mouth. The drooping lip was likewise characteristic of all the later Dukes de Bourgogne. [104] P. 228: ◆The entanglements of which Brantôme speaks were: the revolt of the Germanats, in Spain, in 1522; of Tunis or Barbarie, 1535; the troubles in Italy, also in 1535; the revolt in the Netherlands, provoked by the taxes imposed by Maria, in 1540. M. de Chièvres was Guillaume de Croy. [105] P. 229: ◆Folembray, the royal residence occupied by François I^{er} and later by Henri II. Henri IV. negotiated there with Mayenne during the Ligue. ◆Bains en Hainaut. [106] P. 230: ◆Claude Blosset, surnamed Torcy, lady of Fontaine Chalandray. [107] P. 234: ◆Christine of Denmark, daughter of Christian II., first married to Francesco Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan. In 1540, five years after her husband’s death, she married Francis I. of Lorraine. Her son was Charles II. of Lorraine. ◆N. de La Brosse-Mailly. [108] P. 285: ◆A small plank attached to the saddle of a lady’s horse, and serving to support the rider’s feet. Superseded by the single stirrup and pommel. [109] P. 236: ◆Guy du Faur de Pybrac. [110] P. 243: ◆Renée, wife of Guillaume V., Duke de Bavière. [111] P. 246: ◆Blanche de Montferrat, wife of Charles I^{er}, Duke de Savoie; she died in 1509. [112] P. 247: ◆Paradin, _Chronique de Savoye_, III, 85. ◆The seneschal’s lady of Poitou was Mme. de Vivonne. [113] P. 249: ◆Nicolas de Lorraine-Vaudemont, father-in-law of Henri III. ◆Françoise d’Orléans, widow of Louis, Prince de Condé. [114] P. 250: ◆Louise, daughter of Nicolas de Lorraine-Vaudemont, married in 1575; she died in 1601. [115] P. 252: ◆Jean de Talleyrand, former ambassador at Rome. [116] P. 255: ◆Refers of course to the assassination of Henri III., by the monk Clément (1589). [117] P. 256: ◆Marguerite de Lorraine, whose second marriage was with François de Luxembourg, Duke de Piney. ◆Mayenne, Duke du Maine. ◆Aymard de Chastes. [118] P. 257: ◆Catherine de Lorraine. [119] P. 273: ◆Jean Dorat, died in 1588. Louis de Béranger du Guast. [120] P. 280: ◆Caesar Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI. ◆Thomas de Foix, lord of Lescun, brother of Mme. de Châteaubriant. ◆Piero Strozzi, Field Marshal of France. [121] 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. ◆Henri de Clermont, Viscount de Tallard.