◆André de Soleillas, Bishop of Riez in Provence, in 1576. He had a mistress who was given to playing the prude, but whose hypocrisy did not deceive King Henri IV. That Prince, one day rebuking this lady for her love affairs, said her only delight was in _le jeune et l’oraison_,—fast and prayer. [122] P. 282: ◆This widow of a Field Marshal of France was very likely the lady of Field Marshal de Saint-André. She wedded as a second husband Geoffroi de Caumont, abbé de Clairac. She called herself Marguerite de Lustrac. As for Brantôme’s aunt, it should be Philippe de Beaupoil; she married La Chasteignerie, and as a second husband François de Caumont d’Aymé. [123] P. 285: ◆Anne d’Anglure de Givry, son of Jeanne Chabot and René d’Anglure de Givry. Jeanne married as a second husband Field Marshal de La Chastre. ◆ Jean du Bellay and Blanche de Tournon. [124] P. 288: ◆Odet de Coligny, Cardinal de Chastillon, married to Elizabeth de Hauteville. [125] P. 290: ◆Henri II., who neglected his wife, the Queen, for the Duchesse de Valentinois (Diane de Poitiers), who was already quite an old woman and had been his father, the preceding King’s, mistress. [126] P. 293: ◆About the year 400 of the Christian era, St. Jerome witnessed the woman’s funeral, and he it is reports the fact mentioned in the text. _Epist. ad Ageruchiam, De Monogamia._ ◆Charles de Rochechouart. [127] P. 302: ◆Scio was taken in 1566 by the Turks. [128] P. 309: ◆It was to her that King Henri IV. said at a court ball by way of amusing the company, that she had used green wood and dry wood both. This jest he made at her expense, because the said lady did never spare any other woman’s good name. [129] P. 310: ◆L’histoire et Plaisante cronique du Petit Jehan de Saintré, par Antoine de La Salle. Paris, 1517. [130] P. 312: ◆XLVth Tale. [131] P. 314: ◆According to Rabelais, _poultre_ (filly) is the name given to a mare that has never been leapt. So Bussy was not speaking with strict accuracy in using the term in this case. [132] P. 316: ◆An allusion to the affair of Jarnac, who killed La Chasteignerie, Brantôme’s uncle, in a duel (1547) with an unexpected and decisive thrust of the sword. ◆Alesandro de Medici, killed, in 1537, by his cousin Lorenzino. [133] P. 317: ◆Mme. de Chateaubriant. [134] P. 318: ◆Perhaps Marguerite de Valois and the ugly Martigues. [135] P. 321: ◆The one-eyed Princess d’Eboli and the famous Antonio Perez. [136] P. 323: ◆Jeanne de Poupincourt. [137] P. 324: ◆Anne de Berri, Lady de Certeau, at the court in 1583. Hélène de Fonsèques. ◆This princess was very ugly. [138] P. 330: ◆In the sixteenth century it was customary to whip lazy people in bed. See Marot’s epigram: Du Jour des Innocens. END OF VOLUME TWO —————————————— End of Book —————————————— Transcriber’s Note (continued)