Henry IV. was the son of Antoine de Bourbon, Duc de Vendôme, and of Jeanne d’Albret, only daughter of Henri d’Albret, King of Navarre, married to Marguerite Alençon, sister of Francis I., the widow of the Duc d’Alençon. NOTE 20, p. 162. Chicot was a Gascon, jester to Henry IV. His _specialité_ was intense hatred to the Duc de Mayenne, whom he constantly attempted to attack. During an engagement at Bures, he made prisoner the Comte de Chaligny, and carried him into Henry’s presence. “_Tiens!_” said he, “this is my prisoner.” Chaligny was so enraged at having been captured by a buffoon, that he poniarded Chicot on the spot. NOTE 21, p. 253. Marie de’ Medici died in poverty at Cologne, aged sixty-nine. NOTE 22, p. 255. The Duchesse de Montbazon died suddenly at Paris of measles. De Rancé was in the country at the time; no one dared tell him what had happened. On his return to Paris he ran up the stairs into her rooms, expecting to find her. There he found an open coffin, containing the corpse of Madame de Montbazon. The head was severed from the body (the coffin having been made too short), and lay outside on the winding sheet. Such is the story according to the _Véritable Motifs de la Conversion de l’Abbé de la Trappe_. Other authorities contradict these details. NOTE 23, p. 283. Now the military hospital of the Val de Grâce, 277, Rue Saint-Jacques. Anne of Austria having been married twenty-two years without issue, vowed that she would build a new church within the convent, if she bore an heir to the throne. After the death of her husband, Louis XIII., she fulfilled her vow. The first stone of the present church was laid in 1645, by her son, Louis XIV. END OF VOLUME I. FOOTNOTES: [1] See Note 1. [2] See Note 2. [3] See Note 3. [4] See Note 4. [5] See Note 5. [6] See Note 6. [7] See Note 7. [8] See Note 8. [9] See Note 9. [10] See Note 10. [11] See Note 11. [12] See Note 12. [13] See Note 13. [14] See Note 14. [15] See Note 15. [16] See Note 16. [17] See Note 17. [18] See Note 18. [19] See Note 19. [20] See Note 20. [21] Words used by Marie de’ Medici to Louis XIII. [22] Richelieu used these precise words in speaking of Marie de’ Medici. [23] See Note 21. o [24] See Note 22. [25] See Note 23. Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber: Under him Cardidinal=> Under him Cardinal {pg vii} he lays his land=> he lays his hand {pg 24} these significent lines=> these significant lines {pg 51} This marriage is indipensable=> This marriage is indispensable {pg 117} It is indespensable=> It is indispensable {pg 240} twiching nervously=> twitching nervously {pg 276} Annie of Austria=> Anne of Austria {pg 253} of the preset church=> of the present church {pg 321} End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Old Court Life in France, vol. 1/2, by Frances Elliot