RŒDERER (Comte), his Memoirs on Polite Society, study of Louis XII. and Anne de Bretagne, 41-43. RONSARD (Pierre de), 91, 124, 156, 157, 160, 185, 224. SAINTE-BEUVE (Charles-Augustin), his remarks on Anne de Bretagne, 40-43; his estimate of Catherine de’ Medici, 85-88; his essay on Marie Stuart, 121-136; on Marguerite de Navarre, 193-213; on Marguerite de Valois, 243-261. SALIC LAW (the), Brantôme’s argument about it, 168-175. TAVANNES (Vicomte de), Memoirs, 136. VIGNAUD (M. H.), his introduction to Brantôme’s “Vie des Dames Illustres” used in the introduction to this volume, 1. VINCENT DE PAUL (Saint), chaplain to Queen Marguerite de Navarre, 212. YOLAND DE FRANCE (Madame), daughter of Charles VII. and wife of the Duc de Savoie, 214, 215. Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber: The Reign and Amours of the Bourbon Regimé=> The Reign and Amours of the Bourbon Régime {pg title} M. le maréchal answered=> M. le Maréchal answered {pg 83} FOOTNOTES: [1] Taken chiefly from the Essays preceding the various editions of Brantôme’s works published in the 18th and 19th centuries; some of which are anonymous; the more recent being those of M. H. Vignaud and M. Henri Moland.--TR. [2] See Appendix. [3] See Appendix. [4] Here follow the names of ninety-three ladies and sixty-six damoiselles; among the latter are “Mesdamoiselles Flammin (Fleming?) Veton (Seaton?) Beton (Beaton?) Leviston, escossoises.” The three first-named on the above list are the daughters of Henri II. and Catherine de’ Medici.--TR. [5] Henri III. convoked the States-General at Blois in 1588; the Duc de Guise (Henri, le Balafré) was there assassinated, by the king’s order, December 23, 1588; his brother, Cardinal de Bourbon, the next day.--TR. [6] Honoré de Balzac’s volume, in the Philosophical Series of his “Comedy of Human Life,” on Catherine de’ Medici, while called a romance, is really an admirable and carefully drawn historical portrait, and might be read to profit in connection with Brantôme’s account of her.--TR. [7] See Appendix. [8] See Appendix. [9] See Appendix. [10] George Buchanan, historian and Scotch poet, who wrote libels and calumnies against Marie Stuart in prison. (French editor.) [11] She was the daughter of Henri II. and Catherine de’ Medici, married to Philip II., King of Spain, after the death of Queen Mary of England.--TR. [12] Daughter of Henri II. and Catherine de’ Medici,--“La Reine Margot.”--TR. [13] Brantôme’s words are _gorgiasetés_ and _gorgiasment_; do they mark the introduction of ruffs around the neck, _gorge_?--TR. [14] The Salic law: so called from being derived from the laws of the ancient Salian Franks,--according to Stormonth, Littré, and Cassell’s Cyclopædia.--TR. [15] Marguerite was married to Henri, King of Navarre, six days before the massacre of Saint-Bartholomew, August, 1572.