[482] Alain Chartier (1386-1458), the "Father of French Eloquence," an early French poet, and Secretary to the Household to King Charles VI. Margaret kissed him on the mouth, as he lay sleeping, to show the value she set upon the mouth from which so many fair speeches had issued.--T. [483] Margaret of Scotland (1418-1445), daughter of James I. King of Scots, was married to the Dauphin, later King Louis XI. of France, as a child, in 1428, but was not united to him until 1436. He made her very unhappy.--T. [484] _Pro. L. Flacco_, XXVI. 36.--T. [485] JOB XXXVIII. II.--T. [486] Pytheas (_circa_ 350 B.C.), the famous Greek navigator, was a native of Massilia or Marseilles.--T. [487] Jean Sire de Joinville (_circa_ 1223--_circa_ 1319) accompanied St. Louis on the Seventh Crusade (1248), which took Cyprus in its course.--T. [488] Berengarius I. and II., Kings of Italy and Marquises of Ivrea in the tenth century.--T. [489] Louis II., Duke of Anjou and titular King of Naples (1377-1417), father of Good King René.--T. [490] Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, Duc d'Épernon (1554-1642), one of the favourites of Henry III., was the head of a Languedoc family and governor of Provence, of which Marseilles was one of the chief cities.--T. [491] Henri François Xavier de Belsunce de Castel Moron, Bishop of Marseilles (1671-1755), distinguished himself by his courage and zeal during the plague which ravaged the city in the years 1720 and 1721, and by his vigorous opposition to the Jansenistic doctrines.--T. [492] Vittorio Conte Alfieri (1749-1803), the Italian tragic poet, secretly married in 1788 to the Countess of Albany, widow of Prince Charles Edward Stuart. His _Memoirs_ were published in 1804.--T. [493] ALFIERI, _Memoirs_, chap. IV.--T. [494] The Roman amphitheatre or bull-arena at Nîmes was laid in ruins by the English during their occupation in 1417.--T. [495] The famous Roman remains, in the Corinthian style.--T. [496] Jean Reboul (1796-1864), the baker-poet, author of _Poésies_ (1836), the _Dernier Jour_ (1839), the _Martyre de Vivia_, a mystery play, performed at the Odéon (1850), and the _Traditionnelles_ (1857). He continued his trade throughout. In 1848 he was sent to the Constituent Assembly as Royalist member for the Department of the Gard.--B. [497] I omit a quotation from Reboul.--T. [498] Plautus spent some years in the service of a baker in Rome.--T. [499] Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609), the Protestant philosopher, Professor of Literature at the University of Leyden, a distinguished philologist and founder of the system of modern chronology.--T. [500] 1622.--T. [501] The Canal des Deux-Mers, also known as the Canal du Midi or de Languedoc, joins the Atlantic and Mediterranean.--T. [502] The project of the canal, first formed under Francis I., was executed by Colbert's orders under Louis XIV. in the years 1666-1681. I omit the quotation from Corneille.--T.