[117] Philippe Laurent Pons (1759-1844), known as Pons de Verdun, was, before the Revolution, a regular contributor to the _Almanach des Muses._ He was sent to the Convention by the Meuse and voted for the death of the King. As a member of the Council of Five Hundred, he rallied to the cause of Bonaparte, and became advocate-general to the Court of Appeal under the Empire.--B. [118] Artus de Bonchamp (1769-1793), mortally wounded outside Cholet (17 October 1793).--T. [119] Alberte Barbe d'Ercecourt, Dame de Saint-Balmon (1608-1660), took up arms during her husband's absence in the Thirty Years' War, and defended her house against the marauders.--B. [120] Amadis of Gaul, hero of the famous prose romance written in the fourteenth century by different authors, partly in Spanish, partly in French.--T. [121] A loathsome form of vermin.--T. [122] Jean La Balue (1421-1491) became a bishop, Almoner to King Louis XI., Intendant of Finance, and was for many years virtual Prime Minister of France. He abolished the Pragmatic Sanction (1461), and was created a cardinal by Pope Pius II. Subsequently he corresponded with the King's enemies and (1469) was imprisoned by Louis XI. in an iron cage, from which he was released only upon the King's death, eleven years later. In 1484, Pope Innocent VIII. sent La Balue to France as legate _in latere_; but he was so badly received that he was obliged to return to Rome.--T. [123] Claude de Saumaise (1588-1658), known as Salmasius, or the Prince of Commentators.--T. [124] Charles Ferdinand Duc de Berry (1778-1820), second son of the Comte d'Artois, later Charles X., and father of the Duc de Bordeaux, known later as Comte de Chambord and Henry V. The Duc de Berry was assassinated by Louvel on leaving the Opera House in Paris, 6 February 1820.--T. [125] _Mémoires, lettres, et pièces authentiques touchant la vie et la mort de S. A. R. Ch. F. d'Artois, fils de France, Duc de Berry_, II. viii.--B. [126] LA FONTAINE'S _Fables_, book VII., fab. 16: _The Cat, the Weasel, and the Young Rabbit_, 7-9.--T. [127] Cephalus of Thessaly, husband of Procris, and beloved by Aurora because of his surpassing beauty.--T. [128] Jean Cazotte (1720-1792), the facile Royalist poet, author of the _Veillée de la Bonne femme; ou, le Réveil d'Enguerrand_, which opens with the lines quoted.--T. [129] "Right in the middle of the Ardennes Stands a fine castle atop of a rock."--T. [130] François de La Noue (1531-1591), nicknamed _Bras-de-Fer_, Iron Arm, a famous Calvinist captain. Fighting at the head of the army of the States-General against Spain, he was captured (1578) and kept prisoner for five years in the fortresses of Limburg and Charlemont. He was killed at the siege of Lamballe in Brittany, where he was sent by Henry IV.--T. [131] CAZOTTE, _La Veillée de la Bonne femme_, supra.--T. [132] Orlando's famous steed.--T. [133] Most of the scenes in _As You Like It_ are laid in the Forest of Arden.--T.