[Footnote 369: I kept back some passages of this long letter to insert them in my _Explications sur mes_ 12,000 _francs_ and, later, in my _Mémoire sur la captivité de Madame la Duchesse de Berry.--Author's Note._] [Footnote 370: Blanche of Castile, Queen of France (1187-1252), widow of Louis VIII. and mother of St. Louis IX. She acted as Regent from 1226-1236, during her son's minority, and again from 1248 to 1252, during his absence on a crusade to the Holy Land.--T.] [Footnote 371: At Fornovo, the French under Charles VIII. defeated the Italians on the 6th of July 1495.--T.] [Footnote 372: At Marignano, Francis I. gained a victory over the Swiss on the 13th and 14th of September 1515.--T.] [Footnote 373: The French under Bonaparte, Masséna and Augereau defeated the Austrians at Areola on the 15th, 16th and 17th of November 1796.--T.] [Footnote 374: 14 June 1800, when the French defeated the Austrians and finished the campaign in Northern Italy.--T.] [Footnote 375: Casimir Périer, the Premier, died of consumption on the 16th of May 1832.--T.] [Footnote 376: Marcus Annæus Lucanus, known as Lucan (39-65), the author of the _Pharsalia_ etc.--T.] [Footnote 377: Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), the author of the _Decamerone_, the hundred stones supposed to be told by a society of seven ladies and three gentlemen to shut out the horrors of the great plague of Florence in 1348.--T.] [Footnote 378: Hippocrates (_circa_ 460 B.C.--_circa_ 377 B.C.), the famous Greek physician. "His alleged study of the great plague at Athens is not corroborated by a comparison with Thucydides' account" (MAHAFFY: _History of Classical Greek Literature_).--T.] [Footnote 379: In his _Promessi Sposi._--T.] [Footnote 380: Pierre Édouard Lemontey (1762-1826), elected a member of the French Academy in 1817, author of an _Essai sur l'établissement monarchique de Louis XIV._ and of the _Histoire de la régence_, from which latter work, published after his death, the above extract is quoted.--T.] [Footnote 381: Charlotte Mademoiselle de Valois (1700-1761), daughter of the Regent Philippe II. Duc d'Orléans, and married in 1720 to ...] [Footnote 382: Francis III. Duke of Modena (1698-1780).--T.] [Footnote 383: Henri François Xavier de Belsunce de Castel Moron (1671-1755), a Jesuit father promoted to the See of Marseilles in 1709. He behaved with the greatest heroism during the plague which devastated the town in 1720 and 1721; and afterwards persistently refused promotion to a more important see.--T.]