[Footnote 5: Page 61. I owe this quotation to the excellent work of Canon Müller: Senlis et ses environs. Why can we not have a book written with such knowledge and skill about every city of France!] [Footnote 6: Page 82. Sainte-Beuve] Port-Royal, Vol. Ill, pages 510-512.] [Footnote 7: Page 82. The historian of Juilly is M. Charles Hamel. His book (Paris, Gervais, 1888) is a moving and very vivid picture of the college during its three centuries of existence.] [Footnote 8: Page 83. L'Oratoire de France, by Cardinal Perraud.] [Footnote 9: Page 88: Published in four volumes by Dufey, Paris, 1833.] [Footnote 10: Page 101. In regard to the history of the Oratory in the nineteenth century we may profitably read the work in which Father Chauvin has preserved the life and work of Father Gratry.] [Footnote 11: Page 105. The Louvre has just bought an Egyptian stele for a hundred and three thousand francs, and the Château de Maisons going to be demolished.] [Footnote 12: Page 113. We may remark that the Château de Maisons was later purchased by the State while M. Henri Marcel was Director of Fine Arts.] [Footnote 13: Page 130. It must be understood that this impression does not correspond to archaeological facts.] [Footnote 14: Page 136. The most important document about Thomas of Gallardon is the medical report, addressed to the Ministry of Police, by Doctors Pinel and Royer-Collard, in 1816. I owe to the courtesy of M. Gazier the opportunity of seeing a copy of this report. At the same time, this learned professor of the Sorbonne has been kind enough to place at my disposal a mass of pamphlets and manuscripts, some of which are unpublished, in regard to the seer of Gallardon: I have made use of these various documents in preparing this little essay.--In 1892, Captain Marin published an interesting book: Thomas Martin de Gallardon (published by Carré of Paris), in which he studied numerous articles which appeared during the Restoration, and reproduced the report of the doctors from a copy in the possession of M. Anatole France. We may add that the latter wrote a charming article in review of Captain Marin's book (Temps, March 13, 1892).] [Footnote 15: Page 165. The most extraordinary thing was that ingenious Legitimists later found a way to give credence to the prophecies of Martin of Gallardon without ceasing to be faithful to the Count de Chambord. In 1871, thirty-seven years after Martin's death, an anonymous author (the question of Louis XVII has been handled by a number of anonymous writers) relates a conversation which M. Hersent, a Lazarist, had with the visionary in 1830. The latter then announced that the crown of France would return to its true heir. "But," said the curious Lazarist, "how will he ascend to the throne?" "Monsieur, he will ascend to the throne over corpses!" "Who will lead him to us?" "The troops of the north." "How long will he reign?" "Not very long; he will leave the crown to a prince of his race."