[1] Mathurin Cordier, ca. 1480–1564, French educator and austere author of numerous works for children of a moralizing nature. Calvin was among his pupils in Paris.
[2] Jan van Pauteren, ca. 1460–1524, Flemish writer whose latin grammar, however popular in its own day, was widely attacked in later times for its obscurity.
[3] Louis van der Aa, called Louis de Bruges, Seigneur de la Gruthuyse, ca. 1425–1492, a learned nobleman of Flanders who, commissioning some of the finest manuscripts which have come down to us, set an example for Charles the Bold of Burgundy.
[4] Anne of Austria, 1602–66, daughter of Philip III of Spain, wife of Louis XIII of France, a great book collector.
[5] Paul Girardot de Préfond, eighteenth-century French collector, whose fine books are now scattered in many libraries.
[6] François Maynard, 1582–1646, a French author, who, having vainly sought favor, loudly lamented his fate from the scene of his retirement in Toulouse.
[7] Urbain Chevreau, seventeenth-century French writer of some reputation in his own time, and a very discriminating bibliophile.
[8] Antoine-Marie-Henri Boulard, 1754–1825, avid collector who lived in Paris.
[9] The Bollandists are Belgian Jesuits who published the voluminous and weighty Acta Sanctorum legends of saints, arranged according to the days of the calendar.
[10] Paris, 1613 or 1623, an adaptation in verse from the Historia Ethiopica of Heliodorus.
[11] Two scenes of Cyrano used by Molière in the Fourberies de Scapin, Paris, 1671.
[12] Antoine-Aléxandre Barbier, 1765–1825, bibliophile, and author of a Dictionnaire des Anonymes.
[13] Antoine Bauzonnet, Paris bookbinder of the mid-nineteenth century.