UNWIN BROTHERS, THE GRESHAM PRESS, WOKING AND LONDON.
1 “Chron. Guill. de Nangis,” t. ii. p. 94. Société de l’histoire de France.
2 “Les Grandes Chron.,” confirment la leçon in gallo, mais donnent deux vers un peu différents.
3 Charles de Valois had three wives and fourteen children; two or three of his daughters were named Isabelle. One married Robert d’Artois. Sainte-Marthe says the marriage of Pierre and Isabelle took place in 1322, in her early childhood; but other historians, with more probability, place it in 1332.
4 It is difficult to reconcile the conflicting dates given by historians. There is no doubt that Jeanne was the eldest daughter, yet some place her birth in 1337; and the second daughter Blanche, who in that case would not have been born till 1338, is nevertheless declared to have been sixteen years old when she became Queen of Spain, 1352, which is manifestly impossible.
5 There seems to be some doubt about Isabelle, as we hear nothing about her in after life. One historian confuses her with her sister Marguérite; another states that she married one Guillaume, Sire de Mello; others that she died unmarried; most do not mention her at all. If she ever existed she most probably died in childhood.
6 The Counts of Savoy were, as is well known, ancestors of the Kings of Italy.
7 Only the children of the King and the heir-apparent were called “Enfants de France.” It was for centuries later the rule that only the Enfants de France might ride or drive into the Louvre, Palais, Hôtel St. Paul, Tournelles, or any royal palace. Princes of the blood must get down at the door, nobles in the street. (De Sauval.)
8 “Grandes Chroniques,” t. vi. p. 2.
9 “Grandes Chroniques,” t. vi. p. 2. M. Paulin Paris remarks that the distinction here made between the gens de métier, or workmen, and bourgeois, or burghers, sufficiently proves the existence of the latter as a class.
10 Mariana, “España.”
11 Morèry, “Grand dictionnaire historique,” 1699.
12 “Grandes Chroniques de France,” t. vi. p. 35, Paulin Paris.
13 The northern part of France was the Langue d’oil, the southern the Langue d’oc, so called from the languages spoken there.
14 Sismondi, “Hist. France,” t. vii. p. 78.
15 “Hist. de la Jacquerie,” chap. ii. p. 31. Siméon Luce.
16 “Grandes Chroniques de France,” Paulin Paris, t. vi. p. 110.
17 Siméon de Luce, “Guerre de cent ans.”
18 “Hist. de la Jacquerie,” Siméon Luce.
19 “Hist. de la Jacquerie,” Siméon Luce.
20 “Hist. de la Jacquerie,” p. 135, Siméon Luce.
21 This is the first time the white banner appears in French history.
22 “Hist. de la Jacquerie,” p. 140. Siméon Luce.
23 Siméon de Luce.
24 “Sire, vous etes le plus gentilhomme du monde, ne souffrés pas que gentillesse soit mise à néant. Si ceste gent qui ce dient Jacques durent longuement, et les bonne villes soient de leur aide, ilz mettront gentillesse au néant et du tout destruiront” (“Hist. Jacquerie,” Siméon Luce; et “Chronique des quatre premiers Valois”).
25 Sismondi.
26 A gold florin was worth twenty francs.
27 The “Grandes Chroniques de France” place this marriage in October, 1359.
28 The guild or confraternity of tailors and dressmakers of Paris.
“Item. Que quiconque sera tailleur de robes à Paris, et il mestaille une robe ou une garnement par mal ordonner le drap au tailler, ou par l’ignorance de sa taille, le meffait et dommaige sera veu et regardé par ledis maistres; et s’ilz rapportent que la robe ou garnement soit empiré par mestaille ou par la coulpe du tailleur, le tailleur rendra le dommaige à celui à qui la robe ou le garnement sera; et y paiera cinq solz d’amende, dont les trois seront au roy, et les deux à la dicte confrairie.”
29 “Item. Que nul ne mectent lay ne estouppes en doublet qu’il face pour vendre; et qui fera le contraire; le doublet sera ars, et paiera six solz d’amende au roy, et quatre solz à la confrairie.
“Estouppe était probablement chanvre, filasse, lin.”
30 Bonne villes, i.e., fortified towns.
31 “Grandes Chroniques de France.”
32 “Grandes Chroniques de France.”
33 Sainte-Marthe.
34 “... ma il drappo sopra capo non sofferse, e così stette infino che fu sposata; e da quel punto dinnanzi posto in oltre la reale dignità e nobilità di sangue, reverenza fece a messer Galeazzo e a messer Barnabo e alle donne loro.”
35 Sainte-Marthe.
36 Loggie are arcaded galleries, terraces or balconies generally to be seen in Italian palaces or houses of any antiquity. The vulgar and tasteless buildings that now disfigure modern Italy are frequently without them.
37 De Mézeray.
38 Bonne de France died November 7, 1360. “Item, le jeudi 12 Novembre furent enterrées les deux filles du duc de Normandie à Saint Antoine près de Paris, et fu present le dit duc à l’enterrage moult courroucié qui plus n’avait d’enfants.”
39 Dulaure, “Hist. Paris.”
40 “Hist. du Cérémonial Français,” Godefroy.
41 Soon afterwards released.
42 Guizot, “Hist. France,” t. ii. p. 179.
43 “Trésor des Chartes,” No. 386, p. 221.
44 Dreux du Radier, “Reines et Regentes.”
45 There is also a letter of his son Charles VI.
46 De Sauval, “Sablier.”
47 “Environs de Paris,” Nodier.
48 Sauval, “Antiquitez de Paris.”
49 “Bibliothèque du Roy,” Félibien.
50 Félibien.
51 Douet d’Arcq.
52 “Grandes Chroniques de France.”
53 De Mézeray, “Hist. France.”
54 “Archives Nat. de Bourbon,” No. 1,409.
55 “Paris in its Old and Present Times,” p. 157. Hamerton.
56 “Antiquitez de Paris,” Sauval.
57 “Paris à Travers les Ages,” Fourmier et Hoffbauer.
58 “Comptes du vieux Louvre. Topographie historique du vieux Paris.” A. Berty et Tisserand.
59 “Comptes du vieux Louvre. Topographie historique du vieux Paris.”
60 “Paris à Travers les Ages,” Fourmier et Hoffbauer.
61 Documents inédits, 3me serie: Archéologie.
62 Documents inedits, 3me serie: Archéologie.
63 “Grandes Chroniques de France,” t. vi. p. 251.
64 “Queens of England,” A. Strickland, vol. ii. p. 345.
65 Christine de Pisan.
66 “Grandes Chroniques de France,” t. vi. p. 267.
67 Idem.
68 Marguérite de Bourbon.
69 “Grandes Chroniques de France.”
70 “Chron. de Bertrand du Guesclin,” Cuvelier, 14th century.
71 Martin, “Hist. France.”
72 Sauval.
73 Abbé Choisy, “Hist. Charles V.”
74 Montfaucon, “Monuments de la Monarchie française.”
75 Some doubt has been thrown on the certainty of this occurrence, but an ancient chronicler of Du Guesclin gives an account which confirms the fact of the keys being laid on the coffin of the dead hero. (Guizot, “Hist. France,” t. ii. p. 201.)
76 “Chronique des quatre premiers Valois.”
77 He had couriers who rode night and day and brought him news from a distance of eighty leagues on the following day. (Martin, “Hist. France.”)
78 “Hist. Cérémonial Français.” T. Godefroy.
79 Christine de Pisan.
80 Documents inédits.
81 “Grandes Chroniques de France.”
82 “... en leur hostel avoit esté norry en sa jeunesse et que moult de biens luy avoient fais.”
83 “C’estoit piteuse chose à regarder.”
84 “Grandes Chroniques de France,” t. vi. p. 401.
85 De Mézeray.
86 “Baierischen Geschichten,” Heinrich Zschokke.
87 The house of Wittelsbach claims descent from Charlemagne. The Kings of Bavaria descend from Johann, or John of Munich the third brother.
88 “Chronique de Flandre.”
89 “Antiquitez de Paris,” t. i. p. 667. De Sauval.
90 “Chronique de Flandre.”
91 Froissart.
92 Christine de Pisan.
93 “La Vie politique de Louis de France, Duc d’Orléans,” Jarry.
94 Christine de Pisan.
95 “Chronique du religieux de St. Denis,” t. i. p. 25.
96 Froissart.
97 “Relig. du St. Denis.”
98 “Comptes de l’hôtel de la reine Isabeau de Bavière. Doüet d’Arcq, Archives de l’empire.”
99 The Princess Catherine died in childhood.
100 It is true that the Valois were strictly speaking Capétiens also; but the elder line are generally known as the Capétiens and the younger as the Valois Dukes.
101 Froissart.
102 “Ducs de Bourbon et Comtes de Forez,” J. de la Mure. Notes, Steyert.
103 Brantôme.
104 Relig. de St. Denis, trad., Bellaguet, t. i. livre vii., p. 459.
105 Juvenal des Ursins.
106 “Isabeau de Bavière, étude historique,” Vallet de Viriville, p. 8.
107 “Comment discerner les styles, le costume et la mode du viii. au xix. siècle,” L. Roger-Milés.
108 “Comment discerner les Styles,” etc. L. Roger Milés.
109 Ibid.
110 “Histoire des Ducs de Bourgogne,” t. ii. p. 161. Barante.
111 De Sauval, &c.
112 “Grand Dictionnaire Historique: père Louis Morery, prêtre, docteur en théologie,” pub. Thierry, Rue St. Jacques, devant les Mathurius, 1699, t. iv. This name, when quoted by some writers, is spelt “Morèri.”
113 With this account of St. Denis in mediæval France, let us compare the following account of it in modern France:—
“Most of these persons were still drunk, with the brandy they had swallowed out of chalices—eating mackerel on the patenas! Mounted on asses, which were housed with priests’ cloaks, they reined them with priests’ stoles; they held clutched with the same hand communion-cup and sacred wafer. They stopped at the doors of dram-shops; held out ciboriums: and the landlord, stoup in hand, had to fill them thrice. Next came mules high-laden with crosses, chandeliers, censers, holy-water vessels, hyssops; recalling to mind the priests of Cybele, whose panniers, filled with the instruments of their worship, served at once as storehouse, sacristy, and temple. In such equipage did these profaners advance towards the Convention. They enter there, in an immense train, ranged in two rows; all masked like mummers in fantastic sacerdotal vestments; bearing on hand-barrows their heaped plunder—ciboriums, suns, candelabras, plates of gold and silver.... Not untouched with liquor, they crave to dance the Carmagnole also on the spot: whereto an exhilarated Convention cannot but accede.... Several members, quitting their curule chairs, took the hand of girls flaunting in priests’ vestures, and danced the Carmagnole along with them. Such Old-Hallowtide have they in this year once named of Grace, 1793” (“French Revolution,” Carlyle, vol. iii. p. 193).
114 “Au cloistre d’icelle maison royale se voit un bassin de fontaine fort ancien et admirable pour estre grand et d’une piéce, et relevé tout à l’entour de figures qui representent quelques fables des dieux paiens” (Père du Breul).
115 “Ils souillèrent la sainteté de la maison religieuse” (“Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. x. p. 599).
116 “Vie politique de Louis de France,” &c., Jarry.
117 “Isabeau de Bavière,” Vallet de Viriville, p. 13.
118 “Madame et cousine, je fairay volontiers ce dont vous me priez. Car j’y suis tenus par lignage, et pour ce vostre fille ma cousine je garderay, et penseray bien d’elle comme si ce fust ma propre fille ...” (“L’Art de vérifier les dates,” t. 10, p. 145).
119 “Valentine Visconti,” Mary Robinson, Fortnightly Review.
120 “Valentine Visconti,” Mary Robinson, Fortnightly Review.
121 Blanche de Navarre. “Lives of the Early Valois Queens,” to which this volume is a sequel.
122 “Relig. de St. Denis”; Froissart.
123 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. x. p. 615.
124 “Antiquitez de Paris.” De Sauval.
125 “Savoisy, je te pris tant que je puis, que tu montes sur un bon cheval et je monterai derrière toi et nous nous habillerons tellement qu’on ne nous connoistra point et nous allons voir l’entrée de ma femme.”
126 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. x. p. 609; also Juvenal des Ursins and Froissart.
127 De Sauval.
128 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. x. p. 627.
129 “Archives de l’Art Français, 1858,” p. 342 et suivantes. “Isabeau de Bavière,” Vallet de Viriville.
130 Ibid.
131 “Histoire des Ducs de Bourbon, Comtes de Forez,” La Mure.
132 Juvenal des Ursins, p. 83.
133 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xi. p. 685.
134 “Antiquitez de Paris,” De Sauval.
135 “Hist. de la maison de France,” Sainte-Marthe, t. 1. p. 675.
136 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xiii. p. 63.
137 Froissart, t. xiii. c. 27, p. 45.
138 “Comment! vous voulez donc m’enlever, monseigneur?” “Nenni, Madame, à Dieu ne plaise; je n’oserai seulement pas y penser.” “C’est vrai, je sais tout et suis bien informée; monseigneur vous aime et vous l’aimez, la chose va même si loin qu’il vous a promis 1,000 écus d’or. Mais vous avez refusé, et vous avez fait sagement. Je vous pardonne pour cette fois et vous défends, si vous tenez à la vie d’avoir désormais nul entretien avec monseigneur” (“Ducs de Bourgogne de la maison de Valois,” Barante).
139 Froissart, t. xiii. c. 28, p. 38 to 61. “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xii. c. i. p. 214. Juvenal des Ursins, p. 88.
140 “Regardez mon connétable, et sachez me dire ce qu’il y a à craindre, etc.” (“Ducs de Bourgogne de la maison de Valois,” p. 341.)
141 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xiv. Juvenal des Ursins, p. 91.
142 Froissart; “Relig. de St. Denis,” &c.
143 “Chronique de Flandre.”
144 Froissart, xiii. c. 50, p. 102. “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xii. c. 4, p. 221. Juvenal des Ursins, p. 91.
145 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xiv. p. 95.
146 Juvenal des Ursins, p. 91.
147 Juvenal des Ursins, p. 91.
148 “Chronique de Flandre.”
149 Ibid.
150 “Chronique de Flandre.” Froissart. Paradin.
151 “Chronique de Flandre.”
152 A curious relic of this ancient custom still survives in villages in the west of England, where, after the marriage of a widow or widower, the villagers will sometimes assemble at night outside their house blowing horns, beating drums, and making hideous noises.
153 The “Religieux de St. Denis” says this ball was at the hôtel St. Paul; but Juvenal des Ursins, who from his position at Court was certain to have known where it took place, and was most likely himself at the ball, declares it was at the hôtel de la Reine Blanche, we will therefore accept his authority, which De Sauval considers conclusive.
154 Froissart, t. xiii. c. 32, p. 240. “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xii. c. 9, p. 255. Juvenal des Ursins, p. 93. Monstrelet, t. i. pp. 312 and 423. Also Barante, “Ducs de Bourgogne,” t. ii. p. 197.
155 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xiv. p. 93.
156 Sismondi.
157 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xv. c. 14, p. 324.
158 Juvenal des Ursins. The “Relig. de St. Denis” relates this ghostly story, but places it in 1397.
159 It was the “Chroniques de France.” Philippe de Bourgogne, like all his brothers, was a collector of books, manuscripts, and objects of art.
160 “Relig. de St. Denis,” t. xvi. p. 407.
161 “Diabolicum recitas et quod est impossibile,” Valentine Visconti, M. Robinson, Fortnightly Review. Gian Galeazzo bought the title of Duke from the Emperor, 1395.
162 Froissart.
163 “Relig. de St. Denis,” l. xvii. p. 465.
164 “Relig. de St. Denis,” l. xvii. p. 469. Froissart.
165 Barante, “Ducs de Bourgogne.”
166 “Les demandes du roi Charles VI. avec les réponses de Pierre Salmon, son sécrétaire et intime.” “D’après les Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du Roi,” p. 17. Salmon was one of these attendants. The Minutes of the Council contain a long list of the French members of Isabelle’s household returning with her some years afterwards to France.
167 Planche, “Hist. de Bourg.,” l. xiv. c. 150, p. 147.
168 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xvii. p. 483.
169 Ibid.
170 “Relig. de St. Denis.”
171 “Relig. de St. Denis.”
172 “Relig. de St. Denis.”
173 Ibid.
174 “Isabeau de Bavière,” Vallet de Viriville.
175 “Isabeau de Bavière,” Vallet de Viriville.
176 Idem.
177 “Isabeau de Bavière,” Vallet de Viriville.
178 “Poésies d’Eustache Deschamps.”
179 “An Idler in Old France,” Tighe Hopkins.
180 I do not, of course, mean to say that the Roman baths were destroyed by the early Christians.
181 Vallet de Viriville.
182 De Sauval, “Antiquitez de Paris.”
183 “The Mediæval City. The Transformation of Paris,” F. Harrison.
184 The hospice of Quinze-Vingts was founded by St. Louis for the blind. A tradition, which is not considered true, says it was so named from three hundred knights who were blinded by the infidels for the Christian faith. They had a cemetery, chapel, chaplain, and two bells, and bore the fleur-de-lis, being a royal foundation. A tavern keeper in Paris having adopted the sign of the “Quinze-Vingts,” they complained to the provost, who ordered him to give it up.
185 “Antiquitez de Paris.” Sauval.
186 “Relig. de St. Denis.” Juvenal des Ursins.
187 Sismondi.
188 Froissart, t. xiv. c. 69, p. 155.
189 Strickland, “Queens of England,” vol. iii. p. 25.
190 Sismondi, “Hist. Français,” t. viii. p. 125.
191 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xx. p. 745.
192 Juvenal des Ursins.
193 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xxi. p. 771, t. ii.
194 The whole history of it may be read in ancient French chronicles, Juvenal des Ursins, Paradin, &c.
195 “Compte de l’hôtel de la reine Isabeau de Bavière,” 1401. “Archives de l’Empire.” “Registre Côté,” R. K. 45, fol. 87 à 101. Doüet d’Arcq.
196 Vallet de Viriville.
197 “Compte de l’hôtel de la reine Isabeau de Bavière,” 1401. “Archives de l’Empire.” “Registre Côté,” R. K. 45, fol. 87 à 101. Doüet d’Arcq.
198 “Relig. de St. Denis,” t. iii. l. xxii. p. 7.
199 Plancher, “Hist. de Bourg.,” l. xiv. p. 182.
200 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xxi. c. 4, p. 442. Juvenal des Ursins.
201 “Compte de l’hôtel de la reine Isabeau de Bavière,” 1401. “Archives de l’Empire.” “Registre Côté,” R. K. 45, fol. 87 à 101. Doüet d’Arcq.
202 “Relig. de St. Denis,” t. iii. l. xxii. p. 9. Another account says the Queen was in bed at the time, but escaped unhurt.
203 Aquitaine was beginning to be called Guyenne about this time.
204 Monstrelet, “Chronique,” t. i. p. 89. Barante, “Ducs de Bourg.,” t. ii. p. 17.
205 Sismondi.
206 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xxiv. c. 8, p. 493. Monstrelet, c. xiii. p. 126.
207 “Isabeau de Bavière,” Vallet de Viriville.
208 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xxvi. p. 275.
209 Ibid., liv. xxvi. p. 281.
210 “Relig. de St. Denis.” Juvenal des Ursins.
211 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xxvi. p. 283.
212 “Relig. de St. Denis.”
213 “Early Valois Queens.”
214 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xxvi. p. 295.
215 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xxvi. p. 331.
216 Juvenal des Ursins, p. 177.
217 Juvenal des Ursins.
218 Many historians make out Isabelle and Charles to have been younger, which is impossible, as she was born in November, 1388, and he in May, 1391.
219 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xxvii. p. 397.
220 “Relig. de St. Denis.”
221 It was the custom to use mules to go about in the town, also for two to ride the same horse on these occasions.
222 Félibien, Monstrelet, Paradin, “Relig. de St. Denis,” &c.
223 De Mézeray, Monstrelet, Félibien, &c.
224 The hôtels of princes of the blood were sanctuary, as well as the churches.
225 Vallet de Viriville.
226 Sismondi, “Hist. France.”
227 “Lives of the Early Valois Queens,” Catherine Bearne, p. 8.
228 The Yorkists claimed the crown of England by a marriage with the heiress of the elder line, i.e., of Lionel.
229 Monstrelet, “Chronique,” t. i. c. 43, p. 165.
230 Monstrelet, c. 37, p. 229. “Relig. de St. Denis.” The Duke of Burgundy before an assembly of princes boldly tried to justify the murder, and employed a friar to speak for that purpose. Charles was induced in his weak state to sign letters of pardon for him.
231 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xxviii. p. 749.
232 Ibid., liv. xxix. p. 59.
233 “Isabeau de Bavière,” p. 15, Vallet de Viriville.
234 Before the final expulsion of the English, Aquitaine was gradually taking the name of Guyenne. But, when it became the settled name, Guyenne did not include Gascony, Limousin, Saintonge, Anjoumois, and Poitou.
235 “Relig. de St. Denis.”
236 Historians differ as to what this meant.
237 Paradin, “Annales de Bourgogne,” liv. iii. p. 518.
238 Juvenal des Ursins.
239 Jeanne de Navarre, mother of the Duc de Bretagne, had, as a widow, become the wife of Henry IV. of England.
240 Monstrelet, “Chron.,” 1. ii. p. 96, édition Buchon.
241 Idem.
242 M. de Maulde de Clavière, however, in his interesting history of Louis XII., son of Charles, says that, with respect to the second at any rate of these poems, it is not known for whom it was meant, it was written during his captivity in England. There is, however, no reason why it should not have been about Isabelle.
243 Monstrelet, “Chroniques,” c. lxv. p. 81, édition Doüet d’Arcq.
244 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xxxi. p. 333.
245 La Mure, “Hist. Ducs de Bourgogne, &c.”
246 Paradin, “Annales de Bourgogne,” liv. iii. p. 560.
247 Paradin. “Relig. de St. Denis.” Monstrelet.
248 Paradin.
249 Paradin. “Relig. de St. Denis.”
250 “Relig. de St. Denis,” xxxvi. 587.
251 “Chronique de Flandre.” Monstrelet, “Chron.,” c. cxliii. p. 85.
252 Juvenal des Ursins, p. 330.
253 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xxxv. p. 1002.
254 Monstrelet, “Chron.,” c. cxliii. p. 85.
255 Monstrelet, c. cxlvii. p. 102.
256 The battle of Azincourt was the last at which the Oriflamme appeared.
257 Monstrelet.
258 “Le Fèvre St. Remi,” t. viii. c. 61, p. 1. Monstrelet.
259 Sismondi in the account he gives of this battle says that Le Fèvre Saint-Remi who writes of it was himself present, and to him most of these details are owing. The description of it is also given by the “Relig. de St. Denis,” Monstrelet, Juvenal des Ursins, Pierre Fenin, Barante, Walsingham, and others.
260 “Mem. Sire de St. Remi, ed. Buchon,” t. viii. p. 27.
261 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xxxv., c. 9, p. 1016. Monstrelet, c. clxiv. p. 168. “Journal d’un bourgeois de Paris,” p. 210. Paradin, Juvenal des Ursins, &c.
262 “Chronique de Flandre.” “Messager des sciences historiques de la Belgique,” 1887.
263 “Relig. de St. Denis,” t. vi. liv. xxxvii. p. 61.
264 “Messager des Sciences historiques de la Belgique,” Leopold de Villers, 1887.
265 “Chronique de Flandre,” “Relig. de St. Denis,” Monstrelet, Juvenal des Ursins, Paradin, De Mézeray, &c.
266 “Relig. de St. Denis.”
267 “Relig. de St. Denis,” liv. xxxix. p. 283.
268 De Mézeray, p. 1023. Monstrelet, c. ccvii., p. 322.
269 “Chronique anonyme.” Bibliothèque imperiale.
270 “Relig. de St. Denis.”
271 Ibid.
272 Strickland, “Queens of England,” vol. iii. p. 135. Katherine de Valois.
273 “Journal d’un bourgeois de Paris,” p. 148.
274 “Journal d’un bourgeois de Paris.”
275 Monstrelet.
276 T. Chastier, t. i. p. 211.
277 Except his eldest daughter in after years, for whom he had a strong affection.
278 Sainte-Marthe. Hilarion de la Coste. Morèry, Grand Dictionnaire. Lobineau, “Hist. Bretagne,” t. i. p. 727.
279 About a game of paume. Commines, Bellefont, &c.
280 De Maulde La Clavière. Louis XII. t. i. p. 115.
281 Lobineau, “Hist. Bretagne,” t. i. p. 745.
282 Lobineau, “Hist. Bretagne,” t. i. p. 790.
283 D’Argentré.
284 Lobineau, “Hist. Bret.,” t. i. p. 796.
285 Ibid., t. i. pp. 798, 807, 808.
286 Philippe de Commines. “Mém.” t. ii. p. 241, note 1, édition Dupont. L’Art de Vérifier les dates.
287 Le Roux de Lincy.
288 Jean Molinet, “Chroniques,” t. iv. p. 577.
289 “Revue des provinces de l’Ouest,” Juillet, 1854, p. 235.
290 Dom Morice; Lobineau, “Hist. Bretagne,” t. ii. col. 1550.
291 Commines.
292 Ibid.
293 Le Roux de Lincy, “Anne de Bretagne,” t. i. p. 133.
294 Brantôme, “Dames illustres,” t. v. p. 4.
295 De Maulde-la-Clavière, “Louis XII.,” t. ii. p. 272.
296 Commines; Brantôme, t. ii. p. 19, ed. Petitot.
297 Villeneuve, “Mem. Anne de Bretagne,” p. 246.
298 Commines, Villeneuve, Godefroy, &c.
299 Villeneuve, “Mem.,” p. 246.
300 Godefroy, “Hist. Charles VIII.,” p. 745.
301 Dom Lobineau, t. i. p. 823.
302 Brantôme, “Hommes illustres,” t. ii. p. 59.
303 Touchard Lafosse.
304 Biblio. Imp., fonds Béthune, MS. 8465, fol. 10, recto (Le Roux de Lincy).
305 Douey d’Attichy, “Madame Jeanne de France de Valois,” &c., p. 143.
306 Moréry.
307 Brantôme, “Capitaines étrangers,” t. l. p. 404.
308 “Etat de la maison d’Anne de Bretagne,” p. 708. “Hist. Charles VIII.” Godefroy.
309 Tomasi, “Bibliophile Jacob, Hist. xvi. Siècle,” i. p. 176. Le Roux de Lincy.
310 Sainte-Marthe, t. ii. p. 620. De Seyssel.
311 De Mézeray.
312 The buildings were sold in 1542 and pulled down; scarcely a trace remains of them except a tower at the corner of the rue St. Paul, which may have belonged to one.
313 Le Roux de Lincy.
314 Hilarion, de la Coste.
315 Guizot, “Hist. France,” t. ii. p. 505.
316 Jean d’Auton.
317 De Mézeray.
318 Brantôme, “Dames illustres,” t. v. p. 8.
319 Musée des Souverains, Louvre.
320 Roger-Milés, “Comment discerner les styles,” &c.
321 Godefroy, “Ceremonial français.”
322 Ibid.
323 Lobineau.
324 Brantôme, D’Argentré, Jean d’Auton.
325 “L’Art de vérifier les dates.”
326 “Jean de Saint Gelais.”
327 Le Roux de Lincy.
328 Spinola was one of the four great Genoese families allowed to build their palaces of striped black and white marble. The others were Grimaldi, Fieschi, and Doria.
329 Le Roux de Lincy.
330 Ibid.
331 These valuable letters were first published by M. Le Roux de Lincy in his work on Anne de Bretagne; they belonged to the collection Lajariette.
332 De Mézeray, “Hist. France,” p. 375.
333 Dane, “Hist. Bretagne,” t. iii. p. 242; Henault, Ste.-Marthe.
334 Letter preserved in Archives of Château de Marcoussy.
335 Archives of Monastery of Marcoussy, “Histoire manuscrites des convent et des seigneurs de Marcoussy &c.,” given by M. Le Roux de Lincy.
336 Bibliothèque Imperiale. MS. 8457, fol. 5, given by Le Roux de Lincy.
337 Jean d’Auton.
338 Guizot, “Hist. France,” t. ii. p. 520. Henault, Sainte-Marthe.
339 Touchard-Lafosse, “Hist. Blois.” St. Gelais.
340 “Revue des deux Mondes,” 1 Mai, 1885.
341 “La Société provençale, à la fin du Moyen Age.”
342 “Antiquitez de Paris.”
343 Le Roux de Lincy quotes “Hist. de l’auguste et vénérable église de Chartres, &c.,” Chartres, 1683.
344 Brantôme, “Dames illustres,” t. v. p. 9.
345 Henault, “Hist. France,” t. i. p. 442.
346 Alain Bouchard, “Chron. de Bretagne,” quoted by Le Roux de Lincy, &c.
347 Louarches, “Les Femmes dans l’hist. France,” p. 105.
348 M. Le Roux de Lincy giving these details says they only exist in a manuscript called “Le trépas de l’Hermine regrettée.” MS. fol. 35. vo.