FOOTNOTES:
[1] "Be civil, good people, I am the English hure," said Nell Gwyn, addressing a London mob that threatened to storm her carriage, assuming that its occupant was the hated Frenchwoman.
[2] "Your biography give a faithful portrait of self," said Fontenelle, the famous French Academician, to an 18th Century Marquise, "but I miss the record of your gallantries."
"Ah, Monsieur, c'est que je ne me suis peinte qu'en buste!" replied her ladyship.
[3] The Prince of Wales' revenue is derived from the Duchy of Cornwall, amounting to about half a million dollars per year.