[53] Labarte, Mobilier de Charles V.

[54] The “chamber” generally consisted of bed-curtains, a baldaquin, counterpane and covering for the couch or sofa, hangings for the wall, doors, and windows, cushions for the benches and chairs.

[55] The Knight of La Tour makes a mock of certain eccentric “Gallois” who strew their floors and deck their hearths, in winter, “comme en esté,” with herbs and holly.—p. 242.

[56] Labarte, Mobilier de Charles V.

[57] Le Livre du Chevalier de La Tour Landry.

[58] “Après mengier al miédi, et lors tout nuz il se couçoit, dormir deux heures, puis levoit” (Philippe Mouskes: Chronique).

[59] Quoted by Herr Alwin Schultz, op. cit., i. 362.

[60] See, for instance, the Comptes de la Trémoille and the Comptes de l’Hotel des Rois.

[61] “Les Lais de France,” par J. Bédier: Revue des Deux Mondes, Oct. 15, 1891.

[62] Guillaume de Dole. Quoted by Herr Alwin Schultz, t. i. p. 470.