[9] ‘Money and sanctity, Each in a moiety.’
[10] Elisabeth de Rossan, Marquise de Ganges, was one of the famous women of the court of Louis XIV. where she was known as “La Belle Provençale.” She was the widow of the Marquis de Castellane when she married de Ganges, and having the misfortune to excite the enmity of her new brothers-in-law, was forced by them to take poison; and they finished her off with pistol and dagger.—Ed.
[11] Magistrate and orator of great eloquence—chancellor of France under Louis XV.
[12] Jacques-Louis David, a famous French painter (1748-1825).
[13] Ali Pasha, “The Lion,” was born at Tepelini, an Albanian village at the foot of the Klissoura Mountains, in 1741. By diplomacy and success in arms he became almost supreme ruler of Albania, Epirus, and adjacent territory. Having aroused the enmity of the Sultan, he was proscribed and put to death by treachery in 1822, at the age of eighty.—Ed.
[14] Greek militiamen in the war for independence.—Ed.
[15] A Turkish pasha in command of the troops of a province.—Ed.
[16] The god of fruitfulness in Grecian mythology. In Crete he was supposed to be slain in winter with the decay of vegetation and to revive in the spring. Haydée’s learned reference is to the behavior of an actor in the Dionysian festivals.—Ed.
[17] The Genoese conspirator.
[18] Lake Maggiore.