[36] These meditations, attributed in the past, and by some even now, to St. Bonaventura, are considered by other scholars to be of Cistercian inspiration. P. Perdrizet, La Vierge de Miséricorde, 1908, p. 15.
[37] Both the date and the place of her birth seem uncertain. Some writers suggest 1415, and some 1420 or 1422, as the date; whilst Froidmantel, in Picardy, is conjectured by some, and Fromenteau, in Touraine, by others, as the place. (Du Fresne de Beaucourt, Hist. de Charles VII, t. iv. p. 171, note 4.)
[38] Athenæum, June 25, 1904.
[39] Du Fresne de Beaucourt, Hist. de Charles VII, t. iii. p. 286.
[40] Du Fresne de Beaucourt, Hist. de Charles VII, t. iv. p. 171, note 2.
[41] Cf. Grandes Chroniques de France, fol. 292, Bib. Nat.
[42] Lavisse, Hist. de France, vol. iv. part 2, p. 229, footnote.