[263.] Ibid., p. 319.
[264.] Le Maneige Royal, ou l'on peut remarquer le defaut et la perfection du chevalier, en tous les exercices de cet art, digne de Princes, fait et pratique en l'instruction du Roy par Antoine Pluvinel son Éscuyer principal, Conseiller en son Conseil d'Éstat, son Chambellan ordinaire, et Sous-Gouverneur de sa Majesté. Paris, 1624.
[265.] Opening words of An Apologie for Poetrie, ed. 1595.
[266.] Historiettes, vol. i. p. 89 of ed. 1834. Marguerite of Valois compared M. de Souvray, the governor of Louis XIII., to Chiron rearing Achilles. Contemporary satire said that M. de Souvray "n'avoit de Chiron que le train de derrière."
[267.] Henri Sauval, op. cit., p. 498.
[268.] A Dialogue concerning Education, in Tracts, London, 1727, p. 297. We must allow for the fact that English university men did not approve of the French ambition to elevate the vernacular, or of their translation of the classics, or of any displacement of Latin from the highest place in the ambitions of anyone with pretentions to learning. See also Evelyn, State of France, p. 99.
[269.] Oxford Historical Society, vol. v. p. 325.
[270.] Written to John Aubrey, between 1685-93. Quoted in Oxford Historical Society, vol. v. p. 295.
[271.] Ravaisson, Archives de la Bastille, Paris, 1866, tome i. p. 263; cited in Sports et Jeux d'Exercice, p. 377.
[272.] Thomas Carte, Life of James, Duke of Ormond, vol. iii. p. 635.