[48] Contribution in forced labor.
[49] Latin: "Let us pray."
[50] Brantoine, Illustrious Women, vol. IX, p. 171.
[51] Register Journal of L'Etoile, p. 28.
[52] The queen's words are historical. The book was Marvelous Discourses on Catherine De Medici, by Robert Estienne, Geneva, 1565.
[53] Register Journal of L'Etoile, p. 30.
[54] That was the familiar appellation at court of Princess Marguerite, the daughter of Catherine of Medici and Henry II, so famous for her excesses. She married Henry IV, who later divorced her.
[55] De Thou, History of France, book LXXIV, p. 240.
[56] Register Journal of L'Etoile, supplement, p. 57.
[57] Register Journal of L'Etoile, supplement, p. 198.