[2] At present 12 Rue Charles V. The house is now occupied by the nursing sisterhood of the Bon-Secours.
[3] [The then law courts of Paris.]
[4] [The supreme judicial tribunal of France.]
[5] [The criminal court.]
[6] [The assassin of Henry of Navarre.]
['into a sea profound
Where flowed earth’s metals in a molten mass,
Would tinge and dye the whole in sunbright gold.']
[8] [In the original, a play on the double meaning of argent—‘silver’ and ‘money.']
[9] [Second wife of ‘Monsieur,’ the king’s brother.]
[10] ['To share with Jupiter is no whit dishonouring.']