[11] [Madame de Montespan.]
[12] Written in collaboration with Professor Paul Brouardel, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Paris, and Doctor Paul le Gendre, physician to the Tenon infirmary.
[13] The report of Chamberlain, the English physician, says distinctly that it was oil. ‘The lower bowel was full of a bilious humour, with oil floating upon it’ (Mrs. Everett-Green’s Lives of the Princesses of England, vi. 589). This observation is important because Littré’s opinion has been disputed by Dr. Legué. ‘Littré maintains that the physicians noticed the presence of oil; but that is because he strains an equivocal phrase in the report of the autopsy—“full to its utmost capacity of a sanious, putrid, yellowish, watery substance, fat like oil.” Frankly, is this not giving to the text a signification which never entered into the mind of the physicians?’ (Médecins et Empoisonneurs, pp. 255, 256.) Neither Dr. Legué nor Littré, however, knew the English reports published by Mrs. Everett-Green.
[14] Legends of the Bastille, p. 146.
[15] [Boileau.]
[16] [Two of the most famous actresses of the time.]
[17] [The theatre so called.]
[18] In a copy of the Devineresse in the Arsenal Library. There are others, a little different, in the large folio collection of almanacs in the print department of the National Library.
| Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber: |
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| exceded that of Exili=> exceeded that of Exili {pg 10} |
| wedges in successsion=>wedges in succession {pg 49} |
