FOOTNOTES
[Footnote 1]: I have given the Duke's own words without variation.
[Footnote 2]: This extraordinary fact reminds us of days not long passed.
[Footnote 3]: This is historically true in regard to one of the dispatches to the Duke of Guise; and in representing Henry and his courtiers as occasionally acting the part of low and mercenary swindlers, first fleecing and then laughing at a dupe, I am also borne out by facts.
[Footnote 4]: Such were the arms of the Villequier family.
[Footnote 5]: Such is the account given by the most credible historians. The author of the life of the Duke, M. Girard, who was nearly contemporary, gives a different version: acknowledges that the Duke fled into his cabinet, but adds that he there defended himself like a lion.
[Footnote 6]: Such, and in such terms, strange and fantastic as they may seem, was undoubtedly the warning given by the physician Miron to the Duke of Guise not many days before the catastrophe of Blois.
[Footnote 7]: Some of the Duke's historians say, that he did not speak the words aloud, but merely wrote at the bottom of the note, "On n'oseroit," and then threw it under the table.
[Footnote 8]: This awful fact is but too certain.