[54] La Ferrière, “Trois amoureuses au XVIe siècle.”
[55] “Abrégé chronologique de l’histoire de France.”
[56] Charles de Bourbon. He and his elder brother, Louis, Duc de Montpensier, represented the younger branch of the Bourbons.
[57] Philippe de Montespidon. She had been previously married to the Maréchal de Montjean.
[58] Charles de la Marck (1538–1622). He was the second son of Robert de la Marck, Duc de Bouillon. It is singular, in view of what we are about to relate, that he afterwards married as his second wife Antoinette de la Tour, younger sister of Isabelle.
[59] “Information contre Isabelle de Limeuil,” cited by La Ferrièrè.
[60] “Information contre Isabelle de Limeuil.”
[61] The word, almost illegible, may be either partir or pâtir (to be in distress).
[62] A Latin satire of the time ran:
“At multi dicunt quod pater