[7] La Henriade.
[8] ‘Hic enim liber professione pietatis, aut laudatus erit, aut excusatus.’—Tacitus, Agricola, iii.
[9] ‘Extremum oppidum Allobrogum.’—De Bello Gallico, i. 6.
[10] Spon, Hist. de Genève, livre i.
[11] Inscription de Gondebaud à Genève, by Ed. Mallet, in the Mémoires d’Archéologie, t. iv. p. 305. Professor A. de la Rive, having built a house in 1840 on the site of the old castle, the gate or arcade was pulled down, and the stone with the inscription placed in the Museum of the Academy.
[12] ‘Ordinum Consilium Genevæ habitum est in quo novæ leges ab illo rege (Gondebald) latæ....’—Fragment quoted by Godefroy.
[13] List of the Bishops of Geneva, according to Bonivard. Gaberel, Hist. de l’Église de Genève, Pièces justificatives, p. 4.
[14] M. Baulacre (Œuvres, i. p. 37) is of opinion that this Diogenes was a Genoese bishop.
[15] ‘Tanto tempore, quod de contrario memoria hominis non extitit.’—Libertates Gebennenses, Mém. d’Archéologie, ii. p. 312.
[16] ‘Cum toto Francorum exercitu . . . . . . Gebennam venit. . . . . . et copiarum partem per montem Jovis ire jussit.’—Eginhardi Annales. These words of the ancient annals may be applied to Napoleon I. as well as to Charlemagne. The First Consul Bonaparte passed through Geneva on his way to Marengo, May 1800.