[Footnote 7]: Latude's successful escape was made some years after the date of this narrative--viz., in 1750.
[Footnote 8]: As happened the next year, by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
[Footnote 9]: The ballets in which the French kings, and Louis XIV in particular, frequently danced, were more in the style of a minuet than anything else. There is a picture in the Luxembourg of one being performed, with Louis taking part in it and representing Le Printemps.
[Footnote 10]: A derisive name sometimes applied to the Bastille, especially by the lower classes in Paris.