[95] The same hysteric contagion marks the “Revivals” of a later period, down to the last mad outbreak in Ireland. The translator hopes some day to work out the physical question here stated.—Trans.
[96] Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII.—Trans.
[97] Not of necessity knaves, Mr. Michelet; at least not wilfully so; but silly hysteric patients, of the spirit-rapping, revivalist order, victims of nervous derangement, or undue nervous sensibility.—Trans.
[98] A woman named Hammon, of low birth, who entered the service, and rose high in the good graces of Mary of Medici. See Dumas’ Celebrated Crimes.—Trans.
[99] Indians of the coast of Brazil.—Trans.
[100] Esprit de Bosroger, p. 135.
[101] Both Neapolitans, burnt alive, the former at Venice in 1600, the latter at Toulouse in 1619.—Trans.
[102] Wright and Dumas both differ from M. Michelet in their view of Urban Grandier’s character. The latter especially, regards him as an innocent victim to his own fearlessness and the hate of his foes, among whom not the least deadly was Richelieu himself, who bore him a deep personal grudge.—Trans.