[26] See [Plate XII].
[27] Dear and Royal Brother,
I have just read your appreciative words about me. I write to you with emotion. You are a prince by birth and have become a man. For me your Royalty has ceased to be political and is now historical; my Republican conviction is not disturbed by it. You have contributed to the greatness of France. And I love you.
[28] See [Plate XXV].
[29] Louis Dimier, Les Portraits peints de François I.
[30] This interesting picture was painted at Calais in 1396 on the occasion of the marriage between Richard II of England and Isabelle, daughter of the King of France.
[31] The first volume of this MS. is in the British Museum, and the second with the miniatures of the Preux de Marignan in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
[32] Purgatorio, canto II, v. 80.
[33] Closely allied to the Ingeburge Psalter, and likewise showing English influence, is the Arsenal MS., formerly at the Sainte-Chapelle, and executed for Blanche Castille, mother of St. Louis.
[34] Cf. p. 168.