[21] “Cy git tel qui fut mors lors que li milliaires courroit per mil deux cens.” Querlon in his note in the edition of 1774 adds: “Entre autres plusieurs tombeaux de Seigneurs de la Maison du Châtelet il est rapporté dans les observations de l’Abbé Desfontaines (Lettre 467) qu’un du Châtelet voulut y être enterré tout debout dans le creux d’un pillier, disant que ‘jamais vilain ne passeroit par dessus son ventre.’”
[22] Épinal.
[23] Plombières.
[24] Jean d’Andelot, who fought on the Imperial side at Pavia. He was of the family of Andelot of Montague.
[25] Bagnères de Bigorre.
[26] The Duke of Lorraine.
[27] Bussang, a well-known medicinal spring near the source of the Moselle.
[28] Thann.
[29] Mülhausen. It was not incorporated with France till 1798.
[30] The host’s story is somewhat contradictory. He says that for twenty years past he had been the pensioner of the King of France, and in the same breath talks of having marched with John Casimir, the son of Frederic III., Elector Palatine, to fight against this same king in 1567. Perhaps his pension may have been in arrear.