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FOOTNOTES
[1] Pronounce as in the English word crow.
[2] Translation by Duncan Craig, author of Miejour.
[3] It is difficult to find any but contradictory evidence about the frescoes of the Papal Palace, but most writers ascribe them to Giotto or Giottino, or their school.
[4] "Memoires pour l'histoire naturelle de la province de Languedoc."—Astuc.
[5] Some of these originally Celtic names appear to have been Romanised. My chief authorities for these details are Lenthérie and Paul Mariéton.
[6] In this author I have found the clearest short account of this period, and have taken the main facts in the following few paragraphs from his much-quoted volume.
[7] It is a curious fact, and somewhat difficult for the Western mind to realise, that just at this darkest moment of European history—or at any rate during the three later centuries of the period—the woman of Japan "held a higher social and intellectual rank than she then did in any other part of the world."
In an interesting work on "Feudal and Modern Japan," by Arthur May Knapp, occur the following arresting passages:—