[27] M. Lenoir, at the time of the publication of his work, was the keeper of the Musée des petits Augustins, in Paris.
[28] Annales archéologiques de Didron, 1846. p. 12.
[29] Lettres d’Abailard et d’Héloïse traduite sur les manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Royale par E. Oddoul, avec une préface par Monsieur Guizot Paris 1839, gr. in 8ᵒ, gravures.
[30] It was taken down 1861 and a plaister statue of Tell erected in its place.
[31] L’illustre Châtelaine des environs de Vaucluse; dissertation et examen critique de la Laure de Pétrarque. Paris 1842, in 8ᵛᵒ.
[32] As already stated, a large tablet was carried before her on which her alleged crimes were inscribed.
[33] Namely: Mémoire tiré des archives de Chateaubriand par feu le Président Ferrand.
[34] Mignet, Amédée Pichot, and W. Stirling.
M. Gachard has rather given the rein, we believe, to his imagination, and adopts the legend of the funeral obsequies. We shall see how triumphantly M. Mignet rebuts it.
[35] It was the Venetian, Frederic Badouaro, who conceived the comical idea of representing Giovanni Torriano as a simple clockmaker. Cardanus, in book XVII. of his work De Artibus, mentions a wonderful piece of mechanism constructed by Torriano.