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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Dorserets, covers to backs of chairs, beds, &c.
[2] Richard I., surnamed Sans-peur, third Duke of Normandy, was natural son of William I., and grandson of Rollo. He died in 996.—[Ed.]
[3] Charles le Brun, a distinguished painter of the French school, flourished during the seventeenth century. The son of a sculptor, who placed him under Simon Vouet, the young artist made such progress that at the age of fifteen he painted a remarkable picture, “Hercules Destroying the Horses of Diomede,” which brought him at once into public notice. Le Brun’s patron, the Chancellor Seguier, sent him to Italy, with an introduction to Nicholas Poussin, whose pure and correct taste, however, seems to have had little influence on the French artist, who, though possessing an inventive and somewhat elevated genius, often showed himself a mannerist.—[Ed.]
[4] “Historical Topography of Ancient Paris in the district of the Louvre and Tuileries.” By Berty and Legrand.
[5] Probably an abbreviation, or corruption, of cap-mail.—[Ed.]
[6] Or brassarts—pieces to protect the upper part of the arms.—[Ed.]
[7] This title is not chronologically correct. Henry of Bolingbroke had been created Duke of Hereford nearly a year before his intended combat with Norfolk, at Coventry, in 1398; when the king, Richard II., interfered, and banished both nobles from the kingdom.—[Ed.]
[8] Anglicè, partisan—a kind of pike or lance.—[Ed.]