◆Charles VII. (surnamed the Victorious), crowned at Poitiers 1422, consecrated at Rheims 1429; died 1461, the King for whom Jeanne d’Arc fought against the Burgundians and English, and who really owed his crown to her.
◆Francis I., 1515–1547.
◆Jeanne I., Queen of Naples, 1353–1381, daughter of Charles Duke of Calabria and grand-daughter of the wise King Robert of Naples.
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◆The proverb says, the ferret. It should be the ermine, which animal is said to allow itself to be caught rather than soil itself.
◆The opinion that the female ferret would die if it did not find a male to satisfy her during the mating season was still held by naturalists at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Lalanne is mistaken about the ermine, which, on the contrary, dies of the slightest contamination:
Et moi, je suis si délicate
Qu’une tache me fait mourir.
(Florian, Fables, liv. III., fab. xiii.)
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