◆How can Brantôme, who had friends in the Huguenot camp, deliberately relate such absurd tales?
[86] P. 150:
◆There is a close likeness between this woman and the Godard de Blois, a Huguenot, who was hanged for adultery in the year 1563.
[87] P. 152:
◆At that period several persons bore the name of Beaulieu. Brantôme may have in mind Captain Beaulieu, who held Vincennes for the Ligue in 1594. (Chron. Novenn. III., liv. VII.) The chief prior was Charles de Lorraine, son of the Duke de Guise.
[88] P. 154:
◆The Comtesse de Senizon was accused of having contrived his escape, and brought to book for it.
[89] P. 155:
◆According to his habit, Brantôme disfigures what he quotes. Vesta Oppia alone has the right to the name of “good woman”; Cluvia was a profession-courtesan. (Cf. Livy, XXVI., Chap. xxxiii.)
[90] P. 156: