◆Hubert Thomas, Annales de vita Friderici II. Palatini (Francfort, 1624), gives no idea of this exaggeration of Queen Eleonor’s bust, who was promised to Frederick Palatine.
[131] P. 248:
◆Suetonius, Octavius Augustus, cap. lxix.
[132] P. 249:
◆Henri de Lorraine, Duc de Guise, nicknamed le Balafré, born 1550. Murdered by the King’s (Henri III.) orders at Blois in 1588.
◆Duc d’Anjou, afterwards Henri III.
[133] P. 250:
◆The personages in question are probably Bussy d’Amboise and Marguerite de Valois.
[134] P. 252:
◆The king was Henri II., and the grand widow lady the Duchess de Valentinois. They thought it was due to a charm.