◆The description which follows was textually taken by Brantôme from account printed at Lyons, in 1549, entitled: “La magnificence de la superbe et triomphante entrée de la noble et antique cité de Lyon faicte au très-chrestien Roy de France Henry deuxiesme.”
[152] P. 286:
◆Brazilian wood, known before the discovery of America. Brésil is a common noun here.
[153] P. 287:
◆The king’s visit to Lyons took place September 18, 1548.
[154] P. 288:
◆La volte was a dance that had come from Italy in which the gentleman, after having made his partner turn two or three times, raised her from the floor in order to make her cut a caper in the air. This is the caper of which Brantôme is speaking.
◆Paul de Labarthe, lord of Thermes, Field Marshal of France, died in 1562. (Montluc, Ruble edition, t. II., p. 55.)
[155] P. 289:
◆Scio (Chios) was the only island in the Orient where the women wore short dresses.