[125] P. 290:
◆Henri II., who neglected his wife, the Queen, for the Duchesse de Valentinois (Diane de Poitiers), who was already quite an old woman and had been his father, the preceding King’s, mistress.
[126] P. 293:
◆About the year 400 of the Christian era, St. Jerome witnessed the woman’s funeral, and he it is reports the fact mentioned in the text. Epist. ad Ageruchiam, De Monogamia.
◆Charles de Rochechouart.
[127] P. 302:
◆Scio was taken in 1566 by the Turks.
[128] P. 309:
◆It was to her that King Henri IV. said at a court ball by way of amusing the company, that she had used green wood and dry wood both. This jest he made at her expense, because the said lady did never spare any other woman’s good name.
[129] P. 310: