◆Marguerite de Valois took Bussy d’Amboise partly because of his reputation as a duellist.
[11] P. 17:
◆Jacques de Lorge, lord of Montgomerie, captain of Francis I.’s Scotch Guard and father of Henri II.’s involuntary murderer.
[12] P. 18:
◆Claude de Clermont, Viscount de Tallard.
◆François de Hangest, lord of Genlis, captain of the Louvre, who died of hydrophobia at Strassburg in 1569.
[13] P. 19:
◆It is undoubtedly Louise de Halwin, surnamed Mlle. de Piennes the Elder, who later married Cipier of the Marcilly family.
◆It is to this feminine stimulation that King Francis I. alluded in the famous quatrain in the Album of Aix, which is rightly or wrongly attributed to him.
[14] P. 20: