◆Louis de Saint-gelais-Lansac.

[101] P. 220:

◆Jeanne, married to Jean, Prince of Portugal. She died in 1578.

[102] P. 225:

◆Sébastien, died in 1578. This passage in Brantôme is not one of the least irreverent of this hardened sceptic.

[103] P. 226:

◆The portraits of Marie disclose a protruding mouth. She is generally represented with a cap over her forehead. This feature is to be found in a marked degree in Queen Eleanore; and her brother Charles V. also had a protruding mouth. The drooping lip was likewise characteristic of all the later Dukes de Bourgogne.

[104] P. 228:

◆The entanglements of which Brantôme speaks were: the revolt of the Germanats, in Spain, in 1522; of Tunis or Barbarie, 1535; the troubles in Italy, also in 1535; the revolt in the Netherlands, provoked by the taxes imposed by Maria, in 1540. M. de Chièvres was Guillaume de Croy.

[105] P. 229: