[43] Near Melun.
[44] Mézeray.
[45] Vie de Louis-le-Gros.
"If zealous love should go in search of virtue,
Where should he find it purer than in Blanche?
. . . . . . .
Such as she is, in beauty, virtue, birth,
Is the young Dauphin every way complete."
Shakespeare. King John.
[47] Millin, Antiquités Nationales.
[48] Le corps de Saint-Louis fut porté une partie du chemin depuis Saint-Denis par Henri III., roi d'Angleterre, et par les barons de France et d'Angleterre sur leurs épaules, cérémonie qui est représentée sur le tombeau, où le prince est couvert d'un drap d'or bordé d'une bande d'étoffe bleue, semée de fleurs de lis d'or, la tête soutenue par le roi saint Louis, et les pieds par le roi d Angleterre.—P. Anselme, Histoire de la Maison de France.
[49] This does not quite agree with Dom Millet's account of the Huguenot depredations already given upon page 33.
[50] He could not have found much more rest at S. Denis, for which he had a great respect, although he desired to be buried at Cléry. Many a time this king perambulated from Paris to S. Denis barefooted, for he held the Saint to be the "Holy Protector of his dominions, the Guide of his councils, and the Guardian of his soul."
[51] This was a sort of posthumous decapitation. Cardinal Richelieu's statue at the Sorbonne was treated in the same way.