[5] Doran’s “Monarchs Retired from Business.”
[6] “History of France,” vol. iii. pp. 191-192.
[7] See the “Romance of Ludwig II. of Bavaria,” by Frances Gerard.
[8] Edinburgh Review, 1869, vol. cxxix. p. 31.
[9] See Edinburgh Review, 1867, vol. cxxv. p. 513.
[10] See Jesse’s “England under the Stuarts,” 1846, vol. i. pp. 18-19.
[11] Mémoires secrèts pour servir a l’histoire de la cour de Russie sous les règnes de Pierre-le-Grand et de Catherine I.
[12] Edinburgh Review, vol. ci. pp. 520-521.
[13] But later on we read that some dozen or two asses were kept to maintain his decaying strength. See Crowe’s “History of France,” vol. ii. p. 507.
[14] See Dr. Valpy French, “Nineteen Centuries of Drink,” p. 61.