[125] “The Private Life of Marie Antoinette,” by Jeanne Louise Henriette Caupan, 1884.
[126] “History of the Reformation,” 1865, vol. ii. p. 373.
[127] “Ecclesiastical Memorials,” 1822, vol. ii. p. 507.
[128] “History of his Own Time.”
[129] “Fortunes of Nigel,” chap. vi.
[130] “History of France,” vol. ii. pp. 647-648.
[131] See “History of Court Fools,” to which we are indebted for many facts in this chapter.
[132] “Monarchs Retired from Business,” vol. ii. pp. 170-171.
[133] Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes,” 1876, p. 233.
[134] See Collier’s “Annals of the Stage,” 1879, vol. i. pp. 83-85.