[480] A terrible revolutionary massacre took place at Avignon in 1791.—T.
[481] Petrarch immortalized the source of the Sorgue, which rises near Vaucluse, and is known as the Fountain of Vaucluse.—T.
[482] Alain Chartier (1386-1458), the "Father of French Eloquence," an early French poet, and Secretary to the Household to King Charles VI. Margaret kissed him on the mouth, as he lay sleeping, to show the value she set upon the mouth from which so many fair speeches had issued.—T.
[483] Margaret of Scotland (1418-1445), daughter of James I. King of Scots, was married to the Dauphin, later King Louis XI. of France, as a child, in 1428, but was not united to him until 1436. He made her very unhappy.—T.
[484] Pro. L. Flacco, xxvi. 36.—T.
[485] Job xxxviii. II.—T.
[486] Pytheas (circa 350 B.C.), the famous Greek navigator, was a native of Massilia or Marseilles.—T.
[487] Jean Sire de Joinville (circa 1223—circa 1319) accompanied St. Louis on the Seventh Crusade (1248), which took Cyprus in its course.—T.
[488] Berengarius I. and II., Kings of Italy and Marquises of Ivrea in the tenth century.—T.
[489] Louis II., Duke of Anjou and titular King of Naples (1377-1417), father of Good King René.—T.