[490] Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, Duc d'Épernon (1554-1642), one of the favourites of Henry III., was the head of a Languedoc family and governor of Provence, of which Marseilles was one of the chief cities.—T.
[491] Henri François Xavier de Belsunce de Castel Moron, Bishop of Marseilles (1671-1755), distinguished himself by his courage and zeal during the plague which ravaged the city in the years 1720 and 1721, and by his vigorous opposition to the Jansenistic doctrines.—T.
[492] Vittorio Conte Alfieri (1749-1803), the Italian tragic poet, secretly married in 1788 to the Countess of Albany, widow of Prince Charles Edward Stuart. His Memoirs were published in 1804.—T.
[493] Alfieri, Memoirs, chap. IV.—T.
[494] The Roman amphitheatre or bull-arena at Nîmes was laid in ruins by the English during their occupation in 1417.—T.
[495] The famous Roman remains, in the Corinthian style.—T.
[496] Jean Reboul (1796-1864), the baker-poet, author of Poésies (1836), the Dernier Jour (1839), the Martyre de Vivia, a mystery play, performed at the Odéon (1850), and the Traditionnelles (1857). He continued his trade throughout. In 1848 he was sent to the Constituent Assembly as Royalist member for the Department of the Gard.—B.
[497] I omit a quotation from Reboul.—T.
[498] Plautus spent some years in the service of a baker in Rome.—T.
[499] Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609), the Protestant philosopher, Professor of Literature at the University of Leyden, a distinguished philologist and founder of the system of modern chronology.—T.