[70] Gervase of Tilbury (fl. 1211), author of the Otia Imperialia.—T.
[71] The Baron de Montboissier was Malesherbes' son-in-law, and uncle by marriage to Chateaubriand's brother.—B.
[72] Louis XI., King of France (1423-1479), who had incited the town of Liège to revolt, was enticed to Péronne by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, on the pretext of a conference, held as a prisoner, and released only on condition that he accompanied the Duke to the siege of the insurgent city.—T.
[73] Pope Leo III. (d. 816), elected to the Papacy in 795, was driven from Rome by a conspiracy to murder him, and took shelter with Charlemagne. He consecrated the octagonal Cathedral of Aix in 799; and in 800, in Rome, crowned Charles Emperor of the West.—T.
[74] John Turpin, Archbishop of Rheims (d. circa 794), Charlemagne's secretary, friend, and comrade-in-arms. He was falsely reputed the author of the be Vitâ Caroli Magni et Rolandi, popularly known as Archbishop Turpin's Chronicle.—T.
[75] Francesco Petrarca, known as Petrarch (1304-1374), tells the legend in his poems.—T.
[76] Caligula (12-41) was the son of Germanicus and Agrippina, at whose instance Germanicus enlarged Cologne, calling it Colonia Agrippina.—T.
[77] St. Bruno (circa 1030-1101), founder of the Carthusian order, was born at Cologne.—T.
[78] Frederic William II., King of Prussia (1744-1797), nephew and successor (1786) of Frederic the Great.—T.
[79] Charles Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1735-1806), Commander-in-Chief of the allied Prussian and Austrian armies. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Auerstadt (14 October 1806), and was the father of "Brunswick's fated chieftain" killed at Waterloo.—T.