[436] The Comte d'Artois entered France by Vesoul, in February 1814, and from there, on the 27th of February, dated his Proclamation to the French.—B.
[437] Desiderius Erasmus (1465-1538), the great Dutch scholar and satirist, settled at Basle in 1521 and died there on the 12th of July 1528.—T.
[438] The Emperors of Russia and Austria and the King of Prussia.—B.
[439] Hans Holbein the Younger (circa 1497-1543) lived in Basle from 1515 to 1523 and from 1528 to 1532. The Dance of Death at Basle, if really Holbein, was painted in the earlier period.—T.
[440] Martin Luther (1483-1546), founder of the heretical sect called after his name.—T.
[441] Giovanni de' Medici, Pope Leo X. (1475-1521), elected Pope in 1513. It was during his Papacy, in the year 1517, that the Reformation began with Luther's protest against the sale of indulgences.—T.
[442] Johann von Müller (1752-1809), a noted Swiss historian, author of the Geschichte der Schweizer, etc.—T.
[443] Walther Fürst, Arnold von Melchthal and Werner Stauffacher were the three companions of William Tell, perhaps less legendary than he, who, according to tradition, liberated their country in the fourteenth century. The date of the oath on the Grütli, or Rütli, is 8 November 1307.—T.
[444] Hermann Gessler, the imperial magistrate in Uri and Schwyz, said to have been shot by Tell in 1307.—T.
[445] Saxo Grammaticus (fl. 13th century), the Danish historian, whose chronicles contain the stories of William Tell, Hamlet and other oral traditions, myths and legends.—T.