[41] Iñez de Castro (d. 1355), favourite and, later, wife of Peter of Portugal, son of Alphonsus IV. The King had her murdered to prevent the consequences of an unequal union. When Peter ascended the throne, as Peter I., afterwards surnamed the Justiciary and the Cruel, he avenged her death on her murderers by having their hearts torn out in his presence at Santarem, in 1360. He caused Iñez to be exhumed and crowned and showed her royal honours.—T.
[42] Cf. Vol. V., p. 207, n. 1.—T.
[43] Madame Récamier was banished to Chalons in September 1811.—T.
[44] Madame de La Sablière (fl. 17th Century), wife of Antoine Rambouillet de La Sablière, one of the ornaments of the seventeenth century and immortalized by the hospitality which she accorded to La Fontaine.—T.
[45] Bossuet was Bishop of Meaux.—T.
[46] The Duchesse de Berry embarked on the 9th of June 1833.—B.
[47] The Marquis de Pastoret.—B.
[48] St. Martin (circa 316—circa 397) Bishop of Tours (371). He is honoured on the 11th of November.—T.
[49] The brother of Amadis of Gaul.—T.
[50] Robert Count of Paris (d. 866), surnamed the Strong, father of Robert I. King of France and stock of the Capets, was killed at Brissarthe, in Anjou, while giving battle to the Normans.—T.