quelles qu'aient été, whatever may hâve been

3. Beugnot, a young fellow-townsman of Madame de la Motte, who afterwards became prominent in politics and wrote memoirs which are among the authorities for the study of the case.

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4. Charles d'Orléans (i 391-1465), poet of the royal house, for many years prisoner in England, father of Louis XII.

5. Marguerite. Michelet makes a slip hère. Marguerite de Navarre, poet-sister of Francis I. alluded to hère, wrote, not the Cent nouvelles nouvelles^ but the Heptatnérony a somewhat similar collection of stories and only inaccurately called les Cent nouvelles^ though it is occasionally so styled, even in the sixteenth century.

6. Bar-sur-Aube, not far from Troyes, in the department of Aube y former province of Champagne,

Page 69. — i. Une bonne dame. It was the Marquise de Boulainvilliers. *

2. chevalier de Malte, the Knights of Malta, a military religions order formerly of great wealth and authority.

3. Longchamps. The abbey of Longchamp, once famous for its worldly connections and its concerts, stood in what is now the Bois de Boulogne, near Paris, not far from the présent race-course of Longchamp. Mademoiselle Le Maure, an opera-singer who became a nun, gave vogue to the concerts.