CARACTÈRE DE HENRI IV

4.— Henri IV. See • ' Portrait de Henri IV, '^ note !• 1» 10. Parlement. See *' L'Édît de Nantes," note S. 18.

11. la perte d'ibnieni. Amiens wae tbe capital of Picardie, on the river Somme. It had been taken hy the Spanish in Mareh, 1597, and reeaptured by Henry in September.

13. BeauTais. Principal city of tbe department of tbe Oise, to tbe soatb of Amiens.