See *' Portrait de Riciielieu/' note

10. 8aint-0«rmaiB, Saint-Qermain-en-Laye (Seine et Oise), aboat twelve miles from Paris. The château, dating from the Renaissance, served as a royal résidence nntil the time of Louis XIV.

11. Louis XIII., son of Henry IV., king of France from 1610 to 1648. He was first mled by his favorites, and laat by Richelieu to better purpose. He died at Saint-Qermain.

14, Banke, celebrated German historian, bom in 1795, died in 1886.

24. il s'était fait revêtir : he had had himself invested with. 27. Bueil. Village in the department of Seine et Oise,

where is situated Richelieu 's fine ohftteau.

13. — 4. reloTaient de loi : emanated from him. 11. le tervioe de ta personne : his personal service.

16. Palais-Cardinal, built by Richelieu in 1729 and called later Palais-Royal. At the présent day chiefly ocoupied by shops and restaurants.

17. le Louvre, royal résidence at Paris, now a muséum of fine arts. The Louvre was begun under Philip Augostus in 1204, continued by Francis I. and Henry II. and finished in the time of Louis XIV.

25. La Boohelle. See "Les Réfugiés Français et leurs Industries," note 60. 20.

14. — ^2. burettes, small métal vases, or cruets, in which the winè and the water are put for the mass.