Batignolles : a sélect résidence quarter in Paris

16. Tuitium: the Latin name of Deuz, or Deutz, the town situated on the opposite bank of the Rhine from Cologne.

30, 13. Cromwell: Cromwell had decided to leave his native land and had actually embarked for America in 1637, but the ship -was not allowed to sail.

14. Louis XVI : execnted 1793. Mirabeau vas a leader and perhaps the greatest man of the revolutionary period.

19. Agrippine : The beautifid but wicked and cruel Agrippina married for her third husband the Roman emperor Claudius, whom she poisoned in order to establish her son Nero on the throne.

20. Néron: Nero, tired of his mother's influence and attempted control, caused her to be assassinated in 59 or 60 A.D.

21. Marie de Médicis : 'wife of Henry IV of France, with whom she lived in continuai discord. Exiled by her son Louis XIII through the influence of Richelieu, whom she had raised to prominence, she died at Cologne in 1642.

3I9 6. A seize cents ans de distance :

** sixteen hundred years apart."

8. Henri IV: King of France, divorced from his first wife, married, in 1600, Mari»

de Médicis. He wais assassinated by the fanatic Ravaillac, in 1610.