[11] A favourite palace of Louis XIV., four leagues west
of Paris, and the scene of many celebrated entertainments. It was
destroyed in the Revolution of 1789.
[12] A shepherd who, according to the story told by Plato, was
possessed of a ring which he took off the finger of a dead man enclosed
in the body of a brazen horse, and which rendered the wearer invisible.
By means of this ring he became King of Lydia.
[13] _La vigne d'or_, more commonly _la vigne de l'évêque_.
"On dit d'un mari et d'une femme qui passent la première année de leur
mariage sans s'en repentir, qu'ils auront la vigne de l'evêque."--P.
J. Le Roux, _Dictionnaire Comique_. In the only English version I have
seen of this story, "the golden vine" is of course transformed into
"the flitch of bacon."