indeed said lately, in a letter which has been universally judged to be
of very great importance: 'I am the heir'; but he has not said: 'I am
the immediate heir' If Louis XVII exists, his proposition is true; he
is the heir, after the immediate heir, since, according to Martin, this
true heir, who must come in an extraordinary manner, led by troops from
the north, who have already frightfully punished France, is to reign
only a very short time, and leave the crown to a prince of his race,
who can only be Henri V." (Grave question.--Louis XVII est-il bien
mort?--Roanne, 1871.) Credulous persons are full of subtlety.]
[Footnote 16: Page 167. Figaro, August 8,1904.]
[Footnote 17: Page 172. In regard to these charities consult the work of
Émile Rousse: La Roche-Guyon: Châtelains, Château et Bourg (Hachette et
Cie., 1892). This book,--much more vivid and captivating than this kind
of local monographs generally are,--contains a very accurate and very
complete history of La Roche-Guyon. I have used it extensively.]
[Footnote 18: Page 176. Chronique de Sabit-Denis.]
[Footnote 19: Page 191. Instead of to give it would be better to write here
arc en tiers-point, so as not to annoy the archaeologists. But all my
readers are not archaeologists and would not be interested in the fine
distinctions among pointed arches.]
[Footnote 20: Page 194. This history is a reprint from the Mémoires du
Comité archéologique de Noyon (Vol. XVII); it is adorned with numerous
illustrations which show different aspects of the cathedral.--The
members of a recent Congress of the French Society of Archaeology met
at Novon. The Guide published for members of the Congress contains short
and precise notes upon the different monuments which were visited. That
which relates to the Cathedral of Noyon was written by the Director of
the Society, M. Eugène Lefèvre-Pontalis.]
[Footnote 21: Page 201. The stone is broken at the end of the seventh line.]
[Footnote 22: Page 206. I have taken these dates and some other facts from
an article by M. Fernand Blanchard, Secretary of the Archaeological,
Historical and Scientific Society of Soissons (1905). This pamphlet
contains a very clear summary of the history of the monument and an
excellent description of the ruins.]
[Footnote 23: Page 213. These ingenious remarks on the flora of
Saint-Jean-des-Vignes were made by M. Fernand Blanchard (Joe. cit).]
[Footnote 24: Page 217. Nothing has been done since 1905 in the way of
freeing from military authority the refectory of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes.]
[Footnote 25: Page 220. The history of Madame de Monaco has been pleasingly
told by Marquis Pierre de Ségur, in a study which forms the second part
of the book entitled La Dernière des Condé. I have borrowed from
this work many details regarding Betz which the Marquis de Ségur has
extracted from the archives of Beauvais.]
[Footnote 26: Page 243. Musées et Monuments de France, 1906, No. 10.]
[Footnote 27: Page 244. The architect of the Temple of Friendship was called
Le Roy; this is the name which is signed to the memorandum of the sums
paid to the sculptor Dejoux for the casting of the group by Pigalle,--a
memorandum which has been published by M. Rocheblave.]
[Footnote 28: Page 249. Since these lines were written the Archaeological
Committee of Senilis has published a work on the gardens of Betz by M.
Gustav Macon. The gifted curator of the Musée Condé reproduces in this a
very complete description of the gardens of the Princess of Monaco which
must have been drawn up in the last half of 1792 or the first half of
1793. Its author is unknown. According to M. Macon, he was perhaps one
of the writers who collaborated at that time in the preparation of Le
Voyage 'pittoresque de la France' we might also think of Mérigot, who
had just described the gardens of Chantilly so attractively. To this
unpublished description M. Macon has added a series of notes in which
he has collected all the information which he has found in the works
of other historians or which he has himself discovered in regard to
the artists who collaborated in the adornment of the domain of Betz. In
short, he has exhausted the subject.]
[Footnote 29: Page 266. The transformations of Chantilly have been studied
and described by M. G. Macon Revue de l'art ancien et moderne, April,
1898.]
[Footnote 30: Page 293. I have profitably consulted Livry et son abbaye, by
Abbé A. E. Genty (1898).]