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FOOTNOTES:
[1] As the king's eldest brother was called.
[2] At present 12 Rue Charles V. The house is now occupied by the
nursing sisterhood of the Bon-Secours.
[3] [The then law courts of Paris.]
[4] [The supreme judicial tribunal of France.]
[5] [The criminal court.]
[6] [The assassin of Henry of Navarre.]
[7]
['into a sea profound
Where flowed earth's metals in a molten mass,
Would tinge and dye the whole in sunbright gold.']
[8] [In the original, a play on the double meaning of _argent_--'silver'
and 'money.']
[9] [Second wife of 'Monsieur,' the king's brother.]
[10] ['To share with Jupiter is no whit dishonouring.']
[11] [Madame de Montespan.]
[12] Written in collaboration with Professor Paul Brouardel, Dean of the
Faculty of Medicine at Paris, and Doctor Paul le Gendre, physician to
the Tenon infirmary.
[13] The report of Chamberlain, the English physician, says distinctly
that it was oil. 'The lower bowel was full of a bilious humour, with oil
floating upon it' (Mrs. Everett-Green's _Lives of the Princesses of
England_, vi. 589). This observation is important because Littré's
opinion has been disputed by Dr. Legué. 'Littré maintains that the
physicians noticed the presence of oil; but that is because he strains
an equivocal phrase in the report of the autopsy--"full to its utmost
capacity of a sanious, putrid, yellowish, watery substance, _fat like
oil_." Frankly, is this not giving to the text a signification which
never entered into the mind of the physicians?' (_Médecins et
Empoisonneurs_, pp. 255, 256.) Neither Dr. Legué nor Littré, however,
knew the English reports published by Mrs. Everett-Green.
[14] _Legends of the Bastille_, p. 146.
[15] [Boileau.]
[16] [Two of the most famous actresses of the time.]
[17] [The theatre so called.]
[18] In a copy of the _Devineresse_ in the Arsenal Library. There are
others, a little different, in the large folio collection of almanacs in
the print department of the National Library.
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Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:
exceded that of Exili=> exceeded that of Exili {pg 10}
wedges in successsion=>wedges in succession {pg 49}
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