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., fab. 16: _The Cat, the Weasel, and the Young Rabbit_, 7-9.--T.
[127] Cephalus of Thessaly, husband of Procris, and beloved by Aurora because of his surpassing beauty.--T.
[128] Jean Cazotte (1720-1792), the facile Royalist poet, author of the _Veillée de la Bonne femme; ou, le Réveil d'Enguerrand_, which opens with the lines quoted.--T.
[129]
"Right in the middle of the Ardennes Stands a fine castle atop of a rock."--T.
[130] François de La Noue (1531-1591), nicknamed _Bras-de-Fer_, Iron Arm, a famous Calvinist captain. Fighting at the head of the army of the States-General against Spain, he was captured (1578) and kept prisoner for five years in the fortresses of Limburg and Charlemont. He was killed at the siege of Lamballe in Brittany, where he was sent by Henry IV.--T.
[131] CAZOTTE, _La Veillée de la Bonne femme_, supra.--T.
[132] Orlando's famous steed.--T.
[133] Most of the scenes in _As You Like It_ are laid in the Forest of Arden.--T.
[134] Charles Joseph Prince de Ligne (1735-1844), a Flemish general in the Austrian service, famous for his wit, his personal graces, and his military talent. Francis II. created him a field-marshal in 1808.--T.
[135]
"When he was in the town, Brussels town in Brabant."--T.
[136] DANTE, _Inferno_, XXXVII. 127.--T.
[137] Antoninus Pius, Emperor of Rome (86-161), author or originator of the _Itinerarium Provinciarum._--T.
[138] Robert II., Duke of Normandy (_circa_ 1056-1134), nicknamed Robert Curthose, eldest son of William the Conqueror. He was defeated by his brother, Henry I., at Tinchebray (1106), and imprisoned at Cardiff Castle until his death in 1134.--T.
[139] St. Helerius, hermit and martyr, patron saint of Jersey. His head was cut off by pirates. His feast falls on the 16th of July.--T.
[140] William I., the Conqueror, King of England (1027-1087), is generally called William the Bastard by French writers. He was the illegitimate son of Robert I. the Devil, Duke of Normandy, and Arlotta, a washerwoman of Falaise.--T.
[141] VOLTAIRE, L'_Henriade_:
"Then, far removed from Court, to this obscure retreat, I come to mourn the blows with which my creed has met."--T.
[142] Armand Louis de Chateaubriand married in Guernsey, 14 September 1795, Mademoiselle Jeanne le Brun, of Jersey; the young couple settled in Jersey, where were born Jeanne (16 June 1796) and Frédéric (11 November 1799).--B.
[143] Philippe d'Auvergne, Prince de Bouillon (1754-1816), born in Jersey, was the son of Charles d'Auvergne, a poor lieutenant in the British Navy, and had been adopted by the Duc Godefroy de Bouillon, who saw his race threatened with extinction. Philippe d'Auvergne devoted himself whole-heartedly to the cause of his new fellow-countrymen in their difficulties with the English governors of the island. His career was one of inconceivable adventures, and his end, which occurred in London, was mysterious.--B.
[144] François Marie Anne Joseph Hingant de La Tiemblais (1761-1827). No less than twenty-two members of his family suffered as victims of their religious and political faith. He furnished Chateaubriand with many of the materials for the _Génie du Christianisme_, and himself published some valuable literary and scientific works and an interesting novel (1826), entitled _Le Capucin, anecdote historique._--B.
[145] Lamba Doria defeated Andrea Dandola, the Venetian admiral, before the island of Curzola, off the coast of Dalmatia, in 1298.--T.
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