n--Estienne (_Apologie pour Herodote_) La Fontaine
(_Contes_, lib II, conte II) and others.

Monseigneur de la Roche, the author of the story, was Chamberlain to the
Duke of Burgundy, at a salary of 36 _sols_ per month. He was one of the
wisest councillors of Philippe le Bel and Charles le Temeraire, and
after the death of the latter was created Grand Seneschal of Burgundy.
He died about 1498. He was one of the most prolific of all the
contributors to the _Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles_, and related Nos 3, 8,
10, 12, 15, 18, 36, 37, 41, 44, 45, 47, 48, and 52.]

[Footnote 4: This and the three following stories are all original.]

[Footnote 5: An interesting anecdote of the "warlike and martial
Talbot." Philippe de Laon was "squire of the stables" to the Duke of
Burgundy in 1461. He contributed also Nos. 20, 21, 66, 67, 74, and 76.]

[Footnote 6: Jean de Lanoy (Launoy, in Verard's 1st ed.) created a
knight of the Golden Fleece in 1451; an officer of the household of
the D. of Burgundy. Louis XI, on his accession, created him Governor
of Lille, and Bailli of Amiens, and sent him on a secret mission to the
King of England. Charles le Temeraire, indignant with Lanoy for having
gone over to his enemy, confiscated all his possessions in Brabant.
After the death of Charles, Lanoy went back to Burgundy, and took an
important share in the political events of the time. In some editions
stories Nos 82, and 92 are ascribed to him; in others, the one is by
Jehan Marten, and the other by "the Editor."]

[Footnote 8: Taken from Poggio (_Repensa merces_). Has been imitated by
La Fontaine (_Contes_ lib III, conte V.)]

[Footnote 9: An old story which forms the subject of a "fable"
by Enguerrand d'Oisi (_Le Meunier d'Aleu_) also used by Boccaccio
(Decameron 8th Day, 4th Story) and Poggio. Has since been imitated by
Margaret of Navarre (story VIII) Boucher, Chapuys, and La Fortaine (_les
Quiproquos_).]

[Footnote 10: So far as I am aware, this story first appeared in _Les
Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles_. It was subsequently imitated by the Author of
_Les Joyeuses Adventures_, and La Fontaine (_Contes_ lib I. _conte_ XII.)]

[Footnote 11: Taken from Poggio; afterwards used by Rabelais as "Hans
Carvel's Ring", _Pantagruel_, lib 3, chap 28.]

[Footnote 12: The story is found in Poggio and the _Cente Nouvelle
Antiche_. There have been many modern imitations, culminating in La
Fontaine (_Contes_, lib 2. conte XII