m, the author of several of the _Cent Nouvelles
Nouvelles_. Saint Pol occupied an important part in history, and was
Constable of France, but he tried to play a double game, and betrayed
in turn both Louis and Charles the Bold. At last he was arrested,
condemned, and executed, December, 1475.]

[Footnote 42: Herve Meriadech, a Breton squire and gallant soldier, who
performed several gallant feats of arms. Louis XI named him Governor of
Tournay in 1461.]

[Footnote 46: Much resembles No. XII. The author is believed to be
Chrestien de Dygoigne, whose name appears at the head of story No. 68.]

[Footnote 47: This is believed to be a true story. The person who got
rid of his wife in this cunning way was Caffrey Carles, President of the
Parliament of Grenoble. He was skilled in Latin and "the humanities"--in
the plural only it would appear--and was chosen by Anne of Brittany, the
wife of Louis XII, to teach her daughter, Renee, afterwards Duchess of
Perrara.

The story is so dramatic that it has been often imitated.]

[Footnote 50: By Antoine de la Sale, a short appreciation of whose
literary merits appears in the Introduction. He has appended his own
name to this story; in other cases he appears as "L'Acteur" that is to
say the "Editor." (See No. 51). The story is taken from Sacchetti
or Poggio. The idea has suggested itself to many writers, including
Lawrence Sterne, in Tristram Shandy.]

[Footnote 52: Taken from Sacchetti.]

[Footnote 59: by Poncelet, or Pourcelet, one of the Council of the Duke
of Burgundy.]

[Footnote 60: by Poncelet, or Pourcelet, one of the Council of the Duke
of Burgundy. No. 60 is from an old fabliau, (_Frere Denise, cordelier_)
and is to be found in the _Heptameron_, the _Apologie pour Herodote_
etc.]

[Footnote 61: by Poncelet, or Pourcelet, one of the Council of the Duke
of Burgundy. No. 61 is also from an old _fabliau_, (_Les Cheveux
coupe's_). Mr. Wright also credits him with No. 89.]

[Footnote 63: is related by Montbleru himself, according to Mr. Wright's
edition, but in Verard there is no author's name.]

[Footnote 64: From an old _fabliau_, and often imitated.]

[Footnote 69: M. Leroux de Lincy believes that Le Sage took the story of
Dona Mencia,--intercalated in _Gil Blas_--from this tale.]

[Footnote 75: Gui, Seigneur de Thalemas died, without issue, in 1463.]

[Footnote 76: Taken from the _Facetiae_ of Poggio.]

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