NOTES
[1]Mathurin Cordier, ca. 1480–1564, French educator and austere author of numerous works for children of a moralizing nature. Calvin was among his pupils in Paris.
[1]Mathurin Cordier, ca. 1480–1564, French educator and austere author of numerous works for children of a moralizing nature. Calvin was among his pupils in Paris.
[2]Jan van Pauteren, ca. 1460–1524, Flemish writer whose latin grammar, however popular in its own day, was widely attacked in later times for its obscurity.
[2]Jan van Pauteren, ca. 1460–1524, Flemish writer whose latin grammar, however popular in its own day, was widely attacked in later times for its obscurity.
[3]Louis van der Aa, called Louis de Bruges, Seigneur de la Gruthuyse, ca. 1425–1492, a learned nobleman of Flanders who, commissioning some of the finest manuscripts which have come down to us, set an example for Charles the Bold of Burgundy.
[3]Louis van der Aa, called Louis de Bruges, Seigneur de la Gruthuyse, ca. 1425–1492, a learned nobleman of Flanders who, commissioning some of the finest manuscripts which have come down to us, set an example for Charles the Bold of Burgundy.
[4]Anne of Austria, 1602–66, daughter of Philip III of Spain, wife of Louis XIII of France, a great book collector.
[4]Anne of Austria, 1602–66, daughter of Philip III of Spain, wife of Louis XIII of France, a great book collector.
[5]Paul Girardot de Préfond, eighteenth-century French collector, whose fine books are now scattered in many libraries.
[5]Paul Girardot de Préfond, eighteenth-century French collector, whose fine books are now scattered in many libraries.
[6]François Maynard, 1582–1646, a French author, who, having vainly sought favor, loudly lamented his fate from the scene of his retirement in Toulouse.
[6]François Maynard, 1582–1646, a French author, who, having vainly sought favor, loudly lamented his fate from the scene of his retirement in Toulouse.
[7]Urbain Chevreau, seventeenth-century French writer of some reputation in his own time, and a very discriminating bibliophile.
[7]Urbain Chevreau, seventeenth-century French writer of some reputation in his own time, and a very discriminating bibliophile.
[8]Antoine-Marie-Henri Boulard, 1754–1825, avid collector who lived in Paris.
[8]Antoine-Marie-Henri Boulard, 1754–1825, avid collector who lived in Paris.
[9]The Bollandists are Belgian Jesuits who published the voluminous and weightyActa Sanctorumlegends of saints, arranged according to the days of the calendar.
[9]The Bollandists are Belgian Jesuits who published the voluminous and weightyActa Sanctorumlegends of saints, arranged according to the days of the calendar.
[10]Paris, 1613 or 1623, an adaptation in verse from theHistoria Ethiopicaof Heliodorus.
[10]Paris, 1613 or 1623, an adaptation in verse from theHistoria Ethiopicaof Heliodorus.
[11]Two scenes of Cyrano used by Molière in theFourberies de Scapin, Paris, 1671.
[11]Two scenes of Cyrano used by Molière in theFourberies de Scapin, Paris, 1671.
[12]Antoine-Aléxandre Barbier, 1765–1825, bibliophile, and author of aDictionnaire des Anonymes.
[12]Antoine-Aléxandre Barbier, 1765–1825, bibliophile, and author of aDictionnaire des Anonymes.
[13]Antoine Bauzonnet, Paris bookbinder of the mid-nineteenth century.
[13]Antoine Bauzonnet, Paris bookbinder of the mid-nineteenth century.