Note 67 — Chapter I · The Early Life of Jean de Dinteville

The letters and chronicles of the time are rich in local colouring, and are preferable for the present object to the stately histories written in a subsequent age. The immense stores of manuscripts preserved in the public libraries of France, especially in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris, fortunately facilitate the task to a great extent. Among printed sources none are more valuable than the various series of State Papers, published both in England and France, the “Meslanges Historiques” of Camusat, and—for a contemporary French view of the events of the time—the Memoirs of the Du Bellay brothers.