Note 282 — Chapter VII · The Building of Polisy and the last years of Jean de Dinteville. His supposed Portrait at Windsor
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He may indeed have been acquainted with greater than they. In 1540 Benvenuto Cellini was in the service of the French Court, and twenty-one years earlier, when the future Bailly was yet a boy, Lionardo da Vinci died at the Château Cloux, near Amboise.