Note 13 — THE REAL PRISONER OF CHILLON: A GENTLEMAN GROSSLY MISREPRESENTED.

This touching tribute of conjugal affection is all the more honorable to Bonivard from the fact that this wife, like the others, had provoked him. Only a few months before he had been compelled to appear before the consistory to answer for treating her in a public place with profane and abusive language, applying to her some French term which is expressed in the record only by abbreviations.