Note 59 — SIXTH DISCOURSE[56*]
A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson translation
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◆See the sojourn of Charles VIII. at Lyons: Séjours de Charles VIII. et Louis XII. à Lyon sur le Rosne jouxte la copie des faicts, gestes et victoires des roys Charles VIII. et Louis XII., Lyon, 1841.
◆Louis XII. had really been a “good fellow,” without mentioning the laundress of the court, who was rumored to be the mother of Cardinal de Bucy, he had known at Genoa Thomasina Spinola, with whom, according to Jean d’Authon, his relations were purely moral.