Editorial note — The Ignorance Of The Middle Ages.

[Footnote 199: Dander, Missions scientifiques.]

[Footnote 200: Renan, Missions scientifiques.]

[Footnote 201: Dom Pitra, ibid.]

[Footnote 202: Dander, ibid.]

[Footnote 203: There are proofs, says Daremberg, that the Franks of the age of Charlemagne read Pliny. These books were not lost, but preserved in the convents.]

[Footnote 204: Dom Pitra, Missions scientifiques.]

[Footnote 205: See Villemain, Histoire de la Littérature du Moyen Age, lesson x.]