MICHELET: Jules Michelet (1798-1874) is said to have spent
forty years in the preparation of his great work, the _History of
France_. Cf. the same, translated by G. H. Smith, 2 vols., Appleton,
Vol. II, pp. 119-169; or _Joan of Arc_, from Michelet's _History
of France_, translated by O. W. Wight, New York, 1858.
67 8 RECOVERED LIBERTY: The Revolution of 1830 had expelled the
restored Bourbon kings.
67 20 THE BOOK AGAINST PRIESTS: Michelet's lectures as professor of
history in the College de France, in which he attacked the Jesuits,
were published as follows: _Des Jesuites_, 1843; _Du Pretre, de
la Femme et de la Famille_, 1844; _Du Peuple_, 1845. To the
second De Quincey apparently refers.
67 26 BACK TO THE FALCONER'S LURE: The lure was a decoy used to recall
the hawk to its perch,--sometimes a dead pigeon, sometimes an
artificial bird, with some meat attached.
68 6 ON THE MODEL OF LORD PERCY: These lines, as Professor Hart notes,
in Percy's Folio, ed. Hales and Furnivall, Vol. II, p. 7, run:
The stout Erle of Northumberland
a vow to God did make,
his pleasure in the Scottish woods
3 som_m_ers days to take.
68 27 PUCELLE D'ORLEANS: Maid of Orleans (the city on the Loire which
Joan saved).
69 1 THE COLLECTION, ETC.: The work meant is Quicherat, _Proces de
Condamnation et Rehabilitation de Jeanne d'Arc_, 5 vols.
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