1. A majority of the king’s gendarme companies were stationed along the periphery of the kingdom in garrisons in Picardy, the Pays Messin, and the Piedmont throughout most of the sixteenth century. See David L. Potter, War and Government in the French Provinces, 1470–1560 (Cambridge University Press: New York, 1993).
2. Richard Gascon, Grund commerce et vie urbaine au XVIe siècle. Lyon et ses marchands (Mouton: Paris, 1971)
3. Simon Power, “Firepower and the Design of Renaissance Fortifications,” Fort, 104 (1982): 93–104.
4. Martin Kemp, The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat(Yale University Press: New Haven, Conn., 1990).
5. Hélène Vérin, Lagloire des ingénieurs. L’intelligence technique du XVIe au XVIIIe siècles (Albin Michel: Paris, 1993), pp. 19–23.