One of the bread-winners had departed, and the family were poorer than ever.
"On that Monday," says Jasmin, "I for the first time knew and felt that we were very poor." All this is told with marvellous effect in the first part of the Souvenirs, which ends with a wail and a sob.
Endnotes to Chapter I.
{1} It is stated in the Bibliographie Generale de l'Agenais, that Palissy was born in the district of Agen, perhaps at La Chapelle Biron, and that, being a Huguenot, he was imprisoned in the Bastille at Paris, and died there in 1590, shortly after the massacre of St.Bartholomew.
But Palissy seems to have been born in another town, not far from La Chapelle Biron.

The Times of the 7th July, 1891, contained the following paragraph:-- "A statue of Bernard Palissy was unveiled yesterday at Villeneuvesur-Lot, his native town, by M.Bourgeois, Minister of Education." {2} L'hopital means an infirmary or almshouse for old and impoverished people..