- Tallemant des Reaux, Historiettes, 2 vols (Paris: Levasseur, 1834), II, 25–26.
- See T. Lawrenson, 'The wearing o' the Green, yet another look at Thomme aux rubans verte, in Molière: stage and study: essays in honour of W. G. Moore, ed. W. Howarth and M. Thomas, (Oxford: Clarendon, 1973) pp.163–69.
- D. De Many, Louis XIV and Versailles (London: Batsford, 1987), plate 5, for a reproduction of the painting and notes.
- Appendice a Pam& 1679', in Journal du Marquis de Dangeau, 19 vols (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1856), VI, 261.
- De Manly, p. 23.
- See J. Coural, I. Denis and V. Glasgow, The Sun King: Louis XIV and the new world (New Orleans: Louisiana Museum Foundation, 1984), pp. 281–82.
- See C. Cole, Colbert and a century of French mercantilism, 2 vols (London: FrankCass, 1964) II, 404–13.
- See R. Weigert, French Tapestry (London: Faber, 1962), p. 113.
- P. Clement, Histoire de Colbert, 2 vols (Paris: Didier, 1874), I, 235.
- F. Celoria, Fifty early 19th-century dyestuffs, in Science and Archaeology, 7 (1971), 13–35. I am indebted to Dr. Celoria for introducing me to this most useful reference, on which I have drawn abundantly, and for the generous loan of a technological handbook with samples of pre- and post-aniline dyes, G. Hurst, Silk dyeing, printing and finishing (London: George Bell, 1892).
- For botanical references, see R. Mabey, Flora Bn'tannica (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1996).
- For the ban on indigo under Henri W, see Cole, I, 67.
- R. Weigert, French Tapestry (London: Faber, 1962), p. 188.
- S. Dock, Costume and fashion in the plays of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliére (Geneva: Slatkine, 1992), contains a glossary which includes the following colours: amaranthe, céladon, cramoisi, incarnatlincanzadin.
- Saint-Simon, Mémoires, ed. A. De Boislisle (Paris, 1884), p. 405.
- Locke's travels in France 1675–1679, ed. J. Lough (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953), pp. 185–86, 254–55.
- De Manly, pp. 61–63.
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