NPPF: Notes C.1-4 - C.42

[Jasper Fidget]

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> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf Of James Kyllo
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> From: Jasper Fidget <jasper at hatguild.org>
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> 
> >pg 76
> >"Coriolanus Lane" (where Charles Xavier lives while slumming at the
> lectern
> >of Zembla U):
> 
> 
> and this is where we learn the King's middle name ; Charles Xavier ie
> Charles X.  One of several references to exiled or insane kings.  Charles
> X
> of France, before coming to the throne, was exiled from the outbreak of
> the
> French Revolution until the restoration in 1814.  He became King in 1824,
> but abdicated in 1829 and died in Illyria
> 
> 
> James
> 

Also:

Charles IX of Sweden, who was known as Karl IX, as in "Teach, Karlik!"(76).


http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_IX_of_Sweden

Charles XVI Gustav of Sweden, in whose name one can almost make out Charles
XaVIer Vseslav, and who must have been a prince at the time of VN's writing
PF.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_XVI_Gustav_of_Sweden

Jasp