* The Order is a fictitious one, based on the Benedictine convent of the Perpetual Adoration of the Holy Sacrament in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève (in what is now the 5th Arrondissement) and the Couvent Saint-Michel. There was also a Couvent des Dames du Sacré-Cœur et de l’Adoration Perpétuelle in the Saint-Antoine quarter. Hugo derived the exhaustive details which follow from ladies who had been inmates of these establishments.