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From
an
Engraving
after
a
Drawing
by
an
unknown
artisty
in
the
Bibliothkque
Rationale
y
Paris
)
CHARLES
SCRIBNER'S
SONS
1907
TO
MY
WIFE
S69309
to
give
her
hand
to
the
man
who
possessed
her
heart,
she
was
compelled
to
vii
two
parties
which
Cardinal
de
Richelieu.
against
her.
Finding
ix
Sainte-Beuve.
of
her
life
she
became
exceedingly
devout,
and
ended
by
attending
as
xi
had
endeared
her
to
the
Parisians
and
done
much
to
obliterate
the
memory
of
monograph
of
M.
de
Salnt-Poncy,
and
contains,
besides,
a
good
deal
xii
WILLIAMS.
London,
November
1906.
xui
XXII
XXIII
XXIV
Page
XV
376
xvm
Dames
illustres.
I
A
Marguerite
was
that
her
birth
at
Fontainebleau.
1575.
3
Montgommery
had
cut
short
the
life
of
Henry
II.
and,
after
a
brief
reign
of
eighteen
months,
Francois
II.,
the
youthful
and
sickly
husband
of
Marie
Stuart,
had
invariably
beset
a
Regency
were
joined
other
troubles.
Since
the
death
of
Henri
II.,
the
authority
of
of
Marie
Stuart's
uncles,
the
Due
de
4
every
important
act
of
his
reign
down
to
the
time
of
her
death.
By
the
majority
of
her
contemporaries,
particularlyby
those
who
viewed
her
only
from
a
distance,
Catherine
is
represented
as
a
sinister
figure,
with
little
of
the
woman
5
V
moment
and
incapable
of
perceiving
any
petty
6
et
de
Navarre^
i.
26.
8
as
foolish
as
my
gouvernante.
And
my
brother
of
Anjou,
adding
threats
9
1
Memoires
et
lettres
de
Marguerite
de
Valois
(edit,
Guessard,
1842.)
greater
part
of
the
country
was
plunged
one
finds
there
many
passages
reminiscent
of
II
X
mother,
who
now
persuaded
him
to
undertake
a
grand
progress
through
the
various
provinces
of
his
realm,
and
sent
for
Marguerite,
who
was
not
yet
twelve
years
old,
to
accompany
her.
Catherine
hoped
much
from
this
progress,
which
was
intended
to
make
the
young
sovereign
acquainted
M6r6
while
besieging
Orleans,
on
February
18,
1563.
12

Lyons,
where
the
Duke
and
Duchess
of
Savoy
visited
the
Court
and
were
splendidly
entertained.
Then,
at
the
beginning
of
the
spring,
the
progress
was
resumed,
and
the
Court
13
Queen-
14
that
Elisabeth
died
a
natural
death.
16
move
in
this
desperate
game
was
within
an
ace
of
being
successful.
The
Court
was
at
the
Chateau
of
17
B
Not
more
than
five
or
six
hundred
horse,
according
to
Protestant
writers.
18
After
the
battle
of
Jarnac,
in
which
a
felon-shot
had
19
park
which
surrounded
a
prisoner,
by
the
Baron
de
Montesquieu,
a
creature
of
Anjou,
very
probably
by
that
prince's
orders.
2
of the
youthful
commander.
20
happiness
to
you
to
be
loved
by
her.
You
will
greatly
advantage
both
yourself
and
me,
21
as
22
The
King
took
it
in
good
part,
and
used
to
correct
himself.
24
fabricated
on
purpose
to
destroy
me,
he
replied
d'AumMe.
3
See
the
study
by
Sainte-Beuve,
Causeries
du
Lutidi,
vi.
190
ei
seq.
25
two
boys
she
would
we
have
since
seen
fulfilled.
26
by
the
diplomatic
correspondence
of
the
time.
27
of
a
port
and
majesty
more
like
to
a
28
de
Valois.
inquired
the
Queen-Mother.
30
Navarre,
Marguerite
d'Angouleme
and
Jeanne
d'Albret,
had
had
in
their
day
32
Mayenne,
born
March
1554.
(4)
Louis,
Cardinal
de
Guise,
born
July
1555.
(5)
Fran-
9ois,
born
December
1558,
died
October
1573.
33
c
Odemo'ires
de
Tavannes.
34
35
some
months
previously.
36
family
was
the
object
of
his
specialantipathy.
He
had
been
intensely
37
many
suitors
when
I
am
gone.
I
38
of
HENRI
DE
LORRAINE,
DUC
DE
GUISE
From
an
Engraving
by
Le
Blond,
in
the
British
Museum
des
derniers
Falois,
39
encouraged
his
nephew
in
the
marriage
of
Madame
Marguerite
with
40
1
Bibliothique
Rationale,
Coll.
Simancas,
cited
by
BouII16,
Histoire
des
Dues
de
Guise,
iii.
28.
41
42
been
the
44
of
the
succeeding
reign.
45
certain,
however,
that
there
had
been
some
has
so
46
declined
to
part
with
it.
47
sixteen
or
seventeen
48
of
the
marriage.'*
His
patience
exhausted,
Charles
IX.
wrote
to
Fourque-aux:
If
there
is
a
prince

50
qui
ont
prepare
et
amene
k
Salnte-Bar-
thlktny.
5*
had
so
much
England,
as
the
counterpart
53
of
1570
was
really
Valois,
and
entertained
the
most
profound
their
professions
54
persuasions
to
55
for
the
Huguenots
had
the
far-
sighted
Queen
persisted
in
this
S6
an
assembly
of
Huguenot
nobles
to
confer
with
her.
She
next
visited
Lectoure,
the
capital
of
her
county
of
57
intensely
anxious
for
its
conclusion.
Cardinal
Alessandrino,
who
had
journeyed
from
Lisbon,
was,
in
fact,
the
bearer
of
a
letter
from
the
young
sovereign
to
Charles
IX.,
wherein
he
even
offered
to
accept
the
hand
of
Marguerite
without
a
dowry,
pro-
58
d
JEANNE
D'ALBRET,
QUEEN
OF
NAVARRE
From
an
Engraving
after
a
Drawing
attributed
to
FRAN901S
Clouet,
in
the
Bihliotheqiie
ationalf,
Paris
J^îifUel^'
no
more
than
dirt
in
the
estimation
of
all
good
Catholics.
59
Marguerite
de
Valois,
60
6i
62
concessions
which
she
might
seek
in
vain
from
his
obstinate
mother,
if
not
through
64
65
E
forgot
our
devotion^
66
momentous
questions
involved,
67
First,
68
Published
by
Bingham,
Marriages
of
the
Bourbons,
i.
163.
69
a
kind
of
provisionary
convention.
70
force
as
to
render
any
attempt
against
them
on
the
part
72
am
not
a
Huguenot,
but
neither
am
I
a
fool.
If
M.
le
Pape
73
and
so
forth.
The
document
embodying
these
conditions
was
pre-ented
to
Charles
IX.
and
the
Queen-Mother
by
Jeanne
d'Albret,
who
expressed
her
intention
of
adhering
to
1
L'Estoile.
74
of
their
Majesties
and
set
out
for
Paris.
75
on
learning
Henriette de
is
incorrect.
76
exception
of
the
lungs.
A
large
abscess
was
there
discovered,
which
had
broken,
the
77
1
Palma
Cayet,
Chronologie
ovennaire*
78
In
the
Faubourg
Saint-Antoine
the
young
King
was
80
grasp,
to
conduct
themselves
with
tact
and
moderation,
and
of
8l
F
entirely
dominated
by
the
Huguenot
leader
8?
second
Jezebel
by
the
83
very
courteously
that
they
were
not
questions
to
be
discussed
with
women
and
clerks.
2
Armand
Baschet,
Diplomaiie
venitienne.
meanwhile
become
a
Catholic,
the
dispensationwas
granted.
85
**
offices
and
benefices.
86
Bibliotheque
'Rationale,
Paris
of
people
thronged
the
windows
and
1
Giovanni
Michieli,
Relazlone
delta
corte
di
Francia^
cited
by
Armand
Baschet,
la
Diplomaiie
venitienne.
2
Memoires
et
lettres
de
Marguerite
de
Falois
(edit.
Guessard).
87
that
he
well-nigh
lost
con-ciousness.
88
Spaniards,
in
Flanders.
89
Mongez,
Histoire
de
Marguerite
de
Valois.
90
92
the
mortification
of
seeing
her
once
undisputed
influence
over
her
feeble
son
93
D'Aubign6,
Histoire
unwerselle^
iii.
303.
94
own
countries
who
had
taken
refuge
in
France.
95
Paris
96
de
Guise.
97
G
Rue de
behind
him,
was
found
to
belong
to
one
of
Anjou's
guards.
98
Guise
alone,
since
the
Queen-Mother
and
his
brother
Anjou
had
been
lOO
\\Xi
Wv'A
the
Bibliotheque
Nationale,
aris
j^^^f;
insolence
so
far
as
to
threaten
the
King
with
a
renewal
of
the
lOI
Finally,
she
showed
that
out
of
the
peril
force
to
dislodge
them.
two
or
three
men,
obedience.
102
the
Palais
de
Justice.
104
Claude
de
Valois,
Duchess
of
Lorraine.
I
OS
King
of
Navarre's
equerries.
Alexandre
Dumas,
in
hi*
uod
Guards
since
1568.
107
Memoires
de
Marguerite
de
Va/ois
(edit.
Guessard).
io8
enemies,
and
perceiving
the
snare,
skilfully
avoided
begged
her
109
some
evil
turn.
iio
openly
resenting
the
sneers
and
taunts
which
the
Catholic
nobles
felt
themselves
safe
in
levelling
112
were
prisoner
of
a
kinglet,
at
whom
he
threw
all
kinds
of
jests
and
taunts,
as
though
he
were
a
simple
page
or
lackey
of
the
Court,
deeply
pained
a
number
of
honest
people
who
were
watching
them
play.
113
fl
in
an
almost
precisely
similar
dish.
114
.itgw^ff^W:^
Bibliotheque
Nationale,
Paris
eagle
of
his
own
mountains
among
a
troupe
of
peacocks.
Although
Marguerite
affected
to
despise
the
curled
and
ii6
gossip.
117
to
remark
that
one
might
keep
a
register
of
the
debauches
of
La
Mole
by
counting
the
of
West
rather
than
of
ii8
dictated
the
replies
to
his
brother,
to
the
latter's
intense
mortification.
Compelled
to
betake
himself,
together
with
Navarre
and
119
caps
decorated
with
jewelled
aigrettes,
and
high
boots
of
yellow
leather.
120
2
Brant6me.
121
sister
and
izz
1
La
Reine
Margpt
et
lefin
de
ValoUy
p.
85.
126
the
127
D'Aubign^,
Hhtoire
universellet
iv.
130
de
131
of
satin
or
velvet,
which,
according
to
the
custom
of
the
time,
the
ladies
of
place.
However,
her
scheme
came
to
nothing.
(edit.
Guessard).
132
At
least,
exclaimed
the
dying
King,
on
his
sick-bed
at
Vincennes,
when
informed
of
133
orders
from
Vincennes,
found
the
134
doubt
amply
indem-ified
subsequently.
136
to
inter
them,
with
their
own
hands,
in
the
Chapel
of
Saint-Martin,
which
stands
at
the
Cited
by
Armand
Baschet,
la
Diplomatie
venetienne.
m
CavalH,
cited
by
Armand
Baschet,
la
Diplomatic
venetienne,
138
OF
FRANCE
Rationale,
Paris
that
Mont-
gommery,
the
involuntary
murderer
of
Henri
H.,
had
surrendered,
Catherine
hurried
to
the
King's
bed-side
140
France,
died
April
2,
1578,
141
vaults
in
which
slept
so
many
rulers
of
France.
14a
Nationale,
fonds
Dupuy,
published
by
M.
Charles
Merki.
H3
Catherine,
travelled
144
days.
145
K
forebodings
began
to
be
realised.
146
d'O.^
she
had
marked
out
for
herself,
and
of
148
K-
149
(edit.Guessard).
150
Henri's
visit
to
151
with
the
Royalist
cause.
152
Te
Deum.
Three
days
after
his
coronation,
Henri,
who
appears
153
thoughtfulness,
but
begged
to
be
excused.
His
Majesty,
however,
would
take
no
refusal,
15+
prime
of
life.
156
sense
of
his
157
who
touched
it.
158
At
this
banquet,
the
guests
were
waited
on
by
ladies,
dressed,
like
men,
in
costumes
o
fgreen
silk,
which
are
said
to
have
cost
upwards
of
60,000
livres.
159
at
fault.
160
to
prevent
l6l
L
pretty,
but
sensual
and
cunning.
de
Valois,
i.
192.
162
an
unknoicn
artist,
in
the
'B'lbliotheque
Kaiionale,
Pari)
j;,6i-^
his
old
age,
he
was
gouverneur
of
Louis
XIII.
163
the
last
Valois
was
engaged
in
a
law-suit.
164
to
my
brother.
The
King
lost
no
time
in
informing
the
Queen-Mother,
165
Fran9ois
I.
166
La
Reine
Mar
got
et
la
fin
des
Valois,
p.
1
24.
2
Marguerite
de
Valois,
i.
300-302.
168
however,
was
none
the
less
determined
to
169
Marguerite
de
Va/ois
(edit.
Guessard).
170
death,
the
Comte
de
Nermont.
171
war
and
brought
him
but
a
7*
Marguerite,
which
we
have
followed,
is
to
be
preferred.
The
princess
173
by
L'Estoile.
de
Montpensier,
curtly
refused.
174
conjugal
devotion.
176
Poland.
177
M
Memohes
et
lettres
de
Marguerite
de
Valois
(edit.
Guessard).
178
gates
were
closed,
he
and
his
accomplices
made
for
the
city
walls,
down
which
they
179
Guast's
malignant
tongue
had
injured
more
than
one
lady
of
the
highest
rank.
In
1
80
a
very
reprehensible
speech
no
doubt,
but
also
very
natural,
181
and
all
manner
of
wickedness.
Hist
aire
de
Marguerite
de
Valois.
182
not
to
cross
the
Loire.
184
Marguerite
de
Valoh.
1
8s
reasoning,
consented
to
proposed.
Catherine
i86
(edit.
Giiessard).
187
y
i 8
immediately
obtain
permission
for
her
to
depart.
And
so
very
re-uctantly
the
Queen
of
Navarre
returned
to
Paris.
189
clergy
of
Notre-Dame
declined
to
allow
190
been
subjected
at
192
her
193
N
Memoires
et
leltres
de
Marguerite
de
Valo'u
(edit.
Guessard).
194
had
been
publicly
readmitted
into
the
Calvinistic
communion
in
June
1576.
95
Memoires
et
lettres
de
Marguerite
de
Valois
(edit.
Guessard).
196
(see
p.
26
supra).
197
had, therefore,
it
was
suggested
that
Marguerite
should
find
some
198
bishopric
of
Liege.
aoo
de
Chateaudun.
201
Medici,
delighted
in
pomp
and
magnificence,
and
2^2
/ 2
hauteur
et
Pepaisseur
du
corps.
203
devoid
of
the
ingrained
rusticity
of
the
Flemings,
and
far
superior
to
the
Z04
sympathies,
and
Marguerite
was,
there-ore,
encouraged
to
open
her
mind
to
her
freely.
She,
205
on
their
marriage.
206
to
kiss.
208
hangings
were
composed,
were
a
gift
to
Don
Juan
from
a
wealthy
Turkish
pacha,
in
recognition
of
the
prince's
magnanimity
in
restoring
to
209
o
delay
to
arrange
a
water-
picnic
for
his
guest's
2IO
MAUI
'Ôa
parture
until
the
morrow.
Don
Juan
the
delay
t
e
a
water-
picnt
DON
JUAN
OF
AUSTRIA
From
a
contemporary
Spanish
Print
birth,
the
sons
of
great
German
nobles.
212
to attack,
and driven
213
we
me,
with
214
Household
for
more
than
six
weeks.
The
difficulty
was
eventually
surmounted
215
with
nothing
in
the
shape
of
a
passport
save
her
trust
in
God,
216
townspeople,
Huguenots
are
lying
in
wait
for
her
on
the
French
frontier
streets,
and
pointing
it
against
my
lodging,
before
the
entrance
to
which
they
stretched
217
the)-
perceived
us
218
as
220
Lenoncourt,
Bishop
of
Auxerre,
was
not
created
a
cardinal
until
1585.
22(
town.
I
passed
through
it,
accompanied
by
a
part
of
the
townsfolk,
and
redoubling
my
speed
222
water-side
2*3
they
224
God,
escaped
all
the
snares
and
pitfalls
of
my
enemies.
225
p
L'Estoile.
226
de
Valois,
i.
475.
228
excite
their
229
accompany
her
daughter
to
the
South,
as
it
was
necessary
that
she
nobility
with
as
valuable
a
militaryexperience
as
they
had
formerly
found
in
Piedmont.
Henri
HI.
had
no
mind
to
lend
230
Maugiron,
Baron
d'Ampuis,
Lieutenant-General
of
Dauphine.
231
attacked
Bussy,
who
was
232
ugly,
hump-backed
and
crooked,
and
still
worse,
233
unworthy
favourites.
During
the
preceding
year,
while
the
234
the
Btbbotheque
attonale,aris
235
and
the
Scots,
ordering
them
Iiot
to
allow
him
to
speak
to
any
one.
236
power
237
out
of
the
question,
238
240
a
Daughter
of
France,
Queen
of
241
Q
Seine,
was
built
against
the
city
walls.
242
conclude
his
preparations
for
his
expedition
to
Flanders.
243
disturbing
the
kingdom.
With
which
assurance
his
Majesty
was
fain
to
be
content.
244
the
sequestra-
245
bid
farewell
to
Monsieur,
246
Fosseux,
maids-of-honour
to
the
Queen
of
Navarre.
And
Brantome,
Dames
lllustres.
248
to
the
Huguenots
by
the
Peace
of
Bergerac.
249
was
250
.'r;i
iiikO
Museum
/
Memoires
du
Due
de
Bouillon.
was,
of
course,
to
be
Denmark,
and
fell,
fighting
by
his
side,
at
Ivry.
253
nobles,
so
much
so
indeed
that
Marguerite
tells
us
that
there
were
moments
Bethune,
afterwards
Due
de
Sully.
254
eyes,
implored
her
mother
to
give
them
peace.
255
Parlement.
256
the
affairs
of
those
of
the
Religion.
257
R
while,
with
*58.
Bourbon,
260
Marquis
de
Thury,
Baron
de
Fosseux.
She
married
Fran9ois
de
Broc,
Baron
de
Cinq-Mars.
261
See
page
272
infra.
262
Bussy,
perceived
a
263
was
eventually
overpowered
and
slain
(August
19,
1579).
264
Marguerite
de
Falois,
265
other
towns,
appeared
before
N6rac.
266
(edit.
Guessard).
268
/
Marguerite^
ses
memoires
et
de$
lettres.
270
Marguerite
de
Valois
(edit.Guessard).
271
Mimoires
et
lettres
de
Marguerite
de
Valois
(edit.
Guessard).
27a
ou
bien
pour
se
difaire
de
ce
qu'elle
avaity^
put
it
into
his
273
s
Marguerite
de
Valois,
Archives
Historiques
of
Gascony,
cited
by
M.
Charles
Merki,
La
Reine
Margot
et
la
Jin
da
Valoisy
p.
247.
274
the
Queen's
might
not
receive
proper
276
complacency
^77
278
abandon
my
intention
of
returning
to
France.
But,
since
I
had
already
given
my
promise
in
my
letters
to
the
King
and
the
Queen
my
mother,
279
Memoires
et
lettres
de
Marguerite
de
Valois
(edit.
Guessard).
280
a
very

a
satisfactory
explanation
of
these
proceedings
281
282
Marguerite
de
Valois
(edit,
Guessard).
2S4
congi^
was
highly
indignant,
and
despatched
Frontenac,
one
of
his
gentle-en,
to
his
wife
to
acquaint
her
hinder
myself
from
advancing
her
interests.
I
have
suffered
what,
I
will
not
say
a
princess,
but
a
285
nobility
or
daughters
Poitiers,
s86
287
lady
had
been
one
of
her
Dunkerque,
Ostend,
288
Coutras.
289
T
.C-i-'W
290
presumably
means
the
League.
292
the
post
of
nurse
to
the
princess.
293
294
Til
IHV'AH
aint-
Jacques,
in
Ptrii,
and
L'Estoilc
HENRI
ni.,
KING
OF
FRANCE
From
an
Engraving
by
L'Armessin
, _
.^.-
_
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' yaeitccj-/'fnottijnj'popu/mrej;tyn^4Curêsîr/ji^
Marguerite
de
Valois.
296
Queen
of
Navarre
had
received.
Duras,
whose
297
298
Duplessis-Mornay.
299
Imperial
Library,
St.
Petersburg,
published
by
La
Ferriere.
300
1576.
In
1599,
Henri
ly.
appointed
him
Chancellor.
301
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