Every attempt has been made to replicate the original as printed. Some typographical errors have been corrected; a list follows the text. Illustration markings have been moved from mid-paragraph for ease of reading. The printed French has not been corrected or modernized. (etext transcriber's note) CHANTILLY [Illustration: _Mary Stuart at the age of nine years from the drawing in the Musée Condé at Chantilly._] CHANTILLY IN HISTORY AND ART BY LOUISE M. RICHTER (MRS. J. P. RICHTER) WITH PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1913 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO MY DEAR FRIEND MRS. LUDWIG MOND THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED PREFACE My first visit to Chantilly was in April 1904, when the Exhibition of the French Primitives at the Pavillon Marsan, following close on that at Bruges, raised interest and comment far outside the boundaries of France. I visited the Musée Condé with the intention of studying some more examples of the French fifteenth-and sixteenth-century art which had so much attracted me in Paris. The high expectations I had conceived were not disappointed, and the result was that my studies in that marvellous collection were prolonged. Weeks grew into months. The Limbourgs, Jean Fouquet, and the Clouets held me in their spell; the Château of Chantilly, with the history of its famous owners, aroused my interest more and more. Through the great courtesy of the late M. Anatol Gruyer and of M. Gustave Macon, Directors of the Musée Condé, I was given access to all the art-treasures within its walls and I was allowed to while away my time with the famous miniatures and drawings and with the pictures in which I was so much interested. Tranquil and undisturbed, often quite alone, meeting now and then only the furtive glance of one or other of the Museum attendants, who were always ready at hand to be of service, I was enabled to pursue my studies without interruption, owing to the great kindness of my friend M. Macon. The excellent Library, too, was at my disposal, as well as the manuscripts in the Cabinet des Livres.