Poitiers, Castle of, in _Calendar_ of Months, 170 Poitiers, Diane de (mistress of Henri II), intimate friend of Anne de Montmorency, 7, 230; portraits of, 141, 240, 241; her beautiful daughter "Brasseu," 228; reception at Lyons, 231 Poliziano, writer of sonnets on Simonetta Vespucci, 146 Pollaiuolo, Antonio, 146 Pompadour, Mme. de, and Boucher, 257; portraits of, 257, 263 _Pompey enters the Temple in Triumph_ in _Antiquitates Judæorum_, 189 _Pont de Sèvres_, by S. W. Reynolds, 274 Porcelain, collection of Chantilly, 277 _Port St. Nicholas_, by Dupré, 275 Pot, Anne de (mother of Anne de Montmorency), marriage, 5 Pourbus, portrait of _Henri IV_, 142 Pourtales vase, the famous, 136 Poussin, Nicolas, his works, 135, 146, 249, 250; history of, 249, 250; and Simon Vouet, 251 _Prayer Book of Anne de Bretagne_, 198 _Precieuses Ridicules, The_, acted at Chantilly, 75 Presler, Raoul de, translates St. Augustine's _Cité de Dieu_, 157 _Preux de Marignan_, 151, 157, 202, 204; painted by Perréal, 204, 206 Prie, Mme. de (mistress of the Duc de Bourbon), charms and machinations of, 93, 94; exile and death, 94 Primaticcio, Francesco, his portrait of Henri II, 133, 236; the frescoes at Fontainebleau, 228 Princess Palatine, Charlotte Elizabeth (devoted friend of the Grand Condé), portrait of, 245; Charlotte Elizabeth (second wife of Philippe d'Orléans), 254 _Procession, A_, by Bouts, 146; _of the Magi_, by the Limbourgs, 174, 201 _n._ _Prophets_, by Michael Angelo, 131 Protais, _Avant et après le Combat_, 135 Protestant cause in France, 17-19, 21, 23, 85; disaster at Vimory and Auneau, 26 Provence, Comte de, portrait by Duplessis, 261 Prud'hon, Pierre, works by, 139, 147, 258, 267; Napoleon confers the Legion of Honour on, 267 _Psalter of Queen Ingeburge of Denmark_, 150, 158 Pucelle, Jean, 160 Pyrenees, Peace of the, 64 Quesnel, Brothers, works by, 142, 143, 246 Quesnoy, M. (French sculptor), and Poussin, 249 Quitaut, Captain, arrests the Grand Condé, 48 Quthe, Pierre, portraits by François Clouet, 235, 236 Racine, Jean, at Chantilly, 75, 76, 83 Raimondi, Marc Antonio, works of, 134 Raphael, works by, 130, 139, 140, 148, 149 Ravaillac assassinates Henri IV, 15 _Reading Monk, A_, by Raphael, 130 Reboul's Collection, 149 _Recueils, Gaignière_, 185, 186; _Lenoir_, 214; _Marriette_, 214; _d'Orange_, 214; _du Tillet_, 215; _d'Arras_, 215 _Reine de Mai, La_, 168 Reiset Collection, 130, 144-146, 156, 269 Rembrandt, Paul, _Mountainous Landscape_, 131; other works, 134 Renaissance, distinction between French and Italian, 7; architecture, 187 _Renaissance, La_, by Laborde, 212 René, King, owned _Livre d'Heures_, 202 Rénée de France (Duchesse de Ferrara), her marriage, 221; portraits of, 218, 221 Reni, Guido, his work at Musée Condé, 132 _Repos des paysans, Le_, by Brothers le Nain, 248 _Resurrection_, 138 _Return from the Captivity_, 184