I see no other object, Though beauteous it may be In many a subject, To which my heart consents, Since its perfection lacks In this affection. End here, my song, Thy sad complaint, Of which be this the burden: True love, not feigned, Because of separation Shall have no diminution. VI. (See page 235.) This book, entitled _Les Marguerites de la Marguerite des princesses_, is a collection of the poems of this princess, made by Simon de La Haie, surnamed Sylvius, her _valet de chambre_, and printed at Lyon, by Jean de Tournes, 1547, 8vo. The _Nouvelles_ of the Queen of Navarre appeared for the first time without the name of the author, under the title: _Histoire des Amants fortunés, dediée à l’illustre princesse, Madame Marguerite de Bourbon, Duchesse de Nivernois_, by Pierre Boaistuau, called Launay. Paris, 1558 4to. This edition contains only sixty-seven tales, and the text has been garbled by Boaistuau. The second edition is entitled: _Heptameron des Nouvelles de très-illustre et très-excellente princesse Marguerite de Valois, reine de Navarre, remis en son vrai ordre_, by Charles Gruget, Paris, 1559, 4to. _French editor._ * * * * * In 1841 M. Genin published a volume of Queen Marguerite’s letters, and in the following year a volume of her letters addressed to François I. Since then Comte H. de La Ferrière-Percy has made her the subject of an interesting “Study.” This careful investigator having discovered her book of expenses, kept by Frotté, Marguerite’s secretary, has developed from it a daily proof of the beneficent spirit and inexhaustible liberality of the good queen. The title of the book is: _Marguerite d’Angoulême, sœur de François I^{er}_. Aubry: Paris, 1862. The poems of François I., with other verses by his sister and mother, were published in 1847 by M. Aimé Champollion. Notes to Sainte-Beuve’s Essay. VII (See page 262.) The Ladies given in Discourse VII. appear under the head of “The Widows” in the volume of _Les Dames Galantes_, a very different book from the _Livre des Dames_, which is their rightful place. As Brantôme placed them under the title of Widows, he has naturally enlarged chiefly upon the period of their widowhood. French editor. INDEX. ANNE DE BRETAGNE, Queen of France, wife of Charles VIII. and of Louis XII., her inheritance, lovers, and first marriage, 25, 26; her beauty, wisdom, and goodness, 26; spirit of revenge, 27, 28; second marriage, 29; the first queen to hold a great court, a noble school for ladies, 29, 30; how King Louis honoured her, 30-32; her death and burial, 32-34; her noble record, 34, 35, 37; her tomb at Saint-Denis, 39; the founder of a school of manners and perfection for her sex, 42, 43; Sainte-Beuve’s remarks upon her, 40-43, 219. ANNE DE FRANCE (Madame), daughter of Louis XI., 216-218. BLANCHE DE MONTFERRAT, Duchesse de Savoie, 293-297.