The book of the ladies: Illustrious Dames: The Reign and Amours of the Bourbon RégimeBrantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille
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The book of the ladies: Illustrious Dames: The Reign and Amours of the Bourbon Régime
Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille
France -- Biography; France -- Court and courtiers; Queens; Women -- Biography
ISABELLA OF BAVARIA, wife of Charles VI. of France, first brought the pomps and fashions of dress to France, 157.
JEANNE D’AUTRICHE, wife of Jean, Infante of Portugal, 270-273.
JEANNE DE FRANCE (Madame), daughter
of Louis XI., married to and divorced by Louis XII., 215, 216.
LABANOFF (Prince Alexander), his careful research into the history of Marie Stuart, 121.
L’HÔPITAL (Michel de), chancellor of France, epithalamium on the marriage of Marie Stuart and François II., 124;
his changed feeling, 131, 132.
LOUIS XII., King of France, 25, 29, 30, 31, 32, 39, 41-43.
LOUISE DE FRANCE (Madame), daughter of François I. and Queen Claude, died young, 223.
LOUISE DE LORRAINE, Queen of France, wife of Henri III., 280-282, 283.
MAGDELAINE DE FRANCE (Madame), daughter of François I. and Queen Claude, wife of James V. of Scotland, 223, 224.
MAINTENON (Madame de), a pendant to Anne de Bretagne, 43.
MAISON-FLEUR (M. de), 91, 97, 300.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS, Queen of Navarre, sister of François I., wife of Henri d’Albret, King of Navarre, grandmother of Henri IV., 234;
her poems, 235;
her devotion to her brother, 237-240, 245, 249;
interest in the phenomenon of death, 242;
her “Nouvelles,” 242, 243, 244;
Sainte-Beuve’s essay on her, 243-261;
her learning and comprehension of the Renaissance, 244, 245;
her letters, 249;
Erasmus’ opinion of her, 250, 251;
favours, but does not belong
to, the Religion, 251-255;
her writings, the Heptameron, 255-260;
the patron of the Renaissance, 261;
her works, 303.
MARGUERITE DE FRANCE (Madame), daughter of François I. and Queen Claude, wife of the Duc de Savoie, 224-229.
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