“By my word,” said Ennasuite, “there are many who, thinking to do better than their fellows, do either worse or else the very opposite of what they desire.” “Truly,” said Geburon, “you remind me--though, indeed, the matter is not greatly to the point--of a woman who did the opposite of what she desired, and so caused a great uproar in the church of St. John of Lyons.” “I pray you,” said Parlamente, “take my place and tell us about it.” “My story,” said Geburon, “will not be so long or so piteous as the one we have heard from Parlamente.” [Illustration: 141.jpg Tailpiece] [Illustration: 143a. The Old Woman startled by the Waking of the Soldier] [The Old Woman startled by the Waking of the Soldier] [Illustration: 143.jpg Page Image] _TALE LXV_. _Though the priests of St. John of Lyons would fain have concealed it, the falsity of a miracle was brought to light through an old woman’s folly becoming known_. (1) In the church of St. John of Lyons there is a very dark chapel, and inside it a stone tomb with figures of great personages raised life-like upon it, whilst several men-at-arms lie all around it. 1 We believe that the incident here narrated occurred early in 1525, when Margaret is known to have been at Lyons. She and her husband (on his return from Pavia) resided there at the house of the Obédiencier de St. Just, and it was in the church of St. Just that the Duke of Alençon was buried. Doubtless it was during his illness that the _novena_ alluded to in the final tale of the _Heptameron_ was performed by Queen Margaret at the church of St. John of Lyons, where the two most important chapels, according to Quincarnon’s _Antiquités et la fondation de la Métropole des Gaules, &c._, Lyons, 1673, were the Most Holy Eucharist, or Bourbon chapel, built in 1449 by Charles de Bourbon, Primate of Gaul, and the Holy Sepulchre, or Good Friday chapel, erected at the beginning of the fifteenth century by Philip de Turey, Archbishop of Lyons. Unfortunately the church of St. John was in 1652 devastated by the Huguenots, who in their insensate fury destroyed almost all the tombs. It is therefore now impossible to identify the chapel and tomb to which the Queen of Navarre refers in the above story, though her allusion to the dimness of the light would incline us to place the incident she recounts in the Chapelle du St. Sépulcre.--L. and Ed.