The book of the ladies (illustrious dames),

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Image 10 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), VERSAILLES EDiri0N Limited to Eight Hundred Numbered Sets, of which this is No

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Image 13 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), THE BOOK OF THE LADIES (ILLUSTRIOUS DAMES) BY PIERRE DE BOURDEILLE ABB^ DE BRANTOME WITH ELUCIDATIONS ON SOME OF THOSE LADIES BY C.-A. SAINTE-BEUVE ^TranslatEli trg KATHARINE PRESCOTT WORMELEY ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS...

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Image 14 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), Y. •AAi5 31035 Copyright, 1899, By Hardy, Pratt Company. All rights reserved. t THE LIBRARY Ot CONGRtM WASHINOTOW John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

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Image 15 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), CONTENTS. Page INTRODUCTION 1 DISCOURSE I. Anne de Beetagne, Queen of France 25 Sainte-Beuve s remarks upon her 40 DISCOURSE II. Catherine de Medici, Queen, and mother of our last kings 44...

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Image 16 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), ■tvr CONTENTS. DISCOURSE VII. Of Various Illustrious Ladies Page Isabelle d Autriche, wife of Charles IX 262 Jeanne d Autriche, wife of the Infante of Portugal 270 Marie d Autriche, wife of...

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Image 17 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), LIST OF PHOTOGRAVURE ILLUSTRATIONS. PiEKEE DE BouEDEiLLE, Abbe AND Seigneur de Beantome Frontispiece From an old engraving by I. Von Schley. Page Feancois de Loeeaine, Due de Guise 8 By Fran9ois Clouet...

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Image 18 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), Vlll ILLUSTEATIONS. DiscouESK Paob V. Henri IV., King of France 166 By Franz Pourbus (le jeune) in the Louvre. V. Coronation of Marie de Medici, with Portraits 211 By Rubens (Peter Paul);...

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Image 19 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), INTEODUCTION.i The title, Vie des Dames Illustres, given habitually to one volume of Brantome s Works, is not that which was chosen by its author. It was given by his first editor...

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Image 20 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), 2 INTRODUCTION. him so that he never obtained a position worthy, not of his merits only, but of a name so illustrious as his. It was this that made him of a...

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Image 21 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), INTEODUCTION. 3 him much and very important knowledge on our History and France is so indebted to him for this labour that I do not hesitate to say that the services of...

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Image 22 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), 4 INTRODUCTION. that peopled it, and especially certain griffins, animals with four feet, and heads and wings like eagles. He had no sooner set foot on land with his men than he...

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Image 23 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), INTEODUCTION. 5 greatest personages. Pope Julius II. took a fancy to him. One day they were playing cards together and the pope won from my father three hundred crowns and his horses,...

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Image 24 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), 6 INTRODUCTION. leaving, he said to him, Ask what you want of me and you shall have it/ thinking my father would ask for his horses but my father did not ask...

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Date: 1899

Image 25 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), INTEODUCTION. 7 crowns, with which he departed in 1558, bearing, he says, a matchlock arquebuse, a fine powder-horn from Milan, and mounted on a hackney worth a hundred crowns, fol- lowed by...

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Image 26 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), 8 INTRODUCTION. having on her arm a little monkey swaddled as an infant, which kept its baby face there is no telling how, and M. de Nemours, dressed as a bourgeoise housekeeper...

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Date: 1899

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Date: 1899

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Image 29 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), INTEODUCTION. 9 Huguenots! responded in tlie breasts of an irritated popu- lace. Brantome did not hesitate as to the side he should take, he was abb^, and attached to the Guises he...

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Image 30 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), 10 INTRODUCTION. Catholic and Protestant, took part as volunteers. Among them went Brantome, naturally. We were, he says, about three hundred gentlemen and eight hundred soldiers. IVl de Strozzi and M. de...

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Image 31 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), INTKODUCTION. 11 own country/ was made for me. If I had served foreign sovereigns as I have my own I should now be as loaded with wealth and dignities as I am...

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Image 32 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), 12 INTKODUCTION. of Lepanto (October 7, 1571). I should have gone there resolutely, as did that brave M. de Grillon, he says, if it had not been for M. de Strozzi, who...

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Image 33 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), INTRODUCTION. 13 renown. But he is not satisfied with the Court small- change in which his services are paid. He is vexed that his own lightheartedness is taken at its word he...

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Image 34 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), 14 INTKODUCTION. This is wliat was given to the Sieur de Montaigne, who would have done much better to continue to write his Essays instead of changing his pen into a sword,...

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Image 35 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), INTRODUCTION. 15 the second day of the year, he says, as the king was returnmg from his ceremony of the Saint-Esprit, I made my complaint to him, more in anger than to...

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Image 36 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), 16 INTRODUCTION. latter died in 1584, a loss that dashed once more the hopes of Brantome and of others who, like him, had pinned their faith upon that prince. After all, Brantome...

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Image 37 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), INTEODUCTION. 17 one is free to change his country and choose another. But however that might be, if he had refused me I should have gone all the same, neither more nor...

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Image 38 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), 18 INTRODUCTION. of misery I had too mucli experience to commit that folly. To complete the destruction of my designs, one day, at the height of my vigor and joUity, a miserable...

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Image 39 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), INTEODUCTION. 19 reflection that One may well be surprised that so many French nobles put themselves on the side of the League, for if it had got the upper hand it is...

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Image 40 of The book of the ladies (illustrious dames), 20 INTRODUCTION. Difficult to live with, soured, dissatisfied with the world, he was not, it would seem, in easy circumstances. He did not spare posterity the recital of his plaints Favours, gran-...

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