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De Bourdeille was born about 1540 in Périgord, Aquitaine, the third son of the baron de Bourdeille. His mother and maternal grandmother were both attached to the court of Marguerite of Navarre.
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CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTION1 DISCOURSE I. Anne de Bretagne, Queen of France25 Sainte-Beuves remarks upon her40 DISCOURSE II. Catherine de Medici, Queen, and mother of our last kings44 Sainte-Beuves remarks upon her85 DISCOURSE III. Marie Stuart, Queen of Scotland, formerly Queen of our France89 Sainte-Beuves essay on her121 DISCOURSE IV. Élisabeth of France, Queen of Spain138 DISCOURSE V. Marguerite, Queen of France and of Navarre, sole daughter now remaining of the Noble House of France 152 Sainte-Beuves essay on her193 DISCOURSE VI. Mesdames, the Daughters of the Noble House of France: Madame Yoland214 Madame Jeanne215 Madame Anne216 Madame Claude219 Madame Renée220 Mesdames Charlotte, Louise, Magdelaine, Marguerite223 Mesdames Élisabeth, Claude, and Marguerite229 Madame Diane231 Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre234 Sainte-Beuves essay on the latter243 DISCOURSE VII. Of Various Illustrious Ladies: Isabelle dAutriche, wife of Charles IX262 Jeanne dAutriche, wife of the Infante of Portugal270 Marie dAutriche, wife of the King of Hungary273 Louise de Lorraine, wife of Henri III280 Marguerite de Lorraine, wife of the Duc de Joyeuse282 Christine of Denmark, wife of the Duc de Lorraine283 Marie dAutriche, wife of the Emperor Maximilian II291 Blanche de Montferrat, Duchesse de Savoie293 Catherine de Clèves, wife of Henri I. de Lorraine, Duc de Guise297 Madame de Bourdeille297 APPENDIX299 INDEX305
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The Secret Memoirs of Henry of Navarres famous queen possess a value which the passage of time seems but to heighten. Emanating as they undoubtedly do from one of the chief actors in a momentous crisis in French history, and in the religious history of Europe as well, their importance as first-hand documents can hardly be overestimated. While the interest which attaches to their intimate discussions of people and manners of the day will appeal to the reader at the outset. Marguerite de Valois was the French contemporary of Queen Elizabeth of England, and their careers furnish several curious points of parallel. Marguerite was the daughter of the famous Catherine de Medicis, and was given in marriage by her scheming mother to Henry of Navarre, whose ascendant Bourbon star threatened to eclipse (as afterwards it did) the waning house of Valois. Catherine had four sons, three of whom successively mounted the throne of France, but all were childless. Although the king of the petty state of Navarre was a Protestant, and Catherine was the most fanatical of Catholics, she made this marriage a pretext for welding the two houses; but actually it seems to have been a snare to lure him to Paris, for it was at this precise time that the bloody Massacre of St. Bartholomews day was ordered. Henry himself escapedit is said, through the protection of Marguerite, his bride,but his adherents in the Protestant party were slain by the thousands. A wedded life begun under such sanguinary auspices was not destined to end happily. Indeed, their marriage resembled nothing so much as an armed truce, peaceable, and allowing both to pursue their several paths, and finally dissolved by mutual consent, in 1598, when Queen Marguerite was forty-five. The closing years of her life were spent in strict seclusion, at the Castle of Usson, in Auvergne, and it was at this time that she probably wrote her Memoirs. In the original, the Memoirs are written in a clear vigorous French, and in epistolary form. Their first editor divided them into three sections, or books. As a whole they cover the secret history of the Court of France from the years 1565 to 1582seventeen years of extraordinary interest, comprising, as they do, the Massacre of St
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De Bourdeille was born about 1540 in Périgord, Aquitaine, the third son of the baron de Bourdeille. His mother and maternal grandmother were both attached to the court of Marguerite of Navarre.
Pierre was entrusted with the Abbey of Brantôme by Henry II at the age of 16 but did not wish to enter on an ecclesiastical career and from 1558 to 1584 traveled extensively in Italy, Scotland, England, Portugal, Spain, and Africa, finally becoming a Gentleman of the King's Chamber of Henry III. He had as friends Filippo Strozzi and François de Guise. A fall from a horse in 1584 forced him to cease his active life and made him a man of letters. Between 1558 and 1584 he engaged in various adventures, missions, and civil, religious, and foreign wars, and knew the great personages of his time in various countries, among whom were Marguerite de Valois, Mary Stuart, Queen Elizabeth of England, Catherine de' Medici, and Soliman II. He died on July 15, 1614. Brantôme wrote the Vies des Hommes illustrates et des Grands capitaines français; Vies des Hommes illustrates et des Grands capitaines strangers; Vies des dames illustrates, des dames galantes; Anecdotes touchant fewer duels, and Rodomontades et jurements des Espagnols. The first edition of his works appeared in 1665-1666.
Brantôme's style is vivid and pleasing, and he does not moralize. He depicts the life of the important people of his time, and he is subjective, inaccurate, superficial, given to telling scandalous stories, and borrowing unscrupulously from other authors, French, Spanish, and Italian, concealing his sources as best he can, often by changing names of characters and places.
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(CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTION1 DISCOURSE I. Anne de Bretag...)
Pierre de Bourdeille depicts the life of the important people of his time, and he is subjective, inaccurate, superficial, given to telling scandalous stories, and borrowing unscrupulously from other authors, French, Spanish, and Italian, concealing his sources as best he can, often by changing names of characters and places.
