The Court And Reign of Francis the First, King of France, volume 2
The Court And Reign of Francis the First, King of France, volume 2
Pardoe, Miss (Julia), 1806-1862
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" Mademoiselle de Heilly had already become aware that she had ventured too much ; and accord- ingly she shook back her long dark ringlets with a playful gesture, and glancing at the still over- shadowed countenance of the monarch with a smile, she answered the question by another still more pertinent : " But are you quite sure, even you, the King of France, that so indulgent a husband can be found ? And are you prepared to convince me that this threatened marriage will not separate me from my ...lord and sovereign ? " " To your first inquiry I reply, Anne, " said the enamoured monarch, "that the meek and careless husband is already found ; and to the second, that in securing your advancement I have not lost sight of my own claims. " And Francis spoke the truth. The ready tool of a licentious master had been secured in the person of the Comte Jean de Brosse, the son of the Comte Rene and of a daughter of Philippe de Commines. Rene had been a partizan of Bourbon, whose cause he had espoused, and under whose banner he had 286 THE COURT AND REIGN OF CHAP, x fallen at the battle of Pavia.
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