The Court of France in the Sixteenth Century 1514 1559 volume 1
The Court of France in the Sixteenth Century 1514 1559 volume 1
Catherine Hannah Charlotte Elliott Jackson
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" This is too absurd to believe. She may have wished to secure the boy duke for her daughter Marguerite, then twelve years old ; one could then understand her vexation at his marriage. It is far more probable that, as another account states, it was ten years later — when he appeared at court on the occasion of the marriage of Claude de France and Francis d' Angouleme — that Bour- bon had the misfortune to inspire that unsought passionate love in the breast of the depraved- minded Louise of Savo...y. Bourbon was then in his twenty-fourth year — a handsome man of dig- nified bearing, carrying off the palm, even from the all-accomplished Francis, for skill and dexterity in the tournaments and other martial games during the prolonged festivities of that singular mourn- ing wedding — since which period he had been an object of jealousy to the son, and was now the victim of the persecuting love of the mother. CHAPTER XV. The Great Bourbon Prods. — Bourbon and Charles V. — A Wealthy Bride Offered.
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