Old Touraine; the life and history of the famous chateâux of France . iling eyes.^ But this was not enough to content the rovingFrancis, in a Court where, as Brantome tells us, toute la decoration venait des dames. His firstmistress was Fran9oise de Chateaubriand, of thefamous house of Foix, but at Bayonne he, remem-bered that it was quite ten years since she had firstattracted him, and looking among his mothersmaids of honour for some newer flame to stimulatehis jaded senses, he lighted on the young Anne dePisseleu. To see was to conquer, and Brantomerelates how he put ofif the old love and
Old Touraine; the life and history of the famous chateâux of France . iling eyes.^ But this was not enough to content the rovingFrancis, in a Court where, as Brantome tells us, toute la decoration venait des dames. His firstmistress was Fran9oise de Chateaubriand, of thefamous house of Foix, but at Bayonne he, remem-bered that it was quite ten years since she had firstattracted him, and looking among his mothersmaids of honour for some newer flame to stimulatehis jaded senses, he lighted on the young Anne dePisseleu. To see was to conquer, and Brantomerelates how he put ofif the old love and took onthe new, apparently quite forgetting his betrothedEleanor in the whole transaction. Meanwhile very different scenes were going on inthe unhappy towns of Italy. Bourbon had comeback at the head of the imperial troops, joined bythe ruffians who had been attached to Pedros men were in the north, the bandesnoires of Jean de Medicis in the south, the^ Vie du Palatin Frederic, Thomas de Liege. tA i S^ i * c/ianciii a potttait l>tj lionet. cJoeign of cFtancid S, 265 Lorrainers in Naples, and town after town wasravaged and destroyed by freebooters, who hadalready swept the country, and left but little for thestarving peasants. With such a state of things in Italy, and such aman as Bourbon ready to dare anything in a de-spairing bid for fortune, a catastrophe was inevita-ble. He offered himself as the leader of this cut-throat rabble, and they received him with enthu-siasm.^ A standard-bearer on the walls of Rome,^ earlyin May -1527, suddenly saw some of Bourbonssoldiers and their chief himself advancing throughthe vines. His consternation betrayed a weak placein the defence. In a moment the whole of thisinfernal company are in motion pouring down uponthe Eternal City from the hills behind the Vaticanlike vultures upon their prey. At the first alarmBenvenuto Cellini had caught up a musket like therest, and running to the ramparts had the address,as he
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