. Pictures of the old French court; Jeanne de Bourbon, Isabeau de Bavière, Anne de Bretagne. love withher, as some historians assert, before she was tenyears old, it is certain that he wasnow most anxious to marry her,not only as Duchesse de Bretagnebut as the woman he admired He was thirty-four, hand-some, and extremely attractive, andAnne, besides being ambitious andreluctant to lose the French crown,seems to have returned his affec-tion. A French writer remarksthat her love for Charles had arisenfrom duty, and therefore was notlikely to be very lasting,3 whichmay well have been t
. Pictures of the old French court; Jeanne de Bourbon, Isabeau de Bavière, Anne de Bretagne. love withher, as some historians assert, before she was tenyears old, it is certain that he wasnow most anxious to marry her,not only as Duchesse de Bretagnebut as the woman he admired He was thirty-four, hand-some, and extremely attractive, andAnne, besides being ambitious andreluctant to lose the French crown,seems to have returned his affec-tion. A French writer remarksthat her love for Charles had arisenfrom duty, and therefore was notlikely to be very lasting,3 whichmay well have been the case. Butit was evident that no such mar-riage could take place until Louishad obtained a divorce from hispresent wife, Jeanne de France, forwhich purpose he began negotiations with the Pope,the friendship between Anne and himself meanwhileincreasing as may be seen by the following letter :— Monsieur mon bon frere,—Je aye receu parle Sr de la Pomeraye, voz lectres & aveques sa charge 1 Dom Lobineau, t. i. p. 823. 2 Brantome, Hommes illustres, t. ii. p. 59. 3 Touchard LOUIS XII. 1498] ANNE DE BRETAGNE 331 entendu la singulere benevoleme & amyti<£ que meportes, dont je suys tres consolee & vous en remerciede tout mon cueur, vous priant de tousjours ainsicontinuer comme cest la ferme confiance de celle queest & a jamays serra. Vostre bonne seure, cosine & allyee, In June they met at Estampes and agreed to marryeach other as soon as Louis could get his went back to Paris, and later in the summershe went to Laval to stay with the Queen-dowager ofSicily, after which she returned to Bretagne, whereshe was received with great state and universal to be once more in possession of her ownduchy she resolved now that she had recovered thereins of government never again to let them slipout of her hands. Under her supervision a historyof Bretagne was written by a learned priest, heralmoner, from the papers and records in differentmonaste
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