Old Touraine; the life and history of the famous chateâux of France . rilliant negotiations that the nextactor comes who plays an important part at 1498 Louis XIL, who had just come to thethrone, was applying to Pope Alexander VI. for adivorce from his first wife, Jeanne de France. Theroyal letters came to the Vatican during the reignof the Borgias. Lucrezia was being given in mar-riage to one after another of the Italian princes as itsuited the policy of her unscrupulous father. Cae-sar Borgia, who had not long before murdered hisbrother, the Duke of Gandia, was longing to givefull
Old Touraine; the life and history of the famous chateâux of France . rilliant negotiations that the nextactor comes who plays an important part at 1498 Louis XIL, who had just come to thethrone, was applying to Pope Alexander VI. for adivorce from his first wife, Jeanne de France. Theroyal letters came to the Vatican during the reignof the Borgias. Lucrezia was being given in mar-riage to one after another of the Italian princes as itsuited the policy of her unscrupulous father. Cae-sar Borgia, who had not long before murdered hisbrother, the Duke of Gandia, was longing to givefull rein to his ambition, to throw away his Cardi-nals hat and take up the sword, to fight his wayfrom a successful captaincy to the Dui:edom of theRomagna, and even higher honours. The requestof Louis XII. came at a very opportune bill of divorce was easily bought from Caesarsfather by the gift of the Duchy of Valentinois tohis son, and a treaty promising equal advantages to A fJ^ Ociedaz cOotgta cfzom a pottintt tn yaUexy,tfloxence, ohxtiM unhnown. (3k tnon 93 France and the Vatican. In the general inter-change of civilities Georges dAmboise was givena Cardinals hat, and towards the end of 1498 CaesarBorgia set out from Ostia for Marseilles, accom-panied by the Baron de Traus, the French am-bassador, and provided with ample funds for hislavish expenditure upon the way from the two hun-dred thousand ducats seized from the unfortunateBishop of Calahorra. In those days the science of etiquette was veryfearfully and wonderfully arranged, and in all theirtreatises the worried officials at the French Courtcould find no mention of the reception proper to• a Popes son. The difficulty was evaded withoutsuppressing the gorgeous entry which it was wellknown the Italian had prepared for himself andhis suite. The King went hunting with his Courtand met Borgia some miles outside the town;upon the bridge across the river the Cardinal deRohan was ready to receive the Ital
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