The pearl of princesses : the life of Marguerite d'Angoulême, Queen of Navarre . is was not always proof against the attrac-tions of other facile beauties. In order to save appear-ances and diminish the scandal, the King married the ladyto a complaisant nobleman, Jean de Brosse, a directdescendant of the Vicomtes de Limoges, who consented toconfer the shelter of his name upon the avowed mistressof his Sovereign in return for the restoration of his familyestates, which had been confiscated owing to the treasonof his father, Ren6 de Brosse, who had taken part in theconspiracy of Bourbon, follow
The pearl of princesses : the life of Marguerite d'Angoulême, Queen of Navarre . is was not always proof against the attrac-tions of other facile beauties. In order to save appear-ances and diminish the scandal, the King married the ladyto a complaisant nobleman, Jean de Brosse, a directdescendant of the Vicomtes de Limoges, who consented toconfer the shelter of his name upon the avowed mistressof his Sovereign in return for the restoration of his familyestates, which had been confiscated owing to the treasonof his father, Ren6 de Brosse, who had taken part in theconspiracy of Bourbon, followed the Constable to Italy,and fallen on the field of Pavia, fighting in the Imperial-ist ranks. So accommodating did this nobleman provehimself that the grateful King not only restored to himhis confiscated property, but created him Comte dePenthievre, appointed him Governor of Brittany, gavehim the collar of the Order of Saint-Michel, ^nd, finally,erected for him, or rather for his wife, the county ofEtampes into a duchy. There can be little doubt that Louise of Savoy had 242. MADAME DE CHATEAUBRIAND. Policy versus Sentiment deliberately encouraged the Kings passion for her beautifulmaid-of-honour, out of hatred for Madame de Chateau-briand and also because she believed that she had little tofear from the influence of Mile. dHeilly, who, haughtyas she afterwards showed herself to the world in general,always behaved towards the Duchesse dAngouleme withbecoming deference. As for Marguerite, she acceptedthe new favourite with even more complaisance than sheusually showed in regard to her brothers love-aiFairs,since the latter favoured the Reformed ideas and usedher credit with the King to protect artists and men ofletters. Meanwhile, the project of a marriage between Mar-guerite and the young King of Navarre was encounteringunexpected obstacles. It might have been thought thatFrancois, who had so much reason to be grateful to hissister, and who had lately experienced so touching
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