This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... that her brother was dead. Her sun had gone down, and she was left in darkness. She must have thought of those earlier days when " noire triniti" had been so happy, so hopeful, so full of the great things they intended to do. Now she was the only one left. She was very much alone, her daughter was cold and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... that her brother was dead. Her sun had gone down, and she was left in darkness. She must have thought of those earlier days when " noire triniti" had been so happy, so hopeful, so full of the great things they intended to do. Now she was the only one left. She was very much alone, her daughter was cold and estranged, her husband no longer made much pretence of loving her. The jolly King of Navarre was by no means inconsolable for the death of his brother-in-law. When the Queen of Navarre visited her nephew's court, she very quickly found what a different position she occupied in it from that she had held when Francis was king. The mistress of Henry II., the famous Diana of Poitiers, was now the predominant influence there. The King and the whole court (including Catherine de Medici) wore Diana's colours, quaintly enough the black and white of her mourning for her husband; her crescent, motto, and monogram formed part of the architectural ornament of the royal palaces, and anyone may see them to-day, and the D interlaced with the H, on the oldest existing court of the Louvre. The annulling of the union with the Duke of Cleves, and her marriage with the man of her choice. Anthony of Bourbon, Duke of Vendome, gave Jeanne the liveliest satisfaction, but awakened little or no interest in her mother. Henry II. was glad to get his cousin Jeanne safely married to a Frenchman; the dread of a Spanish marriage was ever before his eyes; he was as much set against it as his father had been. Princess Jeanne was at this period of her life extravagant and wilful. She was heiress of a crown, and she spent royally and profusely. She kept up a splendid household in Paris, quite regardless of the pecuniary losses which her mother had suffered since the...
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