Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill A QUARTETTE OF BEAUTIES : TIGNONVIIXE, DAYELLE, KEBOURS, AND FOSSEUX Henri, Aubigne and Jeanne de Tignonville—Queen Marguerite proceeds to Bearn with Catherine de' Medici—Her splendid Litter—Dayelle, Catherine's Cyprian Maid—Henri III, Turenno and Marguerite— Marguerite and the Bearnese—Her Beauty and her Gorgeous Gowns— Dance and Song—Henri's Coarseness and Self-Neglect—Some of his alleged lowly Amours—'Dayelle's Marriage—Catholicism and Puritan Pau—Henri has to choose between Wife and Secretary—Mlle. de Rebours and her Parentage—A Sonnet addressed to her—Henri forsakes her for Mlle. de Fosseuz—Illness of the King—Marguerite's Devotion— Nerac and its Castle—Marguerite's Sketch of her Life there—Contagious Gallantry—Aubigne on the Court and the Lovers' War—Marguerite denies fomenting it—Historical Causes of that War—Ne'rac and its Neutrality— Marguerite under Fire—Alunoon makes Peace and falls in Love with Fosseuse—Fosseuse becomes enceinte and falls out with Marguerite— Mlle. de Rebours again—Upshot of Henri de Navarre's Love Affair with Fosseuse. When Henri de Navarre, after escaping from Paris, had returned to his states, which he had not seen since he became King, he was struck by the beauty of one of the maids of honour of his sister Catherine, who had governed Bearn in his absence, and who, after a long and unhappy attachment to Jean de Bourbon, Count de Soissons, ended in 1599 by marrying Henri de Lorraine, Duke de Bar. The young person who attracted the King's notice was Jeanne du Montceau de Tignonville, daughter of Lancelot du Montceau, Lord of Tignonville, by his wife, Marguerite de Selves. Little is known of Mlle. Jeanne beyond what appears in the memoirs of Aubigne, who had reason to dislike her, as she became, involuntarily, it is true, the cause of his ...