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 TignonvilleQueen Marguerite proceeds to Bearn with Catherine de' MediciHer splendid LitterDayelle, Catherine's Cyprian MaidHenri III, Turenno and Marguerite Marguerite and the BearneseHer Beauty and her Gorgeous Gowns Dance and SongHenri's Coarseness and Self-NeglectSome of his alleged lowly Amours'Dayelle's MarriageCatholicism and Puritan PauHenri has to choose between Wife and SecretaryMlle. de Rebours and her ParentageA Sonnet addressed to herHenri forsakes her for Mlle. de FosseuzIllness of the KingMarguerite's Devotion Nerac and its CastleMarguerite's Sketch of her Life thereContagious GallantryAubigne on the Court and the Lovers' WarMarguerite denies fomenting itHistorical Causes of that WarNe'rac and its Neutrality Marguerite under FireAlunoon makes Peace and falls in Love with FosseuseFosseuse becomes enceinte and falls out with Marguerite Mlle. de Rebours againUpshot 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 ...