veil falling from her cap, her personal appearance was scarcely
prepossessing.

The proposed alliance met with the approval of Francis, who behaved
generously to his sister. He granted her for life the enjoyment of
the duchies of Alençon and Berry, with the counties of Armagnac and Le
Perche and several other lordships. Finally, the marriage was celebrated
on January 24th, 1527, at St. Germain-en-Laye, where, as Sauvai records,
"there were jousts, tourneying, and great triumph for the space of eight
days or thereabouts." (3)

1 He was born at Sanguesa, April 1503, and became King of
Navarre in 1517.


2 This portrait is at the Bibliothèque Nationale in the
_Recueil de Portraits au crayon_ by Clouet, Dumonstier, &c.
(fol. 88).

3 _Antiquités de Paris_, vol. ii. p. 688.




III.

_The retirement of King Henry to Beam--Margaret's intercourse with
her brother--The inscription at Chambord--Margaret's adventure with
Bonnivet--Margaret's relations with her husband--Her opinions upon love
and conjugal fidelity--Her confinements and her children--The Court in