citadel in Beam. However, as time and money were lacking, Henry had to
abandon his plans, and the ruins left by the Imperialists, the ivy-clad
keep, and mutilated bridge over the Gave soon fell into irremediable
decay.(1)

1 M. Paul Perret's _Pyrénées françaises_, vol. ii. p. 303.




IV.

_Margaret's attachment to her daughter--Refusal of Jane to
marry the Duke of Clevés--Intervention of Margaret--The
wedding at Châtelherault and the fall of the Constable de
Montmorency--Margaret and her husband at Caulerets--The
"Heptameron"--Illness and death of Francis I.--Margaret's
anxiety and grief--Her "Marguerites de la Marguerite"--Jane
d'Albret's second marriage--Death of Margaret at Odos or
Audaux----Her funeral at Lescar--Destruction of her tomb_.

Whilst Margaret was living amongst divines and scholars at Pau and
Nérac, her mind, as her letters indicate, constantly turned to her
daughter Jane, whom Aimée de la Fayette, wife of the Bailiff of Caen,
was bringing up at Plessis-lès-Tours. Margaret was only able to see Jane
at rare intervals during some of her trips to France, and she was mainly
indebted to sympathising friends for news of the little Princess's
condition and health. All her maternal tenderness was concentrated on
this daughter, and whenever the child was ailing she became distracted.