The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.) by Queen of Navarre Margaret
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page 59 of 197 (29%)
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Thus it happened, for after the wedding festival and dinner he had his
dismissal and left at once." (1) After the marriage of her daughter Margaret returned to Paris, and thence repaired to Mont-de-Marsan to spend the winter of 1540-41. Late in the following spring she went to Cauterets in the Pyrenees to take the baths. Writing during Lent to her brother she states that her husband having had a fall will repair to Cauterets by the advice of his doctors,(2) and that she intends to accompany him to prevent him from worrying and to transact his business for him, "for when one is at the baths one must live like a child without any care." (3) 1 _OEuvres de Brantôme_, 8vo, vol. v. (_Dames illustres_), p. 220. 2 Henry d'Albret had already undergone treatment at the Pyrenean baths after his escape from Pavia, when, however, he stayed at Eaux-Bonnes. 3 Génin's _Nouvelles Lettres, &c._, p. 189. This was not her only motive in going to Cauterets apparently, for in a letter to Duke William of Cleves, her daughter's husband, dated April 1541, she states that as she is suffering from a _caterre_ which "has fallen upon half her neck," and compels her to keep her bed, the doctors have advised her to take "the natural baths," and hope that she will be cured by the end of May, providing she follows all their prescriptions.(1) 1 A. de Ruble's _Mariage de Jeanne d' Albret_, |
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