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_,