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CHAPTER XIX.
Return To England.
Margaret finds a friend.
Margaret found one friend in France, who seems to have espoused her cause from a sentiment of sincere and disinterested attachment to her. This was a certain knight named Pierre de Brezé.[16] He was an officer of high rank in the government of Normandy, and a man of very considerable influence among the distinguished personages of those times.
Map of the Scottish Border.
Account of Brezé.
He enters the queen's service.