[172]. The account of Isabel’s voyage and reception is drawn mainly from the narratives of eyewitnesses in the correspondence published by M. L. Paris in ‘Negociations sous François II.‘
[173]. ‘Négociations sous François II.,’ p. 173.
[174]. Even more comforted, we are told, were the poor maids of honour, whose own beds and baggage had gone astray.
[175]. Brantome, ‘Dames Illustres.’
[176]. Brantome says he had this story from one of Isabel’s ladies in waiting who was present.
[177]. i.e. Anne of Bourbon Montpensier.
[178]. ‘Negociations sous Francois II.,’ p. 706.
[179]. Brantome, ‘Dames Illustres.’
[180]. ‘Negociations sous François II.‘
[181]. i.e. Margaret of Valois, La Reine Margot, who afterwards married Henry IV., the Bearnais on the evil day of St. Bartholomew, and was subsequently put aside by him.