The family of Gilles seem to have made no demonstration, not even an appearance, during this trying time. No record or mention is made of their presence at the trial, or of any interest therein. His widow married within the year, and his daughter Marie, then about fifteen years of age, married within two years, after his death. His widow married Jean de Vendôme, and the daughter’s first husband was Prégent de Coétivy, Admiral of France. These united in a Mémoire addressed to the King of France, to save the property that had belonged to Gilles de Retz from confiscation by the Duke of Brittany. Prégent de Coétivy was killed on June 20, 1450, during the siege of Cherbourg, by a cannon-shot. His widow (Gilles’s daughter) married, for a second husband, André de Laval, her cousin. She died, without issue, November 1, 1457, and was buried in the Church of Notre Dame, at Vitré. René de la Suze, brother of Gilles, married Anne de Champagne. He left a daughter, Jeanne de Retz, who married François de Chauvigny, the Prince of Deol, April 11, 1446. They had one child, a son, André de Chauvigny, who died, unmarried, in 1502. And thus, within sixty-two years after the death of Gilles de Retz, his family became extinct.
APPENDIX A
Mother Goose Publications
Nearly every publisher in France, and many of those in England and the United States, have issued editions of Mother Goose stories. Most of those from France have been reprints, with variation, of the originals by Perrault: Boussod; B. Bernardin; Biblioth. Nat.; MM. Chavery; Dentu; Flammarion; Boulanger; Lemerre; Bornemann; Cattier; Duployé; Fayard; E. Guérin; Hachette; G. Delarue; Garnier Frères; Magnin.
The editions of Mother Goose fairy tales and nursery rhymes in England and the United States are given in the publishers’ catalogues with essays on the same subject as follows:
MOTHER GOOSE:
The Original Mother Goose’s Melodies as First Issued about 1760. W. H. Whitmore. 1890. Munsell.
—— Fairy Tales of Mother Goose, first collected by Perrault, 1696. 1892. Damrell.
Favourite Rhymes from Mother Goose. Maud Humphrey. 1891–1893. Stokes.
Nursery Rhymes, Tales, and Jingles. 1890. Routledge.
Contes des fées, with notes and vocabulary. 1884. Macmillan.
Fairy Tales. 1877–1882. Routledge.
Tales from Perrault, translated by J. R. Planche, 1860. 1891. Routledge.
Mother Goose, or the Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by K. Greenaway, 1881. Routledge.
Mother Goose Goslings. E. W. Talbot. Cassell, P., G. & Co.
Mother Goose Rhymes, with silhouette illustrations by J. F. Goodrich, 1877. 1879. Lee & Shepard.
Mother Goose Masquerades. Mrs. E. D. Kendall. Lee & Shepard.
Mother Goose Melodies. Illustrated. 1879. Lippincott.
Mother Goose Melodies, with Chimes, Rhymes, and Jingles, with pictures designed by Billings and engraved by Hartwell. 1878.
Mother Goose Set to Music. New edition. Illustrated. 8°. 1877. McLoughlin.
Mother Goose Fairy Tales, illustrated by eminent artists. 1877. New edition, 1882. Routledge.
Mother Goose Melodies, or Songs for the Nursery. Illustrated in color by A. Kappes. 1879. Houghton, Osgood & Co.
Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes. Collection of alphabets, rhymes, tales, and jingles. Illustrated. 1876. New edition, 1882. Routledge.
Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated. 1877. McLoughlin.
Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales. Illustrated. 1877. Routledge.
Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales. 1891. Routledge.
Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales. 1892–1896. Nister.
“Mother Goose’s Melodies.” Joel Benton. New York Times, Saturday Review, Feb. 5, 1899.
“Who Was Mother Goose?” Thomas Wilson. St. Nicholas.
An investigation of the foregoing volumes will show a series of Mother Goose stories other than those written by Perrault. These are well-known rhymes and jingles principally from England, and are of indefinite and undetermined age.