[4]. Qu'il se mît sur la lice, "that he enter the lists." A similar expression is: entrer dans la lice. La lice = "a level space marked off by a rope or railing, and surrounded with galleries for spectators."
[5]. La barrière, the enclosure where knightly encounters took place.
[Page 94.—1]. Compare this description with that of Brantôme (iv., p. 103): "La mal fortune fut que sur le soir il voulut encore rompre une lance; et pour ce manda au comte de Montgomery qu'il comparût et se mît en lice. Lui refusa tout à plat... mais le roi, fâché de ses réponses, lui manda résolument qu'il le vouloit. La reine lui manda et pria par deux fois qu'il ne courût plus pour l'amour d'elle. Rien pour cela, mais lui manda qu'il ne couroit que cette lance pour l'amour d'elle. Et pour ce, l'autre ayant comparu en lice, le roi courut. Ou fut que le malheur le voulût ainsi, ou son destin l'y poussât, il fut atteint du contre coup par la tête dans l'œil où lui demeura un grand éclat de la lance, dont aussi tôt fut relevé de ses écuyers, et Monsieur de Montgomery vint à lui qui le trouva fort blessé. Toutefois il ne perdit cœur et n'étonna point, et dit que ce n'étoit rien, et soudain pardonna audict comte de Montgomery.... Il mourut au bout de quelques jours en très bon Chrétien et ainsi ce grand roi qui avoit été en tant de guerres et les avoit tant aimées, n'y a pu mourir et est mort là."
FOURTH PART.
[Page 96.—1]. Reims, a celebrated city in the Department of Marne, 107 miles northeast of Paris. Clovis was baptized here in 496. In the eighth century it was made an archbishopric, and from 1179 till the time of Charles X. it was the coronation place of the kings of France.
[2]. "On the fifteenth day of the month of September (1559), King Francis II. made his entry into the city of Reims, where he was received with all devotion and honor by the inhabitants of this city. And on the following Monday, his Majesty was anointed and consecrated in the great church by the Cardinal of Lorraine, in the presence of the princes of the blood and many other great lords, and all the ceremonies required and preserved by immemorial custom were there observed. Immediately afterwards he departed from that place and abode for some time in the city of Blois" (Nicole Gilles and Belle-Forest in their Annales de France, quoted by Godefroy: Le Cérémonial François, i., p. 311).
The consecration of the King of France was attended with many elaborate ceremonies. The new monarch made a journey to Reims, and was escorted into the city by the high secular authorities; masses were then offered, in which the King took part. On the coronation day he was conducted to the Church of Notre Dame; the sacred vessel containing the anointing oil was brought in and delivered into the hands of the archbishop. This was followed by the administration of the oath, by which the King promised to preserve the faith of the Church, to suppress evil-doers, to rule with justice and mercy, and to endeavor to exterminate all heresy within the realm. He was then anointed on the head, on the breast, between the two shoulders, on the right and on the left shoulder, and on the right and left arms; at each application the Monsieur de Reims exclaimed: "Ungo te in Regem de oleo sanctificato, in nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti." The King was then clothed in his royal garments, the sceptre placed in his hand and the crown upon his head. After the celebration of a mass, he was led back to the palace amid the shouts of the people: "Vivat Rex in æternum!"
[Page 98.—1]. Qu'elle lui en fît une finesse, "that she was deceiving him." ("La finesse dans ce sens est la finesse d'esprit conduite jusqu'à un mauvais usage."—Littré.)
[Page 101.—1]. Anet, a chateau built in 1552 by Philibert Delorme, by order of Henry II., for Diana of Poitiers. It was embellished by the best artists of France,—Goujon, Pilon, Cousin, etc. The building was partly destroyed during the Revolution.