Old Court Life in France, vol. 1/2

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I—	Francis I.	1
II—	Charles de Bourbon	6
III—	Brother and Sister	12
IV—	The Quality of Mercy	20
V—	All Lost Save Honour	28
VI—	Broken Faith	33
VII—	La Duchesse d’Étampes	42
VIII—	Last Days	49
IX—	Catherine de’ Medici	55
X—	A Fatal Joust	58
XI—	The Widowed Queen	63
XII—	Mary Stuart and Her Husband	67
XIII—	A Traitor	74
XIV—	The Council of State	80
XV—	Catherine’s Vengeance	86
XVI—	The Astrologer’s Chamber	94
XVII—	At Chenonceau	101
XVIII—	A Dutiful Daughter	113
XIX—	Before the Storm	122
XX—	St. Bartholomew	129
XXI—	The End of Catherine de’ Medici	139
XXII—	The Last of the Valois	146
XXIII—	Don Juan	158
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