The book of the ladies
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Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme. The book of the ladies
The book of the ladies
Table of Contents
LIST OF. PHOTOGRAVURE ILLUSTRATIONS
THE BOOK OF THE LADIES
DISCOURSE I. ANNE DE BRETAGNE, QUEEN OF FRANCE
DISCOURSE II. CATHERINE DE’ MEDICI, QUEEN, AND MOTHER OF OUR LAST KINGS
DISCOURSE III. MARIE STUART, QUEEN OF SCOTLAND, FORMERLY QUEEN OF OUR FRANCE
DISCOURSE IV. ÉLISABETH OF FRANCE, QUEEN OF SPAIN
DISCOURSE V. MARGUERITE, QUEEN OF FRANCE AND OF NAVARRE, SOLE DAUGHTER NOW REMAINING OF THE NOBLE HOUSE OF FRANCE.[12]
DISCOURSE VI. MESDAMES, THE DAUGHTERS OF THE NOBLE HOUSE OF FRANCE.[19]
1. Madame Yoland de France
2. Madame Jeanne de France
3. Madame Anne de France
4. Madame Claude de France
5. Madame Renée de France
6. Mesdames Charlotte, Louise, Magdelaine, and Marguerite de France
7. Mesdames Élisabeth, Claude, and Marguerite de France
8. Madame Diane de France
9. Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre
DISCOURSE VII. OF VARIOUS ILLUSTRIOUS LADIES.[22]
1. Isabelle d’Autriche, wife of Charles IX., King of France [daughter of the Emperor Maximilian II.]
3. Marie d’Autriche, wife of Louis, King of Hungary [sister of the Emperor Charles V.]
4. Louise de Lorraine, wife of Henri III., King of France
5. Marguerite de Lorraine, wife of Anne, Duc de Joyeuse.[24]
6. Christine of Denmark, niece of the Emperor Charles V. Duchesse de Lorraine
7. Marie d’Autriche, wife of the Emperor Maximilian II
8. Blanche de Montferrat, Duchesse de Savoie
9. Catherine de Clèves, wife of Henri I. de Lorraine, Duc de Guise
10. Madame de Bourdeille
APPENDIX
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INDEX
Footnote
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Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme
Illustrious Dames: The Reign and Amours of the Bourbon Régime
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The following translation of the “Book of the Ladies” does not pretend to imitate Brantôme’s style. To do so would seem an affectation in English, and attract attention to itself which it is always desirable to avoid in translating. Wherever a few of Brantôme’s quaint turns of phrase are given, it is only as they fall naturally into English.
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