href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@42515@[email protected]#DISCOURSE_VII" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">DISCOURSE VII. Of Various Illustrious Ladies:

    Isabelle d’Autriche, wife of Charles IX 262     Jeanne d’Autriche, wife of the Infante of Portugal 270     Marie d’Autriche, wife of the King of Hungary 273     Louise de Lorraine, wife of Henri III 280     Marguerite de Lorraine, wife of the Duc de Joyeuse 282     Christine of Denmark, wife of the Duc de Lorraine 283     Marie d’Autriche, wife of the Emperor Maximilian II 291     Blanche de Montferrat, Duchesse de Savoie 293     Catherine de Clèves, wife of Henri I. de Lorraine, Duc de Guise 297     Madame de Bourdeille 297 APPENDIX 299 INDEX 305

LIST OF
PHOTOGRAVURE ILLUSTRATIONS.

Pierre de Bourdeille, Abbé and Seigneur de Brantôme		Frontispiece
From an old engraving by I. Von Schley.
Page
François de Lorraine, Duc de Guise		8
By François Clouet; in the Louvre.
Discourse
I.	Tomb of Louis XII. and Anne de Bretagne	34
	By Jean Juste, in the Cathedral of Saint-Denis. The king and queen are carved as skeletons within the twelve columns; above they kneel at their prie-dieus, and the tradition is that the portraits are faithful. The cardinal virtues, Justice, Prudence, Temperance, and Fortitude, sit at the corners of the monument: the twelve apostles between the pillars; and round the base, between the virtues, are exquisite representations (not visible in the reproduction) of the king’s campaigns in Italy.
II.	Catherine de’ Medici, Queen of France	44
	School of the sixteenth century; in the Louvre.
II.	Henri II., King of France	52
	By François Clouet; in the Louvre.
II.	Ball at the Court of Henri III., with Portraits	81
	Attributed to François Clouet; in the Louvre. See description in note to Discourse VII.
III.	Marie Stuart, Queen of France and Scotland	90
	Painter unknown; in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
III.	The Same	120
	School of the sixteenth century; Versailles.
V.	Henri IV., King of France	166
	By Franz Pourbus (le jeune); in the Louvre.
V.	Élisabeth de France, Queen of Spain	public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@42515@[email protected]#page_185"