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Title: The Project Gutenberg Historic Court Memoirs
Author: Various
Release Date: October 27, 2004 [EBook #3900]
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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PG COURT MEMOIRS ***
Produced by David Widger
THE PROJECT GUTENBERT COURT MEMOIRS
By Various
CONTENTS:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois [see also #3841]
Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz [see also #3846]
Memoirs of Madame de Montespan [see also #3854]
Memoirs Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans [see also #3859]
Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon [see also #3875]
Memoirs Louis XV./XVI, by Hausset [see also #3883]
Memoirs Marie Antoinette, by Campan [see also #3891]
Memoirs of Court of St. Cloud [see also #3899]
Memoirs of Count Grammont [see also #5416]
MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE
MEMOIRS OF MARGUERITE DE VALOIS QUEEN OF NAVARRE
Written by Herself
Being Historic Memoirs of the Courts of France and Navarre
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Marguerite de Valois--Etching by Mercier
Bussi d' Amboise--Painting in the Versailles Gallery
Duc de Guise--Painting in the Versailles Gallery
Catherine de' Medici--Original Etching by Mercier
Henri VI. and La Fosseuse--Painting by A. P. E. Morton
A Scene at Henri's Court--Original Photogravure
PUBLISHER'S NOTE.
The first volume of the Court Memoir Series will, it is confidently
anticipated, prove to be of great interest. These Letters first appeared
in French, in 1628, just thirteen years after the death of their witty
and beautiful authoress, who, whether as the wife for many years of the
great Henri of France, or on account of her own charms and
accomplishments, has always been the subject of romantic interest.
The letters contain many particulars of her life, together with many
anecdotes hitherto unknown or forgotten, told with a saucy vivacity which
is charming, and an air vividly recalling the sprightly, arch demeanour,
and black, sparkling eyes of the fair Queen of Navarre. She died in
1615, aged sixty-three.
These letters contain
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