ll the following
year, when no further mention is made of it.

Disome died prior to 1521, for in September of that year we find his
wife remarried to Peter Perdrier, Lord of Baubigny, notary and secretary
to the King, and subsequently clerk of the council to the city of Paris.
Perdrier was a man of considerable means; for when the King raised a
forced loan of silver plate in September 1521, we find him taxed to the
amount of forty marcs of silver (26 1/2 lbs. troy); or only ten _marcs_
less than each counsellor of Parliament was required to contribute. Five
and twenty years later, he lost his wife Jane, the curious record
of whose death runs as follows: "The year one thousand five hundred
forty-six, after Easter, at her house (hotel) Rue de la Parcheminerie,
called Rue des Blancs-Manteaux, died the late Demoiselle Jane Lecoq,
daughter of Master John Lecoq, Counsellor of the Court of Parliament,
deceased; in her lifetime wife of noble Master Peter Perdrier, Lord of
Baubigny, &c, and previously wife of the late Master James Disome, in
his lifetime advocate at the Court of Parliament and Lord of Cernay in
Beauvaisis; and the said Demoiselle Jane Lecoq (2) is here--buried with
her father and mother, and departed this life on the 23rd day of April
1546. Pray ye God for her soul."

2 The church of the Celestines.

Less than a twelvemonth afterwards King Francis followed his whilom
mistress to the tomb. She left by Peter Perdrier a son named John, Lord
of Baubigny, who in 1558 married Anne de St. Simon, grand-aunt of the
author of the Memoirs. John Perdrier was possibly the Baubigny who
killed Marshal de St. Andre at the battle of Dreux in 1562.

Such is Baron Pichon's account of Jane Lecoq and her husbands. We have
now to turn to an often-quoted passage of the _Diverses Lecons_ of Louis
Guyon, sieur de la Nauthe, a physician of some repute in his time, but
whose book it should be observed was not issued till 1610, or more than
half-a-century subsequent to King Francis I.'s death. La Nauthe writes
as follows:--

"Francis I. became enamoured of a woman of great beauty and grace, the
wife of an advocate of Paris, whom I will not name, for he has left
children in possession of high estate and good repute; and this lady
would not yield to the King, but on the contrary repulsed him with many
harsh words, whereat the King was sorely vexed. And certain courtiers
and royal princes who knew of the matter told the King that h