Béarn

intensity in the preparation to it.

The... what would I say, the suspense around selection for a World Cup squad and it being finalised down to the weekend after the Samoa game in Béarn.

Yeah, suspense, excitement, unknown.

It's just like, it's where you want to be when you go to international rugby like World Cups, watching them.

Intensity in the preparation to it.

The... what would I say, the suspense around selection for a World Cup squad and it being finalised down to the weekend after the Samoa game in Béarn.

Yeah, suspense, excitement, unknown.

It's just like, it's where you want to be when you go to international rugby, like World Cups, watching them.

The Viscount of Lavadon, officiated as Grand Master of the Ceremonies, and special seats were assigned to the states of Navarre, Foix, Berne, and Bigorre, and to the Chancellor, Councillors, and Barons of the country.

Whilst on a platform surrounded by lighted tapers, there was displayed an effigy of the Queen robed in black.

After the ceremony, a banquet was served in accordance with Béarnese custom, the chief mourners being invited to the Duke of Vendôme's table, whilst the others were served in different rooms.

A few years later, in June 1555, the remains of King Henry, Margaret's husband, were in turn brought to Lescar for burial.

The tombs of husband and wife, however, have alike vanished, having been swept away during the religious wars, when Lescar was repeatedly stormed and sacked.

Another occasion for friendship lay in the tolerance with which the young king viewed the new ideas of reform.

Béarn had never been a narrowly Catholic state.

Margaret, often sorely grieved by the cruel intolerance of her brother and the Cardinal de Tournon, must have turned for sympathy to this young Béarnois, who, like herself, dreaded the Inquisition as the deadliest blight that could fall on any kingdom.

Thus they had two essential points in common, unity of interests and religious sympathy.

For the rest, Duchess Margaret was a charming woman of the world, socially and intellectually the superior of Henry, and she was the sister of the king, whose influence was most necessary to him.

Constable Bourbon in this very year was killed while leading his victorious armies to the sack of Rome, and on the twenty-fourth of January 1527, Margaret was married to the young King of Navarre.

It was a strange, impoverished, beautiful kingdom to which Henry d'Albret took his bride in the autumn of the year when they were weary of the festivals of France, a new and almost a foreign country.

I have been here five days, says Margaret, writing in October from Béarn, and I scarcely begin to understand the language.

Another occasion for friendship lay in the tolerance with which the young king viewed the new ideas of reform.

Béarn had never been a narrowly Catholic state.

Margaret, often sorely grieved by the cruel intolerance of her brother and the Cardinal de Tournon, must have turned for sympathy to this young Béarnois, who, like herself, dreaded the Inquisition as the deadliest blight that could fall on any kingdom.

Thus they had two essential points in common, unity of interests and religious sympathy.

For the rest, Duchess Margaret was a charming woman of the world, socially and intellectually the superior of Henry, and she was the sister of the king, whose influence was most necessary to him.

And on the 24th of January 1527, Margaret was married to the young King of Navarre.

It was a strange, impoverished, beautiful kingdom to which Henry d'Albret took his bride in the autumn of the year when they were weary of the festivals of France, a new and almost a foreign country.

I have been here five days, says Margaret, writing in October from Béarn, and I scarcely begin to understand the language.

Jeanne and her husband were in Paris at the time of the death of her father.

They immediately hastened to Béarn, the capital of Navarre, to take possession of the dominions which had thus descended to them.

The little Henry was then brought from his wild mountain home to reside with his mother in the royal palace.

Though Navarre was but a feeble kingdom, the grandeur of its court was said to have been unsurpassed at that time by that of any other in Europe.

The intellectual education of Henry had been almost entirely neglected, but the hardihood of his body had given such vigor and energy to his mind that he was now prepared to distance in intellectual pursuits with perfect ease those whose infantile brains had been overtasked with study.

Henry remained in Béarn with his parents two years, and in that time engrafted many courtly graces upon the free and fetterless carriage he had acquired among the mountains.

His mind expanded with remarkable rapidity, and he became one of the most beautiful and engaging of children.

End of section 1.

When she at last married, the match was not a brilliant one, though it proved, contrary to immediate probability, to be the source of the last and the most glorious branch of the royal dynasty of France.

The bridegroom bore indeed the title of King of Navarre, and possessed Béarn, but his kingdom had long been in Spanish hands, and but for his wife's dowry of Alençon and appanage of Berry, to which Francis had added Armagnac and a large pension, he would have been but a lackland furthermore he was eleven years younger than herself and it is at least insinuated that the affection if there was any was chiefly on her side at any rate this earlier henry of navarre seems to have had not a few of the characteristics of his grandson together with a violence and brutality which to do the fair calonne justice formed no part of his character the only son of the marriage died young and the girl jane d'albret mother of the great bourbon race of the next two centuries was taken away from her parents by reasons of state for a time the domestic life of margaret however concerns us but little except in one way her husband disliked administration and she was the principal ruler in their rather extensive estates or dominions moreover she was able at her quasi court to extend the literary coteries which she had already begun to form at paris the patronage to men of letters for which her brother is famous was certainly more due to her than to himself and to her also was due the partial toleration of religious liberty which for a time distinguished his reign it was not till her influence was weakened that intolerance prevailed and she was able even then for a time to save marot and other distinguished persons from persecution it is rather a moot point how far she inclined to the reformed doctrines properly so called her letters his serious and poetical work and even the heptameron itself show a fervently pietistic spirit and occasionally seem to testify to a distinct inclination towards protestantism which is also positively attested by brantome and others but this protestantism must have been so far as it was consistent and definite at all the protestantism of erasmus rather than of luther of rabelais rather than of calvin she had a very strong objection to the coarseness the vices the idleness the brutish ignorance of the cloister she had aspirations after a more spiritual form of religion than the ordinary catholicism of her day provided and as a strong politician she may have had something of that gallicanism which has always been well marked in some of the best frenchmen and which at one time nearly prevailed with her great-great grandson louis the fourteenth but there is no doubt that as her brother said to the fanatical montmorency she would always have been and always was of his religion the religion of the state the side of the reformation which must have most appealed to her was neither its austere morals nor its bare ritual nor its doctrines properly so called but its spiritual pietism and its connection with profane learning and letters for of literature margaret was an ardent devotee and a constant her best days were done by the time of her second marriage after the king's return from spain persecution broke out and margaret's influence became more and more weak to stop it as early as fifteen thirty three her own miroir de lames pecheresses then in its second edition provoked the fanaticism of the sorbonne and the king had to interfere in person to protect his sister's work and herself from gross insult the medici marriage increased the persecuting tendency and for a time there was even an attempt to suppress printing and with it all that new literature which was the queen's delight she was herself in some danger but francis had not sunk so low as to permit any actual attack to be made on her yet all the last years of her life were unhappy though she continued to keep court at nerac in pau to accompany her brother in his progresses and as we know from documents to play lady bountiful over a wide area of france her husband appears to have been rather at variance with her and her daughter who married first and in name only the duke of cleves in fifteen forty and later fifteen forty eight anthony de bourbon was also not on cordial terms with her mother by the date of this second marriage francis was dead and though he had for many years been anything but wholly kind margaret's good days were now in truth done her nephew henry left her in possession of her revenues but does not seem to have been very affectionately disposed towards her and even had she been inclined to attempt any recovery of influence his wife and his mistress catherine de medici and diana of boitier two women as different from margaret as they were from one another would certainly have prevented her from obtaining it

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When she at last married, the match was not a brilliant one, though it proved, contrary to immediate probability, to be the source of the last and the most glorious branch of the royal dynasty of France.

The bridegroom bore indeed the title of King of Navarre, and possessed Béarn, but his kingdom had long been in Spanish hands, and but for his wife's dowry of Alençon and appanage of Berry, to which Francis had added Armagnac and a large pension, he would have been but a lackland furthermore he was eleven years younger than herself and it is at least insinuated that the affection if there was any was chiefly on her side at any rate this earlier henry of navarre seems to have had not a few of the characteristics of his grandson together with a violence and brutality which to do the fair calonne justice formed no part of his character the only son of the marriage died young and the girl jane dalbrun mother of the great bourbon race of the next two centuries was taken away from her parents by reasons of state for a time the domestic life of margaret however concerns us but little except in one way her husband disliked administration and she was the principal ruler in their rather extensive estates or dominions moreover she was able at her quasi court to extend the literary coteries which she had already begun to form at paris the patronage to men of letters for which her brother is famous was certainly more due to her than to himself and to her also was due the partial toleration of religious liberty which for a time distinguished his reign it was not till her influence was weakened that intolerance prevailed and she was able even then for a time to save marot and other distinguished persons from persecution it is rather a moot point how far she inclined to the reformed doctrines properly so called her letters his serious and poetical work and even the heptameron itself show a fervently pietistic spirit and occasionally seem to testify to a distinct inclination towards protestantism which is also positively attested by branton and others but this protestantism must have been so far as it was consistent and definite at all the protestantism of erasmus rather than of luther of rabelais rather than of calvin she had a very strong objection to the coarseness the vices the idleness the brutish ignorance of the cloister she had aspirations after a more spiritual form of religion than the ordinary catholicism of her day provided and as a strong politician she may have had something of that gallicanism which has always been well marked in some of the best frenchmen and which at one time nearly prevailed with her great-great-grandson louis the fourteenth but there is no doubt that as her brother said to the fanatical montmorency she would always have been and always was of his religion the religion of the state the side of the reformation which must have most appealed to her was neither its austere morals nor its bare ritual nor its doctrines properly so called but its spiritual pietism and its connection with profane learning and letters for of literature margaret was an ardent devotee and a constant her best days were done by the time of her second marriage after the king's return from spain persecution broke out and margaret's influence became more and more weak to stop it as early as fifteen thirty three her own miroir de lames pecheresses then in its second edition provoked the fanaticism of the sorbonne and the king had to interfere in person to protect his sister's work and herself from gross insult the medici marriage increased the persecuting tendency and for a time there was even an attempt to suppress printing and with it all that new literature which was the queen's delight she was herself in some danger but francis had not sunk so low as to permit any actual attack to be made on her yet all the last years of her life were unhappy though she continued to keep court at nerac in pau to accompany her brother in his progresses and as we know from documents to play lady bountiful over a wide area of france her husband appears to have been rather at variance with her and her daughter who married first and in name only the duke of cleves in fifteen forty and later fifteen forty eight anthony de bourbon was also not on cordial terms with her mother by the date of this second marriage francis was dead and though he had for many years been anything but wholly kind margaret's good days were now in truth done Her nephew Henry left her in possession of her revenues, but does not seem to have been very affectionately disposed towards her, and even had she been inclined to attempt any recovery of influence, his wife and his mistress, Catherine de' Medici and Diana of Boitier, two women as different from Margaret as they were from one another, would certainly have prevented her from obtaining it.

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Prologue.

on the first day of september when the baths in the pyrenees mountains begin to be possessed of their virtue there were at those of carteret many persons as well of france as of spain some to drink the water others to bathe in it and again others to make trial of the mud all these being remedies so marvellous that persons despaired of by the doctors return thence wholly cured my purpose is not to speak to you of the situation or virtue of the said baths but only to set forth as much as relates to the matter of which i desire to write all the sick persons continued at the baths for more than three weeks until by the amendment in their condition they perceived that they might return home again but while they were preparing to do so there fell such extraordinary rains that it seemed as though god had forgotten the promise he made to noah never to destroy the world with water again for every cottage and every lodging in coteret was so flooded with water that it was no longer possible to continue there those who had come from the side of spain returned thither across the mountains as best they could and such of them as knew whither the roads led fared best in making their escape The French lords and ladies thought to return to Tarbes as easily as they had come, but they found the streamlets so deep as to be scarcely fordable.

When they came to pass over the Béarnese gave, which at the time of their former passage had been less than two feet in depth, they found it so broad and swift that they turned aside to seek for the bridges.

but these being only of wood had been swept away by the turbulence of the water then certain of the company thought to stem the force of the current by crossing in a body but they were quickly carried away and the others who had been about to follow lost all inclination to do so accordingly they separated as much because they were not all of one mind as to find some other way some crossed over the mountains and passing through aragon came to the county of roussillon and thence to narbonne whilst others made straight for barcelona going thence by sea some to marseilles and others to aigues-martes but a widow lady of long experience named oissy resolved to lay aside all fear of bad roads and to betake herself to our lady of She was not, indeed, so superstitious as to think that the glorious virgin would leave her seat at her son's right hand to come and dwell in a desolate country, but she was desirous to see the hallowed spot of which she had so often heard, and further she was sure that if there were a means of escaping from a danger, the monks would certainly find it out.