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But, in consequence of the road they had followed, the Loire was between the army and the town; the expeditionary corps had to be split in two; the troops were obliged to go and feel for the bridge of Blois in order to 'cross the river; and Joan was vexed and surprised. Dunois, arrived from Orleans in a little boat, urged her to enter the town that same evening.
He declared that the presence of his daughter was essential to his happiness that he could not be separated from her. In 1680 Mademoiselle de Blois was married to the Prince de Conti, nephew of the great Condé. It was as brilliant a marriage as exalted rank, gorgeous dresses, superb diamonds, and courtly etiquette could create.
Now, on the part of the citizens of Blois this was a culpable piece of disrespect, for Monsieur was, after the king nay, even, perhaps before the king the greatest noble of the kingdom.
I will that in all things my Lord be obeyed." The Generals stood dumb and discomfited before her; a thrill ran through the army when her words were repeated there; but, indeed, we all quickly saw the wisdom of her counsel and the folly of her adversaries; for the bulk of the army had perforce to march back to Blois to cross the river there, whilst only a thousand picked men with the chiefest of the Generals and the convoys of provisions prepared to enter the city by water and pass through the Burgundy Gate.
He did not know the law of honour, as it obtained amongst French gentlemen of those days, or how religiously their daughters were bound by it. But Mrs. Newcome had been beforehand with him, and had visited the Chevalier de Blois almost at cockcrow.
Henry, having retired to the castle of Blois, about one hundred miles south of Paris, arranged all the details, while he was daily, with the most consummate hypocrisy, receiving his victim with courteous words and smiles. The king summoned a council to attend him in his cabinet at Blois on the 23d of December.
"I have no appetite." "Let us dine notwithstanding. Eat you must if you would live; and unless you live think of it! you'll never reach Blois." "Gaston, you are laughing at me! I do not wish to eat." I surveyed him gravely, with my arms akimbo. "Can love so expand the heart of man that it fills even his stomach? Well, well, if you will not eat, at least have the grace to bear me company at table.
At nightfall, as they changed horses for the last stage before Blois, Julie grew uneasy. All the way from Amboise she had heard the sound of wheels behind them, a carriage following hers had kept at the same distance.
When Henry II. of France died, in 1559, his widow, Catherine de’ Medici, wrote to Michael Angelo asking him to supply at least the design for the equestrian statue of the late King she desired to set up in the courtyard of the royal château at Blois. The sketch was prepared and the work given to Daniele da Volterra.
Orleans had already been driven by famine to offers of surrender when Jeanne appeared in the French court, and a force was gathering under the Count of Dunois at Blois for a final effort at its relief. It was at the head of this force that Jeanne placed herself.
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