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He was one of the nobles who accompanied Mary Stuart to Scotland in 1561, and while returning visited the Court of England. He had already in 1562 waged successful war against the Huguenots in Normandy. Brantôme, his secretary, describes him at length in vol. v., pp. 62-77, Mérimée's edition, Paris, 1858.
The young ruler died on December 5, 1560. The agitation of the Court was so great that neither his mother nor any of his family paid him the last duties, and his body was borne to St. Denis accompanied only by two noblemen and the Bishop of Senlis. She was the daughter of Lorenzo de Medici and the niece of Pope Clement VII. Her marriage with Henry II. took place at Marseille, October 28, 1533.
DUC DE FERRARE. Alphonso II. of Este, Duke of Ferrara, was the son of Hercules of Ferrara and grandson of Alphonso I. He was a cousin of Henry II. and served in all the military expeditions of this monarch. He was a great favorite at Court and made a great display both in his own country and in Italy, whither he accompanied the French King. His brother was the famous Cardinal d'Este.
The Truth about Louvain. Sir, In all British fairness some prominence might be given to the very narrow escape Brussels had from the terrible fate of Louvain, as described in the Daily Telegraph by its capable correspondent, Mr. Gerald Morgan. He states that, «accompanied by Richard Harding Davis», he was «permitted by the Germans to follow» their Army.
An untiring curiosity which accompanied a remarkable acuteness of all the senses, and an emotional and intellectual receptivity which rendered him quickly and profoundly impressionable, equipped Daudet to express the poetic spirit of the south in its epic as well as its lyric qualities. He was aware of this himself.
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