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Updated: May 27, 2025
Situation of Affairs in Flanders. Peace Brought About by Duc d'Alencon's Negotiation. Marechal de Biron Apologises for Firing on Nerac. Henri Desperately in Love with Fosseuse. Queen Marguerite Discovers Fosseuse to Be Pregnant, Which She Denies. Fosseuse in Labour. Marguerite's Generous Behaviour to Her. Marguerite's Return to Paris.
"Let me see," said Chicot, "must I tell Henri what I have seen? Why should I? two men and a woman, who hide themselves; it would be cowardly. I will not tell; that I know it myself is the important point, for is it not I who reign? His love was very pretty, but he loves too often, this dear Henri of Navarre. A year ago it was Madame de Sauve, and I suppose this was La Fosseuse.
The furniture is nothing very much either, my basket-maker made it for me; he wanted to show his gratitude; and La Fosseuse made the curtains herself out of a few yards of calico. This little house of hers, and her simple furniture, seem pretty to you, because you come upon them up here on a hillside in a forlorn part of the world where you did not expect to find things clean and tidy.
"That would be impossible, mademoiselle," Genestas answered respectfully. "When I was sixteen years old," La Fosseuse began, "I had to beg my bread on the roadside in Savoy, though my health was very bad. I used to sleep at Echelles, in a manger full of straw. The innkeeper who gave me shelter was kind, but his wife could not abide me, and was always saying hard things.
I had resolved, however, to avail myself of the opportunity of an absence of a few months, thinking it might prove the means of setting matters to rights. Besides which, I thought that, as I should take Fosseuse with me, it was possible that the King's passion for her might cool when she was no longer in his sight, or he might attach himself to some other that was less inclined to do me mischief.
When Marguerite left the king, she went at once to the apartments of the maids of honor, and performed her promise with regard to Fosseuse. When she returned, the king thanked her warmly, and then went up to Chicot's room, where he found him still asleep. Henri shook him to wake him. "Come, compere," said he, "get up, it is two in the morning."
It hurt me so much to see him beaten, that I broke him of the habit of going into houses, to steal bones, and he was quite contented with my crusts. When I was unhappy, he used to come and stand in front of me, and look into my eyes; it was just as if he said, 'So you are sad, my poor Fosseuse?
Situation of Affairs in Flanders. Peace Brought About by Duc d'Alencon's Negotiation. Marechal de Biron Apologises for Firing on Nerac. Henri Desperately in Love with Fosseuse. Queen Marguerite Discovers Fosseuse to Be Pregnant, Which She Denies. Fosseuse in Labour. Marguerite's Generous Behaviour to Her. Marguerite's Return to Paris.
The King wrote to the same purpose, and despatched Manique, the steward of his household, with instructions to use every persuasion with me to undertake the journey. The length of time I had been absent in Gascony, and the unkind usage I received on account of Fosseuse, contributed to induce me to listen to the proposal made me. The King and the Queen both wrote to me.
'When I see that, he said, 'and think of my Guard, I wish that I had perished in that torrent of blood. "Yes," said Genestas, looking at the doctor and at La Fosseuse, "those were his very words. "'The generals who counseled you not to charge with the Guard, and who hurried you into your traveling carriage, were not true friends of yours, I said.
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