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Updated: May 23, 2025
It is time for the chanting of vespers in the chapel of the Holy Innocents." It was in the White Tower of Machecoul that the Scottish maidens were held at the mercy of the Lord of Retz. At their first arrival in the country they had been taken to the quiet Chateau of Pouzauges, the birthplace of Poitou, the marshal's most cruel and remorseless confidant.
"That explains Gilles's hatred of his family who had solicited these letters patent of the king, and why, as long as he lived, he had nothing to do with his wife, nor with his daughter whom he consigned to a dungeon at Pouzauges. "Now to return to the question which I put a while ago, how and with what motives Gilles quitted the court.
Here, as the marshal had very truly informed the Lady Sybilla, they had been under the care of or, rather, fellow-prisoners with the neglected wife of Gilles de Retz, and at Pouzauges they had spent some days of comparative peace and security in the society of her daughter.
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