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Updated: May 22, 2025
"Is it the king's good pleasure to begin the council without waiting for Madame la reine-mere?" Francois II., without daring to answer directly, said: "Messieurs, be seated." The cardinal then explained succinctly the dangers of the situation.
'And shall you see the lady? asked Lucy, under her breath. 'Eustacie? Probably; but that will make no change. I have heard too much of l'escadron de la Reine-mere to endure the thought of a wife from thence, were she the Queen of Beauty herself.
Many and many a tender art did Diane rehearse; numerous were her sighs; wakeful, languishing, and restless her nights and days; and yet, whatever her determination to practise upon her cousin the witcheries that she had learnt in the Escadron de la Reine-mere, and seen played off effectually where there was not one grain of love to inspire them, her powers and her courage always failed her in the presence of him whom she sought to attract.
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