Champney, Elizabeth Williams, 1850-1922 · New York, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 264
fell mortallywounded by Montgomerys lance in the fatal joust. And Catherinede Medicis first act, while her husband lay dying, was to send toDiana and demand the keys of Chenonceau. She had alwayscoveted it, and was deeply humiliated and enraged when Henri con-ferred it upon her rival, with the… … DIANA DE POITIERS, BY JEAN QOUJON. cROM THE CHATEAU OF ANET, NOW IN THE LOUVRE. (By permission of Levy, Paris.1) The Nymph of Fontainebleau 185 mont, but Diane retired to Anet, where she lived for seven yearslonger, dying at the age of sixty-seven. Brantome wrote of her : I saw Madame the Duchesse…
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