The Rival Queens (49 page)

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 “Well-ordered states and wise princes”: Machiavelli,
The Prince,
81.

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 “For my husband had been greatly”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
205.

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 “I remember (for I was there)”: Bourdeïlle and Saint-Beuve,
Illustrious Dames at the Court of the Valois Kings,
158–59.

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 “For three days she has”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
107.

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 “I received every mark of honor”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
205.

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 “which was held by the Huguenots”: Ibid.

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 “We found the Queen and all her maids”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
109.

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 “took a mistress like the others”: Williams,
Queen Margot,
254.

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“It was the intention of the Queen my mother”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
205.

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 “the Catholic religion not being tolerated”: Ibid., 206.

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 “having been, for some years”: Ibid., 206–7.

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 “ordered the guard to arrest”: Ibid., 207.

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 “I complained of it”: Ibid.

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 “Le Pin, with the greatest disrespect”: Ibid.

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 “This insolent speech”: Ibid., 208.

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 “The King, however, continued”: Ibid., 209.

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 “little Geneva”: Ibid.

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 “He took notice of my”: Ibid., 210.

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 “The King was very assiduous with Fosseuse”: Ibid., 211.

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 “Great Henry’s daughter”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
120.

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 “showed how the wind blew”: Ibid., 121.

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 “No sooner [had] he lost sight of her”: Ibid., 209.

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 “Our Court was so brilliant”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
210.

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 “This difference of religion”: Ibid., 211.

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 “Whoever is the cause of another”: Machiavelli,
The Prince,
16.

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 “The king has such a strong desire”: Holt,
The Duke of Anjou and the Politique Struggle During the Wars of Religion,
116.

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 that “[I] had at length”: Ibid., 239.

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 “I might be more shunned”: Freer,
Henry III, King of France and Poland,
2:231.

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 “She told her husband”: Chamberlin,
Marguerite of Navarre,
209.

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 “The King my husband”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
211–12.

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 “This was what I feared”: Ibid., 212–14.

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 “The peace my brother made”: Ibid., 221.

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 “He [François]… acquired from it”: Ibid., 221.

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 “The King my husband was equally”: Ibid., 221–22.

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 “My brother returned to France”: Ibid., 222.

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 “the Queen your daughter went”: Merki,
La Reine Margot et la Fin des Valois,
248.

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 “She altered her conduct towards me”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
224.

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 “For his part, he avoided me”: Ibid.

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 “persuaded the King my husband”: Ibid.

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 “I had every day news”: Ibid., 225.

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 “The pregnancy of Fosseuse was now”: Ibid., 226–27.

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 “Far from showing any contrition”: Ibid., 227–28.

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 “The physician delivered the message”: Ibid., 228–29.

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 “I answered that I had”: Ibid., 229.

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 “I advised him”: Ibid.

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“It pleased God” Ibid.

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 “Notwithstanding these precautions”: Ibid.

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 “When the King my husband”: Ibid.

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 “I told him I went according”: Ibid., 230.

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 “He seemed to be greatly displeased”: Ibid.

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 “The King and the Queen both wrote”: Ibid., 231.

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 “The length of time I had been”: Ibid.

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 “I had too long experience of”: Ibid., 231–32.

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 “It was with some difficulty”: Ibid., 232.

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 “Whoever becomes the ruler of a free city”: Machiavelli,
The Prince,
22.

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 nicknamed him Narcissus: Chamberlin,
Marguerite of Navarre,
227.

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 “I kiss a million times”: Williams,
Queen Margot,
271.

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 “beautiful angel, a beautiful miracle”: Viennot,
Marguerite de Valois,
194.

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 “I beg you very humbly, think what credit”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
135.

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 “professed much in fine language”: Ibid., 137.

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 “If you were here you would be”: Chamberlin,
Marguerite of Navarre,
224.

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 “I beg you very humbly to receive this”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
137–38.

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 “You say that there will be”: Williams,
Queen Margot,
285–86.

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 “My Son, I was never so astonished”: Van Dyke,
Catherine de Médicis,
2:290–91.

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 “The primary object of his visit”: Holt,
The Duke of Anjou and the Politique Struggle During the Wars of Religion,
158.

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 “whatever it pleased the king”: Ibid., 168.

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 “not wanting to drive his brother”: Ibid., 173.

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 “Let it never be said”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
144.

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 “There is no longer justice”: Ibid., 140.

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 “Triumph, triumph over my too”: Williams,
Queen Margot,
288.

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 Brantôme noted that she: Viennot,
Marguerite de Valois,
192–93.

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 “two million in gold”: Van Dyke,
Catherine de Médicis,
2:279.

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 “so covered with embroidery”: Ibid.

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 “All those poor soldiers”: Holt,
The Duke of Anjou and the Politique Struggle During the Wars of Religion,
179.

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 “Everything is falling apart”: Ibid.

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 “I find that my expenses”: Ibid., 180.

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 “in a bed lighted by”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
143.

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 “so rapturous a game”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
144.

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 “one on top of the other”: Holt,
The Duke of Anjou and the Politique Struggle During the Wars of Religion,
183.

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 “My said brother… has gone”: Ibid., 188.

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 “I have never seen this court”: Van Dyke,
Catherine de Médicis,
2:304.

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“The Queen of Navarre is pregnant”: Chamberlin,
Marguerite of Navarre,
229.

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 “Please God that on me alone”: Ibid., 230.

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 “to turn him away from his promises”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
147.

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 “naming so precisely”: Williams,
Queen Margot,
293.

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 “deliver the Court from her”: Ibid.

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 “Miserable wretch, do you dare”: Chamberlin,
Marguerite of Navarre,
232–33.

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 “It is necessary for a prince”: Machiavelli,
The Prince,
43.

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 “It is an affront which no princess”: Williams,
Queen Margot,
297–98.

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 “were it not for the meddlers”: Ibid., 302.

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 “Madame, [I] implore you”: Ibid., 299–300.

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 “I beg you do not abandon”: Van Dyke,
Catherine de Médicis,
2:293.

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 “Kings are often liable”: Chamberlin,
Marguerite of Navarre,
237.

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 “love-affairs, which are carried on”: Williams,
Queen Margot,
303.

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 answering to the name of Corisande: The name comes from the fourteenth-century work
Amadis de Gaule
. Corisande was a romantic heroine in the story.

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 “I see very clearly”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
159.

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 “The day on which he [Épernon] arrives”: Williams,
Queen Margot,
308–9.

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 “A man’s religion could not be”: Ibid., 309.

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 “fallen very ill”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
163.

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 “many other designs”: Ibid.

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 “A villain has endeavored”: Williams,
Queen Margot,
313n.

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 “I beg you, before you leave”: Van Dyke,
Catherine de Médicis,
2:294–95.

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 “in order that she whom we have”: Williams,
Queen Margot,
320.

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 “having reason to mistrust the King”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
164.

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 “I have not failed to speak”: Williams,
Queen Margot,
315.

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 “What a woman!”: Chamberlin,
Marguerite of Navarre,
248.

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 “she had been so troubled”: Van Dyke,
Catherine de Médicis,
2:327.

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 “We are well advertised”: Carroll,
Martyrs and Murderers,
261.

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 “I hear now that our Majesties”: Van Dyke,
Catherine de Médicis,
2:326.

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 “Nobody in the world”: Ibid., 327.

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 “treat the Queen of Navarre”: Chamberlin,
Marguerite of Navarre,
253.

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 According to both Brantôme and Aubiac’s brother: For Brantôme’s version of this story, see Brantôme,
Oeuvres Complètes,
8:69–71. For the letter written by Aubiac’s brother, see Viennot,
Marguerite de Valois,
220.

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 “Fortresses may or may not be useful”: Machiavelli,
The Prince,
92.

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 “Very few or no courtiers”: Carroll,
Martyrs and Murderers,
262.

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 “If I were to repeat”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
183.

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 “tragic designs”: Ibid.

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“the most rigorous punishment”: Williams,
Queen Margot,
329.

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 “I hear it said”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
177.

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 “d’Aubiac must leap the rock”: Ibid., 179.

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 “She would rather go away”: Ibid.

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 “certain that the King was the cause”: Ibid.

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 “Tell Canillac not to budge”: Williams,
Queen Margot,
331.

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 “The more I examine the matter”: Ibid., 331–32.

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 “treated like the poorest”: Ibid., 333.

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 “threw herself at their feet”: Van Dyke,
Catherine de Médicis,
2:340.

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 “who had brought her into”: Ibid.

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 “would never consent to such”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
183.

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 “The Marquis de Canillac”: Williams,
Queen Margot,
333.

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 “not to go about any more”: Van Dyke,
Catherine de Médicis,
2:339.

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 “in consideration of the very signal”: Williams,
Queen Margot,
335–36.

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 “I do not intend to fail”: Ibid., 334–35.

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 “the sun alone could enter”: Chamberlin,
Marguerite of Navarre,
264.

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 “How laudable it is for a prince”: Machiavelli,
The Prince,
81.

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 “The marquis swore”: Viennot,
Marguerite de Valois,
233.

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 “The hate of the people”: Van Dyke,
Catherine de Médicis,
2:346.

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 “of the strange favors”: Carrol,
Martyrs and Murderers,
271.

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 “Long live Guise!”: Ibid., 274.

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 “He who loves the master”: Ibid.

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 “certain that the King of France”: Van Dyke,
Catherine de Médicis,
2:366.

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 “put almost absolute authority”: Ibid., 375.

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 “Seeing a thing of such importance”: Ibid., 380.

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 “He would not dare”: Carroll,
Martyrs and Murderers,
290.

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 “Fool,” he said: Ibid., 291.

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 “Traitor! You will die for it!”: Ibid.

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 “Good day, Madame, I beg”: Van Dyke,
Catherine de Médicis,
2:394–95.

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 “In spite of the great trouble”: Ibid., 396.

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 “Fool! Knave! Puppet!” Freer,
Henry III, King of France and Poland,
3:76.

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 “Oh madame, madame!”: Ibid., 85.

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 “O God, this is too much!”: Ibid.

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 “condition of health in her”: Van Dyke,
Catherine de Médicis,
2:397.

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 “Five months ago I was condemned”: Pitts,
Henri IV of France,
141.

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 “May my crown flourish”: Freer,
Henry III, King of France and Poland,
3:109.

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 “king of all France”: Pitts,
Henri IV of France,
169.

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 “in secret a Catholic”: Ibid., 170.

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 “What a great king!”: Ibid., 182.

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 “My respects to your master”: Ibid.