The Rival Queens (50 page)

Here
 “In as much as the legitimate prince”: Machiavelli,
The Prince,
8.

Here
 “to kill the Queen of Navarre”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
193.

Here
 “good favor and protection”: Ibid., 200.

Here
 “the kindly disposition of the King”: Williams,
Queen Margot,
347.

Here
 “my extreme contentment… as can be desired”: Merki,
La Reine Margot et la Fin de Valois,
391. Original quote: “ce m’a été un extreme contentement de la resolution que vous avez prise d’apporter au bien de nos affairs… touchant votre pesion et au payment de vos dettes, je vous ferai bailer telles et si sûres expéditions et assignations que le saurez desirer.” For all Marguerite’s correspondence to Henry concerning the divorce, see Marguerite de Valois,
Mémoires et Lettres,
300–43.

Here
 “Now that the world has abandoned”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
216.

Here
 “Never does she miss”: Ibid.

Here
 “Madame Marguerite of France”: Ibid., 224.

Here
 “has as many men as she wishes”: Ibid., 217.

Here
 “She is very anxious”: Ibid., 218.

Here
 “I have been induced to undertake”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
29–30.

Here
 “Never did I consent willingly”: Chamberlin,
Marguerite of Navarre,
270–71.

Here
 “to make her the most wretched”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
206.

Here
 “Ah! The wretched woman!”: Williams,
Queen Margot,
359.

Here
 “both His Most Christian Majesty”: Ibid.

Here
 “My Sister—The persons”: Williams,
Queen Margot,
359–60.

Here
 “good will dedicated”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
209.

Here
 “The happy news”: Ibid.

Here
 “that fat banker’s daughter”: Ibid.

Here
 “The chief care that I have”: Ibid., 210.

Here
 “my ark of refuge”: Chamberlin,
Marguerite of Navarre,
274.

Here
 “From your Majesty I received”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
228.

Here
 “contained as much falseness”: Williams,
Queen Margot,
367.

Here
 “It is easy to see”: Ibid., 368–69.

Here
 “If I ever were possessed”:
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois,
27–28.

Here
 “There were many doors”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
244.

Here
 even kidded her: For this anecdote, as related by L’Estoile, see Merki,
La Reine Margot et la Fin de Valois,
413. Original quote: “disait qu’à son arrivée le roi l’avait requise de deux choses, l’une que pour mieux pourvoir à sa santé elle ne fît plus, comme elle avait coutume, la nuit dujour et le jour de la nuit; l’autre, qu’elle restreignît ses libéralités et devînt un peu ménagère de son bien. Du premier, elle promit au roi d’y apporter ce qu’elle pourrait pour contenter Sa Majesté, encore qu’il lui
fût fort malaisé, pour la longue habitude et nourriture qu’elle en avait prise; mais qu’au regard de l’autre il lui était du tout impossible, ne pouvant jamais vivre autrement et tenant cette libéralité de sa race.”

Here
 “Vous soyez la bien venue”: Williams,
Queen Margot,
370.

Here
 “How handsome you are!”: Ibid.

Here
 A chronicler related: For the story of Marguerite playing with the dog, see Merki,
La Reine Margot et la Fin de Valois,
414.

Here
 “Monseigneur, an assassination”: Ibid., 374.

Here
 “I also betook myself”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
236.

Here
 “After these distinguished gentlemen”: Ibid., 236–37.

Here
 “magnificent and sumptuous”: Ibid., 240.

Here
 “It’s nothing”: Pitts,
Henri IV of France,
329.

Here
 “Queen Marguerite caused a beautiful”: Williams,
Queen Margot,
382–83.

Here
 “On March 27”: Ibid., 385.

Here
 “There is a crowd as great”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
246–47.

Here
 “a prudent ruler ought not”: Machiavelli,
The Prince,
75.

Here
 “a great feigner and dissembler”: Ibid., 76.

Here
 “I have no ambition”: Mariéjol,
A Daughter of the Medicis,
247.

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