The Book of The Ladies, by Pierre de Bourdeïlle, Abbé de Brantôme

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Author

Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille, -1614

Title

The book of the ladies Illustrious Dames: The Reign and Amours of the Bourbon Régime

Credits

Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

DC: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: France, Andorra, Monaco

Subject

Queens

Category

Text

eBook-No.

42515

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42515

Release Date

April 12, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Book of the Illustrious Dames
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.LIST OF PHOTOGRAVURE ILLUSTRATIONS.
4. 4.INTRODUCTION. [1] — THE BOOK OF THE LADIES.
5. 5.DISCOURSE I. ANNE DE BRETAGNE, QUEEN OF FRANCE.
6. 6.DISCOURSE II. CATHERINE DE’ MEDICI, QUEEN, AND MOTHER OF OUR LAST KINGS.
7. 7.DISCOURSE III. MARIE STUART, QUEEN OF SCOTLAND, FORMERLY QUEEN OF OUR FRANCE.
8. 8.DISCOURSE IV. ÉLISABETH OF FRANCE, QUEEN OF SPAIN.
9. 9.DISCOURSE V. MARGUERITE, QUEEN OF FRANCE AND OF NAVARRE, SOLE DAUGHTER NOW REMAINING OF THE NOBLE HOUSE OF FRANCE. [12]
10. 10.DISCOURSE VI. MESDAMES, THE DAUGHTERS OF THE NOBLE HOUSE OF FRANCE. [19] — 1. Madame Yoland de France. — 2. Madame Jeanne de France. — 3. Madame Anne de France. — 4. Madame Claude de France. — 5. Madame Renée de France. — 6. Mesdames Charlotte, Louise, Magdelaine, and Marguerite de France. — 7. Mesdames Élisabeth, Claude, and Marguerite de France. — 8. Madame Diane de France. — 9. Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre.
11. 11.DISCOURSE VII. OF VARIOUS ILLUSTRIOUS LADIES. [22] — 1. Isabelle d’Autriche, wife of Charles IX., King of France [daughter of the Emperor Maximilian II.]. — 3. Marie d’Autriche, wife of Louis, King of Hungary [sister of the Emperor Charles V.]. — 4. Louise de Lorraine, wife of Henri III., King of France. — 5. Marguerite de Lorraine, wife of Anne, Duc de Joyeuse. [24] — 6. Christine of Denmark, niece of the Emperor Charles V. Duchesse de Lorraine. — 7. Marie d’Autriche, wife of the Emperor Maximilian II. — 8. Blanche de Montferrat, Duchesse de Savoie. — 9. Catherine de Clèves, wife of Henri I. de Lorraine, Duc de Guise. — 10. Madame de Bourdeille.
12. 12.APPENDIX. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII
13. 13.INDEX. — FOOTNOTES:

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