Nine or ten
days before the safe-conduct expired she passed Perpignan and reached
Salces, where some French nobles were awaiting her.
Soon after her return to France she again took charge of the royal
children, who once more fell ill, this time with the measles, as
Margaret related in the following characteristic letter addressed to her
brother, still a prisoner in Spain:--
"My Lord,--The fear that I have gone through about your children,
without saying anything of it to Madame (Louise of Savoy), who was also
very ill, obliges me to tell you in detail the pleasure I feel at their
recovery. M. d'Angouleme caught the measles, with a long and severe
fever; afterwards the Duke of Orleans took them with a little fever; and
then Madame Madeleine without fever or pain; and by way of company the
Dauphin without suffering or fever. And now they all are quite cured and
very well; and the Dauphin does marvels in the way of studying, mingling
with his schooling a hundred thousand other occupations. And there is no
more question of passions, but rather of all the virtues; M.
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