The MS. was recently in the possession of M.
de La Roche-la-Carelle.
2 Claude Paradin's _Devises heroiques_, Lyons, 1557, p. 41.
In her _Miroir de l'Ame Pecheresse_, previously referred to, there
figures another device composed merely of the three words "Ung pour
tout;" and in the manuscript of "La Coche" presented to the Duchess of
Etampes, the motto "Plus vous que moys" is inscribed beneath each of the
miniatures. Margaret also composed a series of devices for some jewels
which her brother presented to his favourite, Madame de Chateaubriant.
Respecting these Brantome tells the following curious anecdote:--
"I have heard say, and hold on good authority, that when King Francis I.
had left Madame de Chateaubriant, his favourite mistress, to take Madame
d'Etampes, as one nail drives out another, Madame d'Etampes begged the
King to take back from the said Madame de Chateaubriant all the finest
jewels that he had given her, not on account of their cost and value,
for pearls and precious stones were not then so fashionable as they have
been since, but for the love of the fine devices that were engraved and
impressed upon them; which devices the Queen of Navarre, his sister, had
made and composed, for she was a mistress in such matters.
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