--Margaret's
anxiety and grief--Her "Marguerites de la Marguerite"--Jane
d'Albret's second marriage--Death of Margaret at Odos or
Audaux----Her funeral at Lescar--Destruction of her tomb_.
Whilst Margaret was living amongst divines and scholars at Pau and
Nerac, her mind, as her letters indicate, constantly turned to her
daughter Jane, whom Aimee de la Fayette, wife of the Bailiff of Caen,
was bringing up at Plessis-les-Tours. Margaret was only able to see Jane
at rare intervals during some of her trips to France, and she was mainly
indebted to sympathising friends for news of the little Princess's
condition and health. All her maternal tenderness was concentrated on
this daughter, and whenever the child was ailing she became distracted.
Sainte-Marthe records that in December 1537, while Margaret was
sojourning in Paris, her daughter, then scarcely nine years old, fell
seriously ill at the royal house of Plessis-les-Tours; and as it
was rumoured amongst the Court, then at Paris, that the Princess was
threatened with death, her virtuous mother, Margaret, at about four
o'clock in the evening, ordered her litter to be brought, saying that
she would go and see her daughter, and that all her people should
prepare to start.
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