' The Constable," adds Brantome, "was greatly displeased at the
task, and sorely vexed to serve as such a spectacle to every one; and he
began to say, 'It is now all over with my favour. Farewell to it.'
Thus it happened, for after the wedding festival and dinner he had his
dismissal and left at once." (1)
After the marriage of her daughter Margaret returned to Paris, and
thence repaired to Mont-de-Marsan to spend the winter of 1540-41. Late
in the following spring she went to Cauterets in the Pyrenees to take
the baths. Writing during Lent to her brother she states that her
husband having had a fall will repair to Cauterets by the advice of his
doctors,(2) and that she intends to accompany him to prevent him from
worrying and to transact his business for him, "for when one is at the
baths one must live like a child without any care." (3)
1 _OEuvres de Brantome_, 8vo, vol. v. (_Dames illustres_),
p. 220.
2 Henry d'Albret had already undergone treatment at the
Pyrenean baths after his escape from Pavia, when, however,
he stayed at Eaux-Bonnes.
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