3 Genin's _Nouvelles Lettres, &c._, p. 189.
This was not her only motive in going to Cauterets apparently, for in
a letter to Duke William of Cleves, her daughter's husband, dated April
1541, she states that as she is suffering from a _caterre_ which "has
fallen upon half her neck," and compels her to keep her bed, the doctors
have advised her to take "the natural baths," and hope that she will
be cured by the end of May, providing she follows all their
prescriptions.(1)
1 A. de Ruble's _Mariage de Jeanne d' Albret_,
Paris, 1877, p. 86, et seq.
That this visit to Cauterets left a deep impression upon the mind of
Margaret is evidenced by the work upon which her literary fame rests.
The scene selected for the prologue of the _Heptameron_ is Cauterets
and the surrounding country; still it is evident that the book was not
commenced upon the occasion referred to, for in the prologue Margaret
alludes to historical events which took place in 1543 and 1544, and she
speaks of them as being of recent occurrence at her time of writing.
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