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Margaret, Queen of Navarre, 1492-1549

"The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.)"

A
year later Francis Rometens dedicated to him an edition of
the letters of Pico della Mirandola. He died April 24th,
1539, at Fleury-sur-Aiidelle, about fifteen miles from
Rouen, and was buried in his episcopal church. (See _Gallia
Christiana_, vol. xi. p. 702.) His successor in the See of
Sees was Nicholas Danguye, or Dangu (a natural son of
Cardinal Duprat), with whom M. Frank tries to identify
Dagoucin, one of the narrators of the _Heptameron_.--L. and
Ed.
Thus, from being a loyal servant, he became utterly adverse to them, and
at last sought out sorcerers to procure the death of the Duchess.(4)
Now for a long time the Bishop consorted with this unhappy woman, who
submitted to him from avarice rather than from love, and also because
her husband urged her to show him favour. But there was a youth in the
town of Alencon, son of the Lieutenant-General,(5) whom she loved
so much that she was half crazy regarding him; and she often availed
herself of the Bishop to have some commission intrusted to her husband,
so that she might see the son of the Lieutenant, who was named Du
Mesnil, at her ease.


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