w months subsequently he
presented to Mademoiselle d'Entragues the estate of Verneuil, and that
thenceforward she assumed the title of Marquise, coupled with the name
of her new possession.[75]

FOOTNOTES:

[2] Henri de Lorraine, Duc de Guise, was the brother of Charles, Duc de
Mayenne, and of Louis, Cardinal de Guise. He was the chief of the
League, and excited a popular revolt on the day of the Barricades, in
the hope of possessing himself of the crown. Henri III caused him to be
assassinated at Blois, in the year 1588. He was distinguished as _le
Balafre_ by the people, in consequence of the deep scar of a wound
across the face by which he was disfigured.

[3] Catherine was the second daughter of Francois de Cleves, Duc de
Nevers, and of Marguerite de Bourbon-Vendome, the aunt of Henri IV. Her
dower consisted of the county of Eu, in Normandy. She was twice married;
first to Antoine de Croi, Prince de Portien, by whom she had no issue;
and secondly, to Henri de Lorraine, Duc de Guise. She died in 1633, at
the age of eighty-five years.

[4] She heard three masses every day, one high and two low ones, and
took the holy communion each week on the Thursdays, Fridays, and
Sundays.--_Letters of Etienne Pasquier_, book xxii. letter v. col. 666,
of the folio edition.

[5] By some extraordinary presentiment they always imagined that they
saw a King of France in the Prince of Navarre, even at a time when the
greatest obstacles were opposed to such an idea.--Dreux du Radier,
_Memoires des Reines et Regentes de France_, vol. v. p. 130. See also
_Memoires de Sully_, vol. i. pp. 60-67.

[6] Dreux du Radier, vol. v. p. 182.

[7] _Hist. des Reines et Regentes de France_, vol. ii. p. 4.

[8] Henri de Bourbon, Prince de Conde, first Prince of the Blood, and
Grand Master of France, was born in 1552, and succeeded his father, the
Comte Louis, who was killed at the battle of Jarnac, on the 13th of May
1569, in the command of the Protestant party, conjointly with the King
of Navarre (Henri IV). He made a levy of foreign troops in 1575,
distinguished himself at Coutras in 1587, and died by poison the
following year at St. Jean d'Angely.

[9] Ambroise Pare was born at Laval (Mayenne), in 1509. He commenced his
public career as surgeon of the infantry-general Rene de Montejean; and
on his return to France, having taken his degrees at the College of St.
Edme, he was elected Provost of the Corporation of Surgeons. In 1552,
Henri II