not, she kept word with him as to all that she had promised.

He departed thence at the hour which he had appointed with his
gentlemen, and found them at the spot where he had aforetime bidden them
wait.

As this intercourse lasted a fairly long time, the young Prince chose
a shorter way to the advocate's house, and this led him through a
monastery of monks. (4) And so well did he contrive matters with the
Prior, that the porter used always to open the gate for him about
midnight, and do the like also when he returned. And, as the house which
he visited was hard by, he used to take nobody with him.

4 If at this period Jane Disome, the heroine of the story,
lived in the Rue de la Pauheminerie, where she is known to
have died some years afterwards, this monastery, in Baron
Jerome Pichon's opinion, would be the Blancs-Manteaux, in
the Marais district of Paris. We may further point out that
in the Rue Barbette, near by, there was till modern times a
house traditionally known as the "hotel de la belle
Feronniere." That many writers have confused the heroine of
this tale with La Belle Feronniere (so called because her
husband was a certain Le Feron, an advocate) seems manifest;
the intrigue in which the former took part was doubtless
ascribed in error to the latter, and the proximity of their
abodes may have led to the mistake. It should be pointed
out, however, that the amour here recorded by Queen Margaret
took place in or about the year 1515, before Francis I.
ascended the throne, whereas La Feronniere was in all her
beauty between 1530 and 1540. The tradition that the King
had an intrigue with La Feronniere reposes on the flimsiest
evidence (see Appendix B), and the supposition, re-echoed by
the Bibliophile Jacob, that it was carried on in the Rue de
l'Hirondelle, is entirely erroneous. The house, adorned with
the salamander device and corneted initials of Francis I.,
which formerly extended from that street to the Rue Git-le-
Coeur, never had any connection with La Feronniere. It was
the famous so-called Palace of Love which the King built for
his acknowledged mistress, Anne de Pisseleu, Duchess of
Etampes.--Ed.

Although he led the life that I have described, he was nevertheless a
Prince that feared and loved God, and although he made no pause when
going, he never failed on his r