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back pull of his sword. La Chat
eigneraie bled to death. To-day
coup De Jarnac" means almost q
| foul; but the maneuver was perfectly
| regular, il new.
Here is another crime of Chenon
ceau. Diane, having finished the
bridge-wing at cost OF 5000 livres
| ($1S.000 to-day. built Italian gardens
in the style of Passelo de Mercogliano
The archbishop of Tours lent her
remarkable young gardener. Nicquet.
to train up her fruit walks NicQuet
was handsome, distinguished. due
tive, Innocent; the court was at Blois:
there was passing escapade of a
summers afternoon or two; and then
the handsome young gardener died of
| alleged cholera.
or all DANES crimes, this one stuck
most. The victim was a servant; and
the vengeful clan whispered the tale
to their masters far and wide. Later.
when Henri II. lay dying it became
the pretext on which Tavannes offered
the queen to go and cut of DANES
nose. Instead. the philosophical Cath.
crime De Medicis offered to spare the
| fallen beautys mutilation-on condi-
| ton that Diane should give her Che
| nonceau.
Catherine de Medici got Dianes
| clear title to Chenonceau by the os-
| tensible trade of mortgaged Chau
mont. Can American woman. Esther
Alexander, legal French wife of Rob
ert de Broglie. is. with him, co-heir-
apparent to the latter historic chateau
at this moment)
| Her first great fete at Chenonceau
was a triumphal entry for the new
king, her son. Francis II. and his
| young wife. Mary Stuart. Arches,
obelisks, columns, statues. fountains.
antique altars. fireworks. music and
800 cannons made a wonderful effect.
These were the happiest days of Mary
Stuart
! They say indeed. that her ghost is
the only one that has been seen inside
the chateau in the time of the Terrys.
She appears as an elderly woman (as
of the time of her death) in a black
gown and white ruff, an elderly wom-
an who walks through the bridge
wing, melancholy. surprised content,
as returning late to empty scenes OF
| bygone happiness!
Chenonceau, in the hands OF the
Vendome- Mercoeur family, went
through long period of abandon
ment The court had quit Touraine.
Young Louis XIII. passed the door
| nd
Mazarin were reconciled at Chenon-
ceau; Louis XIV, IA years old. came
! with his mother to the fete: and from
that dates the splendid gilded furni-
ture which the Terrys retain to-day in
the middle salon. 1t was the last
royal visit to Chenonceau.
dowager duchess of Vendome dy-
ing without children in 171S-'killed."
says Saint-Simon, by abuse of strong
liQuors"-long abandoned and neglect
ed Chenonceau passed by inheritances
to the Prince de Conde. who sold it to
the plain, untitled business man. Du-
| pin.
A business man, an untitled middle
class man. at last again owned the
fairy chateau of the water for which
kings, queens and favorites COM
| mitted crimes.
The ghosts OF Chenonceau fed the
interior.
Voltaire visiting Dupin. saw Diane
de Poitiers kissed by La Chateigneraie
in armor, in thicket by the river.
Jean-Jaques Rousseau. visiting Du-
pin. saw the same love scene, while
nun mourned and a jealous woman
| smiled.
Georges Sand. descendant of Du-
pin, saw the end of the wicked festival
where three young noblernen and two
young noble girls were stabbed to
death.
Grevy, president OF the republic,
visiting the sister OF his son-in-law.
sat in the park at midnight watching
4 He beheld a rabble of pale shades be
sieging the chateau. They could not
enter. STERLING .iEIi.lG.