[Footnote 13: Monstrelet relates a curious anecdote, during the residence at the Castle of Vincennes of Isabeau de Bavière, strongly illustrative of the barbarous manners of those times.

"Lewis de Bourbon, who was handsome and well made, and had signalized himself upon various occasions, and amongst others at the battle of Agincourt, going one night, as was customary, to visit the Queen, Isabeau de Bavière, at the Castle of Vincennes, met the King (Charles VI.); he saluted him, without either stopping or alighting from his horse, but continued galloping on.

And as she went she heard his voice humming soft and low, "Isabeau s'y promene Le long de son jardin, Le long de son jardin, Sur le bord de l'ile, Le long de son jardin.

Then one might have heard all the picturesque songs of the Far North"A la claire Fontaine"; "Ma Boule Roulant"; "Par derrier' chez-mon Pere"; "Isabeau s'y promene"; "P'tite Jeanneton"; "Luron, Lurette"; "Chante, Rossignol, chante"; the ever-popular "Malbrouck"; "C'est la belle Francoise"; "Alouette"; or the beautiful and tender "La Violette Dandine."

Robert Browning, The Return of the Druses. L'ange de Dieu, Isabeau la belle, the "inspired prophet-child" of the Camisards.

Isabeau de Bavière.

Isabeau de Bavière, Queen of Charles VI.

Isabeau de Bavière was a mother, yet she preferred her lover to her son." "Enough, enough, Sir," said Louis, clutching the hilt of his sword; "I will hear no more, lest it should make me mad!" De Luynes bowed in silence; he knew that the poisonous seed was sown, and he was content to wait until it should germinate.

The tale tells that the Vicomte returned to France and within this realm assembled all such lords as the abuses of the Queen-Regent Isabeau had more notoriously dissatisfied.

In the year of grace 1417, about Martinmas (thus Nicolas begins), Queen Isabeau fled with her daughter the Lady Katharine to Chartres.

Katharine found her mother in foul-mouthed rage over the failure of a third attempt to poison the Dauphin of Vienne, as Queen Isabeau had previously poisoned her two elder sons; I might here trace out a curious similitude between the Valois and that dragon-spawned race which Jason very anciently slew at Colchis, since the world was never at peace so long as any two of them existed.

Dame Isabeau squealed on a sudden; "you are bruising me.

The Princess remained quite still, as Dame Isabeau had left her; you may see a hare crouch so at sight of the hounds.

Isabeau found her a madwoman.

No; it was through policy I wedded her mother; and we have been very unhappy, Isabeau and I. A word in your ear, son-in-law: Madame Isabeau's soul formerly inhabited a sow, as Pythagoras teaches, and when our Saviour cast it out at Gadara, the influence of the moon drew it hither.

No; it was through policy I wedded her mother; and we have been very unhappy, Isabeau and I. A word in your ear, son-in-law: Madame Isabeau's soul formerly inhabited a sow, as Pythagoras teaches, and when our Saviour cast it out at Gadara, the influence of the moon drew it hither.

Madame, Viridis, comtesse de Milan, Fut superbe; Diane éblouissait le pâtre; Aspasie, Isabeau de Saxe, Cléopâtre, Sont des noms devant qui la louange se tait; Rhodope fut divine; Érylésis était Si belle, que Vénus, jalouse de sa gorge, La traîna toute nue en la céleste forge Et la fit sur l'enclume écraser par Vulcain; Eh bien!