She was the Gouvernante of the Low Countries; and although no longer either young or handsome, she possessed an extraordinary influence over her royal father, who was tenderly attached to her.
[33] Arabella Stuart, daughter of Charles, Earl of Lennox, the grandson of Margaret of Scotland, sister to Henry VIII.
[34] Isabeau de Baviere, Queen of Charles VI.
[35] Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, second son of William, and of Anne, the daughter of Maurice, Elector of Saxony.
[36] Marie de Medicis was the daughter of Francis, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and of Jane, Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary, daughter of the Emperor Ferdinand.
[37] Louise-Marguerite de Lorraine was the daughter of Henri, Duc de Guise, surnamed _le Balafre_, and of Catherine of Cleves, subsequently Duchesse de Nemours.

She was celebrated alike for her extreme beauty, her brilliant wit, and her great intellect.

She wrote admirably for that age, and was the author of the _Histoire des Amours du Grand Alcandre_, and of some _Court Chronicles_, which she published under the patronymic of Dupilaust.

Mademoiselle de Guise married Francois, Prince de Conti, son of the celebrated Louis, Prince de Conde, who was killed at Jarnac.
[38] Catherine de Lorraine, daughter of Charles, Duc de Mayenne, and of Henriette de Savoie-Villars, who became in February 1599 the wife of Charles de Gonzague, Duc de Nevers, and subsequently Duke of Mantua.

She died on the 8th of March 1618, at the age of thirty-three years; and was consequently, at the period referred to in the text, only seventeen years old.
[39] Anne, daughter and heiress of Charles, last Duc d'Aumale, by whom the duchy was transferred to the house of Savoy.
[40] Mademoiselle de Longueville was the sister of Henri d'Orleans, first Duc de Longueville.
[41] Catherine de Rohan, second daughter of Rene II, Vicomte de Rohan, and of Catherine, the daughter and heiress of Jean de Parthenay, Seigneur de Soubise.