The married life of the Queen was a most unhappy one, and appeared to have entirely disgusted her with the world, as on becoming a widow she passed two years of seclusion and mourning at Chenonceaux, whence she removed to the chateau of Moulins, where she devoted herself to the most austere duties of religion.

In her will, by which she bequeathed nearly the whole of her property to the Church and to charitable purposes, she left a large sum for the erection of a Capuchin convent at Bourges, where she desired that she might be ultimately interred; but by command of Henri IV the convent was built in the Faubourg St.Honore, at Paris, and her body deposited in the chapel.
[68] Sully, _Mem_.

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312.
[69] Saint-Edme, p.

200.
[70] Equal, in the present day, to nearly five hundred thousand livres.
[71] Charles de Valois, the son of Charles IX and Marie Touchet, Dame de Belleville.