He died sorrowing over the concessions he had made from a patriotic sense of duty as much as from necessity, and full of disquietude about the future.

He felt a sincere affection for Francis de Valois, Count of Angouleme, his son-law and successor; the marriage between his daughter Claude and that prince had been the chief and most difficult affair connected with his domestic life; and it was only after the death of the queen, Anne of Brittany, that he had it proclaimed and celebrated.

The bravery, the brilliant parts, the amiable character, and the easy grace of Francis I.delighted him, but he dreaded his presumptuous inexperience, his reckless levity, and his ruinous extravagance; and in his anxiety as a king and father he said, "We are laboring in vain; this big boy will spoil everything for us." END OF THE THIRD VOLUME..