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Very often, when he had important business, he left it to her, waiting for her definitive and conclusive decision.
[Illustration: The Castle of Pau----183] The ambassadors who talked with her were enchanted by her, and always went to see her after having paid their first ambassadorial visit.

She had so great a regard and affection for the king, that when she heard of his dangerous illness she said, 'Whosoever shall come to my door, and announce to me the recovery of the king my brother, such courier, should he be tired, and worn out, and muddy, and dirty, I will go and kiss and embrace as if he were the sprucest prince and gentleman of France; and, should he be in want of a bed and unable to find one whereon to rid him of his weariness, I would give him mine, and I would rather lie on the hard, for the good news he brought me.'.

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