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Holbein's "Ambassadors", the picture and the men

Note 126 — Chapter II · The First Mission to England of the Bailly of Troyes (1531) and the Calais Interview of 1532

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Perhaps his unmarried sister at Polisy, or possibly his mother. Married women were sometimes termed Mademoiselle, though in this case the appellation would not have been strictly correct, the rank of Gaucher de Dinteville entitling his widow to the name of Madame.

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