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Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies. Vol 1

Note 104 — FIRST DISCOURSE (continued 4)

A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson translation

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◆The famous Church of Brou, at Bourg, was built in 1511–36 by the beautiful Marguerite of Austria, wife of Philobert II., le Beau, Duke of Savoy, in fulfilment of a vow made by Marguerite of Bourbon, her mother-in-law. It contains the magnificent tombs of Marguerite herself, her husband and mother-in-law. Celebrated in a well-known poem, “The Church of Brou,” of Matthew Arnold.

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