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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6), volume 1

Note 214 — BOOK IV[176]

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Françoise Comtesse de Chateaubriand (1475-1537), daughter of Jean de Foix, Vicomte de Narbonne, and sister of the Vicomte de Lautrec and the Maréchal de Foix. She inspired a passion in François I., but after a year was supplanted by the Duchesse d'Étampes (vide infra), and remained the victim of the jealousy of her husband, who has been accused of hastening her death.—T.

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