Note 1689 — Chapter XVIII
Reading edition
Ibid., No. 58, March 23, 1575. This letter is not printed in the Correspondance de Catherine de Médicis. The Venetian ambassador has a long and interesting character-sketch of the queen in Rel. vén., II, 243. There are several monographs upon this “pure, douce et mélancolique figure” [Galitizin, Louise de Lorraine reine de France (1553-1601); Meaume, Etude historique sur Louise de Lorraine reine de France (1553-1601), Paris, 1882; Baillon, Histoire de Louise de Lorraine, reine de France, 1553-1601, Paris, 1884].