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 offended, she knew not how to forgive. She retained her attachment to Bretagne while queen of France, and sometimes exercised her influence over the king in a manner detrimental to the interests of her adopted country. Louis the Twelfth was sensible that he frequently yielded too much to her, hut her many noble and lovely qualities endeared her to him.

Anne died January 9th., 1514, at the age of thirty-seven and Louis mourned her loss with the most sincere sorrow. 

ANNE OF CLEVES,

Daughter of John the Third, duke of Cleves, was the fourth wife of Henry the Eighth of England. He had fallen in love with her from her portrait painted by Holbein, but as the painter had flattered her, Henry soon became disgusted with her, and obtained a divorce. Anne yielded without a struggle, or without apparent concern. She passed nearly all the rest of her life in England as a private personage, and died 1557. 

ANNE OF CYPRESS, of Giano, king of Cypress, married in 1432, Louis, duke of Savoy, and shewed herself able, active, and discriminating, at the head of public affairs. She died in 1462, it is said of grief for the undutiful conduct of her fifth son, Philip, count of Brisse, who joined some rebellious barons against his father. 

ANNE OF DAUPHINE, the daughter of Guignes, the seventh or eighth dauphin of Viennois, of the second race. The date of her birth is not known, that of her marriage to Humbert, baron of La Tour diu Pin, is 1273. In the year 1281, on the death of her brother Jean, she succeeded to the Dauphinate of Vienne, and the county of Albon, in conjunction with her husband. This princess had several children, the eldest of whom, Jean, succeeded to the possessions, which were claimed by the duke of Burgundy, the date of her death is not recorded; she was buried in the Carthusian monastery of Salette, in the barony of La Tour, on the south bank of the Rhine, which monastery was founded by herself and her husband in the year 1299. 

ANNE OF DENMARK, she is commonly termed, was the daughter of Frederick the Second of Denmark, born in 1574, and married by proxy to James the First of England, in August 1589. Being detained by adverse winds, the king set out to meet, and bring her home; he met his bride at Opsloe, in Norway, on the 22nd. of October, and was unable to return to Scotland for a considerable time, owing, as it was at the time believed, to the malign influence of certain witches, who were brought to trial, and punished. Anne has been accused of having been in secret a Roman Catholic, and of conspiring to make James embrace that religion, but proofs are wanting to substantiate this charge. She appears to have enjoyed the full confidence of her son Henry, whose aversion to the Romish church is well known. When it was proposed to place the young prince under the protection of the earl and countess of Mar, she evinced