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279 RETIREMENT OF GONSALVO, 279 his nobility and chivalry ; and, in order to recipro- chapter cate, as far as possible, the confidence reposed in. '- him by the monarch with whom he had been so recently at deadly feud, immediately went on board the vessel of the latter J^ Horses and mules richly caparisoned awaited them at the landing. The French king, mounting his steed, gallantly placed the young queen of Aragon behind him. His cava- liers did the same with the ladies of her suite, most of them French women, though attired, as an old chronicler of the nation rather peevishly complains, after the Spanish fashion ; and the whole party, with the ladies en croupe, galloped off to the royal quarters in Savona.'^ Blithe and jocund were the revels, which rung through the halls of this fair city, during the brief residence of its royal visiters. Abundance of good cheer had been provided by Louis's orders, writes an old cavalier, "' who was there to profit by it ; and 15 " Spettacolo certamente me- Germaine appears to have been niorabile, vedere insieme due Re no great favorite with the French potentissimi tra tutti i Principi chroniclers. " Et y estoit sa fem- Cristiani, stati pocoinnanzi si acer- me Germaine de Fouez, qui tenoit bissimi inimici, non solo riconciliati, une marveilleuse audace. EUe fist e congiunti di parentado, ma de- pen de compte de tons les Fran- posti i segni dell' odio, e della me- qois, mesmement de son fr^re, le moria delle offese, commettere cias- gentil due de Nemours." (M6- cuno di loro la vita propria in arbi- moires de Bayard, chap. 27, apud trio dell' altro con non minore con- Petitot, Collection des M6moires, fidenza, che se sempre fossero stati torn, xv.) See also Fleurange, concordissimi fratelli." (Guicciar- (Memoires, chap. 19, apud Petitot, dini, Istoria, torn. iv. p. 75.) This Collection des M6moires, torn, xvi.) astonishment of the Italian is an who notices the same arrogant indifferent tribute to the habitual bearing. good faith of the times. 17 For fighting, and feasting, 16 D'Auton,Hist. deLouysXIL, and all the generous pastimes of part. 3, chap. 38. — Buonaccorsi, chivalry, none of the old French Diario, p. 132. — St. Gelais, Hist, chroniclers of this time rivals D'Au- de Louys XII., p. 204. ton. He is the very Froissart of