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357 CONQUEST OF NAVARRE. 357 the mountains ; and with them faded the last ray of chapter hope for the restoration of the unfortunate monarch ' ^"^" - of Navarre. ^'^ On the 1st of April, in the following year, 1513, Tremj or lerdinand effected a truce with Louis the Twelfth, 1513. embracing their respective territories west of the Alps. It continued a year, and at its expiration was renewed for a similar time.^° This arrange- ment, by which Louis sacrificed the interests of his ally the king of Navarre, gave Ferdinand ample time for settling and fortifying his new conquests ; while it left the war open in a quarter, where, he well knew, others were more interested than him- self to prosecute it with vigor. The treaty must be allowed to be more defensible on the score of policy. 19 M6moires de Bayard, chap. 55, 56. — Fleuranjre, Memoires, chap. 3.3. — Lebrija, De Bello Nava- riensi, lib. 1, cap. 8, 9. — Abarca, Reyes de Aragon, torn. ii. rey 30, cap. 21. — Carbajal, Anales, MS., ailo 1512. Jean and Catharine d'AIbret passed the remainder of their days in their territories on the French side of the Pyrenees. They made one more faint and fruitless attempt to recover their dominions, during the regency of Cardinal Ximenes. (Carbajal, Anales, MS., cap. 12.) Broken in spirits, their health grad- ually declined, and neither of them long survived the loss of their crown. Jean died June 23d, 1517, and Catharine followed on the 12th of February of the next year ; — happy, at least, that, as misfortune had no power to divide them in life, so they were not long separ- ated by death. (Histoire du Roy- aume de Navarre, p. 643. — Ale- son, Annales de Navarra, torn. v. lib. 35, cap. 20, 21.) Their bodies sleep side by side in the cathedral church of Lescar, in their own do- minions of Bearne ; and their fate is justly noticed by the Spanish historians as one of the most strik- ing examples of that stern decree, by which the sins of the fathers are visited on the children to the third and fourth generation. 20 Flassan, Diplomatic Fran- caise, tom. i. p. 295. — Rymer, Fcedera, tom. xiii. pp. 350-352. — Guicciardini, Istoria, tom. vi. lib. 11, p. 82, lib. 12, p. 168.— Mariana, Hist, de Espafia, tom. ii. Hb. 30, cap. 22. — " Fu cosa ridi- cola," says Guicciardini in relation to this truce, " che nei medesimi giorni, che la si bandiva solenne- mente per tutta la Spagna, venne un araldo a significargli in noma del Re d'lnghilterra gli apparati potentissimi, che ei faceva per assal- tare la Francia, e a sollecitare che egli medesimamente movesse, secondo che aveva promesso, la guerra dalla parte di Spagna." Istoria, tom. vi. lib. 12, p. 84.