Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies, Volume 1

Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme (seigneur de)

Charles Carrington, 1901 - Erotic literature

Contents

• FIRST DISCOURSE: 3
• More violent deaths of SaintMegrin of Donna: 15
• King François I and the husband of one of his Mis: 21
• Never a Saturday without sun دو A great: 24
• Octavius Augustus divorces his wife Scribonia: 31
• Debaucheries of his daughter whom he banishes: 32
• Rape of women: 46
• quoted: 53
• What the printer Bernadino Turissan told the Author: 59
• Various reflexions and anecdotes: 65
• Adventure of the Chevalier de Sanzay a slave: 74
• Various anecdotes of wives and their husbands: 80
• The Duke of Savoy and King Henri III: 83
• Women and their intrigues various anecdotes: 90
• Various reflexions on the dealings of wives: 94
• Tale of a great Prince who killed his wife and: 96
• Various anecdotes of newly married brides First: 106
• Anecdote of King Henry IV of Castille from: 112
• Tale of a great foreign Prince who seduced the wife: 118
• Marguerite de Namur and Louis Duke of Orleans: 125
• The Author present at a dinner given by M du Gua: 132
• Imprudence of some husbands The Emperor: 138
• Anecdotes illustrating the indiscretion and perfidy: 144
• Some pieces of advice to ladies: 150
• A husband warned by his Sovereign of his wifes: 153
• Villeconnin a natural son of François I: 159
• Guillot the Pensive Various reflexions: 168
• Trajan Plotina and Hadrian: 175
• Portraits of the two daughters of a great Queen: 181
• Various anecdotes of complaisant husbands: 184
• Captain Beaulieu and his adventures when a prisoner: 190
• King John of France and the Countess of Salisbury: 197
• CHAPTER THE FIFTH: 204
• The Summa Benedicti quoted: 209
• Women at the Law Courts: 216
• The penalties of Love An Italian proverb Saying: 218
• Habits and character of Frenchwomen the liberty: 224
• Anecdote told the Author by ClermontTallard: 231
• Remark of M du Gua to the Author on Marguerite: 239
• Anecdote of a Preacher of a lady of Pampeluna: 245
• SECOND DISCOURSE: 269
• Platonic love Adventure from the Heptameron: 274
• Another adventure of the same sort The handsome: 278
• ARTICLE THE SECOND: 285
• Story of an Italian traveller at Marseilles French: 291
• Author 245: 304
• The Marquis de Pescaïres glove: 335
• Rape of the Sabines Story of Chiomara wife: 342
• Beauties of the French Court under François I: 349
• Portrait of a lady by an illnatured Spaniard: 355
• Concerning the Beauty of a fine leg and the virtue the same: 357
• The father of the Emperor Vitellius and Messalina: 361
• Festivities in honour of Philip II of Spain at: 367
• Court Ballets Gallantry of the ladies of Sienna: 374

Bibliographic information

• Title: Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies, Volume 1; Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies, Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme (seigneur de)
• Author: Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme (seigneur de)
• Translated by: Alfred Richard Allinson
• Publisher: Charles Carrington, 1901
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Oct 17, 2017