Brantome

Much of that view comes from the writings of Brantome, who lived a generation later and whose recollections are not entirely trustworthy.

A Second Unrealized Tudor Match Julianne Douglas 2008

Brantome be true, that a court fool, having overheard Louis, in one of his agonies of repentant devotion, confess his accession to the poisoning of his brother, Henry, Count of Guyenne, divulged it next day at dinner before the assembled court, that monarch might be supposed rather more than satisfied with the pleasantries of professed jesters for the rest of his life.

Quentin Durward 2008

You had Brantome, you had Tallemant, you had Retif, and a dozen others, to furnish materials for scenes of voluptuousness and of blood that would have outdone even the present naturalistes.

Letters to Dead Authors 2006

I have known de par le monde, as Brantome says, great effects from causes too little ever to have been suspected.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

The exertion of French ingenuity mentioned in the text is noticed by some authorities of the period; the siege of Leith was also distinguished by the protracted obstinacy of the besieged, in which was displayed all that the age possessed of defensive war, so that Brantome records that those who witnessed this siege, had, from that very circumstance, a degree of consequence yielded to their persons and opinions.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

The splendid pages of Froissart, with his heart-stirring and eye-dazzling descriptions of war and of tournaments, were among his chief favourites; and from those of Brantome and De la Noue he learned to compare the wild and loose, yet superstitious, character of the nobles of the League with the stern, rigid, and sometimes turbulent disposition of the Huguenot party.

Waverley 2004

I have permitted myself to assume, as the good Brantome would say, that you were at Cabourg!

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

She had written poetry before, and had fancied herself to have a talent for it so Brantome had told her.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

The court historian Brantome wrote, "In her fifteenth year her beauty began to radiate from her like the sun in a noonday sky."

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

In vain, Brantome and the other court poets tried to walk with her or persuade her to come inside.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987