Jeanne was a strict and a judicious person; and the manners and proceedings of the court at Blois displeased her.

On the 8th of March, 1572, she wrote to her son, "I find it necessary to negotiate quite contrariwise to what I had expected and what had been promised me; I have no liberty to speak to the king or my Lady Marguerite, only to the queen-mother, who treats me as if I were dirt.

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