152 _et seq._] In discoursing thus of things spiritual, in giving utterance to those precepts of reformation and of a new life, she was repeating what the clerks had taught her.

Nevertheless she was by no means imbued with this doctrine.

It was too subtle for her, and it was shortly to fade from her mind and give place to an ardour less monastic but more chivalrous.
That same day she rode out with the King and threw a lance in the meadow with so fine a grace that the Duke of Alencon, marvelling, made her a present of a horse.[712] [Footnote 712: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

92.] A few days later this young noble took her to the Abbey of Saint-Florent-les-Saumur,[713] the church of which was so greatly admired that it was called La Belle d'Anjou.

Here in this abbey there dwelt at that time his mother and his wife.