His mother had brought him up as if he had been a peasant boy.

As a child he had run about barefoot and, as he grew, had spent much of his time among the mountains, sometimes with shepherds, sometimes engaged in the chase.

Jeanne herself had a horror of the corruption of the French court, and strove to make her son hardy and robust, with simple tastes and appetites; and preferring exercise, hard work, and hunter's food to the life of the town.

He had practised constantly in arms, and his mother regretted nothing so much as the fact that, next to the king and his brothers, he stood in succession to the French throne; and would have been far happier that he should rule, some day, over the simple and hardy people of Navarre.
"The first thing to do, Monsieur Fletcher," the queen said, "is to obtain more suitable garments for yourself and your followers.

This my chamberlain shall see about, without delay.