His body was brought to Le Mans and buried in the cathedral, and his son, the illustrious Henry II.

of England, succeeded him; a prince superior to his time, but destined to continued vexations from his family and his friends.

The proud Matilda, too,--so like the haughty heiress of Aquitaine,--need not have murmured at the lot which made her mother and grandmother of such kings as Henry and Coeur de Lion.
The pictures in the museum of Le Mans possess no sort of merit: there is a series of paintings coarsely done from the "Roman Comique" of Scarron, representing the principal scenes in his strange work; but they have no other value than that of having been painted at the period when he was popular, and being placed there in consequence of his having resided at Le Mans, though I believe it was not the place of his birth.

It was here, at all events, that his imprudence caused his own misfortune; for in the exuberance of his gaiety, he resolved, on occasion of a fete, which annually takes place on the route of Pontlieue, to amuse himself and the Manceaux, by a childish exhibition of himself _as a bird_.

To this end, he actually smeared himself with honey, and then having rolled in feathers, and assumed as much as possible the plumed character he wished to represent, he sallied forth and joined the procession astonishing all beholders; but he had not reckoned on the effect his appearance would produce on the boys of the parish, ever ready for mischief.