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I VICTORY OF CERIGNOLA. 63 passed in a succession of splendid fetes and amuse- chapter XII ments at Blois, where the archduke confirmed the '- — treaty of Trent recently made between his father, the emperor, and the French king, stipulating the marriage of Louis's eldest daughter, the princess Claude, with Philip's son Charles, the royal pair resumed their journey towards Spain, which they entered by the way of Fontarabia, January 29th, 1502." Magnificent preparations had been made for their reception. The grand constable of Castile, the duke of Naxara, and many other of the principal grandees waited on the borders to receive them. Brilliant fetes and illuminations, and all the usual marks of public rejoicing, greeted their progress through the principal cities of the north ; and a pragmdtica relaxing the simplicity, or rather severi- ty, of the sumptuary laws of the period, so far as to allow the use of silks and various-colored apparel, shows the attention of the sovereigns to every cir- cumstance, however trifling, which could affect the minds of the young princes agreeably, and diffuse an air of cheerfulness over the scene. ^ tentions, by remarking, " Le roy Spanish historians, who insist with leur monstra si tr^s grand semblant much satisfaction, on the haughty d'amour, que par noblesse et hon- refusalof his wife, the archduchess, estete de coeur il les obligeolt envers to take part in the ceremony. Zu- luy de leur en souvenir touts leur rita, Anales, tom. v. Hb. 4, cap. vie." Hist, de Louys XII., pp. 55. — Carbajal, Anales, MS., afio 164, 165. 1502.— Abarca, Reyes de Aragon, In passing through Paris, Philip tom. ii. rey 30, cap. 13, sec. 1. — took his seat in the parliament as Dumont, Corps Diplomatique, tom. peer of France, and subsequently iv. part. l,p. 17. did homage to Louis XII., as his "* Carbajal, Anales, MS., afio suzerain for his estates in Flan- 1502. — Sandoval, Hist, del Emp. ders ; an acknowledgment of infe- Carlos V., tom. i. p. 5. riority not at all palatable to the ^ Zurita, Anales, tom, t. hb. 4,