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MARGUERITE OF FRANCE. 117 chronicle the heroic actions of her husband, and her own great sorrow for his loss. Her first appearance in public after his death was in obedience to his dying commands, in order that no time might be lost in fulfilling the treaty for the marriage of the Prince of Wales with Isabella of France, Marguerite's niece. She assisted at the nuptial ceremony at Boulogne ; after which she led a life of the utmost retirement, expending the greater part of her large dowry in charity and for the encouragement of art. Edward the Second seems fully to have carried out his father's wishes with regard to his step-mother, for he ever treated her with the utmost affection and respect. She died at Marlborough Castle, in 13 17, at the early age of thirty-six, and was buried at the Grey Friars' Church, before the altar in the choir, which she herself had built.