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arise the tender, loving, gentle vision of Philiberta of Savoy, and we behold the sweet and timid Longarine. With M. Franck, I should give Saffredant to Bonnivet. Many another, whom we knew not, comes back to mind again, and takes a place in her story. Lastly she creates "le gentilhomme Simontault," obviously not quite the equal in rank of his associates, who once, long ago, was Parlamente's très affectueux serviteur. And in this neat, merry, half-sentimental fellow, "a little sore at his jester's reputation," we fancy that we see again the well-remembered form of Clément Marot, of whose early death Queen Margaret must have heard in that very autumn of 1544.
