The most lifelike of these tableaux perhaps that of the good king Louis IX with his mother, Blanche of Castille, and his wife, Marguerite of Provence. Blanche sits, facing the spectator, simple grey robe, and looks down lovingly at her son while he places in her hand that of Marguerite, who also kneels and inclines her head-on the elder Jady's shoulder. Another very lifelike group consists of two ladies, a jester and a Page, looking from a' window upon thu Field of the Cloth of Gold. The headdress of these ladies of the year 1520 consists of heavy, jowelled nets, and both wear very prominent rings on the first finger, nearly to the joint. Their dresses are of rich satin, and one figure wears a large, black, velvet hat with a white ostrich plume. Catherine de Medicis is represented in one of her better moments, if she had any, hesitating before signing the order for the massacre of St. Bartholomew. The all-powerful queen is simply drowned in black velvet and has the usual Marie Stuart coiffure of her younger days. By her side is a girl, in a costume, which might very well be worn now, of cream veiling, gold embroidery, puffed sleeves and very little attempt at a hoop.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.