Charlotte d'Albret

She was seventeen years of age and said to be the most beautiful maid in France, and she had been reared at
the honourable and pious Court of Jeanne de Valois, whence she had passed into that of Anne of Brittany,
which latter, says Hilarion de Coste,(1) was "a school of virtue, an academy of honour."

the Duke of Valentinois entered into the marriage very heartily, not only for the sake of its
expediency, but for "the beauty of the lady, which was equalled by her virtues and the sweetness of her
nature."

This damsel of seventeen was said to be the loveliest in France, and there is more than a suggestion in
Le Feron's De Gestis Regnum Gallorum, that Cesare was by no means
indifferent to her charms. [...] His Italian splendour and flamboyance may well have
dazzled a maid who had been reared amid the grey and something stern
tones of the Court of Jeanne de Valois. And so it may well be that they loved, and that they were blessed in
their love for the little space allotted them in each other's company.