Excerpt from Margaret, the Pearl of Navarre: A Narrative Compiled From Authentic Sources The royal castle of Amboise in France, long a favorite residence of the French sovereigns, was a noble and kingly abode, magnificent alike in its adornings and extent. There Blanche of Castile, the gentle, and pious but ill-used queen of Louis XL, spent long years of solitude and suffering, cheered only by the soci ety of her young son, afterwards Charles VIII, to whose training she devoted her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.