A few years later--in June 1555--the remains of King Henry, Margaret’s
husband, were in turn brought to Lescar for burial. The tombs of husband
and wife, however, have alike vanished, having been swept away during
the religious wars, when Lescar was repeatedly stormed and sacked, when
Huguenot and Catholic, in turn triumphant, vented their religious frenzy
upon the graves of their former sovereigns; and to-day the only tombs
to be found in the old cathedral are those of personages interred there
since the middle of the seventeenth century.
January 1893.