After Low Sunday, in the month of March of the above year, the duchess
of Orleans arrived at Paris, in company with the duke of Orleans,--a
young son of the duke of Cleves, nephew to the duchess,--madame de
Narbonne, daughter to the late duke of Orleans, and wife to the
viscount of Narbonne, son to the count of Foix,--the son of the count
of Vendôme, and a number of lords, gentlemen, ladies and damsels, who
were twice most magnificently feasted in the city of Paris.
The first entertainment was given by the cardinal of Foix, in the hôtel
d'Estampes, near the bastile,--and the second, by the lord cardinal
of Bourbon, at his hôtel, where he gave a grand supper on Wednesday
the last day in March. At this supper, there was the greatest plenty
of every delicacy that could be procured, with music and singing,
mummeries, farces, and other gallant amusements. This supper was served
up in the gilt gallery, where all the guests attended but madame de
Narbonne,--who, on account of her being far gone with child, and to be
more at her ease, supped with her husband and seven more, in the lower
apartments of the said hôtel, belonging to John Roye, secretary to the
duke of Bourbon, who had the care of his hôtel.