RENEE. 17

 What Renee fancied never
came true.
 While the girls were very
young their mother died.
Then the king said Claude
must marry her cousin Fran-
cis, the brother of Margaret of
Navarre, and then she would
be queen of France.
 Claude loved her cousin
Francis, but he did not care
for her. This made her very
sad. She was taken away
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