28 RENEE.

marries. When her friends
choose, they select a prince,
such as they like, make all
the plans, and then the prin-
cess must go and be his wife
whether she like him or not.
Such was Renee's fate.
 The king gave Renee to the
Duke Ercole, of Ferrara.
Queen Claude and Margaret
bade her farewell, and Renee
of France was taken to Italy.
The duke was a Pomuan Clatho-