from Tours for his own country; as did the dukes of Berry and Burgundy, with other lords ; but the king, the duke of Touraine, the duke of Bourbon and the lord de Coucy, ftaid at Tours, and I will tell the reafon. CHAP. XXXIIL THE COUNT DE BLOIS AND MARY OF NAM UK, HIS COUNTESS, SILL TO THE DUKE OF TOU-RAINE THE COUNTY OF BLOIS WITH OTHJEJt HANDS.—THE VISCOUNT DE CHASTELBOK TAKES POSSESSION OF THE INHERITANCES OF THE LATE COUNT DE FOIX. T HAVE before recorded in t^i? hiftory, that Louis de Blois, fon to the count de Blois, had died when young, at Beaumont in Hainault, leav-ing the lady Mary, daughter of the duke of Berry, a widow, who loft by the event many of the good things of this world: for her hufband was a rich heir, and would have been a powerful lord. I mention this, becaufe Ï wife it to be known in times to come how fuch large properties have been difpofed of or alienated. The count and countefs of Blois were not formed to have any more children; for, by indulging them, felves too much in the pleafures of the table, and eating too many fweet cti&es, they were become enormoufly 336