A Step at a Time

Here is the rest of the character sketch : When Jeanne made a short stop at her husband's   family home in Vendome on 14 May to break her lengthy homeward journey, she failed to prevent a 400-strong Huguenot force from invading the town. The soldiers marched through the streets of Vendome, ransacked all the churches, maltreated the inhabitants, and pillaged the ducal chapel, which housed the tombs of Antoine's ancestors. In consequence, her husband adopted a aggressive stance with her. He issued orders to Blaise de Lasseran, to have her arrested and returned to Paris where she would subsequently be sent to a Catholic convent.   She resumed her journey after leaving Vendome and managed to elude her captors, safely passing over the frontier into Béarn before she could be intercepted by the Blaise de Lasseran and his troops. At the end of the year, Antoine was fatally wounded in battle, and died before Jeanne could obtain the necessary permission to cross over ...