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CHASTELARD, See also:PIERRE DE BOCSOZEL DE (1540-1563) , See also:French poet, was See also:born in See also:Dauphine, a See also:scion of the See also:house of See also:Bayard. His name is inseparably connected with See also:Mary, See also:queen of Scots. From the service of the See also:Constable See also:Montmorency, Chastelard, then a See also:page, passed to the See also:household of See also:Marshal Damville, whom he accompanied in his See also:journey to See also:Scotland in escort of Mary (1561). He returned to See also:Paris in the marshal's See also:train, but See also:left for Scotland again shortly afterward, bearing letters of recommendation to Mary from his old See also:protector, Montmorency, and the Regrets addressed to the ex-queen of See also:France by Pierre See also:Ronsard, his See also:master in the See also:art of See also:song. He undertook to transmit to the poet the service of See also:plate with which Mary rewarded him. But he had fallen in love with the queen, who is said to have encouraged his See also:passion. Copies of See also:verse passed between them; she lost no occasion of showing herself partial to his See also:person and conversation. The See also:young See also:man hid himself under her See also:bed, where he was discovered by her maids of See also:honour. Mary pardoned the offence, and the old See also:familiar terms between them were resumed. Chastelard was so rash as again to violate her privacy. He was discovered a second See also:time, seized, sentenced and hanged the next See also:morning. He met his See also:fate valiantly and consistently, See also:reading, on his way to the See also:scaffold, his master's See also:noble Hymne de la mort, and turning at the instant of See also:doom towards the See also:palace of Holyrood, to address to his unseen See also:mistress the famous farewell—" Adieu, toi si belle et si cruelle, qui me tues et que je ne puis cesser d'aimer." This at least is the version of the Memoires of Brantbme, who is, however, notoriously untrustworthy.

But for his madness of love, it is possible that Chastelard would have left no See also:

shadow or shred of himself behind. As it is, his See also:life and See also:death are of See also:interest as illustrating the See also:wild days in which his See also:lot was See also:cast.

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