Princess Blanche dashed away her tears and continued to watch her daughter, Isabelle, playing alone.Since her illness and the death of her twin sister the little girl wasn't the same.She used to be a healthy and happy baby, brimming over with vitality, but since her disease the blond baby wasn't the same anymore.She started crying every time someone tried to take her in arms, screaming and violently fussing all over until that person left her alone.She didn't even tolerate her mother anymore.Blanche couldn't do anything but watch the toddler and silently cry, because her husband didn't seem to care and everyone else was simply too busy to notice.
All this time, day by day, Maximilian, her husband, seemed to break away from everything and everyone, spending less and less time with his wife and child.Most of the days and part of the nights he spent in his apartments, bent over maps, measuring and calculating distances with different strangers.
But her husband's detachment and their daughter's strange behavior didn't stop the two spouses from to fulfilling their duties as husband and wife and in the winter of 1621 Blanche gave birth to a male heir.The baby boy was christened and named Philibert de Valois, Duke of Angoulême, receiving every nobles' best wishes.But for Blanche everything was just another tiring and painful experience.At least she accomplished her duty and gave birth to a heir, so she hoped that her husband will leave her alone from now on.
Everything happened a little different though.
One morning, only a month after the birth to their son, Blanche woke up and realized that her husband wasn't in the castle anymore.His apartments were the same but he didn't spent the night there.Only a couple of hours later some servants informed her that Maximilian had left the castle that night.Blanche wasn't sure is she should be relived or worried about this, but for the moment she got back to her work.With or without her husband, things wouldn't be too different around.
Three months later, in an official letter from her father she found that Maximilian went aboard a ship that left for the New World.Unfortunately the same letter said that the ship had been attacked by pirates somewhere around the coast and that there were no information about the crew.Blanche crumpled the letter, throwing it into the fire and watched her son.The little boy was his father's perfect copy, with his cold blue eyes and blond hair, so the Princess felt a little guilty about not feeling too attached to him.
So the little boy spent most of his time with his baby farmers or with Françoise, his mother's lady-in-waiting.
Isabelle grew up and became a beautiful and faraway blond fugitive eidolon in the white castle.She was still very distant and refused to talk to anyone, spending most of her time playing the piano or watching the frozen fountain.
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Yea! Another episode of the de Croy and de Valois families! Keep going! This blog is surely keeping me entertained. :D
I think Isabelle has her mother's eyes! She looks adorable. :D
Are you planning to marry her off, or are you going to send her to a convent, or are you going to send her to university to obtain an education in Paris? Since her family is obviously so wealthy, an education to finishing school would be fitting for a lady!
Toodles,
Kiwi
Well, I'm not really sure about the eyes ... But yes, I think she has her mother's eyes ^^ I will be sure when she'll become a teenager maybe.
As I wrote at the beginning of the story, Isabelle is a little ... strange (she's actually crazy, but ... shhhh ^^ nobody knows it and even if Blanche has her suspicions, I'm sure she isn't ready to accept it).So she won't go to University even if her family is really wealthy (even is she were "normal" I wouldn't have sent her to a University because that simply didn't happen to girls back in the 17th century in France).And I don't think she'll go into a Convent, because her mother loves her too much to do this to her.And because she has a major role to play in her mother's life ^^
Thank you again for reading my stories, I'm glad you liked this new chapter =^.^=
How about finishing school? Back in the olden days (still do), people sent their girls to finishing school to refine their cultural and artistic skills. If not, how about hiring a governess to teach the little girl some proper manners on how to become a lady? Back in the olden days, a governess would usually be a member of the Bourgeois/Merchant class or Gentry class. Yet, they had a very "odd" position in the hierarchy of the household. They were neither classified as one of the servants or one of the family.
Can't wait to see more!
Well, of course there would be people responsible for the girls' education (just as Heloise wrote in this challenge ; a music teacher, a dance teacher and so on).But it's not the case here.Isabelle is not capable of those things, she kind of lives in her own world and doesn't accept new people's presence around here.
About those finishing schools ... I'm not sure they existed back at the beginning of the 17th century ^^" I have to read more about this, because it's something a little new to me.But thanks for the tip.
On MTS, you can download Medieval Majors: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=370816
Now you can send young adult girls to university to get an education on becoming the lady of the house! Yea! Great for young noble ladies! It can really make them more accomplished in polite society. :)
Would you mind me asking where you got Isabelle's outfit?
And great story, BTW. I check for updates every day.
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