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Dutch and Flemish Furniture
had six pieces called the " Cite des Dames," presented
to her by the city of Tournay when she went there to
meet the King of England.
The gift of the Cite des Dames may perhaps have
made some atonement for her vexation at having to
attend that splendid meeting of the King and Emperor.
She was very unwilling to go, and wrote to her father
Maximilian, on September 22, 1513, as follows :
" If you think it necessary for me to go and I can
be of service to you, I am ready to do all that it pleases
you to order, but otherwise, it is not the part of a widow
woman to trotter and visit armies for pleasure."
She also owned seventeen rich Spanish velvet carpets.
Among her chamber-hangings, bed-hangings, and cano-
pies were several articles made of rich cloth of gold,
bordered with crimson and embroidered with the arms
and device of the " late King of Aragon."
She had a camp (or folding) bed with hangings of
cloth of gold richly embroidered with gold thread and
silk, and a canopy for a camp bed covered with cloth
of gold and trimmed with a fringe of black silk and gold
threads ; and she also owned four large pieces of cloth
of gold, each differently bordered, to decorate her throne,
and also one of green velvet. She had two curtains
of green and grey tafetas, and four of crimson tafetas,
a number of pieces of cloth of gold, four hangings for a
chamber of green velvet and white damask, and two
palls, one of white silk embroidered with gold, and the
other gold, green, red and white ; and the furnishing
of a camp bed with canopy, counterpane and three
curtains of green tafetas lined with black. Margaret
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had six pieces called the " Cite des Dames," presented
to her by the city of Tournay when she went there to
meet the King of England.
The gift of the Cite des Dames may perhaps have
made some atonement for her vexation at having to
attend that splendid meeting of the King and Emperor.
She was very unwilling to go, and wrote to her father
Maximilian, on September 22, 1513, as follows :
" If you think it necessary for me to go and I can
be of service to you, I am ready to do all that it pleases
you to order, but otherwise, it is not the part of a widow
woman to trotter and visit armies for pleasure."
She also owned seventeen rich Spanish velvet carpets.
Among her chamber-hangings, bed-hangings, and cano-
pies were several articles made of rich cloth of gold,
bordered with crimson and embroidered with the arms
and device of the " late King of Aragon."
She had a camp (or folding) bed with hangings of
cloth of gold richly embroidered with gold thread and
silk, and a canopy for a camp bed covered with cloth
of gold and trimmed with a fringe of black silk and gold
threads ; and she also owned four large pieces of cloth
of gold, each differently bordered, to decorate her throne,
and also one of green velvet. She had two curtains
of green and grey tafetas, and four of crimson tafetas,
a number of pieces of cloth of gold, four hangings for a
chamber of green velvet and white damask, and two
palls, one of white silk embroidered with gold, and the
other gold, green, red and white ; and the furnishing
of a camp bed with canopy, counterpane and three
curtains of green tafetas lined with black. Margaret
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