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Excerpt from Last Loves of Henri of Navarre
Despite the surveillance Of his stern Huguenot preceptor, Florent Chrestien, Henri entered Upon his career of gallantry at La Rochelle when he was barely fifteen. The Object of this first attachment was a damsel named Florette or Fleurette, who would appear to have been the daughter Of a gardener, and is said to have presented him with a son. It was also at La Rochelle that, after a brief interval, we hear Of him laying success ful Siege to the heart Of Suzanne des Moulins, wife of Pierre Mathieu, a professor at the University. This lady likewise presented him with a pledge of her affection, but the Child - also a son - only lived a short time?
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