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PABSIOKAL ZOOLOaY, 
never exhaust the noble qualities of the good hing Louis XIL 
Francis I. alone occupies more space in French history than ten 
kings. 
The chase has also its luminous ray among those which beam 
from the Pharos of the new dynasty. With this noble epoch is 
connected the introduction of the ounce (a small hunting tiger) into 
the French chase— an auxiliary since then forgotten. The branch 
of Yalois has inherited the glorious hunting fame of its chief. 
Love, under Henry II., resuscitates the worship of Diana, and 
builds new wonders of the world to her divinity ; and the Diana of 
France inspires the sculptors and architects of Anet, as happily as 
the Diana of Ionia had inspired those of Ephesus. Catharine de 
Medicis, so happy to make a fine shot with the arquebuss, as the 
chroniclers relate^ — Catharine de Medicis and her son Charles IX., 
so unworthily calumniated by history for having prevented the 
great Protestant lords from dividing France among themselves, 
and reducing the French people to helotism, as the great Protest- 
ant lords of England have done with the Irish — Catharine and 
Charles IX. raise to a luster hitherto unparalleled, the noble deeds 
of the chase. The son consecrates the leisures of the throne to 
meditate and write on this important matter; the mother makes* 
the practice of huntingv both with hound and hawk, obligatory on 
the beauties of the Louvre, and from this salutary obligation 
springs that charming swarm of Amazons, so redoubtable for the 
prowess of its arms, so well known, in the history of French gal- 
lantry, under the meiited name of the queen’s flying squadron. It 
is to the hunter king, Charles IX., that Jacques du Fouilloux, a 
gentleman of Poictiers, dedicates his celebrated treatise on hunt- 
ing, a master-piece of observation and of science that all nations 
envy us, and in which the most learned of our day still find some- 
thing to learn. 
Henry lY., the only king, it is said, whose memory the people 
have preserved, has but one passion — the chase — after those of 
glory, women, and play. Louis XIII., who allowed so many great 
things to be done under his reign, holds the hunter in the highest 
esteem, weeps over the decline of falconry, and raises young Al- 
bert de Luynes to the dignity of Constable of France, to reward 
