I can't understand what the Marchioness really want, does she not want her son to be happily married or does she not want her son to have heirs. Her greedy and evil Nature made her plot this evil against an innocent woman, a woman who submitted herself wholeheartedly to her rule like she was a servant. My heart reaches out to Belle Madeleine, for all she had to go through, just because of a wicked mother-in-law.
She cut off her arms after accusing her falsely of committing adultery and then banished her and her twin daughters from that City.
I pray her evil will catch up with her someday.
The Marquess is partly responsible for what happened because he gave his Mom so much powers with which the Marchioness subjected Belle Madeleine to gross inhumanity. But the Saints and the Lord Almighty helped her and restored her arms. I'm so eager to know how the Marchioness got paid back in her own coin.
Wow! You are from Canada, a country I would love to be in, one day. I pray God grants you safe passage home.
RE: Folk Tales from Gascony: Belle Madeleine, Part 2.