Whoever knows at what age Monsieur D'Estissac, your husband, left you a widow, the great and honourable matches that have since been offered to you, as many as to any lady of your condition in France, the constancy and steadiness wherewith, for so many years, you have sustained so many sharp difficulties, the burden and conduct of affairs, which have persecuted you in every corner of the kingdom, and are not yet weary of tormenting you, and the happy direction you have given to all these, by your sole prudence or good fortune, will easily conclude with me that we have not so vivid an example as yours of maternal affection in our times. I praise God, madam, that it has been so well employed;
hainbat urtez eta hainbat zailtasun arantzatsutan gaindi, eraman duzun haien egitekoen zama eta zuzendaritza, Frantziako bazter guztietan barrena ibilarazi zaituztenak eta oraindik ere setiatzen zaituztenak;