Editing Gabrielle d'Estrées (section)

==Death and aftermath==
After applying to [[Pope Clement VIII]] for an annulment of his marriage and authority to remarry, in March 1599 Henry gave his mistress his coronation ring. Gabrielle, so sure that the wedding would take place, stated, "Only God or the king's death could put an end to my good luck".<ref>{{cite book|last=Horne|first=Alistair|title=La Belle France|year=2007|publisher=Vintage|isbn=9780307426536|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zj2qOWXUU4MC&pg=PT103}}</ref> A few days later, on 9 April, she suffered an attack of [[eclampsia]] and gave birth to a stillborn son. King Henry was at the [[Château de Fontainebleau]] when news arrived of her illness. The next day, 10 April 1599, while Henry was on his way to her, she died in Paris.{{sfn|Bercé|1996|p=6}}

The King was grief-stricken,{{sfn|Bayrou|1994|p=440}} especially given the widely held rumor that Gabrielle had been poisoned. He wore black in mourning, something no previous French monarch had done. He gave her the funeral of a queen; her coffin was transported amidst a procession of princes, princesses, and nobles to the [[Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois]] church in Paris, for a requiem mass. Remembered in French history and song as ''La Belle Gabrielle'', she was interred in the Notre-Dame-La-Royale at [[Maubuisson Abbey]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Cistercian Abbey|first=Maubuisson|title=Cartulaire De L'abbaye De Maubuisson (Notre-Dame-La-Royale): Ptie. Chartes Concernant La Fondation De L'abbaye Et Des Chapelle|year=2010|publisher=Nabu press|pages=113, 143|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E0UoAAAAYAAJ|isbn=978-1-144-90906-0}}</ref> in [[Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône]] ([[Val-d'Oise]], [[Île-de-France (region)|Île-de-France]]).

A publication after her death called the ''Mémoires secrets de Gabrielle d'Estrée'' ("The Secret Memoirs of Gabrielle d'Estrée") is believed to have been written by one of her friends.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}