GABRIELLE, CHARMANTE, that is, Gabrielle d'Estrées, mistress of Henri IV. The reign of Louis XVIII. revived an artless little romance, which, like the song ‘Vive Henri IV.
’ [see Henri], recalled pleasant memories of the Béarnais. ‘Charmante Gabrielle
’ was not only sung far and wide at that loyal epoch, but the authorship of both words and music was attributed to the gallant king, and the mistake is still often repeated. True Henri suggested the song to one of the...
