After enjoying a magnificent picnic for six hours, she came to the gates of Nancy and was met by a choir on a scaffold singing in her honour, accompanied by cannon fire from the ramparts.

[2] Renée, reportedly, did not have the force of character to exert any political influence in Lorraine.

[3] However, she became known for her cultivated Italian taste, and was said to have brought "the graces and refinement of the Mantuan Court" to Lorraine.

[5] In August 1538, Renée was commanded to court at Compiègne to meet Mary of Austria, Queen of Hungary.

In March 1539 she travelled to Neufchâteau to meet Antoine who had stomach trouble and they returned to Nancy.