A Gallant of Lorraine; vol. 1 of 2 François, Seigneur de Bassompierre, Marquis d'Haronel, Maréchal de France, 1579-1646

Birth of François de Bassompierre--Origin of the Bassompierre family--A romantic legend--His grandfather--His father--His early years--He and his younger brother Jean are sent t...

Visit of the Bassompierre family to Paris--François dances in a ballet before Henri IV at Monceaux--He is presented to the King, who receives him very graciously--He decides to...

Bassompierre accompanies Henri IV in his campaign against Charles Emmanuel of Savoy--His narrow escape at the taking of Montmélian--He goes with the King to visit Henriette d’En...

Bassompierre sets out for Hungary to serve as a volunteer in the Imperial Army against the Turks--His journey to Vienna--He learns that the commander-in-chief of the army is Gen...

Bassompierre goes to Prague, where the Imperial Court is in residence--He is presented by Rossworm to the lords of the Council--He dines at the house of Prestowitz, Burgrave of...

Bassompierre arrives at Fontainebleau and is most graciously received by Henri IV--He falls in love with Marie d’Entragues, sister of the King’s mistress--The conspiracy of the...

Quarrel between Bassompierre and the Marquis de Cœuvres--Bassompierre sends his cousin the Sieur de Créquy to challenge the marquis to a duel--The King sends for the two nobles...

A strange adventure--Bassompierre sent as Ambassador Extraordinary to Lorraine to represent Henri IV at the marriage of the Duke of Bar and Margherita di Gonzaga--He returns to...

Amusements of Bassompierre during the winter of 1608--His gambling-parties--Embarrassment which the fact of having several love-affairs on his hands simultaneously sometimes occ...

Enviable position of Bassompierre at the Court of France--The Connétable de Montmorency offers him the hand of his beautiful daughter Charlotte, the greatest heiress in France--...

The body of a man who has been assassinated opposite Marie d’Entragues’s house mistaken for that of Bassompierre--Bassompierre wins a wager of a thousand crowns from the King--M...

Return of Bassompierre to the French Court--Frenzied passion of Henri IV for the young Princesse de Condé--His extravagant conduct--Condé flies with his wife to Flanders--Grief...

Incidents at the Court and in Paris after the assassination of Henri IV--Meeting between Bassompierre and Sully--Marie de’ Medici declared Regent--Her difficult position--Return...

The affair of Montferrato--Intrigues of Concini with Charles Emmanuel of Savoy--Arrest of Concini’s agent Maignan--Bassompierre warns the Italian favourite of his danger and adv...

Bassompierre, during his absence in Lorraine, condemned by the Archbishop of Aix to espouse Mlle. d’Entragues, on pain of excommunication--The archbishop’s decision quashed by t...

Serious illness of the young King, who, however, recovers--Bassompierre and Mlle. d’Urfé--Gay winter in Paris--Richelieu enters the Ministry as Secretary of State for War--His f...

Bassompierre joins the Royal army in Champagne as Grand Master of the Artillery by commission--Surrender of Château-Porcien--Bassompierre is wounded before Rethel--He sets out f...

Bassompierre arrives in Paris--Marie de’ Medici is exiled to Blois--Bassompierre’s account of the parting between Louis XIII and his mother--The rebellious princes return to Cou...

Luynes succeeds to the power and wealth of Concini--Trial and execution of Concini’s widow, Leonora Galigaï--Luynes begins to direct affairs of State--His marriage to Marie de R...

The grandees, irritated by the increasing power and favour of Luynes, decide to make common cause with the Queen-Mother against him--Departure of Mayenne from the Court--He is f...

Refusal of the Protestants of Béarn to restore the property of the Catholic Church--Louis XIII and Luynes resolve on rigorous measures and set out for the South--Visit of Bassom...

An alliance with Luynes’s niece, Mlle. de Combalet, proposed to Bassompierre--His journey to Spain--His entry into Madrid--He is visited by the Princess of the Asturias, the gra...

Bassompierre’s audience of the new King, Philip IV--The Procession of the Crosses--An old flame--Good Friday at Madrid--Anxiety of the Queen’s ladies-in-waiting to see Bassompie...

A new War of Religion breaks out in France--Luynes created Constable--Louis XIII and Duplessis-Mornay--Bassompierre joins the Royal army before Saint-Jean d’Angély--Capitulation...

Birth of François de Bassompierre--Origin of the Bassompierre family--A romantic legend--His grandfather--His father--His early years--He and his younger brother Jean are sent t...

Visit of the Bassompierre family to Paris--François dances in a ballet before Henri IV at Monceaux--He is presented to the King, who receives him very graciously--He decides to...

Bassompierre accompanies Henri IV in his campaign against Charles Emmanuel of Savoy--His narrow escape at the taking of Montmélian--He goes with the King to visit Henriette d’En...

Bassompierre sets out for Hungary to serve as a volunteer in the Imperial Army against the Turks--His journey to Vienna--He learns that the commander-in-chief of the army is Gen...

Bassompierre goes to Prague, where the Imperial Court is in residence--He is presented by Rossworm to the lords of the Council--He dines at the house of Prestowitz, Burgrave of...

Bassompierre arrives at Fontainebleau and is most graciously received by Henri IV--He falls in love with Marie d’Entragues, sister of the King’s mistress--The conspiracy of the...

Quarrel between Bassompierre and the Marquis de Cœuvres--Bassompierre sends his cousin the Sieur de Créquy to challenge the marquis to a duel--The King sends for the two nobles...

A strange adventure--Bassompierre sent as Ambassador Extraordinary to Lorraine to represent Henri IV at the marriage of the Duke of Bar and Margherita di Gonzaga--He returns to...

Amusements of Bassompierre during the winter of 1608--His gambling-parties--Embarrassment which the fact of having several love-affairs on his hands simultaneously sometimes occ...

Enviable position of Bassompierre at the Court of France--The Connétable de Montmorency offers him the hand of his beautiful daughter Charlotte, the greatest heiress in France--...

The body of a man who has been assassinated opposite Marie d’Entragues’s house mistaken for that of Bassompierre--Bassompierre wins a wager of a thousand crowns from the King--M...

Return of Bassompierre to the French Court--Frenzied passion of Henri IV for the young Princesse de Condé--His extravagant conduct--Condé flies with his wife to Flanders--Grief...

Incidents at the Court and in Paris after the assassination of Henri IV--Meeting between Bassompierre and Sully--Marie de’ Medici declared Regent--Her difficult position--Return...

The affair of Montferrato--Intrigues of Concini with Charles Emmanuel of Savoy--Arrest of Concini’s agent Maignan--Bassompierre warns the Italian favourite of his danger and adv...

Bassompierre, during his absence in Lorraine, condemned by the Archbishop of Aix to espouse Mlle. d’Entragues, on pain of excommunication--The archbishop’s decision quashed by t...

Serious illness of the young King, who, however, recovers--Bassompierre and Mlle. d’Urfé--Gay winter in Paris--Richelieu enters the Ministry as Secretary of State for War--His f...

Bassompierre joins the Royal army in Champagne as Grand Master of the Artillery by commission--Surrender of Château-Porcien--Bassompierre is wounded before Rethel--He sets out f...

Bassompierre arrives in Paris--Marie de’ Medici is exiled to Blois--Bassompierre’s account of the parting between Louis XIII and his mother--The rebellious princes return to Cou...

Luynes succeeds to the power and wealth of Concini--Trial and execution of Concini’s widow, Leonora Galigaï--Luynes begins to direct affairs of State--His marriage to Marie de R...

The grandees, irritated by the increasing power and favour of Luynes, decide to make common cause with the Queen-Mother against him--Departure of Mayenne from the Court--He is f...

Refusal of the Protestants of Béarn to restore the property of the Catholic Church--Louis XIII and Luynes resolve on rigorous measures and set out for the South--Visit of Bassom...

An alliance with Luynes’s niece, Mlle. de Combalet, proposed to Bassompierre--His journey to Spain--His entry into Madrid--He is visited by the Princess of the Asturias, the gra...

Bassompierre’s audience of the new King, Philip IV--The Procession of the Crosses--An old flame--Good Friday at Madrid--Anxiety of the Queen’s ladies-in-waiting to see Bassompie...

A new War of Religion breaks out in France--Luynes created Constable--Louis XIII and Duplessis-Mornay--Bassompierre joins the Royal army before Saint-Jean d’Angély--Capitulation...