CHAPTER VII

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 and orders them to be reconciled in his presence--Bassompierre and Créquy are forbidden to appear at Court, but are soon pardoned--Visit of Bassompierre to Plombières--He returns to Paris, and “breaks entirely” with Marie d’Entragues--The Chancellor, Pomponne de Bellièvre, ordered to resign the Seals--His conversation with Bassompierre at Artenay--Bassompierre wins more than 100,000 francs at play--He is reconciled with Marie d’Entragues--He joins Henri IV at Sedan--The adventure of the King’s love-letter--Henri IV gives orders that a watch shall be kept on Marie d’Entragues’s house to ascertain if Bassompierre is secretly visiting that lady--A comedy of errors--Madame d’Entragues surprises her daughter and Bassompierre.....pp. 71-86