CHAPTER VIII

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 Paris and orders a gorgeous suit, which is to cost fourteen thousand crowns, for the baptism of the Dauphin and Madame Élisabeth, though he has only seven hundred in his purse--He wins enough at play to pay for it--Charles III of Lorraine writes to request his presence at the Estates of Lorraine--Henri IV refuses him permission to leave France, but he sets out notwithstanding this--He is arrested by the King’s orders at Meaux, but set at liberty on his promising to return to Court--He is allowed to leave for Lorraine a few days later--Affair of the Prince de Joinville and Madame de Moret.....pp. 87-94