Chapter 13

1617

The Comte de la Péna--Anne of Austria and the orphan--Popular atrocities--The wages of crime--Submission of the Duc de Mayenne--Suspension of hostilities--The great nobles return to the capital--Louis refuses to be reconciled with his mother--Insolence of De Vitry--Generosity of the Duc de Rohan--Marie de Medicis resolves to retire from the Court--Richelieu offers to share her exile--He becomes the secret emissary of De Luynes--Gratitude of the deluded Queen--A parting interview--Marie de Medicis proceeds to Blois--Destitution of the Maréchale d'Ancre--Her despair--Royal recreations--A fatal parallel--Madame de Condé requests permission to share the captivity of her husband--Trial of Madame d'Ancre--Her execution--Cupidity of De Luynes--Justice of the Grand Duke of Tuscany--Death of the President de Thou--Marriage of De Luynes with Mademoiselle de Montbazon--De Luynes is created duke and peer--Death of M. de Villeroy--Recall of the old ministers--Policy of De Luynes--His suspiciousness--His ambition--De Luynes lodges his brothers in the Louvre--The sign of "the Three Kings"--Louis resolves to re-establish the Roman Catholic religion in Béarn, and to annex that principality to the Crown of France--Meeting of the _Notables_ at Rouen--The French march to the support of the Duke of Savoy.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME

Comte d'Anquien Princess-Dowager of Condé Duchesse de Mercoeur Marquise de Guercheville Due de Lesdiguières Comtesse de Fervaques Comtesse du Fargis Ravaillac Duchesse de Sully Maréchal de Brissac Cardinal Bentivoglio M. de Souvré Stefano Galigaï M. de Thou M. Arnaud Père Cotton Henri II, Duc de Longueville Duque de Feria Maréchal de la Châtre Duc d'Elboeuf M. de Châteauvieux Marquis de Châteauneuf Marquis de Rambouillet Cardinal de Gonzaga M. de Brèves M. de Brosse Comte de Buquoy Don Rodrigo Calderon Chevalier de Guise Duc de Luxembourg-Piney Cardinal de Gondy Cosmo, Grand Duke of Tuscany Duc de la Rochefoucauld Duc de Retz Bishop of Saintes M. de Verdun M. de Servin Comte de Brienne Baron du Pont-Saint-Pierre M. Miron M. Le Fèvre M. de Rivault Comte de Laval Cardinal de Richelieu M. Le Jay Comte de Saint-Pol Duque d'Usseda M. Mangot M. de Puisieux M. Barbin Madame de Motteville Marquis de Thémines M. de Saint-Géran. M. Déageant Maréchal de Schomberg Maréchal d'Ornano Marquis de Bressieux M. de Rouvray Comte de Fiesque Jean Goujon Mlle. de Montbazon

ILLUSTRATIONS

VOL. II

1. HENRI IV.

2. LOUIS XIII, KING OF FRANCE Engraved by Freeman from the Original by Lestang in the Versailles Gallery.

3. MARÉCHAL DE BASSOMPIERRE Engraved by Gouttière from the Original by Alaux.

4. CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU Engraved by Bourgeois.

5. ANNE OF AUSTRIA Engraved by W. Greatbach from a Print by Masson, after P. Mignard.

6. MARÉCHAL DE SCHOMBERG Engraved by Rouargue from the Original by Rouillard.