Volume II Part 4 (1/2)

”Je bois a _toi_, Sully; Mais j'ai failli; Je devois dire a _vous_, adorable d.u.c.h.esse, Pour boire a vos appas Faut mettre chapeau bas.”

_Dictionnaire des Hommes Ill.u.s.tres_.

[27] Ba.s.sompierre, _Mem_. p. 72.

[28] Richelieu, _Hist. de la Mere et du Fils_, vol. i. p. 55.

[29] Extracted from the Parliamentary Registers in the Memoirs of Phelipeaux de Pontchartrain, Secretary of the Orders of Marie de Medicis.

[30] L'Etoile, vol. iv. p. 49.

[31] _Mem. pour l'Hist. de France_, vol. ii. p. 359.

[32] _Mercure Francais_, 1611, p. 17.

[33] Richelieu, _Hist. de la Mere et du Fils_, vol. i. p. 56.

[34] Charles de Cosse, Comte de Brissac, Governor of Paris, in the year 1594 delivered up that city to Henri IV, by whom he was on that occasion raised to the dignity of Marshal of France. In 1626 Louis XIII erected his estate into a duchy-peerage, and in the following year he died Duc de Brissac.

[35] Urbain de Laval, Marquis de Bois-Dauphin, was one of the four Marshals of France created by the Duc de Mayenne whose rank was subsequently confirmed by Henri IV. He was one of the original chiefs of the League.

[36] Matthieu, _Hist. des Derniers Troubles_, 1610, pp. 446-453.

[37] Ba.s.sompierre, _Mem._ p. 72.

[38] Sully, _Mem._ vol. viii. p. 30.

[39] Ba.s.sompierre, _Mem._ p. 72.

[40] Richelieu, _Hist. de la Mere et du Fils_, vol. i. pp. 57-59.

[41] Richelieu, _Hist. de la Mere et du Fils_, vol. i. pp. 83, 84.

[42] L'Etoile, vol. iv. p. 155.

[43] _Mercure Francais_, 1610, vol. i. p. 492.

[44] Matthieu, _Hist. des Derniers Troubles_, book iii. p. 454.

[45] _Mem. de Henri, Duc de Rohan_, edit. Pet.i.tot.

[46] The Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio, born in 1579, was descended from an ill.u.s.trious Bolognese family, who had formerly been the sovereigns of that state, and had produced alike great warriors, renowned poets, and celebrated prelates. He was himself a distinguished diplomatist and an able writer. Literature is indebted to his pen for the _History of the Civil Wars of Flanders_, sundry _Memoirs_, and a _Narrative of Flanders_. He died in 1644.

[47] _Mem. de la Regence de Marie de Medicis_, pp. 5-14. D'Estrees, _Mem_., edition Michaud, pp. 375, 376.

[48] _Hist. de la Vie du Duc d'Epernon_, pp. 248, 249.

[49] _Mem. de la Regence_, pp. 6-8. Mezeray, vol. xi. pp. 7, 8.

D'Estrees, _Mem_. p. 376.