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[237] The Marechal d'Ancre had formed a large establishment by engaging in his service a number of impoverished French n.o.bles, whose necessities had induced them to accept a thousand livres a year, and to submit to the insults which were heaped upon them by their low-born patron.

[238] Ba.s.sompierre. _Mem_. p. 114. D'Estrees, _Mem_. p. 413. Richelieu, _Hist. de la Mere et du Fils_, vol. ii. p. 57.

[239] Rohan, _Mem_. p. 141.

[240] Le Va.s.sor, vol. i. p. 514.

[241] Sismondi, vol. xxii. p. 371, 372. D'Estrees, _Mem_. p. 412.

Ba.s.sompierre, _Mem_. p. 114. Mezeray, vol. xi. pp. 113, 114.

[242] Ba.s.sompierre, _Mem_. pp. 121, 122.

[243] Richelieu, _Mem_. book vii. p. 333. Fontenay-Mareuil, pp.

338-358.

[244] Richelieu, _Mem_. book vii. p. 326.

[245] Sismondi, vol. xxii. p. 374.

[246] Ponce de Lauziere, Marquis de Themines, Senechal de Quercy, and subsequently Marechal de France.

[247] Ba.s.sompierre, _Mem_. p. 117.

[248] Sismondi, vol. xxii. pp. 375, 376.

[249] Le Va.s.sor, vol. i. pp. 541, 542. _Mem. de la Regence de Marie de Medicis_.

[250] On Twelfth-Night in France a bean is introduced into the cake, and the person selecting the slice in which it has been concealed is elected King for the evening.

[251] Ba.s.sompierre, _Mem_. p. 117.

[252] Rohan, _Mem_. p. 141. Fontenay-Mareuil, p. 350. D'Estrees, p. 414.

Le Va.s.sor, vol. i. pp. 542, 543. Brienne, _Mem_. vol. i. pp. 315, 316.

[253] Ma.n.u.script Memoirs of the Cardinal de Richelieu in the archives of the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

[254] M. de Saint-Geran was an ensign of the gendarmes of the King's bodyguard, and one of the n.o.bles who were known by the soubriquet of _The Seventeen_, among whom were the Marquis de Crequy and Ba.s.sompierre.

He was a devoted ally of the Duc de Sully.

[255] Ba.s.sompierre, _Mem_. p. 118. Sismondi, vol. xxii. pp. 378, 379.

Richelieu, _Mem_. book vii. p. 335.

[256] Richelieu, _Mem_. book vii. p. 335.

[257] Unpublished _Mem_. of Richelieu in the archives of the Foreign Office.

[258] Richelieu, _Mem_. book vii. p. 359.