Part 10 (2/2)
Then he returned, and made all his bows quite nicely; nor would he quit the capital before he had sent me his portrait, some pretty verses in Italian, which he had caused to be composed, and besides this, a set of amber ornaments, the most beautiful of any worn by ladies of the hare and costly embassy, despite the a as ”Eldest Son of the Sun,” this same Son of the Sun despatched seven thousand picked troops to help Venice against the Turks To this detachment the Venetian Republic sent fourteen vessels laden with their own soldiers, under the leadershi+p of our Duc de Beaufort, Grand Admiral of France, and Lieutenant-General Duc de Navailles
Had these troops arrived in the nick of time, they would have saved Candia, but by a sudden accident all was lost, and after so terrible a reverse, the Isle of Candia, wrested from the potentates of Europe and Christendom, fell a prey to the infidels
A pistol-shot fired at a Turk blew up several barrels of gunpowder belonging to a largethat aconfusion, never even caring to save their htfulofficers perished, and the Duc de Beaufort was never found either a Comte de Guiche, of whom I shall presently speak, had his hand smashed, and if on his breast he had not worn a portrait of Madame,--[The ill-fated duchesse d'Orleans]--the sword of a Turk would have struck hi felt sorry that he had only despatched seven thousand men thither But when M de Louvois informed him that the whole detach sent soa Malcontent--The King's Policy with Regard to Lorraine--Advice of Madaes--Conquest of Lorraine--The Lorraines Surrender to the Ereat potentate are just like the shrubs that grow beside an old oak tree, whose broad shade blights them, while its roots undermine and sap them, till at last they are weakened and destroyed
When young Gaston, son of Henri IV, seeking to get free from Richelieu's insolent despotism, withdrew to the Duc de Lorraine, the Cardinal uttered a cry of joy, and remarked to Louis XIII, that vindictive, jealous prince, ”Oh, what a good turn the Duc d'Orleans has just done you to-day!
By going to stay with M de Lorraine, he will oust hiiven Monsieur a most cordial reception, and that the latter, who, like his father, was very susceptible, had proposed for the hand of the Princesse Marguerite, a char Louis XIII openly opposed this ed for, and celebrated partly at Nancy and partly at Luneville
Such conation of the King and his e, or rather of spoliation, and as the prince, being unable then to offer any serious resistance, was sensible enough to surrender, he got off with the sacrifice of certain portions of his territory He also had to witness the demolition by France of the fine fortifications of Nancy
Things were at this juncture when our young King assuement of affairs The policy pursued by Louis XIII and his Cardinal seeeous one, also; he lured to his capital M de Lorraine, as still young and a er, and by every conceivable pretext he was prevented froain Lorraine had a nephew,--[Prince Charles]--a young reat promise, to whom the uncle there and then offered towould honour him with his protection andwould not consent to aa firm, persistent desire in this way to make the line of these two princes extinct
I was talking about this one day in the King's chaes had the hardihood to say:
”I hear that the Messieurs de Lorraine are about to take their departure, and that, having lost all hope ofthemselves beloved, they have resolved tolooked in of emotion, and he said to her:
”Do you visit there?”
”Sire,” replied Madament the number, not of your enemies, but of your friends; of all policies that is the best”
The King never said a word