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PUBLISHERS
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Queen-mother
and
Falls
Sick.
^ ^*
^

at
Court
and
Narrowly
Escapes
Assassination
d'Alengon Secretly
76
Mar-
Marguerite's
Return
to
Paris
163
adherents
in
the
Protestant
party
were
slain
by
the
thousands.
A
wedded
life
begun
under
such
sanguinary
auspices
was
7
France,
and
while
she
was
still
merely
Queen
of
Navarre.
It
will
always
be
a
matter
of
regret
that
the
latter
half
of
her
life
was
not
likewise
covered.
original,
dhering
as
closely
as
permissible
to
the
rugged
but
clear-cut
verbal
expressions
pol-shed
manners.
Her
thoughts,
whether
spoken
or
written,
were
always
clearly
and
gracefullyexpressed.
of her Memoirs.
husband.
i
II
that
you
yourself,
when
you
consider
more
impartially
what
you
have
said,
13
the
sally
of
the
Marquis
de
Camillac
from
that
place.
I
shall
begin
these
re-uested
to
do
so,
and
the
other
refusing
to
run
a
race
unless
kings
were
to
enter
the
contest
against
him.
the
Cath-
island,
with
the
grand
of
rain
came
on,
the
course
of
this
progress.
She
flew
on
the
21
was,
indeed,
a
perfect
mistress
of
me,
always
to
stand
well
in
her
favour.
may
do
yourself
service
had
every
reason
to
suppose
I
was
firmly
attached
to
his
interest.
promote
the
views
or
advan-
27
as
he
was
gone,
I
returned
and
en-
show
of
resentment
at
his
behaviour.
she
gradually
withdrew
kept
my
bed
a
fortnight,
he
army
changed
its
quarters,
and
I
was
wrought
upon,
that
I
did
not
speak
the
sentiments
of
my
heart,
for
she
well
treaty
which
had
been
entered
upon
for
my
marriage
with
him.
length,
which
was
sup-orted
by
three
princesses.
A
platform
had
been
VoL 1
the
loss
of
persons
who
had
been
useful
to
her;
yet,
so
much
was
King
Charles
inclined
to
save
those
who,
as
he
thought,
would
one
day
be
serviceable
to
him,
that
he
still
persisted
n
his
deter-
the
Huguenots,
extremity
found
herself
powerfully
aided
by
the
said
Gharri,
for
which
reason
she
had
vowed
to
avenge
his
death;
that,
as
to
the
service
in
Flanders,
they
must
be
considered
as
mere
pre-ences,
just
laid
be-ore
him.
was
going
for-ard.
I
observed
every
one
to
be
in
motion:
the
Huguenots,
driven
to
despair
by
the
attack
upon
the
Admiral's
life,
and
the
Guises,
fearing
they
should
not
have
justice
done
them,
whispering
all
they
met
in
the
ear.
39
knees
and
prayed
to
God
to
take
me
into
his
protection
and
save
me;
but
from
whom
or
what,
I
was
ignorant.
Hereupon
the
King
my
was
incomplete
likewise;
and
knowing
that
no
attempt
could
be
made
on
my
husband
whilst
I
continued,
to
be
his
wife,
de-ised
a
scheme
which
I
suspected
the
design
of
separating
me
from
my
hus-and
was
in
order
to
work
some
mischief
against
him.
lay
before
44
first ad-ances,
Huguenots
constantly
forming
new
plots.
of
La
Mole
everything.
run
a
48
hatred of
MARGUERITE
DE
VALOIS
51
me
through
the
maHcious
suggestions
of
Le
Guast,
who
had
made
him
beheve,
since
the
King's
death,
that
I
espoused
my
brother
Alengon's
party
during
his
absence,
and
cemented
a
friendship
betwixt
the
King
my
husband
and
him.
would
go
and
see
the
handsome
nuns,
too.
I
look
upon
it
as
ordered
by
Divine
Providence
that
I
should
have
Mademoiselle
52
whom she
so
I
would,
had
I
been
guilty
of
King
that
night
in
his
bedchamber,
and
relate
the
affair
as
it
really
was;
and
to-morrow,
my
temper,
whether
I
was
not
greatly
mortified
at
this
rebuff.
Whilst
we
were
enjoying
this
entertainment,
the
as
much
as
pos-ible;
whereas,
before,
he
was
open
and
communi-
58
esteem.
Thus
was
a
jealousy
kept
up
betwixt
them,
and,
in
consequence,
disunion
and
mutual
ruin
The
King,
thus
worked
upon
by
Le
Guast,
men-ioned
it
to
the
Queen
my
mother,
thinking
it
would
this
door,
he
cried
out
aloud:
so
brave
and
valu-ble
a
servant,
a
man
whom
Le
Guast
durst
not
attack
in
any
other
way
than
by
a
base
assassination.
not
perceived
his
indisposition
and
called
for
the
help
of
my
women,
he
should
not
have
survived
the
fit.
64
mended
3
Vol.
1
them
I
had
not
seen
him
since
noon.
There-
fli
to
Madame
de
Sauves;
so
that
he
to
behave
with
his
former
coolness.
This
the
more
confirmed
him
in
the
resolution
of
leaving
the
Court,
so
that
in
a
few
days,
under
the
pretence
of
hunting,
he
went
away.
my
services;
that,
as
pru-ence
counselled
us
not
to
repose
too
much
confidence
in
our
friends,
lest
they
should
one
day
become
our
enemies,
so
was
it
advisable
to
conduct
ourselves
in
such
a
manner
to
our
enemies
as
if
we
had
hopes
71
as
riot-
assured that
the
King
my
son
wishes
to
prevent.
to
the
ruin
of
us
both.
76
and
Poitou,
with
all
the
strength
of
the
Huguenots
under
the
King
my
husband.
In
short,
injuries
I
my
brother
was
always
well
disposed
to
follow
my
counsel;
and
he
concluded
with
saying
that
the
peace,
when
accomplished,
he
should
ever
consider
as
being
due
to
my
good
ofiices,
nd
should
esteem
himself
obliged
to
me
for
it.
I
promised
to
exert
myself
in
so
good
a
work,
which
I
plainly
per-
from the
rest
of
his
army.
He,
to
colour
his
refusal,
told
me
he
could
not
part
with
me
at
present,
as
I
83
a
good
a
Huguenot;
and
that
if
the
King
my
you
leave
us
in
the
manner
you
have
now
mentioned,
rely
upon
dissatisfac-ion,
and,
taking
listen
to
his
representation,
s
having
his
mind
wholly
occu-ied
by
the
war
he
had
entered
into
with
the
Hugue-ots,
whom
he
was
resolved
to
punish
for
having
joined
my
brother,.
ad
ceased
to
move
in
it
further
to
the
King,
and
addressed
himself
on
the
subject
to
my
brother.
My
brother,
with
that
princelyspirit
the
proposal
to
execute
for
him
in
Flanders.
The
household,
my
chief
esquires,
and
the
other
gentlemen
of
my
establishment.
the
borders
of
his
territory.
92
speak
from
experience,having
been
taught,
to
my
cost,
and
con-rary
to
my
desire,
the
caution
and
vigilance
neces-ary
to
he
observed
in
keeping
such
places.
As
my
de
Lalain,
M.
de
Montigny
his
brother,
and
a
number
of
gentlemen,
to
the
amount
of
two
or
three
hundred,
came
to
meet
me.
Valenciennes
is
a
town
inferior
to
Cambray
in
give
me
sufficient
rank,
which,
however,
placed
the
goodness
of
her
disposition
in
the
most
amiable
light.
In
fact,
she
gave
suck
to
her
infant
son;
and
one
day
at
table,
sitting
next
me,
whose
whole
attention
was
absorbed
in
the
promotion
of
my
brother's
interest,
the
table
being
the
place
people,
who
considered
not
only
a
neighbour,
but
having
a
kingdom
like
France
at
his
devotion,
whence
he
A
It
from Court and
exceeded
that
of
daylight.
Our
supper
was
served
to
us
in
our
respective
part-
The
next
morning
Don
John
conducted
us
to
chapel,
where
we
heard
mass
celebrated
after
the
Spanish
manner,
with
all
kinds
of
music,
after
which
we
par-ook
of
a
banquet
prepared
by
Don
John.
He
and
I
were
seated
at
a
separate
table,
at
a
distance
of
three
boat,
'mm
proceeded,
in
the
boat,
to
sleep
that
night
at
Liege.
boat,
and
conducted
me
to
his
magnificent
residence,
orna-
107
de
Tour-
non,
whose
story,
being
of
a
singular
nature,
I
shall
now
relate
to
you,
agreeably
to
the
promise
I
made
in
my
last
letter.
I
must
begin
with
observing
to
you
that
Madame
mother's
disposition.
The
daughter,
as
you
may
well
suppose,
wished
to
be
from
under
the
mother's
tyrannical
government,
and
was
were
appointed
bearers,
one
of
whom
was
named
La
Boessiere.
This
man
had
entertained
a
unhappy
young
lady;
and
his
passion
(wonderful
to
relate)
being
re-ived
by
the
absence
of
her
who
inspired
it,
though
scarcely
alive
while
she
was
present,
he
had
resolved
to
come
and
ask
her
young
from
the
ball
we
went
to
some
convent,
where
we
heard
vespers;
from
vespers
to
supper,
and
that
over,
we
had
another
ball,
or
music
on
the
river.
assisted them.
out
the
next
morning.
night,
giving
us
no
opportunity
to
expostulate
with
them
on
such
conduct.
In
the
morning
we
were
suffered
to
leave
the
town
without
further
molestation,
and
the
streets
we
passed
through
were
lined
with
armed
men.
my
intention
to
do
them
harm;
but,
to
prevent
any
suspicions
of
the
kind,
I
only
begged
to
be
admitted
to
go
into
their
city
with
my
women,
and
as
few
others
of
my
attendants
as
they
thought
proper,
and
that
we
might
be
per-
the
sovereign
princes
I
was
related
to.
The
principal
person
amongst
them
asked
me,
with
some
hesitation
and
stammering,
if
I
was
really
a
particular
friend
Cardinal
should
keep
Du
Bois
in
discourse,
whilst
I
consulted
the
principal
citizens
in
another
apartment.
Accordingly,
I
assembled
as
many
as
I
could,
to
con-inued
talking,
and
as
if
I
did
not
hear
them.
But
of Flan-
and
his
people
were
daily
receiv-ng
some
affront
or
other,
and
continual
quarrels
were
excited
betwixt
the
King's
favourites
and
Bussi
and
my
brother's
principal
attendants.
This,
he
added,

*'
125
en-
quitted
my
brother's
service,
sought
every
means
to
ruin
him,
to
my
^tm
decided
upon
in
our
time;
which
was
to
put
my
brother
and
all
his
principal
servants
under
an
arrest.
This
measure
was
executed
with
as
much
indiscretion
as
it
had
been
resolved
upon.
The
King,
Memoirs
5
Vol.
1
confined
with
me
than
have
her
liberty
whilst
I
was
in
confinement,
I
beg
you
will
go
to
the
Queen
my
mother,
and
desire
situation,
and
beg
me
to
come
to
him.
134
to
assign
them
to.
him;
then,
turning
to
Simier,
who
stood
trembling
with
fear,
he
jeered
him
upon
his
pusillanimity.
L'Archant
re-
of
the
Council,
the
chancellor,
princes,
nobles,
and
mar-hals
of
France,
who
all
were
greatly
scandalised
at
putting
it
into
execution,
she
would
rec-mmend
it
to
him
to
submit
himself
to
the
King's
pleasure
in
everything,
in
order
to
prevent
the
like
in
future;
and,
for
the
present,
to
take
the
earliest
opportunity
of
seeing
the
King,
and
to
appear
as
if
he
thought
no
more
about
the
past.
We
replied
that
we
were
both
of
us
sensible
of
God's
great
mercy
in
delivering
us
from
the
injus-ice
of
our
enemies,
and
that,
next
to
God,
our
great-
Queen
my
mother,
we
found
When
all
was
over,
the
King
and
the
Queen
my
mother,
coming
up
to
me,
said
it
and
the
duty
he
owed
him.
manner
before
re-ated,
the
wound
being
only
skinned
over
and
far
from
healed,
the
young
men
about
the
King's
person
143
it.
When
we
consulted
upon
the
means
of
its
accom-lishment,
we
could
find
no
other
than
his
descending
from
my
window,
which
was
on
the
second
story
and
opened
to
the
ditch,
for
the
gates
were
so
closely
discovered,
I
had
much
rather
pledge
ditch,
who
ran
towards
the
lodge
adjoining
to
the
tennis-court,
in
the
direct
way
lead-ng
to
the
guard-house.
I
had
no
apprehensions
on
my
own
account^
all
my
fears
being
absorbed
by
those
from
it,
mollified
by
this
declaration,
and
now
gave
me
permission
to
re-urn
to
my
own
apartments.
Soon
afterwards
he
received
letters
from
my
brother,
containing
assur-
defeat it.
service;
that,
with
respect
to
myself,
I
thought
151
to
think
to
quit
our
presence
im-ediate
and,
expressing
his
concern
at
his
secre-ary's
behaviour,
who,
he
said,
was
overzealous
in
of
president
and
King's
counsellor.
I
now
met
with
a
fresh
cause
for
disquietude
in
my
present
situation,or,
Dayelle
being
gone,
the
King
belonging
to
myself.
The
King
my
husband
that
affairs
were
had
spent
its
utmost
strength.
Before
that
period
arrived,
foreseeing
the
conse-uences,
I
had
often
written
to
the
King
and
the
Queen
my
mother,
to
offer
something
to
the
King
my
husband
by
way
of
accommodating
matters.
But
the
it.
first
opportunity
of
making
my
complaint
to
the
King
my
brother.
attended
with
163
Memoirs
6
Vol.
1
satisfaction
he
found
in
being
with
us
could
not
alto-ether
abate.
The
peace
my
brother
made,
as
I
have
just
men-
by
the
war.
part,
he
avoided
me;
he
grew
cold
and
indifferent,
and
since
before
held.
She,
therefore,
strove
all
she
could
to
circumvent
her;
and,
indeed^
into
my
closet,
and
spoke
to
which
the
maids
of
honours
were,
to
for
having
been
the
means
of
my
to
hope
much
from
all
the
fine
promises
that
were
made
to
me.
I
I
had
to
leave
the
King
my
husband,
after
the
instances
of
renewed
love
and
regard
which
he
had
begun
to
show
me.
POMPADOUR
the
favorite,
with
whom
179

The
of the
her
journey.
( Wait
a
moment,
monsieur,
and
we
will
set
forth
together ).
I
Min-sters,
or
with
other
important
persons;
as,
for
the Court.
were
very
much
in
Madame
de
Pompadour's
confidence;
the
latter,
however,
be-ame
less
necessary
to
her
from
the
time
that
the
King
communicated
to
M.
de
Choiseul
the
secret
of
the
post-office,
hat
is
to
say,
the
system
of
opening
letters
and
extracting
matter
from
them:
this
had
sufficiently
ccount
for
the
ascendency
of
M.
de
Choiseul,
whom
nobody
would
have
ventured
to
his
answers.
As
I
did
not
choose
to
take
liberties
with
the
King's
cor re-
They
are
the
Due
d'Aumont,
It
happened
that,
when
the
King
returned
from
his
walk,
he
was
struck
with
a
fancy
to
listen
to
our
conversation.
Madame
de
Pompadour
was
extremely
kind
to
the
Doctor,
and
the
King
went
out
the
likelihood
of
her
success
in
meeting
her
admirer,
the
King.
p.
182
From
the
painting
by
Casanova
y
Estorach.
Burgundy,
whose
intelligence
as
much
talked
of,
for
a
long
time
occupied
the
7
Vol.
1
almost
to
endeavour
to
find
out
the
author,
but
either
he
could
not
succeed
or
he
would
not
betray
him.
most
melancholy
privations
and
the
most
severe
sufferings.
us
with
senses
which
shed
such
a
charm
over
existence,
and
which
promise
us
new
pleasure
from
every
draws them towards
disgrace
What
a
sight
it
was
to
see
us
all
three
upon
me
in
the
apartment
King's
grooms
made
Pompadour,
choristers
of
the
chapel.
The
people
afterwards
acknowledged
their
error,
and
did
justice
King
he
had
strong
reasons
for
believing
that
the
Duke
would
stick
at
nothing
to
rid
very
loosely
to
him.
daughter.
One
day
you
will
see
her
sons
or
her
nephews
Farmers
General,
and
her
granddaughters
by
follow-ng
your
new
diet,
and
that
diet
will
kill
you;
render
can
four
days
set
everybody
calling
d'Henin
for
being
equerry
returned
from
Malta
on
formed
the
design
of
marrying
her.
A
dukedom
would
have
given
him
rank;
and
He
paid
court
to
nobody,
had
no
You
will
say
that
you
expect
the
sponsors,
and
a
moment
after
you
will
pretend
to
have
received
a
letter,stating
that
they
cannot
come.
You
will,
of
course,
affect
to
be
very
much
embarrassed;
and
asked Madame.
that
she
knew
the
Polish
Count
was
the
King
of
France.
She
con-
that he
but
I
love
mystery
attached
to
it.
One
day
that
she
suddenly
left
the
room
to
go
upstairs
to
see
her
sister,
who
had
been
brought
to
bed,
he
took
the
opportunity
of
opening
the
porte-feuille,
nd
was
very
much
surprised
to
find
it
my
duty
to
tell
Your
Majesty
that
this
lady
passes
for
a
very
intriguingperson.
I
believe,
replied
without
a
thought,
and
would
give
a
hundred
out
of
his
little
private
treasury
with
8
Vol.
1
went
somewhat
shall finish
hopes
Your
Majesty
would
not
get
rid
of
Valliere
of
im-
de
the
most
was
M.
de
la
too
bad.
The
King
came,
and
was
Pom-
I
do
not
done,
temper
the
headlong
fury
of
contains
have become
to
support
as
Prime
Minister,
Encyclo-edists,
under
pretence
of
enlightening
mankind,
are
sapping
the
foundations
of
religion.
All
the
different
kinds
of
liberty
re
connected;
the
Philosophers
and
requires
them
he
must
have
a
heart
formed
there
are
here
a
few
more
Bernis
never
Gontaut,
the
Ministers,
and
some
to
M.
d'Ar-enson,
and
the
war,
then
carrying
on,
both
by
sea
and
report
founded
on
truth ?
I
cannot
swear
that
it
is
is asserted that the letter is written in the Count's
style.
Besides,
in
time.
I
care
very
little
about
it,
since
I
see
King
heard
him,
he
of
his
flat-
after-
She asked what
concerning
the
fortune-
Gergy,
who
was
Ambassadress
to
Venice,
ridicule
or
contempt.
He
was
said
to
be
a
bastard
son
of
the
King
of
Portugal.
in
great
part,
arched
over;
that
he
drew
his
sword,
and
went
down
the
old
gambler,
whose
house
is
open
till
four
in
the
morning;
that
everybody
there
was
sur--
Royal
Gallery
in
Scotland,
called
Memoirs
9
Vol.
1
in
Paris
a
man
of
the
greatest
merit.
very
noble
in
you,
Marshal,
not
to
suffer
the
are
worth
your
weight
in
gold,
for
the
good
sense
and
capacity
you
have
shewn
in
your
office,
nd
for
your
moderation,
but
you
will
never
be
appreciated
as
you
deserve;
your
advice
is
excellent;
here
will
never
be
a
ship
taken
was
well-informed;
that
nobody
was
more
perfectly
aster
of
the
topog-
was an
He
came
fre-uently
to
see
Madame.
M.
Duclos
told
us
that
the
Due
de
Deux-Ponts,
having
learned,
at
Deux-Ponts,
the
attempt
on
the
King's
life,
immediately
set
out
have
a
upon
Madame
de
Pompadour
to
assign
me
that
part,
and
the
command
is
yours.
I
promised
nothing,
but
I
re-
losing
her
pen-
concerning
to
the
left,
Monseigneur,
since
the
way
on
the
right
is
closed
against
me.'
The
unhappy
creature
has
kept
her
word
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