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A report was spread of the decease of M. de Boëce, the Governor of Bourg-en-Bresse, a brave and faithful soldier, who had rendered good service to his country; and the Queen, urged by her favourite, was imprudent enough, without awaiting proper confirmation of the rumour, to confer the government upon Concini, whose arrogance, fostered as it was by the indulgence of his royal mistress, was already becoming intolerable to the native nobility.
A foreigner writes, after traversing France from Bourg-en-Bresse to Paris: "Ninety times out of a hundred that I have asked the question, 'Citizen, what was done in the primary meeting of your canton? the answer would be: 'Me, citizen, what have I to do with it? I' faith, they had hard work to agree! Or, 'What's the use? There were not many there! Honest folks stayed at home."
"To maintain the fertile places by commerce, and the sterile by manufactures.... To show the English lords our four bombards, London, Brabant, Bourg-en-Bresse, Saint-Omer.... Artillery is the cause of war being made more judiciously now.... To Monsieur de Bressuire, our friend.... Armies cannot be maintained without tribute, etc." Once he raised his voice, "Pasque Dieu!
In the popular club of Bourg-en-Bresse, Representative Javogues declared that, "the Republic could be established only on the corpse of the last of the respectable men." X. The Governors and the Governed. Prisoners in the rue de Sevres and the "Croix-Rouge" revolutionary committee. The young Dauphin and Simon his preceptor. Judges, and those under their jurisdiction.
In the summer of 1522, he had, through the agency of Adrian de Croy, Lord of Beaurain, entered into negotiations not only with Charles V., but also with Henry VIII., King of England, deploring the ill behavior of Francis I. and the enormity of existing abuses, and proposing to set on foot in his own possessions a powerful movement for the reformation of the kingdom and the relief of the poor people, if the two sovereigns would send "persons of trust and authority into the vicinity of his principality of Dombes, to Bourg-en-Bresse, whither he on his side would send his chancellor to come to an agreement with them and act in common."
Those friends of mine, mentioned a little while since, who accuse me of always tipping back the balance, could not desire a paragraph more characteristic; but I wish to give no further evi- dence of such infirmities, and will therefore hurry away from the subject, hurry away in the train which, very early on a crisp, bright morning, conveyed. me, by way of an excursion, to the ancient city of Bourg-en-Bresse.
Those friends of mine, mentioned a little while since, who accuse me of always tipping back the balance, could not desire a paragraph more characteristic; but I wish to give no further evidence of such infirmities, and will therefore hurry away from the subject hurry away in the train which, very early on a crisp, bright morning, conveyed me, by way of an excursion, to the ancient city of Bourg-en-Bresse.
At Bourg-en-Bresse I halted, as everyone else must do, in order to see its famous Church of Brou. The Church was built in consequence of a vow made by Margaret of Burgundy, that if her husband, Philibert the Second, Duke of Savoy, was healed from injuries received in the hunt, she would erect a church and found a monastery of the Order of St. Benoit.
The gardens of the hospital are adorned by a bust of the great anatomist, Bichat, whose birth-place, like that of Homer, is disputed. Bourg-en-Bresse disputes the honour with Lons-le-Saunier, and Bourg possesses the splendid monument to Bichat's memory by David d'Angers.
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