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Their tongues shall be cut out. . . . Ah, my little, little child! . . . The Connetable dared he dared to tell me this evil gossip of the little one of my Guida!" He laughed contemptuously, but it was a crackling, dry laugh, painful in its cheerlessness.
There lay the remedy for the evils of the monarchy; thence should have come the voting on taxes, the regulation of them, and a slow approval of reforms that were necessary to the system of monarchy. The first act of Henri II. was to give his confidence to the Connetable de Montmorency, whom his father had enjoined him to leave in disgrace.
"That little La Mole," went on the queen, "wishes to make himself a great man by giving France a king of his own stripe. He is promised, they say, the place of connetable." "Curse that Margot!" cried the king. "This is what comes of her marriage with a heretic."
Thence she could see into the courtyard. It had been agreed between Catherine and the Cardinal de Tournon that if the Connetable should successfully enter the town the cardinal would come to the king's house with the two Gondis; if otherwise, he would come alone.
Henry made a ready and gracious reply to this request, and before he finally retired from the royal closet, the Connétable asked and obtained the royal sanction to authorize the Marquis de Coeuvres to concert with him some scheme for carrying off the Princess.
It was more a habitation than it was a fortress, a country house, as indeed it virtually became when the Connétable de Montmorency took possession of the structure in the name of the king, when its builder, Thomas Bohier, the none too astute minister of finance in Normandy, came to grief in his affairs.
They looked to see issue some sailor seized for whistling of a Sabbath, some profane peasant who had presumed to wear pattens in church, some profaner peasant who had not doffed his hat to the Connetable, or some slip-shod militiaman who had gone to parade in his sabots, thereby offending the red-robed dignity of the Royal Court.
But Henri II., who saw things only through the eyes of Diane and the Connetable, was a truly feudal king and the friend of all the great families of his kingdom. After the futile attempt of the Connetable in her favor, which must have been made in the year 1556, Catherine began to cajole the Guises for the purpose of detaching them from Diane and opposing them to the Connetable.
"Yes," he said, calmly, "it is a very sublime idea; but what did you reply, Josephine, when this was communicated to you?" "What did I reply?" asked Josephine. "Good Heaven! what should I have replied?" "Oh, Bonaparte, what a dreadful idea that is!" exclaimed Josephine, in dismay "dreadful and withal untrue, for did not the Count d'Artois say the Bourbons would appoint you Connetable of France?"
Hugues Ambriot, Mayor of Paris, built it under Charles V. to defend the suburb which contained the royal palace of St. Paul. Unpopular from the excess of his devotion to his royal master, Aubriot was the first prisoner in his own prison. Perhaps the most celebrated of the long list of after captives were the Connetable de St.
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