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Offended by this invasion of their rights, the estates refused to acknowledge his authority, and could only be brought to receive him as a viceroy for a stated period, and under conditions ratified by oath. Maximilian, after he became Roman Emperor, fancied that he might safely venture to violate the constitution.
"Wait here for me," said Maximilian, as he passed me. I sat down. The cowled figures remained seated around the walls. Not a sound broke the profound silence. I could see that all eyes were fixed upon the door by which the Executive Committee had left us, and my own were riveted there also. We all felt the gravity of the occasion. Five minutes ten minutes fifteen minutes twenty minutes passed.
In the study on the ground floor hangs a photograph, still sharp and clear after the lapse of half a century, of the members of the delegation swarthy men in the high cravats and long frock-coats of the period, some of them wearing the stars and sashes of orders who came to Miramar to offer Maximilian the Mexican crown.
The motions of his hands must have been the convulsive motions which, according to physiological laws, accompany death caused by sudden hemorrhage." The bodies of the two generals were given to their families. That of Maximilian, inclosed in a common coffin, was placed in the chapel of the convent of the Capuchins, and delivered up to the doctor.
Two others, the Elector of Saxony, of the line of Albert, and the Duke of Saxony, of the line of Ernest, laid claim to it under a prior right of reversion granted to them by the Emperor Frederick III., and confirmed to both Saxon houses by Maximilian I. The pretensions of some foreign princes were little regarded.
The Duchess Christina of Lorraine had received many half promises of the appointment, which she was most anxious to secure; the Emperor was even said to desire the nomination of the Archduke Maximilian, a step which would have certainly argued more magnanimity upon Philip's part than the world could give him credit for; and besides these regal personages, the high nobles of the land, especially Orange and Egmont, had hopes of obtaining the dignity.
High and low were alike victims unconscious victims of a system. The crime was not theirs; it lay at the door of the shallow, indifferent, silly generations of the past. My eyes sought the officers. I noticed that Maximilian was disguised out of an excess of caution, as I supposed with eye-glasses and a large dark mustache. His face, I knew, was really beardless. I turned to the president.
In the summer of 1489, Charles VIII. and his advisers learned that the Count of Nassau, having arrived in Brittany with the proxy of Archduke Maximilian, had by a mock ceremony espoused the Breton princess in his master's name. This strange mode of celebration could not give the marriage a real and indissoluble character; but the concern in the court of France was profound.
She uttered a cry of surprise at the sight of a stranger, and Maximilian began to laugh. "Don't disturb yourself, Julie," said he. "The count has only been two or three days in Paris, but he already knows what a fashionable woman of the Marais is, and if he does not, you will show him."
Her rank was accounted far higher in Germany than that of William of Nassau, and in this respect, rather than for pecuniary considerations, the marriage seemed a desirable one for him. The man who held the great Nassau-Chalons property, together with the heritage of Count Maximilian de Buren, could hardly have been tempted by 100,000 thalers.
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