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"What men these burghers know how to find!" exclaimed the duke. "Ah! we have none on our side of the quality of La Renaudie!" cried the cardinal. "He is a true Catiline." "Such men always act for their own interests," replied the duke. "Didn't I fathom La Renaudie?
The plot failed miserably and La Renaudie lost his life; it only secured more firmly the authority of the Guises.
"The Prince de Conde did not tell you that the queen-mother was inclined to enter into his views against the Messieurs de Guise?" "I did not see him." "Take care! one of your accomplices, La Renaudie, has been arrested. Strong as he is, he was not able to bear the 'question, which will now be put to you; he confessed at last that both he and the Prince de Conde had an interview with you.
"In order that you may make no mistake, we feel obliged to initiate you into the most important secrets of the Reformation." The prince and La Renaudie emphasized the minister's speech by a gesture, the latter having paused to allow the prince to speak, if he so wished.
Christophe, bewildered by a confidence which had just brought him into communication with the Prince de Conde, La Renaudie, and Chaudieu, and still more moved at the prospect of impending civil war, made no answer; he ran hastily up from the kitchen to the back shop; but his mother, a rabid Catholic, could not control her anger. "I'll wager those three men I saw you talking with are Ref "
The plot failed miserably and La Renaudie lost his life; it only secured more firmly the authority of the Guises.
This prediction was so fully realized that many historians have assumed that it was written after the events. It is well known that Nostradamus took to the chateau de Chaumont, whither Catherine went after the conspiracy of La Renaudie, a woman who possessed the faculty of reading the future.
CONSPIRACY OF AMBOISE. La Renaudie, a Protestant nobleman who was determined to avenge the execution of a brother, contrived the Conspiracy of Amboise in order to dispossess the Guises of their power by force. The plan was discovered, and a savage revenge was taken upon the conspirators. A great number of innocent persons, who had no share in the plot, were put to death.
"In this crisis, Christophe," said La Renaudie, "we mean to neglect nothing which shall strengthen our party, for there is a party in the Reformation, the party of thwarted interests, of nobles sacrificed to the Lorrains, of old captains shamefully treated at Fontainebleau, from which the cardinal has banished them by setting up gibbets on which to hang those who ask the king for the cost of their equipment and their back-pay."
"There speaks the true Huguenot. If all our men were like that," said La Renaudie, laying his hand on Christophe's shoulder, "we should be conquerors to-morrow." "Young man," resumed the prince, "I desire to show you that if Chaudieu preaches, if the nobleman goes armed, the prince fights. Therefore, in this hot game all stakes are played." "Now listen to me," said La Renaudie.
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