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Updated: May 17, 2025
"If these Chouans but learn that we are from Paris and of the King's party, we shall have our throats slit, as I live. There is not a peasant in all this countryside indeed, scarce a man of any sort but is a red-hot Orleanist, anti-Cardinalist, and friend of the Devil. Bethink you, monseigneur, to push on at the present is to court murder." "Why, then, we will court murder," said I coldly.
"Yet, pardon me, if I confess that to me it proves no more than that you acted as a generous enemy. Pardon my bluntness also but what profit do you look to make from gaining my friendship?" "You are frank, Monsieur," he said, colouring slightly, "I will be none the less so. I am a frondeur, an anti-cardinalist. In a word, I am a gentleman and a Frenchman.
Whither was he bound, I asked myself, and whence a haste that made him set out fasting, with an anti-cardinalist ditty on his lips, and ride two leagues to seek a breakfast in a village that did not hold an inn where a dog might be housed in comfort? Like Eugene de Canaples, he also travelled towards a goal that he little dreamt of.
Auban must perforce be familiar as that of one of the greatest roysterers and most courtly libertines of the early days of Louis XIV., as well as that of a rabid anti-cardinalist and frondeur, and one of the earliest of that new cabal of nobility known as the petits-maitres, whose leader the Prince de Conde was destined to become a few years later.
He was strangely enough in a mood to be pleased by an anti-cardinalist ditty, for his rage against Andrea de Mancini which he took no pains to conceal had extended already to the Cardinal, and from morn till night he did little else but revile the whole Italian brood as he chose to dub the Cardinal's family."
I avowed myself a partisan of the Fronde, and within three days the Chevalier who but a little time before had sought an alliance with the Cardinal's family had become as rabid a frondeur as M. de Gondi, as fierce an anti-cardinalist as M. de Beaufort.
Men gathered in little knots at street corners, and with sullen brows and threatening gestures they talked of the affair; and the more they talked, the more clouded grew their looks, and more than one anti-cardinalist pasquinade was heard in Blois that day. Given a leader those men would have laid hands upon pikes and muskets, and gone to the Chevalier's rescue.
They were strongly anti-cardinalist in the late reign, and I do not suppose that they are better affected towards myself than they were towards Richelieu. If they heard that my hotel was attacked they would not move a foot until they received orders from the queen to do so."
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