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Updated: June 24, 2025
Here are my good Parisians, who execrate me with all their souls, and would kill me if they could, working to smooth my way to the throne, and I have in my arms the woman I love. Where are we, D'Aubigne? when I am king, I will erect here a statue to the genius of the Bearnais." "The Bearn " began Chicot, but he stopped, for he had given his head a second bump.
As she was looking at the spring of Nays, a mountaineer offered her some water in a rustic dish, and said naively: "Are you pleased with the BEarnais, Madame?" "Am I not pleased!" replied the Princess, eagerly. "See, I wear the hat and sash of the country!" The 24th, she was at the Ile des Faisans, famous in the souvenirs of Louis XIV.; the 25th, at Bayonne, where she assisted at a military fete.
He was a tall, strong fellow, with a shaggy moustache and brown beard, cut in the mode Henri Quatre; and on the subject of that king a safe one, I knew, with a Bearnais and on that alone, I found it possible to make him talk.
Chicot, my friend, do not laugh too much at the poor Béarnais, your compatriot and friend. If I am afraid and you find it out, tell no one." "If you are afraid?" "Yes." "Are you, then, afraid of being afraid?" "I am." "But then, ventre de biche, why the devil do you undertake such a thing?" "I must." "M. de Vezin is a terrible person." "I know it well." "Who gives quarter to no one."
Henry was throttling Paris; by masterly movements Parma evaded the pitched battle, for which Béarnais thirsted, yet compelled his adversary to relinquish the siege.
The exultant Parisians proclaimed the Cardinal of Bourbon king, under the title of Charles X., and the Duke of Mayenne, with a large army, marched forth to give battle to Henry. So confident were the Leaguers of victory, that their leaders hired windows along the Rue St. Antoine to witness the return of the duke bringing the "Béarnais" dead or a prisoner.
And the Béarnais, becoming once more, not himself, but what he generally seemed to be, conducted the ambassador, with a courteous smile, to the door. Chicot remained plunged in profound surprise. Henri lifted the tapestry, and, striking him on the shoulder, said: "Well, M. Chicot, how do you think I managed?" "Wonderfully, sire; and really, for a king who is not accustomed to ambassadors "
But, instead of recording these horrors, I will fill up my paper with the Choeur Bearnais. The situation of the King gives a peculiar interest to these stanzas, which, merely as a poetical composition, are very beautiful. I have often attempted to translate them, but have always found it impossible to preserve the effect and simplicity of the original.
Numerous strokes on the flags of different colors indicated the lines of the Bearnais, and circumscribed the enceinte occupied by his troops. An obelisk had been placed at the highest point of this sort of entrenched camp; in the centre was a post tent, under which a rich breakfast had been prepared for the two princesses.
Bartholomew's Day, the plume of the Bearnais, and always the remembrance of the plates painted in honour of Louis XIV.
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