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Updated: June 10, 2025
"I write these sad details in haste, on board a Genoese galley, into which Fontrailles, Gondi, Entraigues, Beauvau, Du Lude, myself, and others of the chief conspirators have retired. We are going to England to await until time shall deliver France from the tyrant whom we could not destroy. I abandon forever the service of the base Prince who betrayed us.
From the twenty-sixth of April to the first of December, he had nearly seven months in which to free himself. He repeated the calculation that he had formerly made when he said: "I have ample time!" He reëntered the Hôtel Beauvau in a cheerful mood, Adrienne was delighted. She feared to see him return nervous and dejected. "Then you will be brilliant presently at Madame Gerson's."
"My dear friend," she would reply, "I am sorry, but cannot help it; in the midst of times such as we live in, and in such a court too, the prince de Beauvau aspires to be a noble Roman, and would fain be the Cato of his country at least.
"What can I do to help it," said she; "my sister-in-law is a simpleton; who, after having ruined her brother, will certainly cause the downfall of her husband. I beseech you, my dear, out of regard for me, to put up with the unthinking conduct of the prince de Beauvau for a little while; he will soon see his error and amend it."
It is the least we can do to listen to Monsieur de Bouillon." The latter approached, holding by the hand the young officer of whom we have spoken. "I must first," said he, "present to your Majesty the Baron de Beauvau, who has just arrived from Spain." "From Spain?" said the Queen, with emotion. "There is courage in that; you have seen my family?"
Sulpice saw, through the white curtains of the window, his horses harnessed to his coupé and prancing in the courtyard, although it was but a short distance from Place Beauvau to the Élysée. He slipped the reports of the Prefect of Police and the Director of the Press into his portfolio and was about to leave, when the usher brought him another card. "It is useless, I cannot see any one else."
He went in to have a cup of tea with his sister on the day he knew she would have paid her second visit to the studio, and the first words she greeted him with were: "But she's admirable votre petite admirable, admirable!" There was a lady calling in the Place Beauvau at the moment old Mme. d'Outreville who naturally asked for news of the object of such enthusiasm.
Montresor, Fontrailles, the Baron de Beauvau, Olivier d'Entraigues, Gondi, the Comte du Lude, and the Advocate Fournier, disguised as soldiers, workmen, and morris-dancers, armed with poniards under their clothes, had dispersed amid the crowd more than five hundred gentlemen and domestics, disguised like themselves.
Sulpice glanced at him carelessly and recognized him as the man whom he himself had superseded on Place Beauvau a Puritan, a Huguenot, a widower, the father of five or six daughters, and as solemn and proper in his ordinary demeanor as a Sunday-school tract. Sulpice could not refrain from crying out merrily: "Bless me! Monsieur Pichereau!"
Germain during a violent storm. She invited her in, and the Countess herself related these particulars, which I had from Madame de Beauvau. Sometimes they even set her to act in such a way as to have a useful influence upon great political measures.
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