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Updated: May 16, 2025
Very interesting indeed was the description Bois-le-Comte gave me of the La Granja conspiracy. How, having been warned in the middle of the night of the danger threatening Queen Christina and her daughters, he got up in haste to hurry to their assistance, but desired, first of all, to warn the British Minister and carry him along with him. How, when he reached the house of the minister, Mr.
"I took myself off double quick," said Bois-le-Comte to me; "but I had recognised the voice." From Amsterdam we went to the Hague, and as soon as I got there I asked to see the King. "Let him come at once" was the reply. King William, young-looking still, with a graceful figure and a kindly engaging face, framed with a fringe of grizzling beard, had a loud voice and a hearty laugh.
The minister was distrait. The Princess got C. aside to the piano after dinner, and said to him: 'Il se passe quelque chose; do you know what it is? Neither of them knew. C. thinks, however, that Bois-le-Comte was in Polignac's confidence. On that Sunday, for the first time, he sent for the officers in command of the troops. A dispute arose between them, which Polignac had to settle.
In spite of these causes for coldness, at all events, the welcome I was given by the King, his family, and by every class of that honest and well-behaved Dutch race, was marked by a constantly increasing kindliness, which filled Bois-le-Comte and his very witty secretary, La Rosiere, with delight.
At Amsterdam I rushed to the museum, where I was received by M. Apostol, the director, who had known the Scheffers' father intimately at Rotterdam. Oh that museum! Oh those prints! But M. de Bois-le-Comte, the French Minister, was pitiless. He tore me away from all those masterpieces, and forced me to follow the millround of the programme he had laid out for me.
He was at that time, with Bois-le-Comte and Vieil-Castel, one of the chief employes of Prince Polignac, in the Office of Foreign Affairs; and from his wonderful memory and facility, Polignac used often to send him to Charles X., to relate the substance of the despatches from foreign Courts.
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