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Updated: June 26, 2025
The company became unanimously of his opinion, and resolved to meet next day at M. de Bouillon's to consider how to bring the affair into Parliament.
He asked for money and for soldiers to reinforce Bouillon's city of Sedan, but he was refused an audience of the States-General. Even the martial ardour of Maurice and his sympathy for his relatives were cooled by this direct assault on his pocket.
Near Hopes are Worth as much as Those Far Off I sent a reply to your last letter to the correspondent of the Abbé Dubois, but as he was at Versailles, I fear it has not reached him. I should have been anxious about your health without the visit of Madame de Bouillon's little librarian, who filled my heart with joy by showing me a letter from one who thinks of me on your account.
"Permission," replied Hereward, "to go to the Duke of Bouillon's encampment, and entreat his presence in the lists, to witness this extraordinary combat." "That he may return with his crusading madmen," said the Emperor, "and sack Constantinople, under pretence of doing justice to his Confederates? This, Varangian, is at least speaking thy mind openly."
While we were in conference at M. de Bouillon's the sad news was brought to us that M. de Turenne's forces, all except two or three regiments, had been bribed with money from Court to abandon him, and, finding himself likely to be arrested, he had retired to the house of his friend and kinswoman, the Landgravine of Hesse.
The Marriage Agreed Upon. Scene at Saint-Cloud. Horrible Reports. The Marriage. Madame de Saint-Simon. Strange Character of the Duchesse de Berry Birth of Louis XV. The Marechale de la Meilleraye. Saint-Ruth's Cudgel. The Cardinal de Bouillon's Desertion from France. Anecdotes of His Audacity. Imprudence of Villars. The Danger of Truthfulness. Military Mistakes. The Fortunes of Berwick.
The company became unanimously of his opinion, and resolved to meet next day at M. de Bouillon's to consider how to bring the affair into Parliament.
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