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Updated: May 14, 2025
Toward eleven o'clock in the morning, therefore that is to say, as soon as, immediately after the terrible news had circulated that the Duc d'Anjou's life was in imminent danger, every one had dispersed, leaving the king completely bewildered by this fresh event Henri went and knocked at his brother's door, who, having passed a part of the previous night traveling, had just retired to his own room.
"Ah! it is the Duc d'Anjou's doing, I believe. Have you good lungs, Remy" "Corbleu! like a blacksmith's bellows." "Well! let us run. You know the house?" "Yes." "Go on then." And the young men set off like hunted deer. "Is he much in advance of us?" said Remy. "About a quarter of an hour." "If we do but arrive in time!"
He arrived at the very moment when they were raising from the floor the Duc d'Anjou's body, which his valet-de-chambre, having entered without authority, in order to announce the king's arrival, had just perceived lying on the carpet of the bedroom.
And the young man tore his hair in despair at the thought of losing the love which was killing him; for a dead heart is better than an empty one. So he continued to follow them, and to wonder at the cause which took to Flanders, at the same time as himself, these two beings so indispensable to his existence. At Brussels he gathered information as to the Duc d'Anjou's intended campaign.
'Read the letter, mademoiselle; it is better to know what to expect. I opened and read." Diana, at this moment, rose, opened a desk, and from a portfolio drew out the letter. Bussy glanced at the address and read, "To the beautiful Diana de Meridor." Then looking at Diana, he said "It is the Duc d'Anjou's writing." "Ah!" replied she, with a sigh, "then he did not deceive me."
Great news now-a-day of the Duke d'Anjou's She was known as "La belle Henriette." In May, 1670, she came to Dover on a political mission from Louis XIV. to her brother Charles II., but the visit was undertaken much against the wish of her husband. Her death occurred on her return to France, and was attributed to poison. desire to marry the Princesse Henrietta. Hugh Peters is said to be taken,
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