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The Abbe de Gondi was stationed between De Thou and his friend, who sat nearest the ramparts, upon which two Spanish officers and a score of soldiers stood, as in a balcony, to witness this duel of six persons a spectacle common enough to them.
Bartholomew, owed to that terrible exploit the result of being very nearly the hereditary possessors of the Archbishopric of Paris. But this last Gondi John Francis Paul owed something more: to be at the same time governor of Paris, and to unite both powers.
The Abbe de Gondi, dragging a cavalier by his cloak to pull him down, exclaimed: "Here are my people! Fontrailles, now you will see something worth while! Look! look already who they run! It is really charming." And he abandoned his hold, and mounted upon a stone to contemplate the manoeuvres of his troops, crossing his arms with the importance of a General of an army.
"The niece of a Pope, the mother of four Valois, a queen of France, the widow of the most ardent persecutor of the Huguenots, an Italian Catholic, the aunt of Leo X., can she ally herself with the Reformation?" asked Charles de Gondi. "But," said his brother Albert, "if she seconds the Guises does she not play into the hands of a usurpation?
"It is, then, that poor old man whom they are leading to the scaffold," they exclaimed; "and his children are supporting him." "Upon your knees, ladies," said a man, "and pray for him!" "On your knees," cried Gondi, "and let us pray that God will deliver him!" All the conspirators repeated, "On your knees! on your knees!" and set the example to the people, who imitated them in silence.
The first sentences of Cinq-Mars' address, too, had left some uncertainty as to the intentions of the King; and this untimely candor had somewhat shaken a few of the less determined conspirators. Gondi pointed this out to Cinq-Mars. "Hark ye!" he said in a low voice.
Did you not see how the King shook hands with Monsieur? He's made a sign to you, Montresor. Look, Gondi!" "Look, indeed! That's very easy to say; but I don't see with my own eyes. I have only those of faith, and yours. Well, what are they doing now? I wish to Heaven I were not so near-sighted! Tell me, what are they doing?"
A Ricordo given in Lettere, p. 598, says: "I record how, some days ago, Piero di Filippo Gondi asked to enter the new sacristy at San Lorenzo to hide there certain goods of his because of the peril in which we now find ourselves. This evening of the 29th of April, 1527, he has begun to bring in certain bundles.
They showed the same signs of joy as at their bullfights, and laughed with that savage and bitter laugh which their temperament derives from their admixture of Arab blood. At a sign from Gondi, the six horses set off at full gallop, and met, without coming in contact, in the middle of the arena; at that instant, six pistol-shots were heard almost together, and the smoke covered the combatants.
"I hope he'll give me a regiment, and I'll marry my cousin," cried Olivier d'Entraigues, with boyish vivacity. The Abbe de Gondi sneered, and, looking up at the sky, began to sing to a hunting tune. "Les etourneaux ont le vent bon, Ton ton, ton ton, ton taine, ton ton "
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