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Updated: June 3, 2025
"Diavolo! my dear friend, you are going to spoil everything everything is going on famously. I know the French as well as if I had made them myself. They sing let them pay the piper. During the Ligue, about which Guitant was speaking just now, the people chanted nothing except the mass, so everything went to destruction.
Carriages now arrived in crowds; those of the Marechal de Villeroy, Guitant, Villequier and Comminges came into the line. The two musketeers arrived in their turn, holding the horses of D'Artagnan and Porthos in their hands. These two instantly mounted, the coachman of the latter replacing D'Artagnan on the coach-box of the royal coach.
"What do you mean? People cry out, 'Long live the king! down with Mazarin! That's nothing new; no, we've been used to those acclamations for some time." "And you sing chorus," replied Guitant, laughing. "Faith, I've half a mind to do it. In my opinion the people are right; and cheerfully would I give up five years of my pay which I am never paid, by the way to make the king five years older."
During the whole of this nocturnal ride, during the whole time that he was endeavoring to understand the various characters of Comminges, Guitant and Villequier, Mazarin was, in truth, studying more especially one man.
"My good, my brave Guitant, whatsoever command I may give you in that language in French whatever I may order you to do, will you not perform it?" "Certainly. I have already answered that question in the affirmative; but that command must come from the queen herself." "Yes! ah yes!" Mazarin bit his lips as he spoke; "I know your devotion to her majesty."
"Come, Guitant, speak, if you please, respectfully of these gentlemen," said Mazarin; "don't you know that I was in my youth a poet? I wrote verses in the style of Benserade " "You, my lord?" "Yes, I; shall I repeat to you some of my verses?" "Just as you please, my lord. I do not understand Italian." "Yes, but you understand French," and Mazarin laid his hand upon Guitant's shoulder.
After having been for some time after the death of Louis XIII. the favorite, the confidant, the first man, in short, at the court, he had been obliged to yield his place to Mazarin and so became the second in influence and favor; and eventually, as he was stupid enough to be vexed at this change of position, the queen had had him arrested and sent to Vincennes in charge of Guitant, who made his appearance in these pages in the beginning of this history and whom we shall see again.
"Stay, marechal; I will not appear to parley with rebels." "Madame, I have pledged my word, and unless you order me to be arrested I shall be forced to return." Anne of Austria's eyes shot glances of fire. "Oh! that is no impediment, sir," said she; "I have had greater men than you arrested Guitant!" Mazarin sprang forward. "Madame," said he, "if I dared in my turn advise "
"Ah!" he said; "some ministers are fortunate and find out all that they wish to know." "My lord," replied Guitant, "such ministers do not weigh men in the same balance; they get their information on war from warriors; on intrigues, from intriguers. Consult some politician of the period of which you speak, and if you pay well for it you will certainly get to know all you want."
All that he had heard from these three different men, Comminges, Guitant and Villequier, confirmed him in his conviction that in case of serious tumults there would be no one on his side except the queen; and then Anne of Austria had so often deserted her friends that her support seemed most precarious.
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