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When the carriage was announced, the King stepped into it, followed by the Ducs de Montbazon and d'Epernon, the Maréchaux de Lavardin and de Roquelaure, the Marquises de Mirabeau and de la Force, and M. de Liancourt, his first equerry.
Henri IV confirmed him in this dignity, and restored to him his estates of Sably and Château-Gontier. Jean de Beaumanoir, Marquis de Lavardin, was the son of Charles de Beaumanoir, who was killed at the massacre of St. Bartholomew.
"No; regarding myself and the reason of my coming to Lavardin." "That is interesting. Let us hear." "It is for you alone." "Oh, to be sure. Captain Ferragant, if you will excuse me, " The Captain, with a shrug, swaggered off to the furthest corner of the hall. "You have been acquainted," I began, "with a certain Monsieur de Merri." The Count's face seemed to jump.
I can promise you a safe and private refuge there: I can promise you the friendship of my mother, the protection of my father, and his good offices with the King, if need be, to secure your rightful claims when the Count de Lavardin dies, as he must before many years." "No, no, Monsieur, I shall have no claims. The Count married me without dowry, and if there be any other claims I surrender them.
In that event, my dear Count, the Chateau de Lavardin is a residence that some of the rest of us will envy you. Your servant ever, The name was that of the chief mover of the late conspiracy, who had paid the penalty of his treason without betraying his accomplices.
The Prince d'Harcourt, now Duc d'Elbeuf, and the cities of Rheims, Tours, and Potiers, took up arms in its favour. The Duc de La Tremouille raised men for them publicly. The Duc de Retz offered his service to the Parliament, together with Belle Isle. Le Mans expelled its bishop and all the Lavardin family, who were in the interest of the Court.
The admiral, his son-in-law Teligni, Soubize, Rochefoucault, Pardaillon, Piles, Lavardin, men who, during the late wars, had signalized themselves by the most heroic actions, were miserably butchered without resistance; the streets of Paris flowed with blood; and the people, more enraged than satiated with their cruelty, as if repining that death had saved their victims from further insult, exercised on their dead bodies all the rage of the most licentious brutality.
The first thing is, to get as far from Lavardin as possible. And now when is all this to be done?" "The sooner the better, for who knows when the Count may take into his head some new idea?" "Yes, of harm to Madame or to yourself." "Why should we not choose this very night?" "I see no reason against it except that I may not be able to persuade Madame.
Starting with five hundred horse, and ordering Lavardin and Givry to follow with a larger body, while the Dukes of Nevers and Longueville were to move out, should it prove necessary, in force, the king rode forth as merrily as to a hunting party, drove in the scouts and pickets of the confederated armies, and, advancing still farther in his investigations, soon found himself attacked by a cavalry force of the enemy much superior to his own.
"Having been sent from Paris soon after you had arrived there with the documents you found in the chateau." "Please do not interrupt with your baseless conjectures, Monsieur. As I said, the guards arrived at Lavardin just as, by great good fortune, the Count himself was returning from some journey or excursion he had been on.
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