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In order, therefore, to secure to herself the good offices of one so influential with his royal master as De Luynes, she consented to follow the advice of Concini, who forthwith, in her name, remunerated M. de Condé for his secession by upwards of a hundred thousand crowns, and the grandson of Guillaume Ségur became governor of the city and fortress of Amboise.
The Comte de la Péna Anne of Austria and the orphan Popular atrocities The wages of crime Submission of the Duc de Mayenne Suspension of hostilities The great nobles return to the capital Louis refuses to be reconciled with his mother Insolence of De Vitry Generosity of the Duc de Rohan Marie de Medicis resolves to retire from the Court Richelieu offers to share her exile He becomes the secret emissary of De Luynes Gratitude of the deluded Queen A parting interview Marie de Medicis proceeds to Blois Destitution of the Maréchale d'Ancre Her despair Royal recreations A fatal parallel Madame de Condé requests permission to share the captivity of her husband Trial of Madame d'Ancre Her execution Cupidity of De Luynes Justice of the Grand Duke of Tuscany Death of the President de Thou Marriage of De Luynes with Mademoiselle de Montbazon De Luynes is created duke and peer Death of M. de Villeroy Recall of the old ministers Policy of De Luynes His suspiciousness His ambition De Luynes lodges his brothers in the Louvre The sign of "the Three Kings" Louis resolves to re-establish the Roman Catholic religion in Béarn, and to annex that principality to the Crown of France Meeting of the Notables at Rouen The French march to the support of the Duke of Savoy.
From his concealment he had seen me leave the chateau with the Marquis, and as I suddenly loomed up before him now, he took me for the man whose clothes I wore, and naturally enough assumed that ill had befallen Gaston de Luynes. Of a certainty I had been pistolled by him had I not spoken in time.
It is a contemporary sheet, the Mercure Francais, which has preserved to us these details as to the posthumous grandeur of Albert de Luynes, after the brutal indifference to which he had been subjected at the moment of his death.
It is told of Talleyrand that one fatal day, three hours after midnight, he suddenly interrupted a game of cards in the Duchesse de Luynes' house by laying down his watch on the table and asking the players whether the Prince de Conde had any child but the Duc d'Enghien. "Why do you ask?" returned Mme. de Luynes, "when you know so well that he has not."
The Huguenots had been holding assemblies, which were considered more political than religious, and their towns of security were a grievance to royalty. War broke out again, and Louis himself went with De Luynes to besiege Montauban. The place was taken, but disease broke out in the army, and De Luynes died.
"And you are overcome with joy to find that you were in error, eh, Marquis? We Luynes die hard." "It seems so, indeed," he answered with a cool effrontery past crediting in one who but a moment ago had looked so pitiful. "What do you seek at Canaples?" "Many things, Marquis. You among others." "You have come to murder me," he cried, and again alarm overspread his countenance.
Her head fell her body was burned and her ashes were scattered to the wind. De Luynes had, as we have stated, constituted himself her heir; but it was not without difficulty that he succeeded in appropriating the principal portion of the coveted wealth of his victims.
M. de Luynes little thought that he had conferred with a wolf who wished to carry off his lamb. The Abbe de Verrue, it seems, was himself violently in love with the Countess, and directly her father had gone declared the state of his heart.
"Let me add, Yvonne," said her father, "that M. de Luynes and I are old comrades in arms." Then turning to me "My daughter, sir, is but a child, and therefore hasty to pass judgment upon matters beyond her understanding. Forget this foolish outburst, and remember only my assurance of an ever cordial welcome."
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