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Paul's, in the reign of King James I. and since the Restoration with great applause; for the plot see Thuanus, Jean de Serres, and Mezeray, in the reign of King Henry III. of France. This is the play of which Mr. Dryden speaks, when in his preface to the Spanish Fryar, he resolves to burn one annually to the memory of Ben Johnson. Some have differed from Mr.
He next approached the bed of the Queen: "M'amie" he said tenderly, "rejoice! God has given us what we asked." Mézeray and Matthieu both assert that the birth of the Dauphin was preceded by an earthquake, which, with the usual superstition of the period, was afterwards declared to have been a forewarning of the ceaseless wars by which Europe was convulsed during his reign.
Upon the last of these occasions he had reached the capital during the Easter festivals, but he determined to delay his purpose until after the coronation of the Queen. Péréfixe, vol. ii. pp. 496-498. Mézeray, vol. x. p. 395. Mercure Français, p. 424. L'Etoile, vol. iv. pp. 36-40. Mercure Français, pp. 424, 425. L'Etoile, vol. iv. pp. 40, 41. Daniel, vol. vii. p. 507. Mézeray, vol. x. p. 397.
He was the father of the well-known Cardinal de Retz, the enemy of Mazarin, and one of the heroes of the Fronde. Richelieu, Hist. de la Mère et du Fils, vol. i. pp. 247-254. Mézeray, vol. xi. pp. 53-55. Bassompierre, Mém. pp. 94, 95. Henri de Châtiegnier de la Rocheposay.
He was occupied in completing the latter when he was killed by the ball of a carbine during the massacre of St. Bartholomew. Richelieu, Unpublished MSS. Sismondi, vol. xxii. pp. 398-404. Bassompierre, Mém. pp. 126, 127. Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 653-659. Mézeray, vol. xi. pp. 137-142. Brienne, Mém. vol. i. pp. 327-329. Rohan, Mém. book i. Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 659. Bassompierre, Mém. p. 128.
Mezeray writes that seven hundred or eight hundred people had taken refuge in the prisons, hoping they would be safe "under the wings of Justice"; but the officers selected for this work had brought them into the fitly named "Valley of Misery," and there beat them to death with clubs and threw their bodies into the river.
Mézeray, vol. iii. p. 546. Varillas, Histoire de Henri III, book vii. D'Aubigny, Hist. vol. ii. book v. ch. iii. . Confession de Sancy, ch. vii. p. 447. Duplessis-Mornay. Duplessis-Mornay, Mém. p. 203.
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