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Updated: June 17, 2025
The Duke of Mayenne's army, for payment of which that personage received from Philip 100,000 dollars a month, besides 10,000 dollars a month for his own pocket, ought to have numbered ten thousand foot and three thousand horse, according to contract, but was in reality much less.
The Duke of Mayenne's army, for payment of which that personage received from Philip 100,000 dollars a month, besides 10,000 dollars a month for his own pocket, ought to have numbered ten thousand foot and three thousand horse, according to contract, but was in reality much less.
And the Duke of Nemours wrote to his half-brother, the Duke of Mayenne; offering to use all his influence to bring about Mayenne's election as king on condition that if these efforts failed, Mayenne should do his best to procure the election of Nemours.
Meeting with no success, he made up his mind to separate from the League, and go over to the king's service. He could do so without treachery or shame; even as a Leaguer and a servant of Mayenne's he had always been opposed to Spain, and devoted to a French, but, at the same time, a faithfully Catholic policy.
"Nom de dieu!" came Mayenne's shout from the back of the room. "What! Lorance!" He caught up the candelabrum and strode over to us. Mademoiselle stepped out into the council-room, I hanging back on the other side of the sill. She was as white as linen, but she lifted her head proudly. She had not the courage that knows no fear, but she had the courage that rises to the need.
He says secretaries do not plot against dukedoms for their own pleasure." "Asassination was not wont to be my cousin Mayenne's way," she said with an accent of confidence that rang as false as a counterfeit coin. I saw well enough that mademoiselle did fear, at least, Mayenne's guilt. I thought I might tell her a little more.
The principal of the French League, in matters of policy and negotiation, and Mayenne's adviser since 1589, Villeroi, declared "that he would not bide in a place where the laws, the honor of the nation, and the independence of the kingdom were held so cheap;" and he left Paris on the 28th of June.
"Then you are not the tradesmen's but M. de Mayenne's provost?" said one of them. "I am no Spaniard," answered the provost; "no more is M. de Mayenne; I am anxious to reconcile you to the Sixteen." "We are honest folks, not branded and defamed like the Sixteen; we will have no reconciliation with the wretches."
"You forget that we live in France in war-time, and not in the kingdom of heaven. I was toiling for more than my own revenges. I was working at your cousin Mayenne's commands, to aid our holy cause, for the preservation of the Catholic Church and the Catholic kingdom of France." "Your conversion is sudden, then; only an hour ago you were working for nothing and no one but Paul de Lorraine."
"Ventre bleu, Vigo!" his young lord cried. "No," said Vigo. "I can't have her here, and Mayenne's army after her." "Coward!" shouted M. Étienne. I thought Vigo would take us both by the scruff of our necks and throw us out of the place. But he answered undisturbed: "No, that is not the reason, monsieur.
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