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The English, who alone stood to their colours, were nearly all cut to pieces. The rest made a disorderly retreat, but were ultimately, with few exceptions, captured or slain. The duke, following up his victory, seized Chateau Gontier and La Val, important crossing places on the river Mayenne, and laid siege to Mayenne, capital city of that region.
By rewards and kindliness, for Henri was always willing to give and had a pleasant word for all, most of the reluctant nobles, headed by the Duc de Mayenne himself, came in in the course of 1596. Still the war pressed very heavily, and early in 1597 the capture of Amiens by the Spaniards alarmed Paris, and roused the King to fresh energies.
No man who knows the insolence and arrogance of the French nature will believe that even if a king should be elected out of France he would be obeyed by the others. The first to oppose him would be Mayenne; even if a king were chosen from his family, unless everything should be given him that he asked; which would be impossible."
The young Duke of Guise, who had just made his escape from the prison of Tours, where he had been held in durance since the famous assassination of his father and uncle, and had now come to join his uncle Mayenne, led the vanguard.
Chicot saw that they had been laughing at M. d'Anjou, and as he detested him, would willingly have embraced them for it, always excepting M. de Mayenne, and giving his share to his sister. "Let us return to business," said the cardinal, "is all well closed?" "Oh, yes!" said the duchess, "but if you like I will go and see." "Oh, no; you must be tired." "No; it was too amusing."
Early in 1593 Mayenne, yielding to the pressure of the Spanish party, reluctantly consented to assemble the States-General of France, in order that a king might be chosen.
"He spoke of it we heard, Félix and I. What, monsieur! sent to arrest you? But you are here." "They missed me. They took by mistake Paul de Lorraine." "He was not here last night!" she cried. "Mayenne was demanding him of me." "Then he slept pleasantly in the Bastille. May he never look on the outside of its walls again!" "But he will, he does.
As Mayenne and Henri fought against each other at Ivry, in 1590, this was carrying nonsense far, even for Will, but for the earnestly instructive Bacon!
The contract between Louis XIII and the Infanta was meanwhile completed on the 22d of the month in the Spanish capital; and at the close of the ceremony the Duc de Mayenne was conducted to an audience-chamber in which Philip was seated with the betrothed Prince and Princess on his right and left, awaiting his arrival.
He opened his eyes, and looked at the men and the things surrounding him with a surprise easy to imagine. Ernanton immediately dismissed the peasant. "Who are you, monsieur?" asked Mayenne. Ernanton smiled. "Do you not recognize me?" said he. "Yes, I do now; you are he who came to the assistance of my enemy." "Yes, but I am he who prevented your enemy from killing you."
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