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Bassompierre calls him Saint-Sulliendat, Mém. p. 46. L'Etoile, vol. iii. pp. 353, 354. Bassompierre, Mém. p. 46. Richelieu, La Mère et le Fils, vol. i. p. 326. Louis de Lagon de Merargues was a nobleman of Provence, who claimed to descend from the Princes of Catalonia or Aragon.
Germain The King condoles with her on the loss of her favourite Her dissolute career Her able policy Death of M. de la Rivière Execution of M. de Merargues Attempt to assassinate Henri IV Magnanimity of the monarch Henry seeks to initiate the Queen into the mysteries of government Madame la Régente A timely warning.
Germain The King condoles with her on the loss of her favourite Her dissolute career Her able policy Death of M. de la Rivière Execution of M. de Merargues Attempt to assassinate Henri IV Magnanimity of the monarch Henry seeks to initiate the Queen into the mysteries of government Madame la Régente A timely warning.
The death of M. de la Rivière, the King's body-surgeon, a loss which was severely felt by Henry, was succeeded by the execution of M. de Merargues , whose conspiracy to deliver up Marseilles to the Spaniards was revealed to the monarch by Marguerite; and who, tried and convicted of lèse-majesté, was decapitated in the Place de Grève, his body quartered and exposed at the four gates of the capital, and his head carried to Marseilles, and stuck upon a pike over the principal entrance to the city; while, on the very day of his execution, as the King was returning from a hunt and riding slowly across the Pont Neuf, at about five in the afternoon, a man suddenly sprang up behind him and threw him backwards upon his horse, attempting at the same time to plunge a dagger which he held into the body of his Majesty.
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