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Updated: July 14, 2025
The king at Blois. Assassination of the Duke of Guise. Interview between the king and Catharine. Indignation of the League. Anathemas against the king. The king seeks aid from the Protestants. Desolations of war. Compact with Henry of Navarre. Interview at Plessis les Tours. The manifesto. Renewed war. Duchess of Montpensier. The flag of truce.
"Sire," cried D'Epernon, furiously, "this man, one of your Forty-five Guardsmen, of which he shall soon cease to form part, being sent by me to watch M. de Mayenne, in Paris, followed him to Orleans, and received from him a letter for Madame de Montpensier." "You have received this letter?" asked the king of Ernanton. "Yes, sire, but M. d'Epernon does not tell you under what circumstances."
While he was strolling to his rendezvous M. de Joinville thought he noticed that he was being followed. He turned back, went up to the fellow and struck him. After the first part of the concert MM. d'Aumale and de Montpensier came into the other salon where I had taken refuge with Theophile Gautier, and we chatted for fully an hour.
This arrangement, however, did not suit the more zealous of the Catholics, and, in great numbers, they abandoned his camp and passed over to the League. The news of the death of Henry III. was received with unbounded exultation in the besieged city. The Duchess of Montpensier threw her arms around the neck of the messenger who brought her the welcome tidings, exclaiming,
When my uncle asked for the hand of Mademoiselle de Montpensier, on my behalf, my cousin replied that a ruined and dismantled throne did not augur well for a dowry, and she further remarked that we were not on good terms with the King. When I begged Cardinal Mazarin to grant me the hand of the present Madame de Mazarin, his Eminence replied, "Would you like to be a cardinal?
Among these were M. de Talleyrand, the exiled Bishop of Autun, the Duke de Liancourt, the Duke de la Rochefoucauld, Louis Philippe d'Orleans and his two brothers, the Duke de Montpensier and the Count de Beaujolais. Louis Philippe lodged in a single room over a barber's shop in Philadelphia.
A jealous neighbour of his, the Marquis of Torderiovo, had betrayed to the French the weak side of Fivizzano, so that they had taken it by storm, and had put its soldiers and inhabitants to the edge of the sword; on another side, Gilbert of Montpensier, who had been lighting up the sea-coast so as to keep open the communications between the French army and their fleet, had met with a detachment sent by Paolo Orsini to Sarzano, to reinforce the garrison there, and after an hour's fighting had cut it to pieces.
"It does not concern you, monsieur; it is the king. They wish to carry him off." "Oh! again that old story," replied the duke, disdainfully. "This time the thing is serious, M. le Duc." "On what day do they intend to do it?" "The first time that his majesty goes to Vincennes in his litter." "How will they do it?" "By killing his two attendants." "And who will do it?" "Madame de Montpensier."
After an absence of two years, peace having been declared, the Prince de Montpensier returned to his wife, his renown enhanced by his behaviour at the siege of Paris and the battle of St. Denis.
Madame de Frontenac, at the age of about twenty, was a favorite companion of Mademoiselle de Montpensier, the grand-daughter of Henry IV and a daughter of the weak and dastardly Gaston, Duke of Orleans. Nothing in French annals has found more readers than the story of the exploit of this spirited princess at Orleans during the civil war of the Fronde.
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