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The windows were immediately closed, and the poor bourgeois, who had hardly had time to cast a frightened glance on this scene of gleams and tumult, returned, perspiring with fear to their wives, asking themselves whether the witches' sabbath was now being held in the parvis of Notre-Dame, or whether there was an assault of Burgundians, as in '64.
This spectator had missed nothing that had taken place since midday in front of the portal of Notre-Dame. And at the very beginning he had securely fastened to one of the small columns a large knotted rope, one end of which trailed on the flight of steps below. This being done, he began to look on tranquilly, whistling from time to time when a blackbird flitted past.
"No, I met some friends at the Notre-Dame café and when we came out it was too late. So we'll go back to-morrow." So Barberin had given up the idea of driving a bargain with the man with the dogs. On the way home I wondered if this was not some trick of his, returning to the house, but his last words drove all my doubts away.
New Year's Day at Court The royal tokens A singular audience A proposition Birth of the Princess Christine Public festivities A ballet on horseback The King resolves to humble the Duc de Bouillon Arguments of the Queen Policy of Henry The Court proceeds to Torcy Surrender of Bouillon The sovereigns enter Sedan Rejoicings of the citizens State entry into Paris The High Court of Justice assigns to the ex-Queen Marguerite the county of Auvergne The "Te Deum" Marguerite makes a donation of her recovered estates to the Dauphin Inconsistencies of Marguerite Jealousy of the Queen of Madame de Moret Increasing coldness of the King towards that lady The frail rivals Princely beacons -Indignation of the Queen Narrow escape of the King and Queen Gratitude of the Queen to her preserver Insolent pleasantry of the Marquise de Verneuil A disappointment compensated Marriage of the Duc de Bar The King invites the Duchess of Mantua to become sponsor to the Dauphin, and the Duc de Lorraine to the younger Princess The Mantuan suite Preparations at Notre-Dame The plague in Paris The Court removes to Fontainebleau The royal christenings Increase of the plague Royal disappointments The Duchesse de Nevers Discourtesy of the King Dignity of the Duchess.
The men before you have never seen more service than they could find in a cabaret, or hunting a highwayman. Some of them, I admit, have served their King in the shape of shouldering their muskets at his palace gates in Versailles, or marching in a procession of cardinals and confessors to Notre-Dame.
Nor were churches and hospitals a whit less than the material interests of the people an object of solicitude to him. His reign saw the completion, and, it might almost be said, the construction of Notre-Dame de Paris, the frontage of which, in particular, was the work of this epoch.
At the height of this struggle came the triumphant entry of Christianity into France, and there it was preached by women, and there it consecrated the divinity of a woman who in the forests of Brittany, of Vendee and of Ardennes took, under the name of Notre-Dame, the place of more than one idol in the hollow of old Druidic oaks.
"Pere Lactance at last reached Notre-Dame des Andilliers; but however numerous were the miracles there performed, the remission of the doom pronounced by the martyr on Pere Lactance was not added to their number; and at a quarter-past six on September 18th, exactly a month to the very minute after Grandier's death, Pere Lactance expired in excruciating agony."
The Duke of Mayenne, having come to Paris on the 15th of February, was solemnly received at Notre-Dame, amidst shouts of "Hurrah for the Catholic princes! hurrah for the house of Lorraine!" He was declared lieutenant-general of the crown and state of France.
And yet no, not so very childish," he suddenly told himself. "When I have been to Notre-Dame de l'Atre I have been sure that I should not remain, since I knew that I could not endure more than a month of their austere Rule; so there was nothing to fear; whereas in a Benedictine Abbey, where the Rule is lighter, I am not certain that I could not stay.
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