Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 2, 2025
De la Noue undertook the task unwillingly, and only upon condition that he would be no party to inducing them to surrender, unless perfectly satisfied with the guarantees for the observance of any treaty that might be made. When a flag of truce came forward, and announced that Monsieur de la Noue had arrived on the part of the king, the news was at first received with incredulity.
A month later he received the royal answer, saying that the king had graciously taken the case of Mademoiselle de Valecourt into his consideration, that he had spoken to the nobleman to whom he had granted her estate, and to the Duke of Guise, whose near relative he was; and that these noblemen had placed in his hands the sum of ten thousand livres, for which was enclosed an order, payable by the treasury of the army upon the signatures of Monsieur de la Noue and Mademoiselle de Valecourt, and upon the handing over of the document of renunciation signed by her.
"I think we are capable of doing that, even after our ride, gentlemen?" There was a chorus of assent from those standing round, and De la Noue added: "After supper, Admiral?" "Certainly after supper," Coligny assented, with a smile. "Another hour will make no difference. You may be sure they will not be moving before daylight. If we start from here at three, we shall be in ample time."
No one answered; but all turned and looked at her where she cowered back against the stove. "Go, girl!" Toussaint cried, beside himself with passion. "Begone! and presently I will deal with you!" "Nay, stop!" La Nouë interposed. "Your daughter knows too much. We cannot let her go thus." "Knows too much? How?" and the citizen tossed his head like a bull balked in his charge. "What does she know?"
Parma answered contemptuously, that he would not give a lion for two sheep. Even Champagny was offered in addition, but without success. Parma had written to Philip, immediately upon the capture, that, were it not for Egmont, Seller, and others, then in the power of Oranges he should order the execution of La Noue.
De la Noue was much disappointed, on joining the Prince, at finding that the latter's force had not swollen to larger dimensions. He had with him, after the arrival of the force the Count had brought from the west, but two thousand horse. Of these a large proportion were gentlemen, attended only by a few personal retainers.
He was still more annoyed that one hundred thousand crowns as security were exacted from La Noue for which the King of Navarre became bondsman that he would never again bear arms in the Netherlands except in obedience to the French monarch, while no such pledges were required of himself.
Even at that distance there was no mistaking the sweet pale face or the dark queenly one beside it. The one was Onega and the other was Adele. Charles de la Noue, Seigneur de Sainte Marie, was a hard and self-contained man, but a groan and a bitter curse burst from him when he saw his Indian wife in the hands of her kinsmen, from whom she could hope for little mercy.
As they pushed onwards, however, a stern military challenge suddenly brought them to a stand, and they saw the gleam of two musket barrels which covered them from a thicket overlooking the path. "We are friends," cried De Catinat. "Whence come you, then?" asked an invisible sentinel. "From Quebec." "And whither are you going?" "To visit Monsieur Charles de la Noue, seigneur of Sainte Marie."
That noble, chief of an ancient house, cousin of the Queen of France, was mortified at being ransomed against a simple Huguenot gentleman even though that gentleman was the illustrious "iron-armed" La Noue but he preferred to sacrifice his dignity for the sake of his liberty.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking