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Updated: June 11, 2025
Amand; Baron d'Espineuil, Bruyères, le Châtel, Villebon, la Chapelle, Novion, Bagny, and Boutin; King's Counsel in all the royal councils; Captain-Lieutenant of two hundred ordnance men-at arms; Grand Master and Captain-General of the Artillery; Grand Overseer of the highways of France; Superintendent of Finance, and of the royal fortifications and buildings; Governor and Lieutenant-General of his Majesty in Poitou, Châteleraudois, and Loudunois; Governor of Mantes and Gergeau; and Captain of the Bastille.
He was very generally liked, was truth itself in his dealings and his words, and was one of my friends, as he had been the friend of my father before me. The President de Novion, above alluded to, was a man given up to iniquity, whom money and obscure mistresses alone influenced. Lawyers complained of his caprices, and pleaders of his injustice.
Immediately afterwards, Novion, Chief President of the Parliament, arrived, and seated himself in front of M. de Coislin.
Immediately afterwards, Novion, Chief President of the Parliament, arrived, and seated himself in front of M. de Coislin.
But for some time M. de Coislin would listen as little to M. le Prince as he had listened to the others, and threatened to keep Novion thus shut up during all the thesis. M. le Prince at once gave his word that everything should be as he required, and M. de Coislin then rose, moved away his arm-chair, and said to the Chief President, "Go away, sir! go away, sir!"
The presidents of Nismes, Novion, and Bellievre have revealed to you their courageous but fruitless resistance to the condemnation to death of the Duke de la Vallette. "The presidents and councils of sovereign courts have been imprisoned, banished, suspended a thing before unheard of because they have raised their voices for the king or for the public.
When once it was observed, a great stir arose. Cardinal de Bouillon tried to intervene. M. de Coislin replied, that since the Chief President had forgotten his position he must be taught it, and would not budge. The other presidents were in a fright, and Novion, enraged by the offence put on him, knew not what to do.
Astonished at this act of madness, M. de Coislin said not a word, but took an arm-chair, and, while Novion turned his head to speak to Cardinal de Bouillon, placed that arm-chair in front of the Chief President in such a manner that he was as it were imprisoned, and unable to stir. M. de Coislin then sat down. This was done so rapidly, that nobody saw it until it was finished.
Madame de Maintenon and the King. Anecdote of Canaples. Death of the Duc de Coislin. Anecdotes of His Unbearable Politeness. Eccentric Character. President de Novion. Death of M. de Lorges. Death of the Duchesse de Gesvres. The Prince d'Harcourt. His Character and That of His Wife. Odd Court Lady. She Cheats at Play. Scene at Fontainebleau. Crackers at Marly. Snowballing a Princess.
Order was restored in all parts of France. "The Auvergnats," said a letter to Colbert from President de Novion, "never knew so certainly that they had a king as they do now."
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