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Updated: May 11, 2025
Spanish indignation found vent in a revolutionary movement, accompanied by bloodshed; one town after another declared for the constitution of 1812, which the queen-regent was forced to sign on August 13, and on the following day a progressist ministry was installed in office.
And this arbitrary power of one man became, if possible, a little more absurd when it happened to be the power of one woman. In 1557, Knox had found himself confronted with a Queen of England, a Queen of Scotland, and a Queen-Regent in Scotland all of them ladies immersed in Catholicism, and each in a position which, in his view, implied the duty of selecting religion for all her lieges.
But Marius either gathered no suggestion from its grimness, or did not know the name Garnache uttered, for he continued: "We understood that you were to escort Mademoiselle de La Vauvraye to Paris, to place her under the tutelage of the Queen-Regent.
His friendship for Henry could not be of use to him with the delicate-featured, double-chinned, smooth and sluggish Florentine, who had passively authorized and actively profited by her husband's murder. It was time for the Envoy to be gone. The Queen-Regent and Concini thought so. And so did Villeroy and Sillery and the rest of the old servants of the King, now become pensionaries of Spain.
Just before Louis XIII. died he gave my father the place of first master of the horse, but left his name blank in the paper fixing the appointment. The paper was given into the hands of Chavigny. At the King's death he had the villainy, in concert with the Queen-regent, to fill in the name of Comte d'Harcourt, instead of that the King had instructed him of.
Villeroy told the two ambassadors at this interview that, if Great Britain continued to treat the Queen-Regent in such fashion, she would be obliged to look about for other allies. There could hardly be doubt as to the quarter in which Mary de' Medici was likely to look. Meantime, the Secretary of State urged the envoys "to intervene at once to-mediate the difference."
Yet the aim of the Queen-Regent was to cultivate an impossible alliance with her inevitable foe.
Henry, the husband of Marguerite, was constantly sneered at and taunted by the Catholics; although Catholic in name he was Protestant at heart and keenly felt his false position. During Catherine's short term as queen-regent, he was held in captivity until the arrival of Henry III., when he escaped to his own Béarn people; for this, Marguerite was held responsible and kept under guard.
Even the parliaments, which were courts of law, were full of antiquated prejudices, and sought only to secure their own privileges, at one time siding with the Queen-regent, and then with the factious nobles. The Huguenots were the best people of the land; but they were troublesome, since they possessed cities and fortresses, and erected an imperium in imperio.
Denis -Gorgeous coup d'oeil The procession Indignation of the ex-Queen Marguerite The Comte and Comtesse de Soissons leave Paris Magnificence of Marie de Medicis and her Court The coronation The Queen is affectionately received by the King on reaching the Palace The banquet The Court returns to the Louvre Last advice given by the King to the Queen-Regent Gloomy forebodings The Queen's toilet The Duc de Vendôme and the Astrologer The King's coach Assassination of Henri IV The Queen and the Chancellor The royal children are placed under the care of M. de Vitry Examination of the royal body The King's heart The state bier The royal funeral.
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