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In the municipality of Quilleboeuf a considerable amount in specie having been found in the possession of a citizen, the money was seized and sent to the Assembly. The people of that town treated this hoarded gold as the result of unpatriotic wickedness or madness, instead of seeing that it was but the sure result of a law working in every land and time, when certain causes are present.
Henri IV made him a knight of his Orders in 1595; and ultimately Louis XIII continued to him an equal amount of favour. The preservation of Quilleboeuf, which he defended with great gallantry during the space of three weeks, with only forty-five soldiers and ten nobles, against the army of the Duc de Mayenne, acquired for him a renown which he never afterwards forfeited.
The Princes of the Blood retire from the Court Increased influence of the Ducs de Guise and d'Epernon Jealousy of Concini The ministers desire the recall of the Princes The Lent ballets The government of Quilleboeuf is offered to the Comte de Soissons The Princes are invited to return to the capital Arrival of the Princes M. de Soissons abandons Concini An attempt is made to create dissension between M. de Soissons and the Prince de Condé They again withdraw from Paris The Regent resolves to announce publicly the approaching marriage of the King Disaffection of the Princes Frankness of the Duc de Guise The Duc d'Epernon is recalled The Duc de Bouillon is despatched to England The Council discuss the alliance with Spain The Princes return to the capital Undignified deportment of the Prince de Condé Insolence of M. de Soissons Indignation of the Regent The young Duc de Mayenne is appointed ambassador extraordinary to Spain An unpleasant truth Arrogance of the Spanish King Concession of the Regent Death of the Duke of Mantua The Chancellor announces the King's marriage An ambassador and a quasi-Queen Disappointment of the Princes They again withdraw Caution of the Duc de Montmorency to the Regent She disregards the warning Love of Marie de Medicis for magnificence and display Courtly entertainments The circle of Madame The Marquise d'Ancre A carousal Splendid festivities Arrival of the Spanish envoys The Chevalier de Guise Alarm of Concini The Queen and her foster-sister Concini resolves to espouse the party of the Princes The Duc de Bouillon endeavours to injure the Duc de Rohan in the estimation of James I Reply of the English monarch Bouillon returns to Paris The Maréchal de Lesdiguières retires from the Court The Duc de Vendôme solicits the royal permission to preside over the States of Brittany Is refused by the Regent Challenges his substitute And is exiled to Anet Concini augments the disaffection of the Princes The Duke of Savoy joins the cabal Lesdiguières prepares to march a body of troops against the capital Concini deters the Regent from giving the government of Quilleboeuf to the Comte de Soissons Indignation of the Duc de Guise He reveals the treachery of Concini to the Princes All the great nobles join the faction of M. de Condé with the exception of the Duc d'Epernon The Duc de Bellegarde is accused of sorcery Quarrel between the Comte de Soissons and the Maréchal de Fervaques Marie de Medicis resolves to persecute the Protestants Bouillon endeavours to effect the disgrace of the Duc de Rohan The Regent refuses to listen to his justification He takes possession of St.
These gaieties did not, however, serve to divert the thoughts of the ministers from their desire to recall the absent Princes of the Blood; and it was finally arranged that as M. de Soissons had been the original cause of their absence, owing to his indignation at the ill-success of his attempt to purchase the duchy of Alençon, it would be expedient to hold out to him a prospect of obtaining the government of Quilleboeuf.
He pointed out Villerville, Trouville, Houlgate, Luc, Arromanches, the little river of Caen, and the rocks of Calvados which make the coast unsafe as far as Cherbourg. Then he enlarged on the question of the sand-banks in the Seine, which shift at every tide so that even the pilots of Quilleboeuf are at fault if they do not survey the channel every day.
Both the Princes had discovered that the professions to which they had so complacently listened, and which had induced their recent return to Court, had merely been intended to lure them thither at a period when their presence was more than ever essential to the interests of the Regency; and while M. de Condé found his position in the Government as undefined and unsatisfactory as ever, and that his vanity had been flattered at the expense of his interests, the Count on his side saw the possession of Quilleboeuf more remote than ever, and openly declared that they had both been duped.
The heiress of the family married one of the Harcourts and eventually the possessions came into the hands of Dunois the Bastard of Orleans. From Tancarville there is a road that brings you down to that which runs from Quilleboeuf, and by it one is soon brought to the picturesquely situated little town of Lillebonne, famous for its Roman theatre.
When Crillon, l'homme sans peur, defended Quilleboeuf with a handful of men against Marshal Villars, the latter represented to him, that it was madness to resist such superiority of numbers, to which the answer was simply, "Crillon est dedans, et Villars est dehors." The event proved that the hero inside was stronger than the army outside.
On the other hand, the Comte de Soissons, who still hoped to obtain from the courtesy, or to wring from the fears, of the Regent the promised government of Quilleboeuf, made a voyage into Normandy, which so alarmed the Maréchal de Fervaques, who held the city, and who apprehended that the Prince was about to possess himself of it by force, that he privately reinforced the garrison; a fact which M. de Soissons no sooner ascertained than he bitterly upbraided the Maréchal, and a quarrel ensued between them that produced new difficulties.
The heiress of the family married one of the Harcourts and eventually the possessions came into the hands of Dunois the Bastard of Orleans. From Tancarville there is a road that brings you down to that which runs from Quilleboeuf, and by it one is soon brought to the picturesquely situated little town of Lillebonne, famous for its Roman theatre.
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