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"The purity of her complexion," says Dreux du Radier, quoting from one of the old chroniclers, "was admirable; her eyes, lively and full of tenderness, inspired passion in the most careless hearts; she had not a feature in her face which was not gracefully moulded.
Saint-Edmé, p. 200. Equal, in the present day, to nearly five hundred thousand livres. Charles de Valois, the son of Charles IX and Marie Touchet, Dame de Belleville. He was subsequently Duc d'Angoulême and Grand Prior of France. He died in 1639. Dreux du Radier, vol. vi. pp. 62, 63. Saint-Edmé, pp. 201, 202. Sully, Mém. vol. iii. pp. 313, 314. Sully, Mém. vol. iii. p. 315.
This child, called by Bassompierre le Père Archange, and by Dupleix le Père Ange, was the son of Jacques de Harlay de Chanvallon, known at Court as "the handsome Chanvallon," and was the individual who, as the confessor of the Marquise de Verneuil, became one of the most active agents in the conspiracy which was formed against Henri IV and the French Princes. Dreux du Radier, vol. v. p. 176.
Dreux du Radier, vol. vi. p. 98. Saint-Edmé, vol. ii. p. 227. L'Etoile, vol. iii. p. 247. Antoine Eugène Chevillard, general treasurer of the gendarmerie of France. Sully, Mém. vol. v. p. 161, quoted from Amelot de la Houssaye. Dreux du Radier, vol. vi. p. 99. Mademoiselle de Bueil became Comtesse de Chésy on the 5th of October 1604, and two months later she obtained a divorce.
Le Laboureur sur Castelnau. Jacqueline de Bueil, subsequently Comtesse de Moret, was the daughter of Claude de Bueil, Seigneur de Courcillon and La Machère, and of Catherine de Monteclu, who both died in 1596. The family of Bueil traced their descent from Jean, the first of the name, Sieur de Bueil in Touraine, who was equerry of honour to Charles-le-Bel in 1321. Dreux du Radier, vol. vi. p. 97.
Concino Concini was the son of a notary, who, by his talent, had risen to be secretary of state at Florence. Dreux du Radier, Mémoires des Reines et Régentes de France, vol. vi. p. 81. Conti, Amours du Grand Alcandre, Cologne edition, 1652, p. 41. Péréfixe, vol. ii. p. 346. L'Etoile, vol. ii. pp. 573, 574. Matthieu, vol. ii. p. 441. Mézeray, vol. x. p. 178. Daniel, vol. vii. p. 407.
Dreux du Radier, vol. vi. pp. 102, 103. Henri de Bourbon, Due de Montpensier, Governor of Normandy, peer of France, Prince of La Roche-sur-Yon, Dauphin d'Auvergne, etc., was born in Touraine in 1573. During the lifetime of his father he bore the title of Prince de Dombes. The King confided to him the command of the army which he despatched to Brittany against the Due de Mercoeur.
Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 666. Relation de la mort du Maréchal d'Ancre. Mézeray, vol. xi. pp. 142, 143. Dreux du Radier, vol. vi. pp. 123, 124. Brienne, Mém. vol. i. p. 333. Sismondi, vol. xxii. pp. 407, 408. Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 667-672. Richelieu, Hist, de la Mère et du Fils, vol. i. pp. 223-230.
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