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The underpreceptor was the famous Vassor, author of the "History of Louis XIII.," which would be read with more pleasure if there were less spite against the Catholic religion, and less passion against the King. With those exceptions it is excellent and true. Vassor must have been singularly well informed of the anecdotes that he relates, and which escape almost all historians.
He was occupied in completing the latter when he was killed by the ball of a carbine during the massacre of St. Bartholomew. Richelieu, Unpublished MSS. Sismondi, vol. xxii. pp. 398-404. Bassompierre, Mém. pp. 126, 127. Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 653-659. Mézeray, vol. xi. pp. 137-142. Brienne, Mém. vol. i. pp. 327-329. Rohan, Mém. book i. Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 659. Bassompierre, Mém. p. 128.
Ever prompt and reckless, they at once resolved to revenge themselves upon their common enemy; nor was it long ere they carried their fatal determination into effect. Bassompierre, Mém. p. 78. Rambure, MS. Mém. vol. vi. p. 81. Richelieu, Hist. de la Mère et du Fils, vol. i. pp. 175-177. Siri, Mém. Rec. vol. ii. pp. 607-612. Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 127.
Déageant was a man of considerable talent, but crafty and ambitious; his whole career was one of deceit and truckling. After numerous vicissitudes he was committed to the Bastille, where he beguiled the weariness of captivity by composing his Memoirs. Sismondi, vol. xxii. pp. 391, 392. Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 583. Richelieu, Unpublished MSS. Siri, Mém. Rec. vol. iv. pp. 29-31.
Brienne, Mém. vol. i. pp. 296, 297, édition Petitot. Louis de Bassompierre, who subsequently became Bishop of Saintes. Petitot, Avertissement sur M. de Bassompierre. Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 263. Nicolas de Verdun, First President of the Parliament of Paris, a devoted adherent of M. de Villeroy.
Vassor did not long remain in this retreat, but returned to Paris, and still being unable to gain a living, passed into Holland, from rage and hunger became a Protestant, and set himself to work to live by his pen. His knowledge, talent, and intelligence procured him many friends, and his reputation reached England, into which country he passed, hoping to gain there more fortune than in Holland.
Pierre de Gondy, Bishop of Langres, and subsequently first Archbishop of Paris, who was created a Cardinal by Sixtus V in 1587. He died in the French capital in 1616, in his eighty-fourth year. Siri, Mém. Rec. vol. ii. pp. 697-700. Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 153, 154. Mercure Français, 1612. Cosmo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, succeeded his father Ferdinand in 1609.
His pupil, at the period of his appointment, being still a mere infant, he did not enter upon his official functions until 1615, when the young Prince was placed under his care, on the departure of the Court for Bordeaux to celebrate the marriage of Louis XIII with Anne of Austria. Richelieu, Hist. de la Mère et du Fils, vol. i. pp. 163, 164. D'Estrées, Mém. p. 392. Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 88, 89.
The underpreceptor was the famous Vassor, author of the "History of Louis XIII.," which would be read with more pleasure if there were less spite against the Catholic religion, and less passion against the King. With those exceptions it is excellent and true. Vassor must have been singularly well informed of the anecdotes that he relates, and which escape almost all historians.
Another author, whose history is written with indiscretion and partiality, but who was nevertheless well acquainted with the events of the age of Lewis XIII, sets a high value on Grotius's letters : I mean Le Vassor, whose judgment deserves the more regard as he had little turn for panegyric.
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