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Bassompierre, Mém. p. 77. Richelieu, Hist. de la Mère et du Fils, vol. i. p. 136. Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 58. Mézeray, vol. xi. p. 22. Mézeray, vol. xi. pp. 22, 23. Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 72-79.
See Du Maurier, Le Vassor, La Neuville, Le Clerc. Hist. de la mere & du fils, t. 2. p. 380. XIII. Grotius's trial did not come on till five days after Barnevelt's execution.
This incapacity to hold office under the French Government was, moreover, on this occasion, declared thenceforward to extend to all individuals who were natives of other countries; and an attempt was made thirty years subsequently to render it applicable to Cardinal Mazarin. Bernard, book iii. Sismondi, vol. xxii. pp. 410, 411. Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 674, 675.
He perished upon the scaffold in 1621. Bassompierre, Mém. pp. 78, 79. François Paris de Lorraine, Chevalier de Guise. Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 139. Mém. du Duc de Rohan, book i. Vie de Du Plessis-Mornay, book iii. Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 142-152. Mézeray, vol. xi. pp. 36-38. D'Estrées, Mém. pp. 294-298. Matthieu, Hist. des Derniers Troubles, book iii. pp. 473, 474.
Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 614-617. Déageant, Mém. pp. 43-56. Bassompierre, Mém. pp. 123, 124. Siri, Mém. Rec. vol. iv. pp. 26, 27. Relation de la mort du Maréchal d'Ancre, at the end of the Histoire des Favoris. Déageant, Mém. pp. 56, 57. Richelieu, Mém. book viii. p. 416. Brienne, Mém. vol. i. p. 300 note. Déageant, Mém. p. 48. Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 625, 626. Brienne, Mém. vol. i. p. 329.
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.
Brienne, Mém. vol. i. p. 327. Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 637. Sismondi, vol. xxii. p. 396. Lumières pour l'Histoire de France. Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 634, 635. The Marquis de Bressieux was first equerry to Marie de Medicis. Siri, Mém. Rec. vol. iv. pp. 61, 62. Rambure, MS. Mém. vol. vii. p. 66. Mézeray, vol. xi. p. 138. Bassompierre, Mém. p. 126.
He was a Prince of liberal and peaceful sentiments, and greatly endeared himself to his subjects. He married Marie Madeleine, Archduchess of Austria, sister of the Queen of Spain and the Duchess of Savoy; and died in 1621, leaving his duchy to his elder son, Ferdinand II. Siri, Mém. Rec. vol. ii. pp. 647-654. Mézeray, vol. xi. pp. 39, 40. Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 160. D'Estrées, Mém. p. 398.
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.
Barnevelt and he had the direction of the States proceedings in this matter; and he was appointed to draw up an edict which might restore tranquility. It was approved by the States, and is as follows. Apolog. Cap. 9. Le Vassor, L. 4. p. 477.
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