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Updated: May 4, 2025
I am a king of straw, a man of peace; but, by a singular contrast, I love to think of warlike things that is in my blood. St. Louis, my ancestor, pious by education and gentle by nature, became on occasion a brave soldier and a skillful swordsman. Let us talk, if you please, of M. Vesin, who is a Cæsar and a Hannibal." "Sire, pardon me if I have wounded or annoyed you.
"So that?" "So that he won her." "How?" "By petards." "What the devil are you talking about?" "The truth." "Petards! Who is this belle that is taken with petards?" "It is Mademoiselle Cahors." "Mademoiselle Cahors!" "Yes, a large and beautiful girl, who has one foot on the Got, and the other on the hills, and whose guardian is, or rather was, M. de Vesin, a brave gentleman of my acquaintance."
I spoke only of M. de Vesin to extinguish all hope in your heart. Cahors, you see, is so well guarded because it is the key of the south." "Alas! I know it well. I wished so much to possess Cahors, that I told my poor mother to make it a sine quâ non of our marriage. See, I am speaking Latin now. Cahors, then, was my wife's dowry; they owe it to me " "Sire, to owe and pay "
But if I had an army, which I have not " "Listen, sire. We are not here to flatter each other. To take Cahors, which is held by M. de Vesin, one must be a Hannibal or a Cæsar; and your majesty " "Well?" said Henri, with a smile. "Has just said, you do not like war." Henri sighed, and his eyes flashed for a minute; then he said: "It is true I have never drawn the sword, and perhaps never shall.
At the end of the beach, when grass appeared again, I put my eye to the little window that is in the back of every carriage, and bade goodbye to Mont Saint-Michel. A letter from the Viscount Vésin was to gain us entrance to the castle. So as soon as we arrived, we called on the steward, M. Corvesier.
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