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But a serious battle was now on the eve of being fought. The Duc d'Anjou had been largely reinforced, and his army amounted to nine thousand cavalry and eighteen thousand infantry; while Coligny's army had been weakened by his losses at Poitiers, and by the retirement of many of the nobles, whose resources could no longer bear the expense of keeping their retainers in the field.
Towards evening he heard voices in his ante-chamber, and a servant entered, saying, "It is Monseigneur the Duc d'Anjou." "Let him enter," said Bussy, frowning. The duke, on entering the room, which was without lights, said, "It is too dark here, Bussy." Bussy did not answer; disgust closed his mouth. "Are you really ill," said the duke, "that you do not answer?" "I am very ill."
Convinced at last that there was no hope through her own agency of effecting her object, the Queen-mother next endeavoured to secure its accomplishment through the medium of her daughter-in-law, the two Princesses, and the Duc d'Anjou; but when she summoned them to her apartment, she was informed that each and all had been forbidden to hold any intercourse with herself until the pleasure of the King should be made known.
The Duc d'Anjou grew red. "Let us destroy," continued Mayenne, "to the last man, that cursed race whom the king enriches, and let each of us charge ourselves with the life of one. We are thirty here; let us count." "I," said D'Antragues, "charge myself with Quelus." "I with Maugiron," said Livarot. "And I with Schomberg," said Ribeirac.
When the Duc d'Anjou went to reign in Poland Catherine was deprived of the instrument by which she had worked to keep the king's passions occupied in domestic intrigues, which neutralized his energy in other directions. This secret conspiracy had now reached the point to which Catherine sought to bring it.
His brother, the Duc d'Anjou, who later became Henri III, distinguished himself by his deeds in various actions, amongst others the battle of Jarnac, in which the Prince de Conde was killed. It was during this fighting that the Duc de Guise began to play a more important part and to display some of the great qualities which had been expected of him.
"Mordieu, your people; or rather the people of; M. le Duc d'Anjou, who cried, 'Vive la Messe! 'Vive Guise! 'Vive Francois! vive everyone, in fact, except the king." "And what did you do to be treated thus?" "I? nothing. What can a man do to a people? They recognized me for your majesty's friend, and that was enough." "But Schomberg?" "Well?" "Did he not come to your aid? did he not defend you?"
Let us have for chief a gentleman, a knight, rather a tyrant than a monk." "Gentlemen!" cried the Duc d'Anjou, hypocritically, "let me plead for my brother, who is led away. Let me hope that our wise remonstrances, that the efficacious intervention of the power of the League, will bring him back into the right path." "Hiss, serpent, hiss," said Chicot to himself.
Luc!" "Yes, he sent me away to speak to you; you belong to the Duc d'Anjou, he to the king. You have quarrelled do not hide it from me. You must understand my anxiety. He went with the king, it is true but afterwards?" "Madame, this is marvelous. I expected you to ask after my wound " "He wounded you; he did fight, then?" "No, madame; not with me at least; it was not he who wounded me.
In vain did she represent to Charles the impolicy of suffering a warlike prince like Henri d'Anjou to abandon his country for a foreign throne, and urge him to replace the elder by the younger brother, alleging that so long as the Polish people could see a prince of the blood-royal of France at the head of their nation, they would care little whether he were called Henry or Francis; the King refused to countenance such a substitution.
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