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On Marguerite coming up to congratulate the king and thank her husband, Charles added, "Margot, you may well thank him. But for him Henry III. would be King of France." "Alas, madame," returned Henry, "M. D'Anjou, who is always my enemy, will now hate me more than ever; but everyone has to do what he can."
"And I also," cried Schomberg; "but that is not all." "What, my poor Schomberg, did they make you cry something else?" "No, that was enough, God knows; but just as I cried, 'Vive le Duc d'Anjou, guess who passed." "How can I guess?" "Bussy; his cursed Bussy, who heard me." "He could not understand." "Parbleu! it was not difficult to understand. I had a poniard at my throat, and I was in a vat."
They formed three corps, each from ten to twelve thousand strong, according to the division of La Vendee, under three commanders; the first, under Bonchamps, guarded the banks of the Loire, and was called the Armee d'Anjou; the second, stationed in the centre, formed the Grande armee under d'Elbee; the third, in Lower Vendee, was styled the Armee du Marais, under Charette.
"An attempt to rescue him," replied Briquet, "would have been very dangerous, because, whether it failed or succeeded, it would have been an avowal, on the duke's part, that he had conspired against the Duc d'Anjou." "M. de Guise would not, I am sure, have been restrained by such considerations; therefore, as he has not defended Salcede, it is certain that he is not one of his men."
He told the Duc d'Anjou who she was and the Duc was at first embarrassed at the liberty he had taken, but then, struck by the Princess's beauty, he decided to venture a little further, and after a thousand excuses and a thousand compliments he invented a serious matter which required his presence on the opposite bank, and accepted the offer which she made of a passage in her boat.
The Duc d'Anjou who realised from what she had said to him, when she mistook him for the Duc de Guise, that she was jealous, hoped to cause trouble. He drew close to her and said, "It is in your interest and not in mine that I must tell you that the Duc de Guise does not deserve the choice you have made of him in preference to me, a choice which you cannot deny and of which I am well aware.
The captains quitted the prince's tent, and gave their orders with the indicated precautions. However, the Antwerpians did not quietly see the hostile preparations of the Duc d'Anjou, and Joyeuse was not wrong in attributing to them all the enmity possible. Antwerp was like a beehive at night, calm on the exterior, but within full of movement and murmur.
Guillaume du Vair, ultimately Bishop of Lisieux, and Keeper of the Seals, was the son of Jean du Vair, knight, and attorney-general of Catherine de Medicis and Henri de France, Duc d'Anjou. He subsequently embraced the ecclesiastical profession, and was elevated to the see of Lisieux in 1618.
The King one evening, to divert himself, asked the princesses their opinion. "I am sure," replied the King, "that whatever course I adopt many people will condemn me." At last, on Tuesday, the 16th of November, the King publicly declared himself. The Spanish ambassador had received intelligence which proved the eagerness of Spain to welcome the Duc d'Anjou as its King.
But you may be right; a daughter of France would be a hostage in case of need. Well, the third?" "Between the Duc d'Anjou, who seeks to make a throne for himself in Flanders, between MM. de Guise, who wish for a crown, and shake that of France, and his majesty the king of Spain, who wishes for universal monarchy, you hold the balance and maintain a certain equilibrium." "I, without weight?"
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