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Mornay showed alacrity in picking them up. On the 29th of April, the two kings had, each on his own behalf, made their treaty public. Henry III. sent word to the King of Navarre that he wished to see him and have some conversation with him. Many of the King of Navarre's friends dissuaded him from this interview, saying, "They are traitors; do not put yourself in their power; remember the St.
'It came into the King of Navarre's hands before its full value was known to us, for that only accrued to it on M. de Guise's death. A month ago it this piece of evidence I mean was at Chize. A fortnight or so ago it was here in Blois. It is now, 'M. de Marsac, he continued, facing me suddenly as he came opposite me, 'in my house at Rosny. I started. 'You mean Mademoiselle de la Vire? I cried.
But in the misery of the moment, and my strong desire to be within doors and alone, I barely noticed this, and am not certain whether it was so or not. I have already referred to the danger with which the alliance between Henry the Third and the League menaced us, an alliance whereof the news, it was said, had blanched the King of Navarre's moustache in a single night.
The audacity of such a return in the face of Turenne, who was doubtless in the King of Navarre's suite, almost took my breath away; nevertheless, I saw that it possessed one advantage which no other course promised that, I mean, of setting us right in the eyes of the world, and enabling me to meet in a straightforward manner such as maligned us.
"M. le Comte told me that since his father's coming to Paris M. de Mayenne made him offers to join the League, and he refused them. So then M. de Mayenne, seeing himself losing the whole house of St. Quentin, invented this." "But it failed. Thank God, it failed! And now he will leave Paris. He will he must!" "He did mean to seek Navarre's camp to-morrow," I answered; "but " "But what?"
The problem to be solved by this brilliantly endowed artist just twenty-six how many a historic parallel does it recall! What three words can convey so much pathos, heroism and generosity as "il gran riffiuto?" the great renunciation. Does the French language contain a more touching record than that of the great Navarre's farewell to his Huguenot brethren?
Shakespeare, as Sir Sidney Lee says, gives Mayenne as "Dumain," Mayenne, "whose name was so frequently mentioned in popular accounts of French affairs in connection with Navarre's movements that Shakespeare was led to number him also among his supporters." Bacon would not have been so led!
The news of the King of Navarre's illness had fallen on him, indeed, in the midst of his sanguine scheming with the force of a thunderbolt.
'Man, he will crush you as I crush this hat! he answered in great excitement. 'As easily. Who do you think will protect you from him in a private quarrel of this kind? Navarre? France? our good man? Not one of them. You had better steal the king's crown jewels he is weak; or Guise's last plot he is generous at times, or Navarre's last sweetheart he is as easy as an old shoe.
The defenders, finding themselves assailed on every side, did their best; but the castle was soon taken, and the whole place was pillaged and left in charge of the King of Navarre's men. In this year, 1513, died Julius II., the great warrior Pope, a constant foe to the French, and he was succeeded by the Cardinal dei Medici, Pope Leo X.
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