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and
of
men
of
Apply
the
check
others.
soldiers
having
but
in
in
That
errors.
to
people,
certain
royal authority.
to-day
the
of
Whether
why,
disfavor
ruinous
and
popularity
like
were,
the
to
passions,
unpopularity
with
met
all historical
explains
which
for
reason
writers;
boldly proclaimed?
are
enterprises of
foolish
be
anti-social
the
audacious
some
popular
doctrines
admire
truths
of that
solution
the
MEDICI
We
conspiracy.
permanent
DE'
CATHERINE
14
Europe
measure
against
DE'
CATHERINE
XIV.
Louis
At
rebellion
to
Why
she
derived
Calvinists
as
written
executioners.
the
third
all
the
have
There
disfavor
two
for the
and
is another
in
and
the
has
always
which
common
been
policy
other
theories
of
triumphed
newspapers
of
seeds
of
Catherine
"
hundred
faction
over
of
people.
at
protestant
than
Lutherans,
nately,
unfortu-
ready
if he
his
and
had
haps
perhad
orders.
explains
by
the
it has
it has
Calvinists,
to
Senate
the
move
held
because
in
say
opportunely
France,
negation;
were
to
are,
which
is
In
science,
con-
Catiline, would
consideration
Catherine
of
side
writers
Cicero,
opposition
an
to
in
planted
knaves
tried
pest of
the
made
There
as
themselves,
liberty
is
Study:
who
society,
which
on
over
wounds
deep
were
of
question
the
eye
individualism,
whose
The
innumerable
the
periods, hypocritical
Caesar,
compassion
of
yourself
ask
As
fate
executed."
of
fabric
the
on
the
part of this
at
any
to-day,
it?
your
ruins
probe
you
evils
the
will
the
as
which
against
they revenged
pitilessly
of
you
to
of
deal
cast
the
reformers
agitation of
bewail
adversary
grandeur
great
upon
gaze
deplore
their
the
IX.; but
Charles
how
France
the
have
the
by
realize
you
men
Frenchaid
or
struggle against
very
churches,
inflicted
heresies
her
you
demolished
as
of
from
of
stratagem
France:
and
given
borders,
majestic
the
to
now
resultless
most
their
in France.
deny
the
you
within
refuge
seek
to
Holland,
exiled
encouraged
have
not
time, England,
another
would
Empire
the
MEDICI
the
historians
opposition
never
inherited
had
the
Protestants,
will
to
say
said
they
CATHERINE
DE'
themselves:
"Why
d'Orleans?"
Due
According
guarantees given
to the
is that
result
liberties
the
conceded
"
antagonistic
to
To
subject.
are
equal
citi:(ens
the
lie
every
the
necessity
and
to
allow
attack
mere
hour
subjects
the
by
communicated,
the
to
subjects;
liberty of
politics,subject and
the
as
to which
To
the
necessity
to
deny
the
oppose
public expression,
is
an
that
theory
day.
of thought,
five
publish thoughts
the
right
can
it lasted
to their
nonsense
in
to
great politicians,
to
just
religion,
public worship,
of power
and
of
is
in
minds,
nature
power
indefinite
the
contradictory terms,
are
gives
to
their
the
sovereign
no
liberties
society, nor
liberties,
human
liberty
liberties,
characterized.
"
neither
they conceded
enjoy
without
but
long struggle,
great
not
sovereign,
the
with
The
money.
to
or
no;
and
thought,
society,
exist
and
defined
in that
beaten
centuries,
aU
Liberty,
is consonant
of
power
were
free
be
theory
certain
subject enjoys
of
the
conscience
certainly is beyond
liberty
prevent
the
will
free-will, should
no
society can
no
clearly
It
of things.
but
the
and
subject against
arrangement
an
lessen
as
restrictions.
to
subject
who
quence
conse-
any
well-ordered
profess liberty of
to
But
Such
the
not
nothing
theory,
has
subject
the
man,
politicalliberty.
yes
of
are
hence,
for
wish
who
allowed
the
things
Catherine's
to
all those
social
be
"Why
as
consequence.
any
of
Czar?"
the
not
but, fiftyyears
now;
of
Few
"
17
occasion:
previous
on
MEDICI
the
nature
recognize
of
rulers,
religion,
ruler's
cise
exer-
communicable
impossibility to
l8
DE'
CATHERINE
which
Catholics
the
Alas!
listen.
not
France
the
of the
much
the
and
religious
sixteenth
by
of
reason
their
powers,
for material
all
supports,
have
have
lose
mutual
adversaries
of sacrifice, either
of
and
love
mainly
of
the
carry
preservation,
The
gain,
to
while
make
to
less
un-
assailants,
everything
unwilling
of money
their
will
understanding;
are
ruling
treacherous
intervene.
to
the
choose
most
genius
shall
nothing
powerful
of
they
the
tarians,
humani-
Calvinism,
intelligence,
which
are
the
over
perfect
for
they
Providence
who
tail of
the
are
cost
far, for
to-day,
genius of destruction
the
more
of
will
thus
cost
shortcomings
interests, upon
rely, although
once
the
contempt
to
day
Calvinism
political sects
would
century
it has
than
equalitarians, etc.,
and,
of
victory
dear
more
MEDICI
their
sort
any
or
of self-love,to attract
to
the
defenders.
The
printing-press
came
opposition inaugurated
The
genses.
retain
the
of
that
moment
of condensing
itself
the
by
as
it
and
garments
multitudes
ideas, and
dust
the
the
in that
day,
in
by
combination
not
the
France,
to
elective
say
war,
of
of
and
we
the
struggle
to
Power
is discussion.
make
is
of
were
of
bit
power
recover
No
tude
multi-
multitude
which
to
instead
witnesses,
are
elements
there
Royal
men.
impossible.
principle
it were,
as
"
its last
with
in order
people,
against,
multitude
to do
Albi-
instead
thought,
the
became
contend
to
the
form, donned
and
obliged
communicable
most
Vaudois
human
was
of the
assistance
an
sound
in
our
itself
it difficult,
act, and
policy
DE'
CATHERINE
possible
is
with
right of
the
MEDICI
I9
discussion
permanently
established.
who
woman
of
House
able
was
it
able
that
it found
was
it
Balafre
second
Bearnais
of the
had
who
of
deaths
died
whom
of
reproaches
of
the
have
inflicted
The
other.
prolonged
sudden
of Charles
death
vinistic
the
neither
time;
exalted
more
by
they
the
were
divined
L'Hopitals, by
the
the
not
and
and
by
the
the
the
of
ject
sub-
modern
as
certain
scheming
was
question
and
that
on
U., the
injury
no
only by
most
both
one,
of these
nor
IX.,
brought
spheres,
writers
for
assassination
which
causes
herself
poisoning,
of Francois
"
by Catherine,
are
beyond
IX., inflicted
interests; the
this
there
moral
death
Observe
to
saving
crafty manoeuvring
and
is
from
Pare
prevented
she
it
ceeded
suc-
remnant
Calvinist
no
the
the
Charles
charged,
iniquitous:
more
even
were
the
consider
we
and
her,
as
have
when
him.
and
save
authors
grave
II.
if there
would
reproach
to
that
powerful
"
resorted
to
Even
Valois,
Suppose
it to
in time
just
the
writers!
sold
Frangois
of
House
Mayenne
reason
every
Medici
if he
methods
necessary
de'
crown,
de
faction
Guise
the
Due
the
The
alive
the
and
future
courageously.
wear.
it is doubtful
great
very
that
the
been
obtaining
dearly
that
had
was,
in
how
to
Catherine
it to
crown
so
succeed
to
her
foresee
to
owed
Bourbon
that
the
consider
struggled against
who
in
therefore
should
We
were
enlightened
the
shrewd
the
the
Cal-
events
lay
suspected
people
De
she
about
on
two
that
of
Thous
minds
that
and
or
leaders
the
by
defended
of
the
of the
anecdote
and
of
guard-house
conference
with
comparison
which
wherein
song
the
Calvinists
the
his
sword
and
contented
"After
queen
herself
Catherine
all, it is
the
IV., and
insulted
was
by
ordnance
Henri
IV.
drew
him
stopped
insulter:
the
to
in
goose
piece of
by saying
the
during
Catherine
man;
Henri
possessed.
kill the
to
and
heaviest
the
ballads
knows
of Tours
chateau
or
means
popular
roasting
was
Catherine
between
a
the
such
Everyone
who
the
coveted
found
which
morals!
soldier
which
parties
two
Catherine's
singing
MEDICI
Strangely enough,
assailed
the
the
crown,
necessary.
DE'
CATHERINE
ao
who
gives you
the
goose!"
If the
executions
Catherine,
if
the
woman
of
as
that
is
contest,
Due
of
d'Anjou,
the
his
indifference
of
made
IX.,
motion
own
him
the
child, died
"
Due
a
efforts
led
his
husband,
mother
to combat
had
king
death.
her
same
judgment
preference
the
of
condition
Catherine's
the
of
plunged
which
debauchery
made
terests
inlike
III.,who,
without
of
Charles
heirs.
last
Catherine
son's
was
betray
mother,
life of
her
to
his
d'Alengon,
natural
her
reached
the
separabl
in-
Catherine
Henri
toward
the
the
for
sons.
had
into
what
childless
which
elder
two
spoiled children,
utmost
way,
superior
suffered
whom
to
miseries
all the
she
the
by
that
made.
be
to
yet
cruelly punished,
all
of
Robespierre, concerning
posterity
for the
made
author
responsible
attributed
were
Calvinists
the
from
fate
Amboise
at
passion.
made
luckily,
Unmale
credible
in-
History
DE'
CATHERINE
nude
from
return
in
in
women
with
of
bad
his
good
That
habits.
her
it in
we
great
all the
see
under
practice
is
which
policy,
that
sense
putting
Europe
the
on
ineffectual, however,
was
summarized
words
last
cabinets
111. of
Henri
consonant
so
which
of
party
supper
Chenonjeaux,
at
gallery
Poland,
curing
queen's
the
21
of the
incident
the
preserved
has
MEDICI
lar
simi-
circumstances.
''Well
her
to
came
of
enemy
must
we
the
make
in
minutely
history,
the
each
to
belle
de
throne
her
III.
that
death;
to
the
"
now,
of
author
quarrel
tuary's
volup-
the
great
history
Study
the
the
a
the
political
Guises
and
morals
patiently
and
It
century.
Catherine
of
of
the
and
Valois,
his
was
France.
Marie
and
French
Bourguignons
history of picturesque
Baviere,
had
the
the
principal reigns
between
occupies
a
this
the
between
which
write
write
to
investigated
the
ning
cun-
she
When
dead,
was
"
enveloping
which
with
by
died.
undertaking
the
III.
stalling
fore-
persistent
the
"
Henri
Lorraine,
of
of
Italian,
an
once
Guises,
the
prospect
incompatible
by
of
of
but
at
method
only
the
was
Valois
the
must
House
the
hatred
castrorum
Armagnacs,
of
the
the
and
"
led
mater
action,
put
influence;
woman,
Before
of
their
life
of
been
the
as
anew
employed,
"
inform
to
with
it,
them
in
always
force
of
effects
to
king
mother
that
was
use
opening
Henri
when
up the hole."
the
of
had
reconciliation
said,
she
death-bed
crown
meaning
effect
the
her
on
sew
Her
and
son!"
cut, my
de'
pose
purIsa-
Medici
fill
enormous
an
and
of
terrible
Isabelle
known,
invited
the
the
the
of
Catherine's
difficulties of
historians, writing
Protestants,
the
was
of her
occurrences
for
and
is this:
that
But
of
summary
have
an
the
of
idea
her
an
of the
are
before
her
he
how
the
unjustly
and
the
her, concerning
combated.
The
career,
spiritof
reason
epoch,
an
be
can
upon
the
confronted
by
clearly
political
the
it is necessary
impartial critic, so
that
of that
to
two
give
from
course
the
PHILOSOPHICAL
thought
entering
sult
re-
wherein
presented,
the
of
influence
concerning
was
whole
became
ever-increasing
queen;
the
of
convinced
her, and
it exhibits
of
sons,
compari-
as
all under
among
Catherine
where
standpoint
work
that
great difficulties of
a
time,
influence
the
in it.
traced
arena
this
including
Studies
these
realized
surrounded
who
even
and
opinions concerning
persons
is
politicalgenius.
he
here
her
against
any
the
sketches
Medici.
account
with
treated
de'
brother-in-law,
character;
and
one
have
three
erroneous
the
of
was
terrible,
more
thoroughly
position,
her
her
studies
familiar
more
Hers
France
had
them
grandeur
and
into
is
by Isabelle's
still
de' Medici's
became
author
neither
d'Orleans,
of these
course
some
beautiful.
English
Marie
Neither
heavier.
the
most
the
age
Catherine
queens,
by
the
to
intrigues of Marie
Due
the
Boisbourdon.
more
and
teenth
fif-
the
lead
three
dishonored
less
loved
and
In
these
love-intrigues,nor
although
son,
Of
domination,
virile
dominate
centuries, and
sixteenth
interesting
most
MEDICI
therein,
space
XIV.
Louis
the
a
DE'
CATHERINE
22
we
the
may
momentous.
DE'
CATHERINE
part of
in any
family,
there
was
falls
all
in
of
efforts
the
notwithstanding,
to
1
de'
Averard
who
the
occupies
famous
who
two
Cosmo
the
him,
by
to
the
of
Florence,
Cosmo,
Pope
the
della
Clement
Grand
first
down
VH.
of
killed
who
grand
duke,
1737,
of
Medici,
Urbino,
Clement
as
VIL,
some
have
title bestowed
stepping-stone
Tuscany.
Lorenzino,
descended
were
to
as
family
cent,
Magnifi-
of
cittd di Penna,
Duke
Brutus,
Tuscany
extinct.
Duca
but
Lorenzo
Florentine
of
Duke
came
be-
Medici.
Duke
X., Pope
in
Salvestro
the
Leo
title of
From
the
prior
history
de'
Lorenzo
father; Pope
not
the
de'
Lorenzo
Nemours,
that
This
1378.
descended
de
Alessandro,
called
and
were
Due
Catherine's
and
Cosmo
sons,
From
in
gonfalonier
who
Salvestro
is
for,
Florence,
of
position in
republic
one
contrary,
tradesmen,
first member
important
Tuscan
became
had
The
but
Medici,
of
gonfalonier
Florentine
sovereign.
the
the
that
the
Medici;"
it is certain
Medici,
an
the
to
rich.
very
of
that
Russia
been
paid genealogists
humble
were
314,
family,
my
has
the
whom
to
lawful
true, the
"There
said:
well
mesalliance
the
held
which
individual
ing
reign-
legitimacy'
They
sovereignty
Every
becomes
for
of Medici.
family
professes to-day:
Mirabeau
first
the
in any
country,
contempt
more
concerning
doctrine
throne
when
moment
in any
epoch,
famous
in the
same
the
to
23
Study begins.
this
Never,
than
down
existence
royal
MEDICI
and
when
Duke
Alessandro;
all the
the
the
sovereigns
family
became
DE'
CATHERINE
Cardinal
he
very
came
MEDICI
also
was
bastard,
and
Pope
becoming
near
2$
and
of
head
the
family.
anecdote-makers
Some
father,
bino, Catherine's
d'inganno
can
of
non
always
find
certain
physical
said
to
figlia
her:
"
have
children,
malformation
of
son
apropos
"
which
by
second
Henri,
married
who
few
in
her
trothed
be-
Francois
Catherine,
his
into
by bringing
I.,
of
with
his
Medici
bore
great-uncle,
speak
of
light.
Hence
liberty, and
was
fact
which
that
pope
of
X.,
who
Medici,
Leo
Cardinal
by
uncle
caused
as
Medici, who
an
and
of
of the
cardinal,
X.
was
Urbino.
family
left hand
Brantome
uncle
in
of
Florence
the
gitimate
ille-
Catherine's
Giulio, who
the
who
erine's
Cath-
that
governed
then
in
Florentines,
Duke
head
strange
involved
circumspection
title
almost
the
Florence,
legitimate
this
the
19,
Catherine.
was
the
over
^^
caused
was
mother
which
between
Giuliano.
and
VII.,
that
the
the
de'
of
son
was
and
Leo
Pope
Giulio
Clement
father
much
so
death, the
was
through
lost
reign
to
father
After
daughter
their
regain
to
behaved
her
combats
determined
were
world
childhood,
her
April 28, 15
on
death
saw
sanguinary
seeking
died
father,
wife, Madeleine
second
whose
the
she
as
his
wife,
therefore,
vicissitudes
the
for
1518,
after
days
soon
Medici, Catherine's
d'Auvergne,
Tour
la
II. de'
Lorenzo
Now,
as
once
of Ur-
Duke
afflicted.
was
de
the
to
way
husband,
that
mai
manca
insist
became
only.
jestingly
Notre-Dame.
It
to
It
26
DE'
CATHERINE
the
during
was
Medici
the
of
siege
republican party,
Catherine,
after
Cei.
Battista
in
Catherine
to
they ought
held
the
Pope,
was
devoted
so
may
have
could
not
of
The
the
to
have
hands
of
interests
delivering
for
her,
soldiers
to
clearly
semble
re-
Catherine,
the
which
scenes,
by
who
royal power,
such
by
unnoticed
passed
of
of the
of
of
termination
revolutions
policy
induced
been
still further,
clamoring
was
popular
another.
one
who
certain
went
the
posed
pro-
tween
artillerybe-
that, instead
in the
All
dishonored.
be
her
put
discuss
to
advised
to
property,
Castiglione
he
business;
the
her
fined
con-
convent,
suggestion of
the
at
Bernardo
council
all
in
fire of the
the
to
loop-holes,
two
of
city, that
having
of age,
the
by
the
with
years
her
her
expose
in
power
content
nine
stripped
having
to
not
then
undertaken
Florence,
their
re-establish
to
MEDICI
Italian
an
child
nine.
The
the
of
elevation
Clement
bastard
celebrated
so
the
fact
the
sentiment.
still
statesmen
any
age,
many
has
world,
of
men
of
them
born
such
of
at
V.'s
within
So
that
the
an
that
seen.
period
that
same
the
generals,
Never,
vast
There
even
the
government;
borders.
been
the
possessed
interesting, such
genius
by
poets,
her
own
his
its moral
the
his
for
actuated
Rome
of
affection
epoch, Venice
reigned through
and
very
were
that
of the
Italy
Charles
emperor
At
commerce
to
which
to
largely,was
daughter, Margaret.
natural
and
Pope
to
Medici,
VII. contributed
de'
Alessandro
the
in
blage
assemwere
so
inferior
DE'
CATHERINE
princes
superior
were
with
over
and
and
weakness.
We
of the
devoted
were
power
of
della
citta
di
eleven
as
with
Pope
of
must
forget
upright
in every
demeanor
eminent
all
trite
of the
writers
period
code
Hobbes
Sylla
and
and
and
Duca
the
as
slave,
of
Lorenzo
he
advance
to
II., then
was
the
Reformation.
of
the
by Machiavelli
contains
things,
and
of
consists
disposes
made
the
was
for the
the
which
demands
observation
political system
by Montesquieu,
Eucrates
all
accusations
That
of
element
imagination
This
one
straightforward,
that
above
foolish
century,
sharp-dealing
of
and
events
inevitable
character,
and
of
sixteenth
an
Therein,
written
was
in wealth
VII.
progress
absolution.
the
they
Moorish
Clement
that
which
persons.
Catherine's
of
that
tyrant of Florence,
the
the
days
those
destroyed,
of the
interesting
that
never
in
children
say
soon
as
daughter
studies
in
politics
to
of bastards.
natural
increase
son
their
golden age
the
men
old.
one
mankind
the
and
over
admit
to
justice
Thus,
the
installed
years
When
glory
Penna,
interests
the
the
the
family.
that
hands
joined
Medici
to
firmly
was
of
family
afraid
do
all the
When
provinces.
however,
must,
of
another
one
doubtless, that
Hence,
internal
constant
with
not
are
wealth,
rendezvous
the
was
its fairest
they
strong,
by
rent
quarrelled
who
so
it
although
possession of
are
fairlyrunning
conquerors
the
27
Italy was
men.
gallantry, although
wars,
MEDICI
of
by
most
the
ishing
flour-
which
the
by Spinoza, by
dialogue
between
gist of Montesquieu's
28
thought, which
did
party
his
principles
him
in which
being formed.
Here,
when
use
made
in cute, and
Charles
but
have
in the
Spanish
adopted
V.,
to
the
throne
be
This
besieged,
that
he
daughter's
Clement,
with
alliance
Catherine
assist
Medici
he
the
tried
with
de'
him
in
might
be
the
slave
able
great minds
of
to
of
no
V.
Duke
that
him
de'
in
Medici
his
soon
acting
V.
he
as
in concert
by forming
the
of
medium
promised
debauchery
in
order
Filippo Strozzi,
approved
so
to
de'
Lorenzino
Alessandro,
age,
erate
invet-
to
As
Italy.
kill him.
VII.
bestowed
of them
in
Rome
more
court
I., through
companion
icism
Cathol-
Clement
bastard.
reconquering
romance.
threatened
Alessandro
both
with
tiara, allowed
Pope
in
period
principal
who
had
II.
adopted
support
Charles
Medici, and
the
the
injure Charles
Francois
became
willing
to
he
written
of
Luther,
who
had
Julius
that
to
was
he
always succeed;
V., paid
that
upon
which
be
was
the
hand
Napoleon
impossible
the
and
are
history of
establish
might
Florence,
at
power
it
Charles
than
domination
genius
not
an
VII.,
code
blamed
we
imprisoned
Clement
enemy
in
and
vast
should
of
attacks
moral
secret
course
seem
duty
further.
probity
by threatening
same
order
same
the
to
encydopsedic
born
was
whose
under
the
did
If the
it would
characters,
Charles
the
affair.
reference
special
Italian
schemes
Catherine
which
France,
V., Catherine,
would
the
of
plans
in
the
develop
to-day
of the
whose
with
to
form
of all cabinets
he
MEDICI
connection
permit
not
These
an
DE*
CATHERINE
one
and
that
of
strongly
DE'
CATHERINE
of
murder
that
should
that
of
each
his
one
have
made
he
whom
tyrant's
of
in the
death
patiently for
abated
never
first
his
act
legitimate
the
of
his
by Cardinal
throne
the
his
first
grand duke,
This
son.
Charles
he
had
caused
death
to
de*
sinated.
Cosmo
have
to
his
other
Medici,
I.
of France,
the
the
at
and
only
inherison
dis-
accused
who
the
was
his
son
Don
death
son
body
his
as
power
emperor's
Garcias
power
placed
was
once
the
son,
his
in
poison Alessandro's
of
whom
devoted
been
affirmed
was
instantly banished
the
avenge
was
he
who
his, followed
favor
He
recognized Cosmo
to
in
in
sovereignty;
jealous of
as
had
of Alessandro's
Cosmo,
purpose
he
although
Cib6
same
duke,
of
was
Giovanni
House
by abdicating
put
should
of
grand
V.
ample
after
this
creation,
own
V.
Cibo,
Cardinal
Whereupon
him.
the
Cosmo,
son.
who
rights
and
grandson
which
hands.
assumed
Charles
"
that
avenged
men
annulled,
be
to
successor,
during
his
the
cause
of Alessandro's
place
be
to
was
Alessandro!
avenging
on
he
of
marshal
ing
fashion, after wait-
the
in
power
when
sons
of
for
marriages,
other,
years,
hatred
old
eighteenyears
the
cruel
twelve
his
reality placed
brilliant
most
and
protection,
entirely unrelated,
was
sons
father's
the
Catherine's
Doria,
his
daughters;
Medici, Alessandro's
de*
Cosmo
France.
to
under
rival
the
was
murderer's
the
of
each
that
swore
being
both
might
29
religiously executed
sons
promise, when,
they
of
one
marry
he
MEDICI
which
Francesco,
Garcias,
of
to
Cardinal
had
assas-
Francesco,
and
ex-
soul
could
who
to
the
afford
/
!
\
"
DE'
CATHERINE
30
them
support,
the
consequently
greatest glories of
their
contradictory
and
principal
of
House
All
the
had
in
From
Medici.
of the
idea
some
villainous
the
knaveries,
from
envoys
de'
of
princes
Cosmo
I. to
if
be
to
It
Medici,
the
Urbino.
such
"
city
preceded
at
by
court
poison
there.
were
of
Francois
I.
The
her
Leghorn;
but
her
her
had
but
future
married
de'
and
by
as
Clarice
Medici, Duke
that
in
escort
yet
knew
marriage,
that
the
Aiessandro
store
de'
of
tainers,
re-
an
fact
Duke
had
of
secretaries,
followed
the
left
"
body
princess
of
young
known
was
with
de'
Medici,
the
Lorenzo
father;
interview
what
Filippo Strozzi
to
and
ence
Flor-
Princess
which
age,
destiny, beyond
an
the
household,
young
have
to
by
from
II. de'
and
that
1533,
Catherine
by
considerable
by men-at-arms,
of
was
of
out
Lorenzo
title
the
to
sister
he
set
duke
years
attended
horsemen.
nothing
of
the
was
ofificers of
Pope
Europe.
to
October,
Penna
The
fourteen
girl, then
di
heiress
only
of
accompanied
Leghorn,
Florence
of
form
French
ambassadors
month
cittd
delta
of
Duke
in the
early
was
for
the
single
can
order
the
assassinated.
Duca
the
the
one
the
kinsman,
three
the
are
Italy and
Strozzi, Catherine's
caused
of
sketch,
an
V.
of
one
Such
intrigues
instructions
Charles
Medici,
illogical exploits,
secret
their
and
V.
treacherous,
family.
this
other
Charles
secret,
Catherine
of
enemies
cowardly
of
slaves
the
were
MEDICI
soon
for
vealed
re-
her.
Medici, half-
Urbino,
arranged
rine's
Cathewith
DE'
MEDICI
recall
of
CATHERINE
view
in
exile,
of
one
well
as
the
concluded
which
that
declared
and
their
divined
That
dominion.
of
bent
always
surprised
by
Castle
San
of
soon
he
as
Strozzi
where
an
to
to
obtain
liberty,acting
honest
he
man,
Clement
flattered
himself
that
such
abundant
conduct
toward
ungraciously.
his
he
on
apprenticeship
that
Strozzi
to
the
he
Pope,
his
enemies,
obliged
as
pay
prison,
found
he
natural
inspiration
enough
to
present
had
probably
rid of him.
be
ashamed
received
unhappy
to
from
who
began
the
the
When
to
in
by Clement
up
As
safely
was
reason
Strozzi
Thus
VII.,
the
VII., when,
release
the
but
sharing
refuge
was
foolish
was
before
had
his
upon
methods,
took
closely watched.
was
himself
Pope
life,and
his
lost
offer
the
policy of
Clement
Naples.
their
to
the
its
given
he
as
Filippo
After
he
was
soon
him.
of
victim
sum
at
he
taken
was
he
himself
Colonnas,
popular
Florence
end.
same
Angelo,
enormous
the
as
made
X.
in his
guided by
declined
even
captivity of
the
nearly
Medici
vacillating in
the
and
hostage
to
Leo
so
of the
faithful
man
moment
upon
discomforts
of
that
at
was
Medici, always
the
an
great
having
changes
subjecting
principalitywhich
Strozzi
as
of
purpose
swerve,
party for
his
extent
the
against
to
slight
some
cause
popular party,
apparent
remained
he
alliance,
party
to
was
by
the
Despite
the
then
their
to
champion
persecuted
was
it.
conduct,
of
doughty
that
Medici,
the
over
adherents
stoutest
he
although
winning
to
as
caused
never
the
expediting
to
very
him
early
existence
The
of his
most
in life
of
the
DE'
CATHERINE
expelled
from
bastard,
and
was
of the
of
that
these
that
affairs
party,
own
of
nothing
carried
also
which
and
their
counterfeits
than
it
the
bench
from
which
they
is
adored,
the
tested
in
in all
in the
spy
the
the
see
such
Pope
whose
of
did
Filippo underwent
Strozzi, if
3
for
their
complications,
return
Medici
affairs
stood
nothing
his
At
in such
else
than
on
pieces.
"
whom
he
be
to
more
becomes
justifieseverything.
had
he
but
change.
the
compelled
VII., v/hose
sat, and
Florence
to
was
that
came
everybody
liberty, which
not
cult
diffi-
exigencies of
the
to
coins
more
wife,
his
dici,
Me-
commerce
silver
police is
Alessandro;
Clement
the
of
they
because
flourishing condition
triumph,
the
banker
and
yielding
Florence
of
yoke
public
with
name
of
death
for
name
when
moment
of
with
much
gold
fact
strange
its
which
on
"
republics
Filippo
and
The
"
their
republican party,
dreaded
in Venice,
weight
rendered
banc
pretext
It is
burden
the
to-day.
"
Filippo found
bankers
extraordinary multiplicityof
the
latter
there, and
dissensions
speculation, of banking
and
had
struggle
their
vengeance
he
the
constant
the
superintend
own
bore
ness
fickle-
the
to
Spain.
who
of
say
his
and
men,
and
to
to
with
he
Lyon
which
house
France,
Rome,
to
another
whom
by
dreaded
he
as
with
alarmed
was
went
corresponded
which
and
mercantile
large
He
he
Vll.,
Medici,
Alessandro
very
people;
Clement
33
the
travelling.
now
MEDICI
until
the
submit
to
first to
been
in
then
were
disposition toward
the
need
to
of their
moment
of
bring
man
like
about
the
of Alessandro,
accession
to
of
him
persuade
of
found
that
had
he
people, and
whose
of
and
be
to
had
of
fortunes
the
Leghorn,
appointed
to
meet,
and
France
and
the
of
head
The
suite
brilliant
inappropriately
was
called
also
at
the
Catherine,
and
/ cortege,
of
when
the
head
the
rear
head
the
himself
to
plan
the
to
guardian.
man
the
difficult
so
this
terminat
de-
of
necessity
place himself
for her
Princess
French
whom
little Duchess
of which
the
rode
escort
passing
was
was
had
court,
called
they
of Florence,
Strozzi, comprised
the
Florence,
the
excluding
persons,
[and
the
him
tiators
nego-
at
household.
dazzle
to
ably
prob-
the
formed
rid of
Strozzi
Catherine's
Medici,
a
spared
advised
he
be
from
was
have
between
affairs, approved
Florentine
in
which
murder;
to
dici,
Me-
learned
where
must
the
foresaw
he
attaching
niece, who
the
alliance
he
He
by
to
which
France,
the
at
tyranny.
he
as
projected
of
overjoyed
manage
soon
half,
distrusted
so
at
his
Alessandro,
be
concluded
to
going
as
son
of
ercion
co-
sion
commis-
Burrhus
resisted, that
he
so,
Alessandro
Catherine
to
the
and
years
and
way
council-board
object of suspicion
an
And
two
Seneca
beginning
beginnings
designs
catastrophe.
for
come
such
the
at
about
found
Filippo accepted
like
the
Nero,
seat
was
But,
detected,
court
to
who
senator.
had
Duke
accept
MEDICI
Clement
that
city, and
the
as
he
to
bastard,
the
of
of
DE'
CATHERINE
34
of
Duke
more
and
and
Urbino.
vided
pro-
very
who
The
Alessandro,
than
the
through
already beyond
sand
thou-
servants;
the
the
gates
first
DE'
CATHERINE
outside
village
of
rumored
among
a
marry
in the
which
that
had
who
her.
to
the
tried
would
to pay
did
not
This
la
de
Tour
that
he
was
in
Catherine
uncle.
It
so
rich
was
father,
the
was
Duchess
connected
Catherine
in
money
also
her
son
of
with
was
would
of
unwilling
being
Jean
of Jeanne
de
Urbino's
Mary
Stuart,
informed
be
one
de
hundred
he
mother
her
to
de
thus
mother;
so
many
Poitiers, her
Poitiers, Diane's
de
Catherine
that
married
of Madeleine
la Tour
her
Stuart,
had
allied
aunt.
queen.
Alexander
de
This
France,
Italy to
Diane
cousin.
France
purchase
was
through
and
of
d'Orleans.
sister
was
Duke
to
Catherine's
Boulogne,
for
desirous
of
Boulogne,
hand
King of
from
son
the
men,
kins-
the
loss
Catherine
de
maternal
rival, was
that
Due
the
told
uncle
ambitious
Italy, but
the
Albany,
her
III.,King of Scotland,
la Tour
de
her
was
of
hoped
rations
prepa-
suspected
dauphin's
inducing
Medici
prevent
of James
Anne
for
caused
Duke
brother
in
any
ungenerousness
and
still
mind,
of the
support
the
obtain
to
succeed
his
change
her
Alessandro
Duke
Albany
of
plans
the
Catherine
and
shape
triumphal
From
involved,
of the
failure
the
of this
Leghorn.
to
to
nothing
definite
reason
be
to
was
still
assumed
by
was
Catherine
was
the
to
over
beginning
it
necessitated,
marriage
her
of
her
it
given
that
which
Florence
35
was
I., but
Francois
Tuscany
from
progress
It
people
rumor,
of
eyes
hats.
the
of
than
more
for
straw
son
city, to-day
the
weaving
MEDICI
Boulogne,
was
also
daughter-in-law.
her
marriage-portion
thousand
ducats.
36
The
ducat
was
hundred
of
millions
six
worth
being
extensive
Strozzi's
Filippo
his
that
in that
agent
thousand
hundred
and
Auvergne
with
her
and
arriving
fail to
not
magnificence
in
"uncle
the
House
the
court
of
with
an
of
ducats,
of
had
bride
with
the
richest
been
able
prior of
which
of
the
of
cost
time
curiosities
and
Order
gold.
cabins
The
the
of
to
humiliate
who
Knights
of
to
covered
galley,
all
rowers,
one
stem
the
sand
thou-
for
intended
the
of
in
twenty
which
her
head
This
were
traordinary
ex-
the
from
France,
crew,
the
arrived
than
more
of
Henri
collect.
by
Clement,
Pope
already
still
was
with
several
dressed,
by
jewels,
to
who
upholstered
cloth
which
promised
to
in
flattered
that
had
was
satin
awning
decorations
be
at
He
of France.
in crimson
stern
part
presented
of
form
ducats
which
Notre-Dame,"
galleys, which
his
to
Leghorn, Catherine,
at
girl,could
mere
of
counties
wedding-gifts,
other
twelve
the
contributed.
Alessandro
On
The
by
on
consider
we
Clement
Pope
stand
under-
carried
also
were
to-day
can
provide
thousand
hundred
another
We
gold.
about
ducat
when
to
in
and
dowry,
precious stones,
Duke
city was
Lauraguais
of Catherine's
for
the
Lyon,
at
livres
days, allowing
business
banking
house
francs.
twelve
our
Thus
gold, represented
present money,
our
almost
the
of
of
one
thick.
as
in those
value
greater
of
size
the
half
only
ducats
thousand
much
the
louis, but
MEDICI
of
gold piece
old-fashioned
DE'
CATHERINE
the
furnished
had
Medici
were
nificently
mag-
commanded
Rhodes.
The
DE'
CATHERINE
Pope's household
The galleysof
beside
anchor
travelled
37
three
on
of
Duke
the
MEDICI
other
Albany, which
Clement's, formed
with
galleys.
lay at
them
siderable
con-
flotilla.
Alessandro
Duke
household
a
to
His
said,the service
de
Antonio
Was
zaga.
Count
of the
there
and
concerted
and
What
with
service
taking
Historyis
we
shall
soon
transaction is
see
with
and
de
erals,
gen-
Gon-
the two
make
the
Due
reward
ised
prombefore
Montecuculli, who,
on
what
enveloped.
that sober-minded
to
the
was
Charles
silent
his two
plan between
d'Orleans
Sebastiano
Montecu-
Ferdinando
Alessandro,
to Count
held
abruptly,it was
dauphin?
he
duced
probably intro-
Sebastiano
emperor,
Leyva
whom
he
just left,somewhat
had
culli,who
which
at
Holiness
with
Pope,
the
to
conference,
secret
erine's
officers of Cath-
presentedthe
V., had
this
cine?
medi-
subject. Moreover,
dense
The
studied
clouds
the whole
obscurityis
conscientious
so
historians
great
have
Montecuculli's innocence.
years admitted
from the Pope's
learned officially
Catherine
now
in recent
lipsthe
Duke
alliance
of
Albany
to keep
difficulty
that
was
had
not
the
King
proposed for
been
able
of France
her.
without
to his
The
great
promise
So that
his second son to Catherine.
giving even
Clement's
impatiencewas so great,he was so afraid
of findinghis plans overturned, either by some
trigue
inthe emperor's part or by the indifference
on
of
of
looked
leadingmen
proposed marriage,that he
France, where
favor
on
the
the
189976
with
little
set sail at
38
for
once
Marseille.
October,
of
France.
To
gold medallions
they
were
who
loved
It is
display
and
The
between
the
moral
Pope
consummated
fearful
his
us,
the
Marseille
niece
it
was
of
for
de
I.,
on
Valois
and
of
very
the
for
that
while
which
which
jest
cerning
con-
shows
the
de
ois
Val-
Catherine
the
its
de'
should
marriage
of
celebration,
determined,
was
the
and
tory
his-
as
mation
consum-
thirty-four days
purpose,
visible
at
of
which
Henri
than
remained
him
he
interview
BrantSme,
day
of
eating flesh;
evidence
express
mature
histories
political subterfuges
obtain
afford
was
from
Clement,
to
details,
France,
Although
that
the
Albany's
and
insisted
the
here
of
by
older
marriage,
would
for Catherine
Duke
weeks
in vogue.
of
King
period.
he
informs
value,
famous
the
refraining
on
was
then
of
himself
all the
the
hugely,
three
the
in
mentioned
of that
but
Medici,
wiles
the
court
tone
was
at
and
of
duty
the
consisted
Francois
Henri
repeat
of
Marseille,
blunder
amused
to
words
signalized by
comical
of
dou^ain
thirty-four days.
Pope
the
the
But
of
carried
historical
time.
nuptials
unnecessary
and
that
festivities,outdid
household
as
House
bankers
to say
in
display,
the
wedding-purse
that
at
quite
Provence
so
those
late
port
magnificent
incalculable
unique
lasted
familiar
in the
of
occasion.
Catherine
be
far
how
Pope
that
eclipsed by
was
show
the
placed by
was
its
Despite
Medici
MEDICI
reached
ostentation, it is enough
their
this
He
1533.
House
the
1
\\
DE'
CATHERINE
hoping
proof
fourteen.
questioning
of
the
In
all
the
that
fact;
ability
probbride
DE'
CATHERINE
his
before
departure,
famous
her, the
words
figliadHnganno,
The
years.
Few
several
medical
they
in
Bayle
to
Henri
that,
II.
at
Poitiers,
to
his
heaped
lawful
wife,
in surgery
common
is made
clear,
court,
who
period
when
privileges
as
eleven
the
French
the
Latin.
the
to
France
had
had
that
children
the
the
proves
that
still to be
ten
II.
Duchesse
the
written
soon
all
rassed
embar-
Diane
the
de
than
nothing
more
which
ladies
the
enjoyed
the
as
prince
delayed
de
as
the
he
at
had
That
women.
to
same
mitted
subhad
If he
have
operation
Valentinois
beginning
did.
would
matters
at
It is fortunate
history of Catherine
from
observe
Saint-Victor,
children.
When
girlhood of
second
to
operation, Catherine
by Diane,
terribly complicated.
solely
malformation,
de
As
whose
due
jest of
titled
en-
ordinary
extra-
attached
is
language
and
Henri
of the
queen,
more
the
Abbe
affairs,
article
at
There
necessary
pregnancies
for
much
by
him
of
state
was
are
indecent
children,
Henri's
moreover,
styled
prince
none.
than
such
enough
been
ten
there
the
that
natural
had
that
was
sterility
have
was
lasted
fair idea
upon
no
he
But
Her
having
whom
to
affords
when
about
peculiar
printed.
It would
time
containing
distorted.
was
entertained
been
to-day
that
figliuolariT^a.
have
aware
to
be
slanders
act
are
relative
Fernel
la
father:
her
to
sterility,which
treatises
cannot
her, to console
to
mat
conjectures
people
suppositions
every
manca
Catherine's
concerning
said
he
59
attributed
non
strangest
that
that
MEDICI
been
was
formed,
per-
reached
single fact
de'
end, and
Medici
that,
is
as
DE'
CATHERINE
which
place
the
on
where
of
blood,
his
of
father
Pope
the
palace
"
the
of
arrived
having
king
took
in
Pope's
nephew,
attended.
well
to
of
fiercer
of
decide.
faith, and
heresy,
the
to
Urbino,
similar
of
and
than
it
already
king,
to
niece
conditions
to
the
to
de'
Due
king's
The
king,
very
dinals,
car-
one
everyand
to
the
tain
enter-
the
and
magnificence
flame
Then
moned
sum-
persons
to
ble
assem-
interview
the
the
to
from
matter
down
put
becoming
concluded
was
d'Orleans,
second
de'
Duchess
Holiness,
those
the
Medici,
discussed
was.
Catherine
His
him
promulgated
the
barons,
him,
king began
was
the
place;
done,
which'
Medici,
with
la
of
college of
the
matters
prevent
de
brother
with
the
de
received
to
great
and
to
of
and
That
morrow
was
princes
him.
Cardinal
First
bull
marriage
the
those
the
^the Comte
was
away
the
the
Vendosmois,
"
whole
the
man
Holiness
of
treat
held
beside
consistory.
On
His
by
was
for
that
at
palace,
others
among
out
Montmorency,
cardinals
several
the
others, counts,
de
that
to
Nemours,
place assigned
the
to
them,
died
and
Pope
assembled
retired
who
the
at
the
kindly by
de
riding always
grand master,
de
Due
Montpensier
Due
Seigneur
the
set
by
Chartres,
several
and
Albany
lords,
and
Savoie,
de
Due
le
de
Messieurs
Roche-sur-Yon,
Duke
obeisance
attended
de
Vidame
from
go
king.
was,
Monseigneur
the
Sainct-Pol,
the
Christian
to
The
"
his
make
to
most
as
4I
out, in order
set
morrow
Father
Holy
had
Pope
the
MEDICI
the
son
same
formerly proposed
to
of
or
the
DE'
CATHERINE
42
of
Duke
withi
Holy
Father
four
cardinals
Cardinal
grand
family
marriage
held
of
Cardinal
Strozzi
he
court,
was
they
have
Sire
the
delivered
observed
French
the
among
he
the
created
namely:
of
Lisieux,
of
Boulogne,
of
de
the
to
the
the
of
Duke
of
family
Montmorency,
and
Givry."
de
When
de
Chatillon,
de
to
which
half-brother
Chambre,
ried
mar-
consummated,
formerly Bishop
almoner;
Coligny, nephew
mated
consum-
Father
king's nomination,
Cardinal
Cardinal
Albany;
the
the
was
Holy
our
thus
consistory, at
Veneur,
La
marriage
and
The
Le
of
said
great pomp,
them.
and
The
Albany.
MEDICI
said
dowry
signs
some
nobles:
trifle for
mere
the
to-day?
of
mesalliance
would
what
"
it
that
openly
Cardinal
Thereupon
of
presence
astonishment
said
they
in
Ippolito
replied :
It
"*
three
pearls of
admitted
not
are
you
Holiness
His
secrets.
.^jL..^
that
seems
himself
binds
inestimable
give France
to
Genoa,
value:
king's
to your
Milan, and
Naples."
The
to
his
Leyva
led
cuculli
which
and
to
did
was
the
at
Sebastiano
French
the
Montecuculli
court, where
Frenchwomen;
realm,
Count
himself
present
offered
de
allowed
Pope
Ferdinando
his
services
belong
not
made
de
up
for,
execution
in
Gonzaga;
these
Catherine's
entirely
of
compliance
of
Antonio
being accepted.
to
which
was
plaints
com-
Monte-
household,
Frenchmen
with
he
law
witnessed
and
of the
by
DE'
CATHERINE
with
Pope
the
naturalized
the
Montecuculli
of the
entered
he
Charles
queen,
The
in
husband
was
certainly
was
than
and
of
Charles
marriage
whose
her
made
and
bearer
of
the
Duchess
aunt,
Duchesse
the
Constable's
well
that
excepting
and
by
their
tradesmen,
illustrious
Boulogne
His
niece's
difficult
that
than
who
position
the
quite incapable
was
summoned
magnificent
of
France,
and
of
of
guiding
back
her
after
to
Tour
of Medici.
amid
the
of
more
La
and
unpleasant
so
not
daughter
privileges, as
family
family
of
women
wealthier
the
was
Navarre,
Vendome,
other
the
mother's
through
of
most
was
Her
titles.
de
king
Brosse
in France
women
and
the
at
sister
of
family
Queen
birth
pelled
com-
d'Etampes,
overshadowed
her
through
was
Eleanor,
several
power
XIV.,
Louis
Medici
Duchesse
surrounded
ever
Florentine
the
birth
as
consequence
venerable
the
young
far
so
the
was
Poitiers, who
Duchesse
Albany,
wife,
their
by
de
Queen
most
Guise,
eminence,
as
court
of
she
Her
greater
of
time
cup-bearer.
as
that
powerful
the
short
court.
the
to
head
most
of
one
de
the
equal
of
the
to
of the
one
In
Diane
of far
the
to
household
of Catherine
was
and
the
dauphin
with
daughter
V.,
first to
found
yield precedence
to
marriage.
French
the
at
love
The
she.
of the
fair rival
concerned,
was
de
sight
lost to
the
sister.
d'Orleans
Duchesse
utterly
V.'s
service
the
at
was
to
prior
patent
attached
was
43
pleasure, Catherine
greatest
letters
by
MEDICI
so
the
was
flicting
con-
many
first year;
Italy by
who
so
in
death
fact,
of
she
that
of
Catherine's
VII.
Clement
She
hunting-parties,
from
At
that
d'Orleans
were
at
for
side
of
the
at
Her
all
picion
sus-
dauphin
and
was
Due
the
after
soon
king's
V., the
his
on
battle.
Catherine
vence,
Pro-
in
the
riage
mar-
The
brother-in-law.
of
scene
to
little
as
saddle,
the
invaded
remained
court
closely
king's headquarters
was
by Charles
model
I. averted
when
time,
the
France
the
field
Francois
Medici
was
left his
in
the
to
remember
we
herself
and
him
for
the
poisoned.
whole
and
affection
idolatrous
attached
followed
she
possible;
as
if
old,
years
father-in-law,
her
king,
MEDICI
conduct,
fifteen
barely
was
circumspection.
the
,.-,j'
DE'
CATHERINE
44
the
wedding
festivities,transformed
of
bloodiest
'
of
bones
his
returning
night
in
of
some
of
by
exercises
their
handed
it
for
him
according
The
prince.
of
greatest
to
all
and
in
was
The
I. adored
historians,
publicity,
magistrates
to
and
of
be
the
time.
The
"
was
which
dauphin
died
his
who
an
it
After
son,
accomplished
the
with
conducted
entrusted
own,
water,
his
August,
of
glass
iced.
the
hostages.
as
the
indulged
formed
education
"
ask
to
pastime
was
for
halted
which
captivity
warm,
very
dauphin
he
of
way
brother's
his
the
Rh6ne;
the
instantly. Francois
almost
learned
along
enough
Montecuculli
of the
one
Provence,
and
of
prince being
was,
in
violent
the
result
imprudent
of
scene
in full
was
army
Lyon
to
major part
as
V.
Tournon,
at
the
wars.
Charles
When
into
to
the
cution
prosethe
most
submitting
DE'
CATHERINE
to
first
the
the
anything,
and
Leyva
No
was
cause
this.
This
"
The
the
resident
Atri; the
Catherine
Signor
of the
kingdom
who
of
and
Italian
at
sentence
the
to
of Melfi
the
the
legate
papal
all the
time,
the
Gonzaga,
against
late
the
usual
Signor
should
be
executed
marry
Vigevano
Gian
Paulo
Fregoso, Genoese;
and
from
le
man
dauphin,
trials, not
until
caused
beginning
unhappy
great
he
assembled,
monseigneur
in criminal
of
Ariano,
to
of
Marquis
Mantuan,
having
presence,
were
Stigliano, Neapolitans;
Signor Cesare
in their
and
Duke
Somme,
wanted
family, Milanese;
de
who
the
as
of
who
of
court,
princes
German,
Dukes
Prince
and
Scotland, Portugal,
also
"
his
great
his
at
than
princes of
present
that
Prince
others, who
the
discussed
other
and
the
proceedings
poisoned
prosecution.
all the
England,
German;
Annibal
of
the
order, and
were
others;
court
Roman;
read
Ippolito d'Este;
Don
number
the
his
and
"
Cere,
be
his
Trivulzio
Signor
to
of
his
in
Wittemberg,
de
chevaliers
foreign lords,
great
and
Lyon
Ferrara,
Venice,
I.
Francois
to
ambassadors
the
of
solemnly
summoned
cardinals
the
nuncio,
Antonio
eye-witness:
an
of
personages
also
is what
king
Gonzaga.
plicated
im-
he
generals,
result
the
more
all the
blood,
with
confessing
wherein
two
de
ever
of
narrative
his
Ferdinando
satisfied
not
was
disclosures
and
emperor
45
hero, without
made
count
the
de
like
tortures,
MEDICI
to
who
had
with
the
and
wishing
all those
end,
other
that
present
46
should
ing
and
case."
horrible
self-sacrificing
devotion,
fidelity,the
The
of
adroitness
Count
in
extraordinary
when
all, even
most
minute
an
finding
devoted
rifice from
those
self-interest,because
faith, from
of
fords
as
well
d'Arcs
Jeanne
the
well
as
and
Bonchamps
Chabots,
exalted
Francois
dissimulation
circumstances
Florentine
that
imposed
the
I.
death
which
Brutus.
so
X.
Coeurs
and
Dantons,
Clements,
of
the
most
of the
three
later, Loren-
year
assassinated
of three
caused
rank
little restraint
of Leo
Straf-
a-Becket
the
use
have
The
produce
and
assassination
cousin-german,
after
involved
made
and
ligious
re-
patriotic
and
Jacques
and
pect
ex-
from
Thomas
Richelieus
the
V.
of
the
the
but
alone
Sydneys
of
Talmonts,
in the
Alessandro
called
as
personages
zino, Catherine's
under
assassins
Charles
etc.
ambassadors
the
Montecucullis,
the
as
of faith
varieties
upon
change;
may
sac-
based
faith, from
the
select
great
any
is
in
Moreys
monarchical
Geneva,
their
to
sentiments,
of
England,
how
attachment
the
fortunate
earnest
three
Berthereaus
about
under
were
ask
interests
from
everything
These
Never
whose
appear
monarchical
were
faith.
was
the
there
days
chatter
knew
or
the
indiscretion,
come
days princes
retainers,
there
general
have
and
well
may
State,
of
which
those
in
In those
faith.
of
age
events
but
because
Montecuculli
ministers
notice;
them.
MEDICI
have
DE'
CATHERINE
and
years,
him
of the
on
Duke
to
be
uals
individ-
such
of Clement
prises,
enter-
VII.
DE'
CATHERINE
well,
as
supposed
were
Mariana,
causes.
in
joke
of
princess
Spain,
the
glory
throne
of
the
physicians,
in
La
the
days,
served
The
two
years;
Duke
seemed
to
bauchery,
of
elevation
then
for his
in
son
very
the
good-fortune,
to
moment.
his
seen
his
Observe
from
count's
made
an
him
for
armies
buried
innocent
if the
torture
man,
to
in
power
V.
his
had
with
Francois
wrung
and
after
retreated
hopes of
were
passions
the
an
view
therefore,
the
have
in
for
of
the
in Provence
and
de;
time
exalt
confessions,
Charles
in
interest
I. had
would
reputation,
that
the
seemed
upon
been
affection
with
Francois
rest
had
Catherine,
at
alone
which
alliance
adroitly
had
V.
death,
The
policiesof
he
that
an
of France.
with
was
Charles
catastrophe;
d'Orleans.
overflowing
way,
plunged
possible
no
Due
and
father-in-law,
interest
have
'
MADAME
VII.
Alessandro,
the
seventeen,
Clement
Pope
XIV.
same
killed
that
poison,
same
nas,
cade-
Louis
the
of
"
droit de
under
in
poison,
by
XIV.
Louis
dead
her
died
the
by
extinct
j
j
were
cadenas
"
the
those/'
In
princesses
Hence
became
it.
padlocks
keys.
which
dauphin
under
the
the
with
II. in-
sword-thrust,
and
princes
fastened
boxes
honor
perhaps
of
queen
Henri
When
receive
to
^-^'^^"\^/^
.^,y_
the
the
his
nation.
domia
fession
con-
I. afterward
Queen
ordained
treated
"
"^-
that, "for
says
deserved
which
of the
God
who
Chataigneraie
they kept
an
was
repasts
in
which
"
He
Spain,
natural
to
death
the
enceinte.
calumny
found
he
She
of
due
of
France.
the
dropsy."
dulged
of
47
be
to
recording
of
blindness
for
not
historian
the
perpetrates
MEDICI
DE'
CATHERINE
She
who
the
destined
was
of
part
of
secret
in
that
life.
for ten
been
Madame
of French
had
descended
upon
severity.
Thus
of that
women
and
Diane
Guises,
the
solely
contradictory
of
with
winked
he
unmeasured
the
court
and
fire of
heresy,
Catholic
the
'*'""
with
party
Duchesse
the
V.
Navarre,
that
the
because
had
he
with
saw
of
vin
Cal-
supported
Charles
court
playing
head
had
and
patiently protected
reformers
Catherine
court
I.
after
the
at
the
the
at
and
Germany,
residence
Calvin's
the
/^
\|
later
woman
embarrass
to
prenticeship
apthe
was
d'Etampes
studied
secretly
in
Reformation
the
as
politics:Francois
after he
Then,
She
her
herself
Madame
Lutherans
the
and
found
queen
played
queen
which
policy
between
years
served
she
Calvinists,
and
Poitiers.
de
course
the
The
49
great
so
Thus
two-faced
Catholics
between
at
servant.
her
be
to
MEDICI
d'Etampes
Calvin
upheld
Such
and
the
was
observed
who
Medici.
dealings
The
thing;
he
but
the
are
mutually
may
is in
duty
bound
than
the
case
for
to
who
one
and
his
was
no
less
has
assassination:
that
that
cruel
thrones
the
son,
lifetime,
ascending
the
profound politician
another
"If
as
the
^,^
,j^^-^ ^^J^
said, in reference
king succeeding
or
France
in every-?
his father's
policieson
most
c^^ ^-'^'*f
''^
queen,
House
father
another,
one
of
the
forgot the
great philosopher,
of
of
royalty, namely
adopt
of insurrection
result
He
that
King
his
opposition during
Spinoza,
throne.
of
bound
in
be
the
thwarted
son.
maxim
truest
who
to
bad
of
characteristic
dauphin
was
of
political training
cabinet
,^.
;*.fc.^XA.^"^
^^8^."A.
Protestants.
in the
devious
the
the
^^.rt^-^ /
^^Sro-^JL-'"^
the
new
f^^"^"^
dr
i^
^
^H'V-'^'^'"^**^*
jn^^ju'S
/"-'"'^'*
vOj^*vt"o^
DE'
CATHERINE
50
wishes
king
to
tempted
be
of
blood
of
him
same
is not
subjects, he
must
whose
in
course
to
without
all
It
Louis
principles
of
's
XV.
Louis
for
the
of
convocation
that
separated
the
substituting
replacing
the
and
the
the
from
the
the
The
in
"
the
mistake
barrier
the
and
word,
in
provincial
their
of the
pressed.
sup-
people,
voting of imposts,
gradual approval
tated
rehabili-
The
for
the
false
was
necessitated
remedy
lay
maxim
sponsible
largely re-
removing
one,
and,
sound.
were
parliaments by strong
monarchical
The
to
"
throne
stronger
Therein
monarchy,
in
was
of
Strozzi
the
he
States-General.
made
Louis
ence
Flor-
of the
this
was
Paris,
It
"
grandfather
which
troubles
the
XV.
that
of
the
years,
king
his
judgment
that
parliaments, notably
not
which
parliaments,
follow
successor
when
government
the
gave
of
That
to
policy
assassination
neglect
XVI.
the
which
I., the
was
will
realm."
his
destroyed
the
and
heretofore, persecuted
respite.
which
to
at
said
have
we
taken,
the
in
shed
to
adopt
Cosmo
zeal
But,
also
of
to
one
crime.
maxim
this
procured
Brutus
Florentine
has
no
enough
government
Medici.
the
Alessandro,
Duke
as
the
application of
the
was
he
place
much
that
similar
and
throne
so
death
worthily, it
his
the
on
show
must
commit
to
him
avenge
seat
predecessor's
his
avenging
he
life,
his
protect
his
assure
MEDICI
necessary
the
in
not
ernments.
gov-
evils
of
adjustment,
reforms
in
regime.
first act
of Henri
Constable
de
11. was
to
Montmorency,
give
whom
his confidence
his
father
DE'
CATHERINE
him
urged
had
with
conjointly
was,
he
she
with
and
had
she
1543,
engrossed
was
that
of
I. and
It is
State,
of
factions
all the
there.
with
the
All
her
objects
were
of
execution
of
Medici;
the
to
the
the
were
Ruggieri,
called
in Catherine's
their
resources
cunning,
and
"
the
the
the
I.
in
Sardini,
in
courage,
way
to
That
time
in
and
court,
]/
shrewd
refused
the
Biragues,
a
word,
had
required
of
shrewd
maintain
ticians
poli-
all
to
Strozzi,
those
to
come
listen
to
who
France
put forth
all
wit, political
their
footing
at
..^^^pv^^
de
suspicions of
by
'^
p[lj^
^''^
After
Constable
the
.i---"
France
to
distrust.
of
Italians," who
were
that
affairs
her
at
the
always
the
the
II.
ation,
procre-
from
come
assailed
Condi,
suite,
aloof
had
most
were
Francois
but
But
them.
court
of Henri
politician was
violent
and
years
constantly forming
Montecuculli,
Diane,
Montmorency,
last
wife.
people
who
of
the
passed
were
Italians
the
years,
principal grievances
kept
all the
which
ten
maternity
lawful
woman
of
interests
the
noting
superior
beginning
selected
female
thus
Being
that
of the
when
constant
who
Catherine's
of
one
Diane.
against
of
expedient
probably
in that
happy
of
reign
rival
ridding herself
barbarous
duties
whole
see,
of
for
year
Thus,
less
than
includes
the
to
influence
of
method
of
not
impossible
the
the
almost
and
whom
realm.
France
every
by
constable
first place,
the
period, which
throughout
Francois
of
child
the
powerful
In
dauphiness.
was
of
Queen
became
The
Poitiers, with
de
master
less
even
was
she
when
51
disgrace.
Diane
closely allied,
was
Catherine
in
leave
to
MEDICI
under
court
the
During
profound
her
forbade
her
wife.
children
who
claim
Catherine's
left free
his
pass
time
hitherto
taken
indicate
Comptes
of
Paris
^"
of
Du
At
Saint-Lazare
which
de
was
with
in
also
an
of
Henri,
But
the
what
he
entree
an
which
as
of the
had
queen.
Cour
des
great bodies
extract
ten
pregnancy
coronation
and
rights
and
queen
Saint-Lazare
as
the
of
those
those
as
to
went
the
meet
from
the
been
erected,
tive
narra-
Tillet:
throne
parement.
clad
far
quote
all
her
both
call
Poitiers.
the
Parliament
that
as
We
queen.
with
place, for
of the
records
The
ranked
be
worthy
for
or
highest degree,
respect
no
provided
he
that
of dignity,
constant
de
in
short
the
wife
as
conduct
the
Diane
with
the
wife's
his
and
confinements
eleven
by
that
display.
to
sentiment
historians
sufficientlyexplain
was
owed
what
of
maintained
either
in
possessed
to
events,
have
rights
clever
evidence
Catherine
Catherine
far that
so
men,
far who
too
In the
which
went
compelled
asserted
queen.
out
weighed
Poitiers, Catherine's
which
II.
gone
never
to
which
therein
seen
dissimulation
have
They
have
of Henri
conduct
de
favorite
the
would
persons
disfavor
of Diane
reign
affabilitytoward
she
of
burden
the
MEDICI
them.
upon
of
DE'
CATHERINE
52
"
"
surcot,
"
took
of mantle
sort
precious stones,
Du
which
"
Catherine
or
had
platform
bodice
Tillet calls
her
on
chaire
place thereon,
of ermine,
underneath
covered
with
the
DE'
CATHERINE
royal
and
cape,
diamonds;
and
pearls
de
Marechale
other
princes
of
gold, with
figures
of
In front
the
seated
in two
dressed
in
pensier,
sur-Yon;
and
la batarde
Diane
"
legitimee
the
morency-Damville,
presidents
and
there
Du
Tillet
their
made
The
queen.
ground,
replied.
litter, about
three
o'clock
de
word
perfection
cramoisi
of the
"
crimson
coloring.
"
"
did
See
the
not
city
the
France
denote
Rabelais.
one
The
four
the
liament,
Par-
form
plat-
the
first
addressed
knee
in
on
an
the
open
afternoon, having
opposite
color
simply,
noble
of the
knee,
one
I /
and
other
ascended
with
in
de
^'
her, and
it also
"
Mpnt-J
de
whereupon
entered
Marguerite
Madame
"The
She
title of
Duchesse
members
on
Made^
"
the
"
seats.
no
reverences,
chancellor,
Poitiers;
divers
clerk
Nivernois,
Connetable
la
other
Mont-
la Roche-
Duchesse
were
the
de
was
with
mortier, some
and
de
de
France
Madame
"
for whom
damsels
de
who
Nemours,
de
Mademoiselle
de
afterward
and
Castro-Farnese,
the
Guise,
clets,
cir-
coronets.
Princesse
de
de Valentinois
countesses,
d'Estouteville,
younger,
of
were
cloaks, and
countess's
or
the
Duchesses
the
d'Aumale,
moiselle
duchess's
the
background.
or
surcots, bodices,
''"^ c^-^^^*-^
cloth
platform,
same
and
with
of
cramoisi*
^*^
the
blood
robe
duchesses
Duchesses
the
elder
in
the
on
twelve
ermine
were
the
l^^^- ^
Around
richly dressed,
red
with
by
honor.
of
princes
queen,
is to say,
that
They
on
rows
of
dressed
France,
studded
supported
maid
noblemen
Chancellor
53
crown
was
her
the
were
and
she
Mark,
la
standing,
her,
head
her
on
MEDICI
expressed
^)f
f^ ^
'
'
"
t^^^^'u^
^
"^
DE'
CATHERINE
54
riding beside
Chatillon,
de
their
received
open
de
Boulogne,
She
there
the
at
of
studded
canopy
is
This
II. carried
far
to
as
which,
such
which
day
of
and
to
D's
for
the
king's
cipher may
Wheat
Catherine,
the
still be
Market,
which
cipher may
also
Denis,
erected
on
the
in her
tomb
repeat
of
ories
mem-
Henri,
back,
II., but
seem
is
may
it is true,
actually
made
vaults
that
alone.
of
caused
Catherine
of
Henri
the
of the
column
by Catherine
in the
lifetime, beside
to
the
to
the
on
built
which
lie every
queen's. Indeed,
the
seen
cipher
coincidence
Henri
seen
was
be
back
royal cipher
initial and
as
dishonor
The
Diane.
gratifying to
been
less, that
of the
same
The
two
have
none
up
of
the
The
so
continued
double
gives
queens.
that
monuments
or
the
unjustly
and
C's
But
alleged
the
on
short-sighted
so
which
two
the
well
are
kings
our
form
who
stories
absurd
the
at
have
proprieties
began
Louvre
the
seen
the
cipher
of those
persons
It is
disregard of
his
scale.
those
sat
velvet
one
of Sauval.
lead
magnificent
be
Rue
She
under
some
advice, he
can
to
which
Catherine's
formed
per-
royal supper
demolish
to
by
had
through
the
table,
was
gold fleurs-de-lis."
ideas
the
Henri
she
escorted
marble
with
held, following
on
the
in
and
great banqueting-hall.
popular
erroneous
Lenoncourt
After
was
fitting place
d'Amboise,
Notre-Dame
at
Palace, where
in the
centre
de
clergy.
she
the
to
prepared
was
the
by
la Calandre
and
alighted
devotions,
her
de
litter,Cardinals
her
rochets.
MEDICI
Saintto
be
II., and
DE'
CATHERINE
which
on
she
sculptor for
On
expedition
it
death;
his
March
satisfied
with
men
and
the
fatal
from
sum
Compiegne,
In
where
obtain
the
to
enlist
Henri
the
II., in
crushing
her
which
reply
and
another,
their
ruins
and
through
a
to
the
set
the
"
by
the
his
system
the
of
Diane
king,
and
and
enough
in
under
the
annoyed
the
king,
of
few
and
realm
XL,
ments
mo-
when
against
continued
IL,
who
the
constable,
friendly to
the
policy, which
royal authority
Louis
Henri
of
efforts
result
the
the
of the
men
sent
knows
when
Florentine
establish
kingdom.
made
with
the
Richelieu.
eyes
clever
Catherine
alone
him
great
to
typical feudal
of
was
by
she
all-powerful
was
was
obtained
Everyone
reply
was.
was
was
king
That
she
described
to
was
who
the
given
advice
when
she
She
after
And,
Catherine
then
11. received
extraordinary
interest.
by Montmorency.
sound
made
constable,
king
the
needed.
king
little influence.
regent
that
that
in such
Parisians, which
the
politics,Catherine
to
and
were
terest
bit-
II.,agrees
as
his
concerning
Henri
Saint-Quentin,
of
of
case
Discourse
duties
they
his
on
Catherine's
1552.
praise,
when
money
considerable
her
of her
in
as
administration.
her
day
well
Catherine
of
universal
win
to
as
way
the
by
Catherine
II. declared
of the
Conduct
acquitted herself
life
started
he
as
25,
author
the
Marvellous
she
to
absence,
on
enemy,
the
when
Henri
Germany,
was
from
posed.
occasion,
during
regent
she
whom
to
55
represented, carved
is
solemn
MEDICI
the
saw
one
upon
by
only
was
lies
great fami-
'
-j/,.
DE'
CATHERINE
dissimulation
in her
persisted
she
speak affectionatelyof
Henri
Diane
all
mourning
wore
de
Monsieur
the
was
killed.
rival,
Breze.
king
and
treated
After
fell into
fashion
dastardly
altogether
inferior
the
her
"I
happy;
without
forget
another
giving
Chaumont-sur-Loire."
suggest
the
exchange
whose
Diane,
d'Aumale
retained
in
Due
the
1566,
her
whole
the
at
therefore, nineteen
dates, taken
wrote
century
of
her
married
to
the
Due
Henri
than
her
toward
the
father's
forty, others
sentence
in
some
II.
These
historian
the
last
light upon
historians
sixteen,
1523.
was,
of
end
fully,
peace-
She
the
throw
tomb,
difficulties;for
was
died
sixty -six.
about
she
sovereign
and
which
her
firming
con-
1559.
epitaph
from
in
fortune
of
and
papers
Bouillon, then
older
years
Chenonceaux
Blois
the
copied
that
age
dear
at
from
historical
many
de
nesses:
wit-
my
exchange,
passed
were
of
made
The
"
were
daughters
and
prince,
who
in
man
offered
presence
accept
estate
the
Chenonceaux.
she
to
in
Diane
of
that
ashamed
am
Valentinois
constable,
chateau
fidy
per-
attention.
de
said, in the
cannot
of
abandoned
the
She
II.
no
reputation.
and
estate
Catherine
Whereupon
Henri
his
to
paid
he
of her
refinement
was
by
which
at
Henri
Duchesse
and
disgrace
utter
queen
with
the
white,
in imitation
have
king's death,
the
most
Poitiers
and
tourney
life for
her
all
historians
which
the
husband,
her
black
were
to
known,
is well
life for
her
failed
never
As
doubtless
mourning
de
II.
at
57
and
colors
them
wore
Diane
to
Her
Catherine,
wore
MEDICI
She
at
the
was
serted
as-
time
then
58
twenty-four
against
moment
when
feel
not
remain
which
must
takes
place
in
instant
the
they
had
age,
It
was
tried
Catherine
to
Catherine
return
magnificent
of which
She
six
of
kinswoman
beauty
to
ballet
recited
uncle
with
of
the
Madame
Claude.
Elisabeth
intended
hopes.
her
of
give
his
on
course
Fleming,
the
Albany,
rice
Cla-
magnificent
-hair
and
fully
wondermaid
Lewiston,
herself; Madame
Queen
was
the
raiment.
in the
Miss
Stuart
be
to
piece of poetry.
own,
black
the
getting
was
perfect blonde;
ill-fated
Stuart
to
Mademoiselle
eight, Mary
her
of fine
Duke
the
superb
hands;
day,
required by
women.
of France,
evidently
One
king's reception
young
relative
power.
choose
not
performance,
Elisabeth
Claude
did
prestige
imaginable,
beautiful
of honor
the
six
she
appliances
for the
her
creature
Strozzi,
Italian
while
women
young
for the
chose
loveliest
without
organized
her
the
by
and
what
rival's
her
on
struggle.
haughty coquette
surrounded
physicians,
by
perverted
are
destroy
to
Saint-Germain
to
facts
point of realizing
Diane,
That
better.
seen
times
the
on
Madame
go
in
was
episodes
see,
great hopes
several
was
In 1554,
king
based
horrible, underground
I.,
occur.
who
Catherine,
Poitiers
can
that
days,
own
Francois
of those
one
We
obscure.
our
of
thing,
every-
justifiedin reaffirming
It is
contradicting anything.
or
toward
family
the
read
having
conduct
her
do
peril,we
dire
such
MEDICI
After
old.
years
for and
the
at
DE'
CATHERINE
nine
twelve.
prominence
of
Spain,
and
years
old,
The
to
queen
Clarice
CATHERINE
Strozzi
and
rivals
Miss
fell in
he
love
Grand
later
But
forgave.
did
that
of her
hear
it is difficult to
in
carried
far
how
of
forget
which
her
carried
of
one
and
the
named
Jean
believe
but
can
in
old,
three
that
of
king's first
were
himself
valet
entitled
epigrams
the
poet
his
written
de
IN
of
at
assured
PICTAVIAM,
Of
is
those
ANUM
which
she
Champagne,
by Salmon
chambre.
her
help
when
1537,
collection
no,
between
war
aimed
was
The
publications
of
collection
V.
"
and
the
poet
published
eulogy
which
Voute,
^to
"
woman,
In
time,
known
Diane
outrageous
of
was
first
the
audacity.
it
fierceness
it
the
Charles
accept
of
of his
to
d'Etampes.
containing
poems
In
given
against
relentless
Madame
to
most
issued
-ever
the
begged
was
question.
generally
so
love
or
far
how
their
was
part
license
thrones,
be
not
thirty-eight years
was
she
was
shows
it may
Chenonceaux
given,
not
the
printing.
their
on
pamphleteers
chateau
to
But
all.
the
tremble
kings
first of
that
decide
fluence
in-
Valentinois
power,
imagine
of
early days
know
place, we
made
the
of
to-day of
dour,
Pompa-
Catherine's
on
may
and
de
de
love
"
her
by
credit
Madame
of love
resist;
not
d'Angoul^me,
Duchesse
ladies
great deal
but
press;
the
without
had
he
Diane's
indicate,
The
did
king
Like
sort
manoeuvre
husband?
We
But
period,
what
offer them
Valois, Comte
de
shaken.
not
were
a
to
59
Fleming,
of France.
Prior
at
and
The
Miss
with
child, Henri
natural
MEDICI
king's favor.
the
to
Fleming
DE'
Latin
her.
of
We
tion
protec-
prefaced by
Macrin,
the
epigrams,
AULICAM,
"
60
POITIERS,
La
AGAINST
"
DE'
CATHERINE
OLD
AN
FEMALE
COURTIER,
fit to
only passage
is the
following
the
MEDICI
be
quoted
to-day:
trahit
"Non
"A
painted
bait
after
alleging
that
teeth
her
you
purchase,"
that
makes
from
desire
lover, for
of
brother
the
Thomas
father,
crime,
Francois
I.
against
Madame
to
of
not
assessed
on
the
of
to-day.
The
press
queens
to
his
cession,
ac-
Chenonceaux,
built
by
his
Thus
Diane
remain
of
published
the
and
nette,
Marie-Antoiwould
one
VoOte
estate
and
more
the
more
when
say
have
must
chateau
than
Gospel enjoins!
jury,
France,
in
pamphlets
nothing
the
under
XII., and
This
the
State
of
which
court
at
VIII., Louis
the
somewhat
were
was
Bohier, the
credit
Councillor
Colines,
II., on
Martial
by
de
Henri
Pompadour
insult, which
an
be
must
one
offered
verses
end.
cost
you
his
were
to
by
bad
Chenonceaux
were
that
what
save
to
Charles
XL,
de
written
come
of
What
compared
everything
obtain
not
do
though
even
of
chased
pur-
Francois
Bohier,
Louis
kings:
and
to
who,
chateau
the
face,
poet,
dead."
man
for his
atone
the
cream
to
BISHOP!"
says
"And
will
you
are
TO
dedicated
were
hair.
adds, "the
he
you
her
This
four
her
and
game,"
no
painted
she
your
alive, and
and
attracts
woman,
ficta prcedatn."
esca
of
ness
forgiveAs
they
penalties inflicted
severe
widowed,
king's apartment
than
those
are
posed
sup-
for
forty
DE*
CATHERINE
other
without
days,
they
do
This
inviolable
not
the
leaving
Culture
of
of
Paris
the
be
betook
herself
that
had
looked
forward
of power
would
which
the
Due
the
Catherine
those
than
dramas
some
accustomed
of
her
life.
in
king,
for
wait
court
went
did
queen
her
not
and
son,
and
her
which,
was
was
she
had
climax
at
incredible
the
the
it
the
seeming
to
to
the
seized
once
presumption:
of
head
the
cardinal
the
clergy.
although
none
to
already passed
Guises
at
of
moment
cruel
reins
the
political career
her, doubtless,
While
when
disgraced,
was
finances
others,
hands,
placed
was
began
time
the
ine
Cather-
which
II., to
as
with
constable
the
managed
the
The
court.
Guise
the
army,
her
chagrin
government
de
as
came
of
years
French
Estienne,
the
The
Francois
fall into
disappointment
the
handled
Eminence,
lying
pretext,
Rue
on
thither.
of
twenty-six
lived
Henri
were
was
"
famous
His
says
morning,
roughly
was
from
found
Romaine,
"Whereat
separated
distasteful
crisis!
II., who
he
heretics
accession
The
upon
Belle
Saint-Germain.
to
interment.
one
such
at
of Henri
upon
to
Early
"
La
time
that
choose
at
this.
tapers;
she
intrigues:
was
the
exceedingly
astonished,"
And,
"
from
the
libertines.
greatly
declared
him."
after
Saint-Catherine,
being
"
until
Lorraine
house
party
of
was
It
de
of the
courtesan
by
it.
Cardinal
the
as
that
feared
who
evade
to
way
forth
custom
Catherine,
to
than
light
come
6l
MEDICI
by
made
less
of
one
less
noise
horrible, and
the
terrible
be
in accord
emotions
with
the
62
Guises,
the
tried
she
of
support
the
to
after
to
jealousy
it seemed
to
girlhood
without
her
cruel
VendSme
sprung
the
of the
"
and
"
which
by
name
circumstances
which
to
political affairs,
attachment
affront
which
Diane
desired
to
that
daughters, who,
oldest
of the
ambitious
of
of
France:
who
male,
made
Francois
I.
proffer
of
in
had
Chartres
court,
as
and
Francois
hundred
them
"
allotted
to
simple
the
de
what.?
with
which
gentlemen.
for
her
from
the
House
the
her
second
Duchesse
to
Prince
crowns,
of
d'Au-
vidame,
kept
fact, when
chamberlains-in-ordinary,
twelve
with
hand
in
the
Conde
"
an
an
especially
was
became
In
the
gave
the
in
favorite.
the
alliances
marriage
by
erine's
Cath-
originated
prudently
very
engrossed
She
behalf
her
condition.
de
afterward
daughter,
was
of
in many
descended
realm.
honor
erine's
Cath-
attention.
were
the
being
history.
honorable
most
de
Bourbons
revealed
no
the
Louis
latter
put upon
man
moreover,
nobility
in
vidame
the
young
the
the
was
paid
of
the
historians,
have
second
love, she
of
son
Chartres,
of Diane
her
nobleman
which
is known
he
hatred
secret
in
resort
whether
or
genuine
from
de
Vidame
feet,
Vendome,
family
to
attain
to
known
de
it
vainly attempted
her
to
interest
Whether
determined
fate
having
liveliest
the
displayed
the
by gaining
Bourbon.
had
king
bring
triumph
having
methods,
violent
most
of
House
the
MEDICI
her
assure
Catherine,
that
was
to
DE'
CATHERINE
whom
an
poverishe
im-
Vidame
came
to
appointments
allowance
were
Although
of
commonly
Diane
de
DE'
CATHERINE
offered
Poitiers
office
under
vidame
the
of
mended
This
with
friend.
Historians
of
Vidame
the
was
he
jealousy; apparently
of
France
that
Medici
done
with
abandoned
by
child.
Thus
Henri
died
was
morals
of
sons
her
efforts
the
the
she
had
the
birth
since
served
no
of
colors
the
to
as
it
as
usual, have
exception for
Henri
of
II. crushed
whom
by
love
the
the
were
the
the
the
most
been
of
which
her
de
last
for
Poitiers.
herself
with
once
so
the
alrous
chiv-
actions
the
rule.
but
the
of
error
The
of the
poor,
volved
in-
situation
noblest
prospects
almost
blameworthy;
general
'^
flirting
be
to
committed
of
had
purpose,
at
";
herself, or
found
was
queen
Valois
Diane
exceedingly
contempt
conformity
licentious, that
so
the
in
in
sign
no
vidame,
the
time, when
historians,
all
with
to
pleasing,
said
was
de
Toulouse,
to
honor
him
Due
that
owed
she
if not
nothing
natural
as
of
king
dream
not
queen
the
last
of
art
com-
devoted
II. gave
Chartres,
liaison
and
taking
the
the
which
the
de
wearing
in
were
at
forget
the
Vidame
the
At
could
When
her.
beheaded
did
h^d
he
him
the
forget what
could
of
Henri
talent.
Jeanne,
received
who
compared
in
had
who
whom
by
the
pride naturally
made
Chartres,
in
and
merit,
and
have
who
Montmorency,
of
Catherine,
to
favor,
marked
Bourbon,
spirit, married
exhibition
vidame
the
this
d'Estissac,
Baron
the
valuable
some
king's favor,
the
then
factious
children.
and
And
shown
daughter
wealth,
crown,
declined.
already
no
immense
63
MEDICI
and
four
bons,
Bourwhelmed
over-
constable's
CATHERINE'S
IN
The
CHAMBER
i?tto
their
forced
informed
being
Guises,
the
of
this
intrigue,
chamber
queen's
to
extort
way
from
her
order
to
consign
the
vidame
the
to
an
Bastille,
and
Catherine
reduced
was
necessity
of
complying.
to
the
dire
^^yUfU
VM
l"ilS.iyil''jLmMt^
DE'
CATHERINE
of
this
intrigue,
chamber
he
dire
after
died,
few
from
Catherine
de'
Protestant
writers
power.
of
her
was
their
her
have
in
order
into
order
an
the
of
The
captivity,
prison,
first
said
to
and
that
consign
queen
to
end
of
love-affair.
only
the
before
the
was
that
day
time
short
Such
vidame
the
on
the
reduced
was
complying.
queen's
consign
to
Catherine
and
informed
being
way
Amboise.
Medici's
poisoned
vidame
Such
months
of
Guises,
of
necessity
conspiracy
secret
from
released
was
the
forced
Bastille,
the
to
the
The
extort
to
vidame
to
Guises.
the
against
65
MEDICI
the
had
the
tomb
the
in
royal
amours!
that
woman's
apprenticeship
CALVINIST
THE
MARTYR
Few
know
persons
dwellings
of
century,
and
this
simplicity
very
of
cause
it
so,
in
history
is
of
man
still
this
and
Study,
history
In
narrative.
the
left
and
Dame
bank
took
of
roadway
the
directly
could
go
au
up
in
down
The
the
Seine,
Pont
public
the
(69)
river
so
in
facts.?
the
Notre-
that
by
and
way
simply
Every
quay.
time
Vieille-Pelleterie
occupied
space
geoisie,
bourafter
first
between
Change.
the
the
mind
preceded
Seine
the
of
the
la
the
of
of
one
every
de
by
groundwork
be
this
its
awaits
inspired
the
to
Rue
on
to
more
to-day;
and
history
ever
present
over
of
demands
the
Is
the
which
free
and
always
come
of
the
was
bourgeoisie,
forms
will
houses
Perhaps
thought
reflection,
conclusion
Pont
houses
situated
the
the
1560,
lined
the
this
life.
noble
it
which
doubtless
fourteenth
the
bourgeoisie
episodes
that
old
written,
will
in
the
were
"
which
remarkable
reading
and
This
episode
most
great
the
genius.
little-known
and
that
be
to
in
their
was
of
than
be,
may
plain
Paris
action
grandeur
assuredly
most
was
simple
how
the
of
bourgeois
the
how
to-day
by
the
house
was
the
pants
occu-
staircases
of
stone
houses
one
water-door.
that
remind
can
will
one
Hotel-Dieu.
and
occupant
of
the
or
abuse
Seine.
the
with
could
mill-ponds
as
supported
wheels!
the
the
exist
so
that
at
that
is
which
certain
are
divided
to
the
original
by
the
proprietors to
character
all the
bridges
the
necessities
Seine
its
numbered
use
were
as
of
many
Paris
would
have
for the
tints
to
in
by
by
painter's
interlaced
the
effects
the
of that
a
where
and
of
the
two
did
not
infancy;
scale
the
with
grass,
the
banks.
by
rivers
where,
long
corresponding
the
by
spectacle,
small
very
their
encroach
to
curious
houses,
on
and
in its
was
provinces,
estates
which
painting
genre
mill-ponds, full
the
timbers
building
engraving
wooden
What
produced
were
the
on
brush.
floodgates
huge
enable
by long fences
of
of
old
presented
lines
the
that
still
the
on
trade
the
to
the
of
deprived
Vendome,
due
of
Some
time, and
indented
presented
house
Unfortunately,
towns
corner
limits.
are
we
the
at
city
curious
river!
be, and
to
the
piles employed
on
sort,
within
mills, their
What
this
is
bridges
formed
was
of
than
allow, the
unique
forest
house
and
Study
guard-house
the
almost
mills
mill-ponds
afforded
a
As
more
navigation
the
or
invented
structures
crowded
of
habits,
his
this
it stands
aspect
land
on
it used
or
houses,
when
as
every
curious
the
Paris
opposite
Formerly,
side
river
of
one
disappear;
soon
door
one
moment
but
us
Petit-Pont,
the
the
exists
there
published,
which
At
gratings,
These
nails.
had
Venice,
in
the
iron
stout
with
studded
gates
like
MEDICI
protected by
wood,
or
wooden
of
DE'
CATHERINE
70
as
at
are
sional
divi-
DE'
CATHERINE
The
of
name
carried
the
the
through
Thus
prices
their
of their
slaves
the
not
took
contrary, they
their
children, and
their
work.
produce
must
offered
a-brac
created
has
masters
will
"
interfered
the
fifteenth
trade
was
The
brought
products
the
Will
of
old
the
in bricof
lack
petition
com-
perfection
of
products
and
sixteenth
and
the
of
the
from
the
far
North,
imparted
of
the
on
In
there
an
industry.
most
tries.
indus-
flourishing
required long
excessive
Then,
consumption,
France
and
ordinances
in
rier's
fur-
centuries, the
price spurred
were
of
ways
al-
guild.
the
of
man
work-
was
of dealers
that
of
them
which
the
the
on
niceties
works
sentiment
beauty
one
voyages,
only
of
obey
made
master,
trade
say
not
the
obstacles.
to
were
to-day;
in the
the
new
the
with
craftsmen
the
dare
you
weakened
In
for
admiration
whose
you
Church.
the
they
them
saint
patron
United
number,
did
masterpiece,
one
the
to
do
become
to
and
masters
and
them,
instructed
scattering
their
by
they
of
care
order
In
of
The
as
was
merchants
the
limited
workmen,
slightest caprices,
the
that
protection.
mutual
maintained.
were
trade
in brotherhood
joined
from
neighborhood
one
which
guild
also
were
the
days,
in
another
the
socially by
they
of
trade, instead
same
one
Jl
stricken
now
those
city, gathered
afforded
thus
In
there.
on
followed
who
street,
sufficientlyindicative
is
map,
this
MEDICI
for
as
other
reserving
and
value
ous
perilto
the
now,
vanity
being
knows
kingdoms,
to
the
the
high
no
not
nobility
DE'
CATHERINE
72
the
right to
furs,
wear
ermine
part played by
certain
and
by dukes,
of
out
in
use
There
and
vair
grand
endless
an
the
was
vair,
is
Recently,
one
obliged
re-establish
to
for
word
the
edification
the
of feuilletons, apropos
is
symbolic slipper
with
word
has
of La
Contes,
of
verre
of
glass.
"
poets
confreres
the
was
of this
orthography
that
probably
Cenerentola,
replaced by
gone
years,
was
been
his
the
of Perrault's
proper
of
certain
between
distinguished
most
our
only by kings,
This
have
doubt
beyond
last hundred
the
but
"
distinction
vair.
to
blazonry,
invested
slipper,which
said
of
old
worn
of editions
famous
by the prominent
which
be
menu
number
Cinderella's
menu
could
entirely in
so
vair,
noblemen
by
high offices.
in the
the
imperial sable,
the
was
furs, like
rare
fact attested
"
MEDICI
writers
wherein
ring, which
the
has
no
significance.
furs
were
concerning
the
continually infringed, to
the
of the
of furs
of
details
All
every
for
and
and
the
all
clothing
useless
possessed
because
which
season,
These
garments
So
in
the
that
constantly renewed,
the
was
faction
satis-
of cloths
and
and
fifteenth
the
at
were
clause
trifling value
in
most
lasted
marriage-contracts,
of
great
article, a
armor,
those
of
wearing
all persons
noblewomen,
bourgeois,
children.
durable
life of
sturdy
each
high price
furniture, the
the
to
more.
their
garment
noblemen,
like
The
furriers.
made
companion
orders
the
Naturally,
fitting
the
other
century.
of wealth,
two
ments
gar-
all their
lives
bequeathed
relating to
to-day
of
days
to
arms
jalmost
wardrobes
of
very
DE*
CATHERINE
High prices
great importance.
capital, which
effects, and
household
which
chests
modern
of
would
have
facility of
reduce
to-day,
sells
of
francs
the
her
has
no
would
have
before
the
that
idea
of
the
that
times
There
exist
to-day
name
is
majority
of
which
bined
com-
tion,
condi-
furrier
^francs
"
of
value
twenty
petty bourgeoise
her
on
ill-humored
an
cloak
man
police-
over
queens,
"
bourgeois
royal
Furrier
whose
and
"
names
not
and
fur.
real
who
fur house,
wealthy
some
do
duchesses,
that
Lepelletier
The
ermine,
families
noble
haled
Chatelet.
the
wear
"
money;
than
trimming
wild
molition
de-
the
present
more
at
only
origin to
social
incontinently and
her
so
the
have
livres
The
several
or
their
the
could
France
Pelletier
article
in 1440
are
for
all
its
to
fur
has
of
way
"
in
America,
demolition
the
money.
who
of
for the
great lady
magistrate
in old
owe
worth
arrested
chancellors
evidently
of
in
was
who
Englishwomen,
know
deshabille
for twenty
courtesan,
to-day,
woman
formerly,
present
our
The
livre
the
of
trade
decline
our
full dress
nothing.
the
ceilings of
the
to
paved
fur
of
immense
in those
distinctions,
the
as
followed
formerly
has
large
in inventories
discovery
apparent
almost
to
the
which
of
to
the
been
transportation,
distinctions
or
The
To-day,
1540.
has
disaster
threaten
apartments.
1840
constituted
packed
was
in durability.
resulted
counted
always
was
73
had
wardrobe
woman's
MEDICI
began
by being
sobriquets.
This
digression
quarrels during
two
will
explain
centuries
not
only
concerning
the
endless
precedence
between
mercers,
first
as
the
of
custom
of
Lecamus's
the
of Pont
au
formed
house,
the
of
the
well
rested
as
is
had
wooden
on
tradesmen's
gallery,
the
bare
left upon
all the
tlie
de
which
it and
cities
pillars,a
of
generic
as
the
Butchery.
necessary
by
Quai
aux
for
donna,
Ma-
in
term
and
Rue
summer
du
Pont
house
in
houses
the
that
the
these
pillars a
walked
under
cover
by
it
these
pillars of
the
of
behind
to
according
These
which
tapers
flowers
All
made
France,
qualifying phrase,
quarter,
had
hardened
ground,
to-day
Change
au
On
end
the
Vieille-Pelleterie, the
pedestrians
where
which
angle
recess
real
pillars.
quarters
street.
called
to-day
in winter.
la
that
Justice
Pont
the
twenty
at
lighted by
of
bouquets
Rue
the
made
with
three
de
of
always
was
on
Palais
corner
queens,
remains
naught
"
for
square
At
which
architect
with
old
on
the
the
of which
of artificial flowers
and
as
corners
the
two
Paris, and
of
Paris,
Lecamus,
Stuart,
one
at
which
adorned
of
corner.
quay
Fleurs, the
Mary
of
was
fourth
situated
of
and
and
in
Sieur
lived
of
tower
the
custom
guild,
Change,
the
save
three
of
furriers
marching
on
guild
who
his
house
formed
insisted
the
Parliament
the
syndic
years
Medici
guild of
the
position
with
de'
and
important
most
furrier, honored
MEDIO
them
influential
the
Catherine
of
each
"
being
also
but
guild of drapers
the
and
the
DE'
CATHERINE
74
the
they
In
decidedly rough.
galleries were
which
to
the
Market,
galleries, which
changeable,
which
mud
the
on
called
added
was
trade
the
were
of
the
pillars of
made
rainy atmosphere
of
DE'
CATHERINE
which
Paris, and
of the
physiognomy
there
Just
as
over
the
of the
that
even
Paris
will
that
than
city
the
by
as
treads
dust, and
to
modern
intended
of
the
tinued
con-
Paris.
an
as
of the
the
on
is
Ages
old
likeness
their
now
absolve
the
less
fragments
preserve
of
of
point
future, which
the
century, from
present
the
The
of
walls
and
wood
laid
of
of
the
adorned
which
with
house
side,
was
thing
well
shaped
like
on
two
tween
bebricks
called
be
gary
Hunin
seen
and
window-sills
as
the
was
the
Madonna,
and
the
lars
pil-
Each
window
and
each
of
different
the
of
fantastic
conventional
as
still
richly carved,
separated
by
design
The
were
front.
intervals
filled with
can
towns.
arabesques
as
the
of
built
were
The
been
form
above
surrounded
street
had
same
wood,
shop
question
slates.
to
as
corner
the
beams
so
provincial
lintels, also
pillar at
with
the
point;
old
in
pieces of wood
crosswise,
some
house
the
covered
the
the
to
to
heels
the
upon
of
are
few
labyrinth
Middle
grandeurs
living evidence,
last
in
of the
the
attempt
which
Assuredly,
and
gloomy
relics
feet
Market,
time;
the
observations
of
crumbling
of
of these
with
these
expression
inroads
of
the
directly
hundred
the
demolished.
be
incompatible
barely
are
remnant
in
house
single
pillars of
old
the
existence
So
there
feature
entirely disappeared.
longer
no
75
prominent
city, have
so
resisted
longest
old
is
river,
remaining
days
were
MEDICI
the
floors
persons
foliage.
river, the
cards
roof
were
or
On
mals
anithe
of the
placed against
each
DE'
CATHERINE
diamonds
she
was
overtaken
into
the
would
by
old
attracted
been
passer-by
the
dropped
of
those
force
gratings
flooding of
the
by
through
which
the
the
The
heavy
front
the
interior
the
houses
who
came
of
to
pillars of
those
advanced
and
and
of
which
ermine,
village taverns,
and
which
made
carried
were
To
the
the
wares
during
stools,
were
fifteen
market
the
could
as
years
and
great
Sir
of Nigel.
hung
was
those
who
The
outside,
attached
to
those
an
ago.
prentices
ap-
passed
sign, which
like
seen
tions
ques-
Scott
Walter
the
day by
be
clerks
the
to
those
pillars,where
blocked
accosted
filth,
of glass,
was
sashes
positions,
the
the
and
answers,
shop
buy,
on
and
raise.
shop
to
duced
prooutlet
no
rubbish
furs
between
the
male
with
the
river
find
customers.
seated
clerks
artificial
wealthy
always
was
tables, and
customs
the
out-of-doors,
passage-way
From
the
of
able
mov-
caused
could
The
deal
great
which
lead
dark.
very
in
girls. They
forgot to
with
she
but
found
a
little
Lecamus's
embellished
was
under
Sieur
of
suppression
the
grating, blocked
of
she
for the
and
when
often
where
attention
caused
downpour
abutters
but
shown
cellars
down
were
wire-nettings,
or
drawn
affairs, about
curious
were
which
demand
the
queen,
shrieks;
her
of water
consumers
the
not
incident
to
and
Temple,
by
diamonds,
That
draught-hole.
talk; it gave
du
had
disappeared
part of
shower,
Rue
on
JJ
the
in
wear
heavy
drain
have
had
to
was
MEDICI
of
"
made
resented
repsome
open-work
78
DE'
CATHERINE
iron
Above
side,
the
ermine,
one
on
words:
the
were
MEDICI
LECAMVS
FURRIER
To
Madame
Royne
la
the
on
To
other
Madame
Royne
la
words
added
indicated
sudden
of the
The
wife
right
of
the
to
of
title of
of the
eminent
and
wareroom
the
which
gave
and
to
his
be
to
found.
In
kings
was
to
the
the
attic
upper
the
rooms
room
days,
had
born
of the
called
to
Between
wooden
those
wives
be
to
services.
and
ning
begin-
In that
nobly
the
but
dame;
was
turned
over-
the
was
by
wife, Mademoiselle
not
was
several
access
wareroom
couple,
and
privilegesgranted
by
rendered
II., which
river.
the
entitled
were
The
new.
Guises.
on
who
man
husbands
large
looked
been
produced
and
court,
the
usually
Paris
reason
their
of
Henri
had
was
revolution
of
at
Mere
gilding
recent
bourgeois
were
Messievrs
and
Royne
The
death
fortune
back-shop
Lecamus,
by
la
fortunes
venerable
the
the
violent
many
the
Madame
to
quite recently.
change
the
Mere
Parlement
DV
The
Roy
le
Sire;
NOSTRE
and
and
and
no
geois
bour-
demoiselle,
confirmed
whom
the
they
to
had
back-shop
spiral staircase,
floors
apartment
the
where
of the
lighted by
old
round
DE'
CATHERINE
where
windows,
the
This
inside
person
in
together
the
present
city;
the
Middle
Ages;
all deference
only
in the
at
de
Coligny,
princes,
sovereign
lived
sovereigns,
like
of
Duke
the
occupied
quartered
was
in
then
not
palaces belonging
vassals,
great
the
been
man,
great noble-
were
say,
to
or
than
sumptuously
more
There
found
have
very
retinue
is to
that
"
in the
which,
be
can
for instance,
his
by.
near
fiftyhotels,
to
who
greatest German
Bavaria
or
the
Elector
Saxony.
under
the
which
the
where
the
all in
one.
always
cook
family
merchant's
life
on
of
sort
draw
linen
was
water
important
for
some
was
with
The
and
wainscoting,
it
was
and
and
salon,
which
apartment,
pail,
back-shop
study,
object of art,
passed
It had
balcony from
iron
its handsome
was
river.
the
washed.
dining-room,
noticeable
with
on
could
In that
embellished
establishment
directly
opening
merchant's
the
Lecamus
the
back-shop,
door
glass
was
of
kitchen
The
Paris, and
by the
love,
would
period,
Admiral
public-house
of
which
that
in
then
was
private life
historians,
and
romancers,
rooms
of
stratagems
serious
to
which
territory covered
At
all Paris
of
the
explains
eaves,
Paris
details
each
by
apprentices slept
the
for them.
like
three
curious
and
with
but
of
of the
tenth
upon
the
under
population
massed
occupied
spaces
room
and
families, servants,
where
house,
large
enormous
lost
small
the
the
of
together
and
apprentices,
and
lived.
apprentices
crowding
79
maid-servant,
children, the
the
and
clerks
MEDICI
the
was
and
chest, the
scene
of
80
DE'
CATHERINE
the
after
suppers
merry
conferences
secret
bourgeoisie
guilds
of
thousand
for
in
had,
famous
had
they
parlouer
held.
were
had
made
by
their
king
The
that
the
quay
the
Quai
aux
wind
high
tower
of
that
the
of
house
beginning
way
for
favorable
At
the
intensely
of
*Lecamus,
of
one
that
night
fatal
than
time
over
by
to
and
time
of
where
save
de
the
Justice,
the
wooden
destined
massacres,
shops,
to
which
foot
see
paved
unhappily
the
the
more
Calvinism.
this
when
excited
of
bridge
trees
lying at
episodes
those
picturing
Saint-Bartholomew.
houses
was
become
the
Palais
surrounded
then
tower,
doubted
the
that
which
exhausted
in
where
old
that
Paris.
heads,
of
ace
pal-
In
be
where
the
of the
one
leader
subject
Paris
the
signal for
Strangely enough,
it may
entered
one
guilds,
their
rear
remind
the
the
to-day,
Fleurs
geois
bour-
sacrifices
difficultynow
old
The
deliberations
rebellious
of
corner
to
gave
solemn
have
clerks,
assemble.
to
chants
mer-
de Ville
Hotel
constant
no
the
merchants,
the
to
ever
remains
famous
of
right
find
will
and
which
the
IV., that
reader
naught
of
in
Henri
himself
workmen.
by famine,
last, would
at
their
and
and
whether
servants,
their
losses
hundred
their
unendurable
war
equip
of
for the
Except
powerful
decisions
bourgeois
aux
The
The
provost
they obeyed,
where
to
and
the
time
that
at
the
politicalinterests
monarchy.
war.
apprentices,
whom
the
supported by
were
their
and
could
men
the
of
and
day's work,
concerning
of the
Paris
the
MEDICI
the
narrative
begins,
audacity of
the
Paris
was
professors
DE'
CATHERINE
of the
Stuart
the
religious doctrines.
new
had
murdered
of
members
of
burned
tailor, whom
caused
to
Paris
was
put
so
closely watched
to
bad
opposed
refused
or
grace,
their
to
been
standing
gone
away;
who
fear
of the
image
at
that
o'clock
seven
seeing
under
that
removing
were
samples,
as
the
stood
in
"
in
watching
the
Monsieur,"
pointing
under
may
to
the
be
6
said
gallery
thief
or
with
a
the
of
spy;
turned
his
without
out
dark
grow
the
the
to
pray
to
tices,
apprenstill passing
were
of
the
the
street,
outside
and
house
ardent
an
youth
apparently
doorway,
them
walking
was
a
son,
apprentices.
one
who
man
furrier's
displayed
Lecamus,
so
had
and
closing
to
act
an
house
to
sides
both
with
had
go
people
merchandise
the
Christophe
twenty-two,
absorbed
few
preparatory
shop.
of
only
in
who
beginning
was
pillars on
the
to
pelled
com-
complied
having
April, 1560,
in
Madonna,
him
force
It
Virgin.
the
the
of
able
was
would
they
archers
archers
Christophe,
Catholicism,
presence.
Lecamus's
strongly suspected
on
the
of
had
the
two
corner
that
so
was
back
the
The
king's
Poitiers
perform
to
tion
execu-
late
their
either
altogether
ideas.
at
in
before
pray
heretics, who
detect
to
to
public
the
the
de
that
of
one
Bourg, recently
Diane
question
the
be
passers-by
order
II. and
Henri
du
after
Grdve,
de
that
in
share
Anne
named
whom
to
largest
the
Place
in
Minard,
Parliament
the
fellow-member
his
Scotchman
President
opinion attributed
8l
MEDICI
back
hesitating air,
at
all
Christophe,
to
events,
"
and
that
he
forth
fellow
can't
be
82
-honest
an
would
of
come
back
What
eye!
the
When
he
crossed
returned
had
called
drama
faithful
king
"Do
described
yellow
the
by
in the
alone
was
tice
appren-
doorway,
where
he
as
he
was
under
passed
the
shutters,
the
apprentices
accosted
he
the
he
devoted
Reformation,
would
show
actors
started
at
you
the
brated
cele-
most
in the
terrible
started
as
recognizing
on
furs?
Although
myself,"
some
it's
said
whom
apprentices
invited
he
he
that
he
the
reformer
preferred
to
to
talk
enter.
outside.
followed
the
the
in to
went
get
his
cap,
and
Calvin.
Although
banished
plenipotentiary
Calvin,
of the
one
him.
replied
discipleof
look
deceive
gesture,
Christophe
secret
undertone.
an
Christophe
have
to
I will
to
behind
a
of
name
most
wish
Christophe,
With
in
disguise.
dark,
heard
and
peasant
in
said
he
the
the
you
almost
from
close
heard
he
leaders
But
stranger.
What
shop, before
Chaudieu!"
am
When
his
of
way
man.
young
"
cloak!
street, and
the
to
instead
imitating the
gallery opposite,
pillarsby Lecamus's
the
what
he
us,
look!"
thus
left the
with
openly,
us
And
in his
Christophe
hurriedly
walking,
face
stranger
that
saw
to
added,
he
hungry
business
does.
he
his
hides
MEDICI
any
speak
as
himself!"
he
How
had
and
up
hanging
"
if he
man:
carrying
DE'
CATHERINE
who
Geneva,
directed
went
of
Theodore
the
and
came
de
Reformation
as
he
B^ze
in
chose,
and
France
defying
DE'
CATHERINE
cruel
the
punishment
in concert
make
to
its
with
This
and
was
of
one
France
religious
those
afford
which
of
action
subterranean
entrance
which
to
the
house
river
used
was
wash
to
cloths.
single
boatman.
the
boat
Pont
au
iron
an
"
We
spies
nor
glancing
boat
in the
her
city to
silks, and
middle
the
of
of the
he
quickly
made
"Are
yet
here
no
without
within
two
one
men
you
had
man
boat-
arches
of
fast to
spoken.
hearing,"
filled
and
the
her
fear, there
who
instant
an
river, and
where
As
their
stature
In
bow.
go to
charge of
wooden
the
"
in
la
Pont-aux-Four-
of the
small
de
Rue
there, in the
stranger,
sat
under
their
threads,
sage,
pas-
Lecamus's
between
the
Marion
This
of the
traitors
Christophe.
mighty
edge by
ago.
one
talk
at
He
machine
the
beneath
Change,
ring.
years
dyers
was
was
can
of
years
of the
that
called
the
by
dressed,
guided
of
it, ran
was
their
small
simply
very
aroused
the
water's
to
was
next
Vieille-Pelleterie, and
the
soldiers,
best
of
the
to
filled in ten
was
It
tain
cap-
inaugurated.
wheels
similar
passage
arch, which
reurs.
be
to
Christophe
led
and
twenty-two
explanation
best
was
Reformation.
Chaudieu
house
the
secret
the
the
the
of
Bourg.
Calvin
which
about
then
of
Coligny's
with
arms
beginning
wars,
one
de
du
brother
of
one
Anne
faith, whose
Admiral
the
the
at
was
of
one
condemned
had
ing
act-
in order
king
the
celebrated
the
of the
minister
and
example,
members,
own
Parliament,
the
Church
the
terrible
which
to
83
MEDICI
were
with
neither
are
said
Chaudieu,
unknown
that
to
spirit of
DE'
CATHERINE
of her
rid France
to
to the
the
which
crown,
Let
bourgeoisie.
for
and
and
monks,
sell
not
fear
families
our
it
sooner
for
to
dren
chil-
our
and
free
day
some
erty
prop-
later
or
die
to
be
to
their
restore
to
will
us
85
MEDICI
happy."
of
of the
faces
The
the
especially
history
of
certain
to
that
period,
men
to
by
in
took
France,
classes
The
great
advance
these
adventurers,
to
sons
But
agreeable.
based
church
to
once
property
and
The
revenues.
the
to
profits of
this
but
among
and
the
youth
men,
tradesand
were
verted
con-
turn
over
convents,
suppress
their
world
were
younger
the
would
purse,
cause
sincere
enormous
reckoned
religious operation,
body, soul,
themselves,
business
to
of
to
equally
nations
poorer
State,
the
were
and
dignitaries of
whole
only
and
artisans
religion which
root.
parties
sort
in
lower
taken
religion was
The
the
with
different
age.
Luther
movement
of any
new
church
deprive
execution
the
reflection.
upon
at
in
their
by Calvin
had
noblemen,
the
among
faith
the
ruined
disturbances
whom
the
widely
given
of
hold
entirely unconnected
To
it is
and
of thought
habit
light,
twi-
entire
by
Scotland,
supported
interests
added
the
the
noblemen
of religion.
in
of
the
spirit of
especially firm
an
wherever
that
true
undertaken
Knox
John
Germany,
the
description,
contains
the
represent
gleams
merits
if it be
religious reformation
The
last
description
that
as
the
on
sitting
stranger
which
picture
of Chaudieu,
youth,
the
lighted by
thwart,
formed
of
and
boatman,
forward
enthusiastic
and
up
devoted
its successful
the
French
86
DE'
CATHERINE
bourgeoisie
doctrine
new
is unknown.
such
always
are
as
foresaw
republic
establish
last
at
that
their
in
the
in which
that
by
the
League,
and
forth
Orleans
in
Valois
the
au
by
by
of the
Catherine
the
himself,
when
Change,
the
the
Bourbons;
cloak
the
were
question
of the
thus
Medici,
was
the
to
always
of
Bourbon
in
rebellion.
which
beneath
swaddling-clothes
of
behind
skiff
and
House
says
House
the
ambition
de'
or
The
princes,
moment
of
vived
re-
omists
econ-
XV.,
the
by
examination,
is either
domination.
new
of Pont
rivals
says
the
XVI.;
House
the
by
as
conceals
younger
At
1789,
rebellion
prince
branches,
be
Richelieu
by
Louis
Louis
under
younger
who
He
Every
of
the
sowed
to
with
reappear
under
book
which
repressed
to
full bloom
in
by
1589.
XIV.,
sented
repreof Alva.
ideas, destined
be
of
power
famous
forth, and
encyclopzedists
favored
Louis
again by
triumphed
Duke
his
to
government
II. and
the
by
meditating
to
aimed
greatest
Philip
by
of those
seed
of
which
the
is set
project
the
in France
burst
with
masses,
and
form
the
fishness
sel-
minds,
of the
midst
Provinces,
then
was
keen
Reformation,
Europe
which
whom
to
in the
Countries
Low
kind
in the
struggle
Hotoman
and
men,
Spain, governed
age,
Jean
Eminent
United
in the
in
young,
noble
that
every
found
throughout
established
of
of the
enthusiasm
the
encountered
sacrifices
toward
tendency
kindles
the
MEDICI
Bourbon,
the
lay
under
Guises,
crown,
able
tion.
Reforma-
the
curiously
was
to
the
who
arch
plicated
comwere
represented
maintain
the
DE'
CATHERINE
this
pulled
and
way
itself face
XVL
Louis
then
portion of
devoted
harsh,
hair
his
copper;
of
its
well-bred
centre
in
his
rough, dry,
his
of
point of
to
white
and
arch
of
of
the
by
whole,
at
barely
an
of
the
itself
lacking
His
on
the
which
over
eyes,
covered
with
were
became
any
power
awning,
nose;
nose
intelligence
an
of
but
like
sharp
people, just
denoted
account
eyebrows,
top
seemed
Christophe
His
nothing
Life
common
extent.
protruded
a
guised
dis-
not
distinguishes
chest.
the
good
its whole
itself;
larity
irregu-
denoted
in tone.
harsh
circumference,
the
down,
white
as
the
character.
hollow
ling,
spark-
than
giving
embrace
the
slightly
face, taken
capable
of
shrewdness
the
forehead
of
yellow
was
which
the
blonds;
reveal
soul
bad, and
was
his low
rather
was
noble
nobility
great energy
nervous
as
of
and
was
denoted
his
had
and
bright
were
ardent,
some
triangular shape
air
the
the
resembling
face
his
almost
men;
than
more
of
that
by
did
only
outline
for the
color
blue-gray eyes
in them
"
to
of
was
distinguishes
which
tone
warm
people,
fair face
his
of
barrier
the
represented
people:
found
yield.
always
well
the
before
alone
being
demolished
the
XV.
one
barrier
no
had
XIV.
will
was,
Lecamus
Christophe
his
king left
with
people,
Louis
of
hands,
several
nobility,Louis
of the
parliaments.
as
the
to
instead
crown,
by
and
Richelieu
barrier
the
that
with
face
to
between:
the
later, the
whereas,
them
by opposing
87
MEDICI
detail
rounded
sur-
ing
gleamwhich
88
almost
tophe
always
indicates
the
type of
was
himself
and
himself
allows
and
of
minister
from
with
the
Reformation
spirit and
whose
formed
Calvin
He
son.
which
effect
the
of
the
to
risks
black
little
say
his
recoil
to
all in
fortune
indicated
at
silence
hair,
on
a
a
in
card.
well
faith
to
which
the
His
as
in
like
to
the
to
He
rier's
fur-
of
was
heat
erator
gen-
bronzed
by
dew
and
quickly,
of the
as
with
gambler
stakes
in his
His
with
who
muscles
speech.
days
adventurer
hardihood
vigorous
the
vulture's, and
Everything
a
B^ze
de
living cause
the
act
passions,
of
be.
and
type
the
enthusiasm
imagine
to
typical
pastors
Christophe.
single venture,
nothing.
as
eye,
was
terrible
contrast
nights
to
greedy, orange-hued
curly
was
impulsive creature,
accustomed
fire,
chin,
the
the
flashing
of Theodore
camp
would
an
fervent
the
mouth,
kindled
machine
popular
boatman,
sun,
under
self.
him-
yellow complexion,
seen
one
seek
hair, thinned
represented
was
what
precisely
The
well
sell
to
brown
admirable
an
to
sincere, fanatical
many
de
noble
too
to
the
Christian
aide
enough
that
the
courage
The
people.
and
so
clever
Chaudieu,
short, upturned
owed
votes
de-
fightsfor it,
generous
eloquent
of that
representative
the
the
brow,
eyes,
it, too
who
people
cause,
idea,
an
son,
by sleepless nights,
brown
to
misled;
faith, with
the
combative
soul
be
excitability.Chrisof the
man
promote
Lecamus's
Beside
the
to
advantage
selfish
MEDICI
excessive
and
body
understand
his
DE*
CATHERINE
appearance
which
were
manner
would
adapted
was
DE'
CATHERINE
rather
although thin,
He
of the
world's
leader.
would
have
he
The
his
and
of his
odor
indicated
gloves,
his
attitude, his
indicated
deformed,
defects
and
and
eyes
the
the
said
finished
camus
Conde,"
Thus
common
he
Chaudieu,
four
soldier, and
the
men
and
the
broken,
indefinable
an
He
of
the
had
Navarre,
which
was
of France.
as
as
soon
"this
le
to
royalty hiding
is La
Prince
de
little hunchback.
the
the
Le-
young
boatman
represented
spirit of
spects
re-
forget
once
Monseigneur
pointing
One
intensely interesting.
sentence,
is
keen
small
of face
kings
became
scene
as
appearance
House
the
Bourbon
the
this
people,
of
Spanish type
added,
those
very
nose
his
and
Renaudie;
was
attractive.
of
"Well,"
ice
the
even
his
one
made
accentuated
word,
made
soon
him
and
was
decision,
short
characteristic
In
manners
He
good-humored
which
court,
respect.
respects himself.
energy,
blue
imposed
of
material
His
war.
social
cut, material,
of the
of
man
in
wrapped
and
style
sort.
some
highest
the
tranquil air,
at first and
his
but
displayed
he
the
the
who
man
the
habitue
an
of
thwart,
to
as
the
Morgan
or
action
a
picked
Reformation,
no
linen, the
his
haughty,
disquieting
was
on
garments,
his
glance
of
fineness
The
order.
sat
period
any
been
been
belonged
evidently
cape,
had
from
battle
At
have
of violent
who
man,
the
Pizarro, Cortez,
man
"
third
would
he
which,
nose,
shrewd.
and
If there
been
Exterminator,
His
sniffed
up,
active
history
party
noble.
turned
was
seemed
afar.
than
presumptuous
89
MEDICI
the
Word,
in the
faith of
the
shadow.
hand
the
of
DE'
CATHERINE
90
"
You
shall
continued
that
what
time
astonishment
may
you
divulge
to
make
no
the
most
and
La
you
subside.
to
mistake,
we
young
In order
"
obliged
are
momentous
you,'*
give
to
pause,
of
expect
we
minister, after
the
Lecamus's
learn
now
MEDICI
secrets
to
of
the
to
the
Reformation."
The
prince
minister
continue,
to
prince himself
to
show
held
those
his
he
head
his
the
he
from
with
but
and
contented
great
of
to
the
moment,
and
for
the
freely
in
spiracy,
con-
risked
he
lowed
al-
enterprise under
the
himself
he
the
is not
kingly dignity
of which
instrument
new
of
explain
to
all
soul
danger
sort
Like
cowardice,
the
no
minister
from
was
allow
policy
decisive
not
to
paused
wished.
the
"
times
consideration,
the
peace
shrank
he
if he
until
critical
motioned
conspiracies, whose
themselves
prince
when
speak
in
engaged
men
Renaudie
with
studying
needs
must
make
use.
"
My
used
by
first
battle
hence
our
Guises
and
the
troops
be
two
France
victory
mark
is
you,
great
men
Cardinal
will
be
will be
not
completely
of the
not
of
de
the
harlot.
Ere
uprising
lay
our
speak
The
kingdom.
kingdom
Lorraine
and
few
detect
the
days
in
the
the
duke,
the
nation,
of the
purpose
his
is
France;
majority
the
king
until
arms
of
the
or
This
power.
her
fight our
to
religion
down
speech
scaffolds,
on
our
of
long, then,
in
of
won
form
about
are
dying
more.
queens
will
we
Roman
no
first armed
"
the
with
will
the
and
the
Huguenots,
the
in the
of
brother.
CATHERINE
House
of
France
as
it has
made
It
Lorraine
its
of
to
usurp,
If
destroy.
to
Let
menaced.
odious
laid
that
as
from
Lorraines
but
a
duel
or
will
they
"
Well
"
In
Renaudie,
tend
is
party
interests,
to
the
be
set
up
king for
arrears
of
has
on
the
pay."
faction
and
It
sword.
the
to
quarrel
to-day
but
to
as
formerly
crown;
This
equally
who
way
it.
the
prevent
is not
civil war,
Reformation,
the
them
bite the
dust,
prince.
Christophe,"
interposed
to
leave
undone
the
size
Reformation,
of nobles
cardinal
the
increase
shamefully
soldiers
interests
us."
wish
in the
the
will make
we
it is because
the
birth
end
an
Guises
emergency,
to
and
it
it seeks
arms,
fire and
with
find
which
which
in
its
and
it
ally,
endangered,
at
put
to
the
make
"we
will
a
France
Church,
the
throne
Bourguignons,
this
rise
equally
renewing
death;
the
to
people
will
between
duel
of
XI.
Conde
de
Prince
the
of Valois
the
of
crown
to
and
the
upon
decide
Bourguignons
the
between
of
House
the
Louis
for
strangle
of
religion, the
formidable
partisans,
are
us
Paris
waste
required
we
nobility
the
Leaning
a
of the
9I
claim
to
guardianship
liberties
the
of
Catholic
Church
the
for
the
assumes
seeks
the
proposes
patrimony.
monks
the
has
MEDICI
plea of defending
the
On
DE'
cost
of
our
the
party
party
of thwarted
to
fooled
Fontainebleau,
to
at
the
which
^for there
"
sacrificed
driven
which
nothing
La
Lorraines,
of old
whence
them
hang
those
of their
who
equipment,
should
or
ask
for their
DE'
CATHERINE
of
bases
The
the
but
there;
hand
The
of
minute
employ
or
and
of any
be
and
suspected
with
David
juncture
both
other
You
court.
way
send
to
might
would
which
mother's
connivance
given,
no
can
there
that
talk
is in
this:
we
no
if you
shall
opprobrium
duty
and
are
throw
and
bound
detected,
upon
infamy.
We
our
great
river
many
where
post.
say,
attract
so
like
be
to
will
if need
shall
no
queen-
alarm
shall
we
you,
the
you
at his
die
to
to
imprudent
of
are
son,
my
or
of
one
employ
the
rier
fur-
in
will
an
the
but
place
fearlessly. You,
who
you;
is
you
Where
like
is
who
send
for
Guises
the
sling, to
is the
Any
cause
at
us
something
to
him.
would
you!
Look
his
has
him
insignificantperson
an
notice.
spies
with
detected,
once
man,
send
father,
suspicion
communicate
and
head
to
instantly
for himself,
his
arouse
impossible
would
Catherine.
with
pay
object
is at all known
suspicion
no
arouse
Queen
compromise
leaders
act
will
pected,
sus-
them.
the
should
persuade
them;
his
be
for
to
always
after,
here-
waving
are
who
Your
are
us
never
it is
shepherd
and
queens,
lead
ourselves
God
friends
added,
unable
Guise.
established.
to
person
be
the
of
Goliath
confront
Catherine.
Madame
this
would
our
must
person
such
prominence;
of
that
espionage,
a
be
friends
our
intermediary
as
to
he
sacrifice
all
must
93
are
prince, "they
queen-mother
such
who
those
are
the
we
Many
monseigneur,"
like
toward
Blois.
at
they
and
government
new
is
court
MEDICI
the
we
tinel
sen-
stand
Under-
all abandon
seems
best, that
lose
pledge
shall
in my
them
of the
ruin
to
as
So, you
Prince
the
that
gentleman
and
heart
sent
to
we
see,
sacrifice."
de
them
serve
Conde,
family
your
of Navarre;
House
the
to
Guises
us.
life," said
word
sacred
be
order
your
my
MEDICI
creature
unconditional
an
If you
**
in
r61e
of you
ask
are
you
this
play
**
DE'
CATHERINE
94
I will
in every
carry
possible
way."
"Your
promise, my
Christophe, forgettingthat
"
These
times
are
should
There
**
hand
his
show
you
is
our
men
laying
we
his
should
be
you
serve.'"
is what
La
to
a
As
me
you
propose
to
guepinV
pier
and
be
do.
You
the
man
gentle-
there:
for
face, my
my
that
will
reply:
will
find
say
'
Breton,
who
to
you:
Ready
horse
will take
at
to
this
the
You
Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois.
le
will
you
mission,
your
they
journey.
I will
of
hand
not
whole
But
me.
you
I shall
changed
so
execution
the
must
for Jean
if the
Beaugency,
during
the
on
Fleurie, near
will ask
reach
you
recognize
to
"I
**
Renaudie,
clothing, will
unable
prince,
equal value."
until
find
voice, my
Pinte
"
preaches,
endangered
be
will
the
prince fights.
said
papers
not
'Are
of
ye,"
the
added
the
are
Hark
must
be
Renaudie,
shoulder,
if Chaudieu
that
armed,
all stakes
You
La
said
stamp,"
If all
Huguenot!
true
man,"
"Young
you
geois,
bour-
or
to-morrow."
masters
"
Gascon.
prince
everyone,
Christophe's
on
plotter was
duty."
his
spoke
of
were
do
when
the
sufficient," replied
is
prince,
you
to the
DE'
CATHERINE
and
stable
known
give you
do
to
the
city by
me,
take
Bussy
all the
in
which
You
Leave
has
detour
Orleans
reach
can
for
pass
off; make
be
been
has
hours.
eight
Breton
and
towns.
95
ponies
gate;
yourself
it for
around
of my
one
thirty leagues
the
MEDICI
by
daylight."
"
And
"
He
won't
guarded,
for
shrewdly.
Invent
enable
to
glover.
You
Service
of
will
furnish
will
you
with
all
speed,
white
gunwale.
about
noon
which
on
You
can
you
Our
Loire, they
the
you
will
day
after."
"Your
be
able
and
take
will
words
tophe, touching
the
are
his
watch
really
the
forehead.
as
is, to
four
of
one
are
the
us.
He
boatman,
down
reach
with
you
boat
incurring
without
do
not
landing-places.
to-morrow
here,"
the
Beaugency
find
Guises,
other
an-
to
boat
green
queen
engraved
left
man
Go
Blois
to
Tourillon,
we
I will
the
the
The
"
There
see
'
best
door, crying:
the
probably
enemies,
to
think
one
stamp.
same
to
only
part
to
is
down
go
play your
on
Guisard,
well
are
It is
you
on
entrance
suspicion.
trustworthy
to-morrow.
risk.
any
with
the
house
Guise!
he
that
of the
Guisard
pier
de
know
who
ones
fable
thrice
frantic
gates
belongs
knock
Messieurs
the
you
third
it
at
that
see
the
him
arouse
whatever
reach
all appearance,
only
to
Orleans;
enter
you
not
must
you
friend,
you
for
Orleans,"
reach
you
"Leave
faubourg;
and
my
you,
before
out
give
Bannier
the
Lecamus.
queried young
Renaudie.
La
replied
to
horse?"
the
said
watch
Thus
or
the
Chris-
96
DE'
CATHERINE
Chaudieu
fervor;
"
he
setting
timbers
"
La
**
shall
young
which
conspirator
led
into
under
the
through
pointing
red
the
and
bled.
bub-
Bonhomme!"
Jacques
hand.
Christophe's
said
in
old
forest
the
foamed
water
charm,
the
the
prince,
there
which
Renaudie
oars.
La
the
lower
on
his
rays
said,
was
friendship.
like
of
with
old
infinite
stroke
tinged
monsieur,''
again,
of
very
a
of
race
meet
he
the
pressing
gesture
something
With
the
Renaudie,
We
with
which
of
are
you!"
its
sent
among
You
said
which
and
devout
unusually
him.
over
sun,
roofs
shingled
of
watch
with
boy
of
proud
was
God
May
the
to
the
embraced
MEDICI
house,
arches
and
of
the
Pont
step
boat
au
landed
of
the
instantly
Change.
the
flight
appeared
dis-
Christophe
the
shook
leading
stairway
windows
he
came
in
and
him
let
gnonne,
young
the
servant,
excited
from
I will
Hush,
old
book.
"
"
three
yonder
wife,"
exclaimed
was
you
boys
who
don't
"why
supper,
o'clock,
7
and
you
had
Prince
and
of
could
even
civil
war
hurriedly
his
but
back-shop;
must
three
the
that
Here,
Your
restrain
not
appeared.
talking
who
man,
the
rushed
Catholic,
old
warrant
were
with
he
the
to
he
eh
street
which
spectacle
reply;
no
kitchen
when
the
by
Chaudieu,
and
probable
made
fanatical
wrath
*'
to
the
by
the
mother,
you
to
Bourgui-
incident
relations
Renaudie,
hand,
at
"
was
was
La
door,
river
the
by
direct
into
La
Conde,
her
he
rage."
pretty
the
by
bewildered
him
brought
up
how
done
out
went
you
back
in
be
Christophe,
close
that
rejoined
"
come
you
will
more
master,"
my
and
father
de
him
be
to
of
in.
"So,
door
thing
one
asked
replied
first
the
shouted
opened
and
Christophe
that
and
him,
back-shop,
closed
which
river,
heard
the
there.
freezing,
grating
the
to
Lecamus
Mademoiselle
the
iron
the
ref
are
the
"
long
go
you
be
up
(97)
at
he
began.
of
five
added,
It's
bed?
in
the
huge
turning
finished
since
to
whom
white-haired
leaves
lazy knaves,"
had
she
"
sage,
the
turning
with
men
their
eight
morning.
98
DE'
CATHERINE
the
By
way,
and
cap
must
you
Go,
gown.
other
good-for-naughts
force
at
is to
queen-mother,"
said
be
in
from
go
of
one
the
at
there
the
de
for
Blois
clerks.
Catherine's
thousand
it's
crowns;
and
money,
the
Hotel
to
"Queen
three
the
which
to
mean
go
to
myself."
I can't
Father,
times
for
this
at
"Are
at
cloaks
and
The
twenty-two,
am
said
glued
you
roared
the
after
who,
man,
du
sentence
pass
of the
was
to
as
its
on
was
the
de
the
president,
that
Prince
to
de
surcot.
old
be
their
Palais,
on
illustrious
of Counsellor
called
Conde
man
furs.
death-warrant
destined
longing
Thou's
to
me
the
at
before
upon
the
to
end
year.
La
Bourguignonne,"
said
my
gossip Lallier
come
bring
trust
can
the
receive
the
in such
instantly took
who
Monsieur
signing
Bourg,
you
bench?"
the
to
rapiers and
following day,
and
age
contained
probably
apprentices,
Parliament
at your
of
risk
the
run
Christophe, casting
which
box
to
you
country,
you,"
allow
the
about
these.
as
glance
to
I had
that
travelling
"
your
fall in with
surcot
delivered
syndic;
to
amounts
Blois
ask
the
said
high time
the
should
ermine
be
to
courier
account
do
take
yourselves, you'll
the
ordered,
queen
"No,"
"
take
also
we
Soissons.?
the
like
and
his
all events."
Shall
young
If you
rapiers.
Thou
de
of you,
all three
and
"
President
carry
clubs
your
MEDICI
the
tell
him
wine:
to
we'll
bring
to
furnish
his
the
old man,
and
the
sup
with
eatables;
daughter."
"go
us,
be
and
and
sure
DE'
CATHERINE
The
sixty,
with
white
furrier
As
all the
had
of
syndic
the
to
furriers
hair
and
of
his
to
the
of
years
had
to
law's
mistress, and
of
mistress
the
furrier
had
Medici,
husband,
steered
his
the
often
shared
of
attitude
his
excessive
him
caught
in
its
fifteen
in
court,
favorites,
and
preserved
a
the
the
late
fortune.
Valentinois,
king.
But
all
He
was
He
snares.
elsewhere;
He
was
enjoyed
his
of
had
of his
sign
his
roof
own
as
he
consideration
highest
very
He
assistance
the
first
the
among
none
which
he
to
services
many
was
place
ready
always
was
others,
of
more
for
Such
far-sighted
he
ble
hum-
was
absolute.
was
confreres,
his
the
long possession
to
home
at
queens,
intact.
shrewd,
despotic
manner
affabilityhad
establishment
denoted
under
and
conseque
in-
an
princesses,
modesty
an
never
such
by
service, and
the
his
that
His
had
assumed
greatly respected
trade.
those
maintained
Pride
of the
presence
as
the
tradesmen
He
humility.
policy necessarily
man.
the
father-in-
court
bending
de
court
of
the
equalled
prudence
at
safely through
way
I., and
rivalries
her
Duchesse
the
seen
barely
her
vicissitudes, in which
strange
so
her
the
d'Etampes,
to
had
arrival
watched
Duchesse
the
knee
the
of
man
forehead.
he
years,
despite
de'
had
old
reign of Francois
the
witnessed
he
age;
fine
forty
Catherine
young
was
royal patent
He
mistresses.
99
broad, smooth
for
court
revolutions
clung
of
the
MEDICI
and
of
because
his
in
do
he
branch
friend
had
noteworthy
long
he
time
gave
dered
ren-
than
to
the
to
CATHERINE
DE'
had
family
he
present,
unknown
in
of
looked
should
be
in the
forward
first president of
of
person
Christophe,
had
him
led
the
have
for
hesitation
he
seemed
business,
advocate
of
him;
This
on
seat
with
level
aspired
bourgeoisie, from
Parisian
Moles, the
the
Mirons,
naulds,
the
famous
merchants,
many
supporters.
might
be
came,
he
the
whose
Paris
able
to
jeweller
nephew
Henri
so,
maintain
the
was
IV.
the
destined
The
the
him
heart
his
an
set
was
for
him.
family
of
families
the
Pasquiers,
in
Goix,
great
Du
order
to
city,
to
project
his
the
so
the
time
daughter
of
gossip Lallier,
present
most
provosts
Christophe
that
position when
him
Ar-
the
found
throne
the
his
marry
in
times
some-
Seguiers, Lamoignon,
whom
And
to
making
the
came
sheriffs, and
proposed
richest
to
to
which
the
among
son
Lecamus
old
Lescalopier,
Tillet, Lecoigneux,
of
celebrated
the
his
making
the
ward
to-
step
Parliament
place
and
pretended
toward
in
to
first
furrier
reality,his
in
which
tophe
time, Chris-
bar, that
to
it
; but
students
this
toward
counsellor
tradesman
At
regard
historian
scrutiny
the
sometimes
but,
as
and
old
incline
to
in
the
with
successor
upon
Paris
of
education
among
The
magistracy.
some
doubt
University.
studying
was
himself
he
illustrious
thorough
spirit of
of the
faculties
the
Le-
Parliament
the
rapid progress
making
was
when
of the
most
to the
visions
pro-
grandson.
godson
received
Thou,
De
his
idiotic
inheritances.
time
the
to
sentiment
a.
"
the
by
concerning
laws
lOI
ambition
day, destroyed
our
our
camus
MEDICI
the
deeply
keys
of
rooted
in
the
of
his
bourgeois's
worthy
and
extensive
his
deep politicianknew
of the
his
The
trapade,
the
recently
of
useless
Counsellor
of the
under
alarming
might
pleased
Reformation.
the
to
enough
of
one
they
breathe
went
these
far
so
This
the
of
which
deceive
consequential
of the
head
Paris
to
as
"
was
^the
to
even
Centre
become
"
he
his
with
wealthy
mised
comproCal-
in the
of
event
which
the
and
wife
most
under
the
did
XL,
; his
and
had
son.
long
title of
not
cunning
been
populous
celebrated
four
during
Louis
himself
and
so
well
become
repeat
main
re-
ever
what-
remembrance,
to
to
were
to
were
emeutes
vivid
royal
was
was
family
personage
richest
connected
did
furrier, like
thoughts
he
if he
the
Parisian
old
the
of
resolved
be
that
rescue
destined
were
But
reigns.
had
privately
present
reformers,
if France
still retained
more
parliamentarian,
knew
fierce
those
bourgeoisie
which
could
son
I'Es-
de
the
that
the
should
then,
Place
and
Christophe,
ransom
vinist, his
of
He
far; and
too
but
he
hostile
two
Bourg,
furrier
Christophe
that
du
royalist,and
happen;
when
I., with
The
rance
igno-
in preparation:
into
on
that
in
be
unerring
great nobles,
portents.
to
were
kingdom
Anne
Francois
Catholic,
well
too
and
of the
But
days.
punishments
execution
connivance
favorite
the
in purchasing
seignorial estate,
which
keen
of
jeweller's
those
epoch
was
division
the
camps.
in
great convulsions
judgment
foresaw
of the
half
employ
to
was
beautiful
affair
arduous
long and
MEDIO
heart
half
and
fortune
own
an
DE'
CATHERINE
I02
at
quarter
quartenier,
fifteen
years
DE*
CATHERINE
Dressed
later.
Lecamus
he
"
accorded
by
wore
no
doublet
with
puffs, in
fine
with
the
light from
Christophe
father's
his
heard
he
when
La
When
the
old
**
this
You
will
boy
to
said
he
"
to
gloomily.
gallows with
he
alized,
re-
old
man
pretty
a
resolution,
betrothed.
his
at
his
you
your
damned
wife,
no
character.
absolute
until
with
room
have
brought
tongue!"
her, sternly.
I would
salvation,
womb
the
to
glanced
determined,
concealed
bitterly,like
left the
had
satisfied
be
not
sent
ble
impossi-
for
irrevocable
an
the
upon
the
affection
smiled
Lecamus
his
longer concealing
breeches.
; but
advantage
great
period,
was
skin
Bourguignonne
apprentices,
his
and
Dutch
invitation
the
in
of the
florid
formed
had
who
man
shoes
leather
thoughts
he
honest
an
the
so
selles
demoi-
silver, milled
face, it
his
call
to
of
divine
And
Lallier.
Babette
abled
en-
the
from
derive
to
which
protruded
jacket
the
none
expected
to
V.
name
fashion
handsome
and
Charles
and
estates
shirt
the
Although
beneath
Sieur
knee, and
linen
half-opened
for
ordinances,
silk, but
no
the
above
his
large
geois
bour-
of blackened
buttons
accordance
man's
prudent
Paris, and
seignorial
between
old
of
gold chain,
His
buckles.
with
all
high-sounding
the
stockings reaching
103
title,which
that
to
bourgeois
huge
like
sumptuary
purchase
to
wives
"
the
clung
the
to
them
their
broadcloth,
in
obeyed
who
MEDICI
rather
than
"
for nine
To
see
living
think
months
condemned
him
and
that
is not
Huguenot,"
child
a
who
and
of
sure
she
lived
said,
in my
good Catholic,
but
DE'
CATHERINE
104
Colas's
of
is eating
MEDICI
and
cow,*
will
for
hell
to
go
eternity!"
She
if
for the
only
The
of converting
him
that
burned
down
live, then,
1
said
result
may
all of
and
You
in
roasted
us
in straw."
fleas
like
him
apprentices
our
being
house
furrier, "let
the
purpose
before
something
our
weep.
fool," said
Old
"
to
began
crossed
mother
and
said
no
more.
**
son
Now,
then,"
with
the
what
his
grasping
him
"with
"
in his
the
and
do
the
be
sent
to
from
is
court
their
want
them.
It may
to
to
be
kill Messieurs
thinking, perhaps,
are
prince
La
vaebt
will
4
make
Colas
"
use
FYotestantlsa.
to
me
know
them
about
of
Prince
Guise,
court.?
going on?
given
be
troops
when
the
Chartres
road
and
what
"
If the
trouble.
send
can
for
orders
withdraw
de
Conde
who,
on
getting
the
toward
at
is
Orleans
to
said,
suppose
faces
by
and
has
their
rid of him.
Huguenots
"
whispered
Amboise,
send
with
he
you
what
To
to
de
Do
has
them
the
you,"
all the
going
river
he
"
surcots, they
that
explain
to
"
Master
there's
mean.?
that
know
of taking the
instead
queens
"
his
pulling him
Amboise.
send
at
Conde,"
started.
I don't
to
Blois
at
VendSme,
does
de
Grand
and
Paris
and
arm
doesn't
suppose
you
Monseigneur
troops
the
Christophe
furrier
glancing
the
on
speak
can
Prince
the
ear.
court
by
son
yonder
out
that
so
goodman,
judge, "just
doing
nearer
come
the
of
air
were
you
said
to
get
solved
re-
side,
The
defend
DE*
CATHERINE
Of
himself.
such
advocate
furrier's
with
I don't
business;
but
the
all with
must
not
keep
furs,
blacken
by
of
the
in the
to
carry
said
the
you
**
the
the
be
and
allowing
you
soul
back
the
Blois
to
me
and
be
to
vans!"
Gene-
on
send
will
who
damned
Mary
collect
I
otherwise
queen-mother;
You
make
your
those
"pray
supply
I'll send
or
and
day,
of
my
queens
we
godfather,
Queen
to
our
lost!
am
"
me
echoed
"
old man,
the
manifesting
without
If you
"
astonishment.
slightest
won't
chair,
for
care
Lost?"
your
of
two
Christophe, leaning
surcot
from
money
Thou,
cook-shop
man's
old
Christophe;
night
not
Catholic.
be
house,
instead
Father,"
and
him
paper
blackened
"
de
belongs
that's
Catholic;
must
we
so
the
leave
you
is
taking
else
the
an
your
as
wait, before
Catholic,
is
Parliament
President
to
to
and
wise
as
reformers,
the
court
the
them
you
be
in
be
son
married
are
you
ought
condemn
Catholic,
are
furrier's
you'll
son
105
new
it.
to
When
Parliament,
in
father.
would
use
scrimmage?
up
what
MEDICI
stay
here,
always
know
where
Huguenots
have
fixed
to
you
find
you."
to
"
I shall
"
How?"
"
The
act
what
killed."
ardent
most
for them
I have
daylight,
killed
be
in
Minard.
in
certain
promised,
the
they
street, here
But, if you
and
matter,
will
in
send
kill
this
me
if I fail to
me
house,
to
me
upon
the
in
do
broad
as
court
they
on
I06
your
business,
both
sides.
run
father
The
red-hot
and
took
corner
of the
his
if you
he
This
in
you're
"I
were
the
that
to
do
button
and
led
the
bridge.
said
in his
de
ear,
have
the
leaders
and
"
him
be
just
admitted
have
the
the
when
not,
Hugue-
don't
point
to
did
be
but
will
out,
he
as
Conde,
yourself,
quarter
prudent
behave
their
so
fingers
shows
in you.
at
how
What
is
court.?"
at
know
*'for
Christophe,
gone
you
shouldn't
Chris-
that
see
viciously inclined,
it to
confidence
much
Prince
so
it, keep
you.
chair
had
nearest
the
are
people
by
son
Christophe,"
that
danger
business."
if his
and
"
Lecamus
room
mentioned
said,
he
Mademoiselle
about
the
your
as
nent
promi-
interrupted."
not
are
furrier
he
to
feet
having
obtain
to
else, if
or
satisfy
to
without
able
attend
his
to
wife,"
us,
When
"
be
simply
able
succeed
party,
sprang
be
iron.
Leave
tophe
how
I have
tell
to
no
you,"
idea
clear
very
replied
myself
yet."
as
"
Hum!
fixedly
hum!"
he'll
you,"
he
going
to
Guise,
little
his
at
father;
but
the
great, I will
is too
it
in
shall
shall
so
MEDICI
perhaps,
Either
position
"
I may,
risk, and
any
of
DE'
CATHERINE
Queen
I would
"the
son,
make
in
to
make
to
the
Mary.
stake
way
an
little
They
my
the
head
old
is
rascal
his
continued
court
nor
muttered
in
trying
the
king,
to
are
that
our
fool his
Look
"
"you're
not
Messieurs
de
master,
all staunch
the
to
world.
undertone,
overtures
looking
man,
nor
to
Catholics;
Italian has
some
DE'
CATHERINE
her:
know
a
that
the
did
he
diamond,
late
the
set
one
Duchesse
poor
beautiful
king
in
yourself
has
woman!
father,
reply.
you
risk
"
he
as
useful
to
Queen
head
! and
your
I know
"Are
risk
his
heart,
are
worthy
the
honor
father
cried
"we
of
of
to
and
future
by making
self
your-
but, Jesus!
don't
slice
would
it off
the
men
utterly."
you
Christophe.
that.?
You
can
know
it and
father, pressing
understand
father.
your
the
the
family,
Huguenot
than
each
My
and
can
of
cried
still
father."
Heaven!"
By
as
do
about
was
your
of
it.-"'
"Yes,
"
said
who
to
you
turnip, for
disavow
brave
as
you
Guises
slices
it,father,"
send
for
them
those
will
you
with
put
sort
headache,"
bad
Catherine;
Bourguignonne
employ
you
interfere
have
don't
bad
to
plans
been
would
Christophe
that
the
creature,
brain:
very
the
took
son!
my
Italian
the
child, I have
My
she
duchess
propose
saw
not
who
**
you
would
La
as
in
they
cause
may
whom
Back,
that
of
If it hadn't
the
"
of
hands
the
Yes, what
court
the
least.
at
passion except
no
at
Connetable,
That's
hatred
of Chenonceaux.
le
with
another.
Catherine's
from
of her
diamond
cut
"
have
to
afraid
so
against
Valentinois
chateau
strangled,
been
longing
was
jewellers do,
woman
de
for Monsieur
more
pie! the
Lorraines
the
frantic
explanation of Queen
the
to
had
as
107
girl and
always
she
finger in
Scotch
the
grudge against
MEDICI
other;
child, you
I
see
you.
Messieurs
his
that
But
de
will
your
don't
son
you
be
old
be
Coligny.
DE'
CATHERINE
The
he
young
character.
it with
his
IC9
father's
his
reliability;
as
yet sufficientlyacquainted
He
went
took
journey,
distrusted
man
not
was
MEDICI
his
to
up
and
cloak
under
rapier
the
his
for
dressed
room,
and
downstairs,
valise, stole
with
placed
in the
counter
shop.
his
hearing
devil
the
What
"
are
said
doing?"
you
father,
his
footsteps.
Christophe
kissed
and
went
the
old
man
my
preparations
both
on
cheeks.
I didn't
"
for
want
departure,
counter,"
in
few
by
and
and
his
went
out,
if to
as
neighbor.
after
maid-servant
the
father.
the
paper
young
moments
Lallier
gossip
the
took
of their
quest
under
everything
put
letter," said
is the
Christophe
go
I have
so
see
whispered.
he
Here
"
to
anyone
Christophe's
arrived,
daughter
carrying
departure,
preceded
of
bottles
three
old
wine.
Where's
"Well,
old
Christophe.?"
inquired
the
two
people.
"
Christophe?"
cried
Babette,
son's
insolent
rascal
"
have
we
not
seen
him."
"
My
if I hadn't
happen,
called
*'
him
Defend
on
friend?
old
Why,
hair
have
*'
an
wit
more
for
a
him
face.
my
We
live
than
on
that
in
their
long time
Protestant,"
! he
the
said
deceives
What
an
age
is
as
me
going
when
to
dren
chil-
fathers."
whole
quarter
has
Lallier.
score,
gossip,"
said
the
DE'
CATHERINE
no
furrier
the
to
is
smiled;
Babette
all the
at
angry
She
was
child
the
never
left her;
things
that
of
old
the
harmonious
her
of
it
but
headgear,
fell
which
both
on
blonde, and
shrewd,
stood
out
While
cloth
setting
in
front
of
of
red
servants
the
the
tall
Christophe
could
and
answered
families
Lecamus
**
were
said
be
at table
to
Christophe
his
has
the
to
to
true
be
conceal
of
manners
and
with
"
great pewter
forks,
the
jeweller
his
did
the
daughter
with
future
started
ask
Huguenot's
but
servants
when
in the
daughter-in-law:
for
remained
lambrequins
Babette
young
the
and
fringe, talking
evasively;
and
out, laying
the
black
vain
and
mugs,
mantelpiece
In
matters.
in
went
and
furrier
trimmed
serge
mother
out
knives
the
and
maiden.
and
wife
the
and
gauze,
seemed
while
under
dress;
ruffles
Though
all the
of
infant's
an
tan-colored
face.
had
chief,
necker-
her
unlike
with
up
dress
against
blonde, she
him.
correct,
white
pure
say,
her
trying
two
his
trivial
of
the
and
dishes
sides
propensities
educated
soberly
the
is to
and
woollen
not
cap
that
sly creature,
mischievous
her
in
her
as
was
who
mother,
embellished
white
as
and
against
gentle
gray;
was
lappets of tanned,
her
was
velvet
brown
she
bourgeoisie, brought
dressed
was
shades
wore
quiet, for
said
were
manner
simply pleated,
she
after
runs
Christophe
of
eyes
face; she
her
him
keep
loved
she
watchful
under
like
will
wild, it
Calvin."
than
newer
is
youth
Babette
but
things;
new
"
jeweller;
MEDICI
the
court."
of
where
father
the
two
kitchen,
DE'
CATHERINE
Blois!
He
saying
adieu
For
**
without
The
"
started
has
business
MEDICI
to
was
such
on
!"
me
III
cried.
she
said
urgent,"
very
journey
old
the
mother.
said
Gossip,"
"
"
conversation,
If
"
will
business
which
during
be
only after
be
bad,"
father, who
My
the
Bourguignons
our
family
would
be
Goix,
who
market
other,
but
"
You're
"
No,"
rejoined
are
equally
object
knows
who
You
"
know
things,"
to
me
observed
what
The
public,
So
family.
time
the
The
said
the
ler.
jewel-
the
people
common
Parisian
must
bourgeoisie
except
the
king,
friend."
and
much
Babette,
it is that
in
bourgeoisie
everybody
to
it's his
so
"
it.
to
the
faction
perhaps
nobility and
dread
that
the
the
us."
save
Lecamus.
hostile
of
in
fellow, gossip!"
for itself,the
out
an
will
he
of
while
other
each
his
happened
Armagnac
other
of
one
butchers
Christophe;
shrewd
look
is
each
save
when
come
may
to
try
us
the
flay
to
long
if
that
me
Bourguignons,
of
was
understood
they
let
to
famous
the
between
hadn't
father,
the
for
were
seemed
they
of
one
sphere.
told
saved
been
have
war,
capable
Lallier, in-
war
Armagnacs,
mother's
Lecamus,
the
not
his
grandfathers,
to
and
rumpus
long
said
of the
end
the
saw
commercial
the
have
to
stirring."
are
it will
they triumph,
going
are
reformers
the
in France;
we
rupted
inter-
their
furrier, resuming
the
the
have
timidly,
reformers
seen
so
**
pray
want."
many
explain
DE'
CATHERINE
112
"Tell
knew
as
he
was
us
the
of
simple
have
and
hundred
several
secrets
say,
the
over
man
whose
two
reveal,
his
Valentinois
be
to
head
ears
fession,
con-
in
the
this
worth
were
He
induce
any
without
crowns.
to
genius;
whom
to
sacrament
plunged
him
upon
great
no
man
he
thousand
to
de
Duchess^
might
"I
jeweller.
I looked
with
manners
given
yet
religion1
new
had
like you,
priest would
the
late
man
MEDICI
have
must
king
and
present when
the
he
was
tortured."
Terrible
"
Reformation,
"would
of
that
equal
footing
alone
shall
leave
to
above
other
men,
in the
State."
be
king
throne?"
gossip,"
"Why,
Countries
sheriffs
the
of their
own
stand
assuming
to
on
an
the
king
that
they
Lallier.
"in
the
Low
themselves
govern
choosing,
intend
that
Lecamus,
bourgeois
the
the
suppression
shall
taxes,
cried
said
the
an
of
reformers
bourgeois
regard
in
estates
After
with
Suppress
"
and
nobles
"The
continued
the
all
privileges, the
ecclesiastical
demand
give
furrier.
the
he
bourgeoisie.
the
to
said
friends,"
my
undertone,
Church
too!"
secrets,
who
by
elect
be
able
rary
tempo-
chief."
God!
"Great
these
the
fine
things
ought
we
still remain
and
to
Catholics,"
to
do
cried
jeweller.
"
We
are
bourgeoisie,
or
gossip,
another!
too
but
Ah!
old to
see
it will
the
the
triumph
triumph,
king
must
of the
gossip,
needs
at
Parisian
one
time
rely upon
it
DE'
CATHERINE
and
resist,
to
handsome
purchase
to
of
names
from
of
Goix
This
two
harangue
The
beginning
to
old
so
alarmed
to
fermentation
in
work
live
to
of
1789
Lecamus's
the
see
patent
aren't
jeweller
by
audacious
we
and
the
profound
already
was
blood,
the
grandson
and
line,
followed
was
the
are
the
for
bear
to
letters
special
at
lawful
and
the
all
time,
made
was
female
nobleman?"
it
last
myself,
support
our
estates
like
the
that
silence.
too
You,
many
women
it
without
estates,
through
as
the
seignorial
king.
good
as
their
the
the
Indeed,
ennobled,
were
II3
sold
always
price.
bourgeois
them
have
we
MEDICI
nor
he
was
of
bourgeois
the
League.
"
Is
business
turmoil?"
an
still
Lallier
"
It
**
That
is
advocate
never
asked
why
of
my
am
the
replied.
indeed,
anxious,
said
conversation
subjects,
nor
Lecamus.
she
very
this
Lecamus,
to
"for
make
tion
litiga-
stops."
Thereafter
jeweller,
La
son,"
all
notwithstanding
harm,"
does
always
good,
who
for
had
bold
to
no
the
great
fondness
flights
confined
was
of
satisfaction
for
thought.
political
to
monplace
com-
of
the
ances
disturb-
The
were
favorite
of
the
royal
of
throne
That
kings
There
"
is
Italy,
and
loveliness,
French,
which
from
and
other
that
raine!
There
Auvergne,
raine
is
should
be
is
and
which
Loire.
enchantment,
the
At
we
northern
truly
the
derivatives
(115)
lived
have
and
Spaniards,
we
is
Auvergne
Tou-
but
river
national
picture
is
we
of
number
vast
departments
take
"
Tou-
Therefore
or
inces,
prov-
Germany,
Languedoc;
by
step
been
always
is
the
discover
peculiar
province
within
every
own
loyal
Touraine.
name,
its
France!
astonished
less
quivir,
Guadal-
relation,
most
waters
the
that
only
the
never
desired
historic
comprised
taken
the
lies
France,
monuments
have
gallant,
Languedoc
Loire,
the
have
of
which
the
of
perfumes
with
contact
Moors,
the
that
chaste,
our
provinces,
with
nations
pure,
from
by
southern
our
concubinage
all
of
debased
are
it
has
having
it differs
wherein
"
with
which
one
sweet
banks
French,
entirely
of
which
the
addition,
in
lovely,
the
Bourbon.
what
said
France
the
as
two
honors
witness
With
admired.
flowery
as
the
recently
in
of
House
it ;
upon
last
the
occupied
deserves
province
sufficiently
been
the
writers
polished
of
Angers,
to
which
race
well
bestowed
have
most
our
in
basin
Blois
resort
before
France
beautiful
from
Loire,
the
always
branches
of
of
banks
of
in
whose
the
that
which
name,
land
frame
of
is
DE'
CATHERINE
disappeared,
of
idea
the
understood
Of
all
court
of
the
literary
these
of
its most
brilliant
to
at
was
time
of
the
walls
crest
of
under
the
of
suburbs
and
the
on
this
was
castle, with
famous
and
others
feudalism,
pares,
"
to
"
counts
when
of
from
the
right
bank
of
cut
from
west
to
but
remains
there
chasm,
teenth
fif-
the
formed
historians,
the
to-day,
in
which,
the
to
importance
no
almost
style
le
famous
the
the
^the counts
bluish
and
rises
that
northern
Thibault
use
once.
Loire
size, of which
plateau
both
held
at
between
the
chateau.
architectural
the
served
the
say
road,
at
from
town,
considerable
sunken
deep,
the
so
lay
really
houses
rounded
sur-
now
is of
which
stream
as
It
city,
pleasure-house
triangular plateau,
it flows
in the
ing
interest-
most
chateau
crowded
hill which
the
century,
placed
watch-towers,
the
and
whose
then
river, is
by
with
fortress
town,
extended
It
it is the
isolated.
completely
fortress, for
of the
roofs
Valois
and
The
purpose
ravine
which
upon
this
the
for
one
Catholics.
foot
east
is the
the
the
the
Middle-Agists.
Blois, where
at
and
an
imperfectly
so
the
Orleans
stamp,
by strong
Above
of
sect
that
the
afford
which
epoch,
established,
magnificence
the
that
chateaux,
then
11/
monuments
marvels
by
was
noble
are
"
MEDICI
and
of the
Anjou,
twelfth
Thibault
phrase
Champagne,
the
century, where
simple
the
barons
le
days
Vieux,
of pure
primus
simply
was
built
exposure,
In those
court.
king
of Blois
counts
southern
Tricheur,
expressive
of
the
of
counts
king
inter
of Poland,
of Blois,
of Normandie,
Il8
DE'
CATHERINE
of Bretagne,
dukes
the
kings for
the
their
and
audacity,
the
distance
from
building
with
angles
became
built
exists
the
his
lured
necting
con-
under
thus
him
ings,
build-
the
vast
Henri
Chambord,
wings,
and
save
completing
from
away
grandchildren,
III.
I.
Francois
in
the
became
the
Blois,
one
right
at
still older
met
its
to
erected
Blois
to-day
of
other
two
only
for
of
ferring
pre-
XII.,
perhaps,
of
Du
nexed
an-
Louis
exposure,
counts
remains
Chambord
and
and
the
of
crown
memory,
western
enamored
to add
but
due,
was
States-General
the
square;
day,
of
castle
nothing
proposed
he
and
eastern
the
domains,
Plessis, of sinister
which
he
its
by
races
purple,
When
to
site
the
the
in which
Before
Blois
it with
of
hall
for
the
to
of
comte
liking
whose
of constable.
Roberts
case
the
plied
sup-
Plantag-
royal
in the
as
declined
knights
sword
the
into
sometimes,
Glaicquin, simple
The
of Poitou, the
blood
new
and
sovereigns
kingdoms.
Lusignans
infused
of Normandie,
like
proudest
the
of Anjou,
enets
lived
MEDICI
his
whole
chateau.
This
more
third
structure,
extensive
and
which
is credited
of the
example
at
sway
later
and
Middle
when
"
when
in
an
age
with
his
Looking
II.
the
It is the
most
Renaissance
when
art
it from
way,
in
fanciful
architecture
paid
was
literature
as
Louvre,
style. So that,
jealous
kindly
at
than
little heed
but
connected
said, in
Henri
I., is much
by Francois
ornate
more
so-called
period,
Ages,
closely
Blois:
to
built
without,
not
day.
the
the
the
to
was
our
of
held
La
chateau
so
taine
Fon-
of
part that
DE'
CATHERINE
I. built
Franfois
there
quantities of
are
little
pleased
the
effect which
whole
Thus
the
periods,
three
different
three
systems,
therefore,
say,
comparable
That
courtyard,
same
which
of the
domain
XIII. 's
presented
gardens
an
palace,
These
gardens
the
the
same
of
Bretagne
give
her
in that
her
of the
level.
Anne
to
de
gentlemen
the
Bretagne,
her
or
to
concerning
awaited
morning
later
his
hangingways
stair-
I.'s chateau.
of
bridge
of
men
with
who
confer
reception,
her
of
the
or
vice
ser-
from
with
there
on
the
came
state
den
gar-
was
to
Blois
a
which
attached
the
by
exile,
rustic
the
those
part
occupied
and
chateau,
petitions,
province, always
is
demolished,
seen
time
the
during
old
the
life
and
years
by
which
tableau
court, the
Francois
The
information
audiences,
of
respect.
enclosure,
time
with
of
offer
that
flower-beds
side
other
abode
At
to
way
connected
have
to
royal
manners
seventy
walks
were
may
accurate
built
design,
remember
on
and
present
aggregation of
unfinished
We
same
beautiful, bold
may
the
picturesquely mingled
and
in
the
at
no
Blois
his
three
architecture,
architecture.
on
which
fourth
the
was
of representing
merit
is
complete
about
grand
dynasties.
within
is called
Christophe
of
of
at
attempt
no
the
there
great representation
when
Louis
had
three
rest:
immensely."
me
types
pile affords,
of nations
by
with
something
Blois
chateau
the
to
vast
of that
is
that
all the
than
galleries,little windows,
pleases
of
chateau
II9
more
little
order; there
or
the
me
regularity
well
MEDICI
or
affairs
hour
her
of
daily
DE'
CATHERINE
120
Wherefore
promenade.
of
Perchoir
the
is
day,
our
Jesuites.
des
included
then
the
in
which
residence,
One
gardens.
lower
built
pavilion
details
enable
descended,
and
"
fact which
sadly
embarrassed
see.
The
interior
galleries, the
Galerie
des
Cerfs,
gallery ended
at
and
on
different
the
Although
I.
Frangois
to
the
elegance of
Louis
XIL's
abounded
led
Fontaine
to
that
of
good
which
ascended
its
very
the
the
strength and
as
shall
we
exterior
by
and
called
being
double
the
This
staircase
which
doubtedly
un-
staircase
suites
preferred
at
of apartments
two
and
the
Louis
XIL,
king's
edifice
artists, however
chateau,
there
warm
its ornaments.
to the
magnificence
the
her
cording
ac-
floors.
La
true
please
admire
which
where,
all about
one
famous
the
the
Guise,
magnificent
the
of the
architecture
principal
of
Jesuites,
follow
uneven
de
because
inspired
Chambord,
and
reached
were
its
inequalities of
the
Due
and
had
to
royal
at
Medici,
us
was
day,
des
constituted
the
gardens
superb
gardens,
following
rough
this
Blois, she
of the
ground, exceedingly
chateau,
de'
of
irregulararrangement
Jesuites
this
in
projects
des
Place
historians
These
baths.
from
and
to
name
which,
gardens
see
Catherine
by
the
to
of
the
garden
upper
can
distance
considerable
Place
its
given
orchard
gardens
had
has
that
to
bourgeois's
some
Place
into
history
Bretons
aux
MEDIO
of
the
staircases
the
which
the
much
at
ingenuous
will
be
likely
they
may
roi-clievalier.
The
each
extremity
of
chateau
has
of
which
sadly marred.
DE'
CATHERINE
its
although
remains
still
everything,
of
arrangement
of
the
admiringly
gaze
the
of
of
capitals
the
on
it
as
of
Michael-Angelo
to
gratify his
on
the
father, the
Fontaine
than
imposing
occupied,
de'
historian
the
time
Medici
and
at
can
of
drama
drama
its
there
review
Guises
of
chateau
of
imposing
the
the
modern
side
de
the
apartments
erine
write, by Cath-
II., still
So
arranged.
and
tragic
most
of
Blois
which
the
twofold
the
against
It
acts.
plot of
the
main
re-
the
of
the
complicated
that
that
scenes
Bourbons
the
ference,
indif-
brutal
Francois
in
be
can
ostentatious
the
we
the
there
Bretagne.
nothing
indefinable
son
the
the
unravelled.
chateau
On
of
Reformation,
one
the
was
The
abode
her
then
the
forms
at
was
say,
to
immortalized
last due
of which
not
sculptor,
he
may
an
were
the
struggle of
Valois
to
small
his talents
forgetfulness perhaps,
they
as
the
Thanks
1.
to
by
her
divers
great
whom
we
galleries,
the
impossible
exerted
Anne,
La
Francois
Bretagne,
Medici,
As
and
that
Queen
of
tomb
Whatever
more
Columb,
Michel
that
velop
de-
to
de'
of
it is
yet
not
manners.
columns,
did
destined
was
majority
certain
plicity
sim-
extreme
court
feudal
tiquarians;
an-
quasi-cloistral
Catherine
I. and
detriment
great
the
the
of
hearts
discloses
developed
Francois
121
the
to
even
Clearly
not
under
delight
rooms,
manners.
exist, had
to
the
MEDICI
Francois
pile the
of the
Place
entirely
simple dwelling
lower
des
I.
gardens,
Jesuites,
the
that
overshadows
of Louis
is to
chateau
XIl.
say,
of
is almost
twice
high
as
as
floor
second
the
the
third, and
gardens,
separated
from
Thus
chateau,
the
courtyard,
from
the
admits
the
carved
and
which
modern
operas
floors
height
infinite
the
in the
the
delicacy
of
itself and
fascinates
This
structure,
where
hexagonal
staircase,
built
in
tower
a
which
by dwarfs,
aspect.
spiral of
of the
square
tower,
gives
compartments
and
stage-setting
courtyard, although
reach
at
to
supported
the
great
as
Tuileries,
the
architecture
obligingly
marvelling eyes.
our
and
to
that
the
by
spiral
by
fajade
staircase
attached
by
Stuart
Mary
is divided
is
there
landings of
The
boudoirs,
caprice, conceived
Moorish
as
scene-painters represent
Catherine
which
enading,
prom-
large
as
of the
splendid court,
holding their
yard
court-
Jesuites
for
used
I'Horloge
the
taine,
Fon-
for
are
ground-floor
de
La
workmanship,
recesses
the
reveals
were
balconies
then
seen
des
marvellous
when
Pavilion
the
as
The
the
on
the
enter
Place
decorations
But
above
not
were
moat.
when
by
seen
was
days
size
From
were
fanciful
fairy palaces.
three
did
whose
the
resemble
he
galleries, of
windows,
boudoirs,
it
small.
seems
the
our
that
as
apartments.
everything
the
below
square
or
colossal
the
fourth
deep
absolutely gigantic
seems
who
by
is of
which
the
on
in those
foundations
the
first
the
installed, is
are
which
forms
are,
Hence
then
royal apartments
lower
the
above
side.
was
The
courtyard.
galleries
garden
Catherine
where
floor,
the
the
famous
the
on
MEDICI
of
side
the
on
ground-floor, where
of
DE'
CATHERINE
122
to
transverse
stone
giants,
like
dream-
form
five
sides
corbels
DE'
CATHERINE
with
embellished
within.
This
and
which
delicate
the
only
Chinese
from
to
step
of
hewers
of
funds
fail
from
fanciful
of
which
the
mould.
its
practised
that
its
of
dampness
the
eye,
there
at
pretty
the
has
of vapory
by
we
the
Even
to
is
inner
I. lacked
on
by
its
delicate
of
than
a
few
stone,
forth
over
ing
emerg-
More
on
greenish
lacework
displays
its
carved
it
has
artistic, least
fascinating
the
More
little head
least
facade
upon
Versailles.
which
the
XII.
profusion,
window
by time,
the
gaze
stone.
brought
artless
Louis
abandoned
adjoining
XII., consisting,
arches
as
the
simply suggested
on
marred
fancy.
built
unpolished
is
with
tower
Francois
did
mals,
ani-
or
numerous
unwearying
front, beside
the
details, and
Louis
shows
men
sembles
re-
earlier, carved
that
XIV.
chisel
the
of stone
suit
with
stone
with
be
may
Louis
carving
On
blocks
to
as
window,
we
observe
block
blows
of
stairways
to
figure
one
one
two
repeated
Blois
at
than
fiftyyears
of
sixteenth-century
supremacy
who,
the
forms
cannot
we
for
dazzled
However
of
chisels
pared
com-
carvings
more
the
crown
the
images
key-stones
these
and
step,
contended
have
art
become
be
can
of
figures
ning
cun-
marvels
the
Indeed,
mouldings,
whereon
key-stone
deep-cut
Flowers,
the
to
in
profuse,
and
of
creation
speech,
ivories.
lacework.
cling
beautiful
with
stones
Dieppe
or
without
details, abounding
the
to
123
carvings
arabesque
dazzlingly
endow
MEDICI
contrast
with
the
lous
marvel-
of
chateau
ground-floor, of
lightness, supported
tween
be-
by
eral
sev-
slender
DE'
CATHERINE
the
magnificent
carved
the
floor
Loire
rival
which
brought
which
it divided
had
have
never
been
de'
the
on
fail to
one
been
there,
he
as
palace, Versailles
would
and
contain
Salle
in
infantry
is
I. at
if the
Even
marvels
without,
would
of
the
art
visitor
designs,
in
have
the
sive
mas-
chateau,
stairways
vast
as
realize
not
corresponded
peopled
can
as
and
the
royal
of
company
to
Catherine
Christophe
which
secret
day,
sufficientlyattest
which
how
of the
Gardes,
our
of
treasures
at
halls
des
Valois
must
column
and
should
remains
which
their
admiration
accommodated
within
cabinet, into
in
sarily
neces-
Four
crown
enclose
Salle
which,
the
would
Blois; but
the
recesses
or
easily
Blois
lavished
with
which
Conseil
de
apartments
the
deep
cabinets, and
gardens
of, and
gazes
on
his
partition-walls,the spinal
which
chateau,
which
lavish
how
leagues
upon
Francois
realize
building
two
the
semi-
the
Medici
of
chateau
plain
dom,
king-
and
of
capital of France.
the
Catherine
whole
I., instead
to
noble
by
heard
been
have
and
built
his
that
confronting
two
right angles
occupied
then
ascended
of
from
news
into
it at
afterward
Gaston
him
ously
curi-
of Blois, from
more
sterile, gloomy
built
space
and
more
If Francois
in
of France
King
monized
har-
of those
of his chateau
see
portions.
away,
the
could
have
must
apparel
the
staircase
he
Chambord
the
As
stones.
marvellous
each
with
12
of women,
costumes
admirably
MEDICI
those
was
the
at
the
marvels
de'
Medici's
soon
refined
apartments
salamanders
that
once
to
be
ered,
ush-
character
with
gleamed
like
life-
among
126
DE*
CATHERINE
flowers,
the
illumined
day
In
from
with
the
on
of
walls
The
wife
the
delicately carved
lilies of
and
candidis,
that
device
daughter
of
Louis
virulence
of
Calvinist
has
loyalty
Of
still
the
Queen
the
their
wealth
of
still be
may
by
seen
swans
signifying Candidior
the
"
be
of
device
Catherine's,
began
fittingly
applied
as
Valois
last
the
on
Claude
surrounded
may
XII.;
kings
the
to
as
for, notwithstanding
slanders,
the
of
breath
no
Catherine
queen-mother,
quite young,
Charles
of
picion
sus-
de'
Medici's
of her
children
II.
the
d'AIenfon,
whom
the
Henri
course,
being
Due
to
by
like
tarnished
ever
of their
apartments
whitest,
the
which
of
the
her
by
the
I., where
name,
mother
to
trade
signature
C's
than
whose
a
in
spotless whiteness,
queen,
with
the
Frangois
whiter
"
of
French
the
veneer
to
erine
Cath-
princesses
amassed
occupied
France,
two
to
formerly occupied
of
find
can
royal apartments.
queen-mother
first floor
brilliant
most
gilding which
the
loved
gold
the
century
delightful expression
they left
and
ancestors,
its
observer
for
taste
the
the
sixteenth
with
the
already quoted,
chateau
the
Italy, for
employ
to
of
corners
of the
traces
family,
palette
cabinet
this
brought
author
the
darkest
the
coloring.
this
and
MEDICI
and
IX.
"
he
two
who
Marguerite,
was
wife
Margot,
called
afterward
of
IV.,
Henri
required
"
the
of
all
first floor.
King Francois
the
II. and
Queen
royal apartments
occupied
by Francois
on
Mary
the
I. and
second
Stuart
pied
occu-
merly
floor, for-
subsequently
by
DE'
CATHERINE
The
III.
Henri
queen-mother,
end
to
of
massive
looking
over
the
chateau,
feet
different
first and
the
on
and
sleeping apartments
Perchoir
aux
the
side
only
with
the
fields
open
and
Bretons,
of which
the
the
the
the
superb
galleries, and
Vendomois,
of
moats
great fabulist
our
heat,
through
and
of
given
the
north, with
balconies
half
tion
transac-
avoid
distributed
the
alike,
was
for the
to
the
The
halves.
rooms
were
toward
floors
courtyard,
of
overlooking
second
distinct
two
embellished
partition
the
separate
reception-rooms
facade
famous
which
to
portion looking
parts, from
two
the
by
by
rest
south,
the
to
into
occupied
27
the
on
contain
suites
divided
walls
Thus,
rooms.
the
the
four
wall, about
other
is
that
like
royal suite,
the
end
MEDICI
the
La
the
town
"
Fontaine
speaks.
The
of Francois
chateau
by
formed
have
palace
the
would
wing
the
tower
did
not
built
order
finish
remained
in
ruins.
royal keep
the
time
wanders
of
work,
was
which
we
to-day tlirough
chateau,
so
avoid
innumerable
when
he
sees
the
According
used
precious
as
to
halls
regrets, for
the
it ; but
has
or
What
art
into
he
always
popular tradition,
prison
jected
pro-
dug
to
tower
to
write.
the
palace
the
other
afterward
his
and
the
to
was
which
angle
when
; Gaston
weld
to
his
that
colossal
nated
termi-
time
which
tower
described
have
in
of the
apex
was
at that
was
unfinished
immense
an
I.
and
art
lovely arabesques
dungeon
poet,
of
that
to
and
he
as
cent
magnifi-
history,
for
at
can
France,
of Catherine's
128
DE*
CATHERINE
of
orders
is
The
cholera.
of
cabinet,
to
is the
last
accumulated
wander
staircases, and
awful
benefit
for the
five
of the
Catherine.
Later,
Balafre
fell beneath
the
the
crown.
From
this
greeted Queen
said, of the
was
of Henri
the
IV.
only
Blois,
That
the
and
is
love
know
that
ere
be
that
the
disgrace
the
they
It is necessary
to
those
corner
no
to
his
plice,
accom-
eloquent
longer
exist
it to
betrothal
celebrated,
of
counts
made
to-day.
styles of
many
such
a
momentous
state
of
tion
dilapida-
How
ancient
stones
it
pains
France
will
to
share
la Vieille-Pelleterie:
in these
save
attention
to
it
knew,
the
are
of
de
friend.
allowed
was
France.
of Rue
call
beckoned
the
so
is in
monuments
long
XIL
of
which
of
avengers
and
Valois
regiment
performed,
been
second
the
chateau
band
hus-
spot, the
Ravaillac's
typified, where
are
fate of the
the
edifice, in
who
may
for
marvellous
those
the
of
shoes
which
de
with
Guises
where
chapel
halls,
her
Marguerite
remnant
have
the
we
the
d'Amboise,
Marie
In
"
architecture
deeds
of
projected regicide
committed!"
be
this
balcony, d'Epernon,
nishings
furAs
cajoled
There
blows
Cardinal
to
something
ourselves
to
say
on
Medici's
bedrooms,
earlier, Louis
century
this window
from
of
Guises.
insulted
de'
kings.
Stuart
Mary
of the
sumptuous
artist
can
we
Here
"
certainty:
of the
that
"
time
have
soon
labyrinth
towers,
the
the
by
barracks
at
"
relic
by
that
through
shall
we
the
of Catherine
wainscoting
which
say,
of
barrack
now
destroyed
almost
commandant
the
abode
royal
more
and
whitewashed
cabinet
MEDICI
the
it
pages!
fact
that,
DE'
CATHERINE
although
the
Guises
of
Blois,
town
way,
keep
the
watch
closer
obtained
had
under
the
to
was
which
eaves
at
occupy
in
Stuart, wildly
of
sixteen
love
with
each
that
they
to
the
de
Due
the
while
fourth
the
The
had
Paris, and
whose
walls
the
between
Valois,
twenty-eight
that
mother,
by
of
was
the
time
which
at
this
by
not
ended
the
in
narrative
opens,
being
teau
cha-
fended.
de-
throne,
of
House
the
until
the
day,
III.,
Henri
of
eyes
fall of the
de'
not
and
the
very
Catherine
and
tected.
pro-
for
court
his
iated
humilboldest
son
of
Medici
was,
Balafre,
second
then
well
profoundly
moment
to
precipices,
watched
and
heard
seemed
of Blois
about
the
winter,
surprise,
to
whom
by
of
given
the
be
dren
chil-
emoniously
uncer-
which
one
Lorraine
the
under
Mary
queen's uncles,
the
were
was
the
quarters
Nemours
exceedingly
easily
that
above
been
Guises,
first Balafre,
sides
keeping
of
Lorraines,
the
three
in progress
was
chateau,
who
all the
for
years
same
middle
chateau
than
House
conflict
the
was
could
conflict
had
the
who
reasons
in
in
side
Guises,
stronger
living
on
to
readily open
which
isolated
being
live
queen
young
were,
in
too
order
de
Saint-Germain,
Guise
of fortress
sort
was,
of
the
by
period.
his
chateau
the
in
Duchesse
II. and
transported,
from
existence,
court, to
in
own
XII., in the
the
later
Francois
Young
the
Louis
King
their
permission,
upon
of
apartments
I29
palace of
it is still in
"
they
"
had
the
MEDICI
the
at
played with,
threatened.
For
the
noble
chateau
cramped
of
this
most
husband,
polished
whose
brutal
than
could
be
Indeed,
presented
from
the
interests
Catherine
well,
de
Conde,
the
lover
husband
cardinal, persuaded
Chartres
unconquerable,
play of
of
game
all the
and
emergency,
Although
the
Cardinal
Guise,
of
who
enemy
it was
of
heart
would
one
Catherine
de
opposing
which
the
served
instruments
Prince
the
Saint-Andre,
was
whose
The
damme.
ame
his
sult
re-
Reformation,
the
of
Vidame
the
court
her
it
sort
necessary
a
man
not
was
Lorraine
distrusted
was
passions
always
to
de
than
rather
unconquered
was
politics,making
the
of
about
Thus
her.
of chess, in which
head
spies
instance,
affair
paying
was
of
voted
de-
were
powerful
de
the
by
Catherine
that
will
master's
grand
the
was
which
of
Marechale
the
play
one
did
she
who
who
the
For
first leader
the
of
also
Guises.
the
by
lovers
two
more
women
Gallantry,
was
the
on
strangers
that
Argus-eyed
of
State.
the
so
employed
had
days,
antagonism
in
by
her
her
leash, she
herself,
of
had
those
of
immeasurably
strange effects
the
in
bondage
Those
or
in
death
jailer. Nothing
Guises
the
found
in
either
her
the
held
were
of
to
On
Catherine
to
was
been
she
secret.
kept
to
them.
but
manners
those
devoted
were
had
practically held
contrary,
Blois
prisons.
reign;
to
MEDICI
of
she
whom
by
hoped
had
the
DE'
CATHERINE
I30
her,
to
of
game
the
to watch
both
sure
that, in
make
overrule
double
the
her
by
Due
most
daughter-in-law,
an
other.
constantly confronted
or
the
by
Francois
bitter
and
Queen
de
erest
clev-
Mary,
DE'
CATHERINE
little
as
old
an
who
sly
shared
suggestions,
is
mother-in-law
the
does
de
received
and
queen
the
respect
but
their
in
pleasure
courtiers,
which
were
treatment
of
the
the
about
creatures
humiliating
received,
wounded
determined
which
continue
the
late
king
Diane
able:
endur-
but
at
this
take
beset
for
the
the
adopted.
none
to
hourly,
her
to
had
Catherine,
had
pains
due
seemed
with
the
more
who
self-esteem;
to
worn
whereas,
cardinal,
daily,
has
which
honors
court;
them,
daughter-
when
was
the
her.
not
her
II.,
her
sufficient
situation,
least
at
wish
lighted
de-
them.
she
taken
Henri
and
duke
the
moment,
it,
lover,
by
when
not
over
she
then
whom
love
and
of
opinion
former
her
reigned
Poitiers
assisted
retain
to
had
Even
conceal.
Francois,
person
in
her
admired,
wishes
with
she
especially
Catherine
imprudent
to
always
as
miss,
is
good
her
adore,
not
and
crown
King
that
well-informed
crowns,
whom
proud
soubrette,
courtesan
uncles,
find
to
13I
boarding-school
as
her
to
in-law
as
husband
devoted
as
three
wore
scholar,
her
with
mischievous
blonde,
Stuart
MEDICI
by
affronts
Guises
system
of
The
thirty-six
France
which
of
in
figure
the
entrusted
gency,
and
pier before
the
While
boat
floated
wind,
and
the
and
the
that
like
two
repeated
August,
the
among
who
bility,
no-
crafty
at
was
for
Paris
impelled
by
Charles
de
the
on
twelve
gentle
Lorraine
the
greatest
their
tried
before
to
kill
later,
striking
mation
Refor-
which
the
on
cliff,
the
and
Amboise,
years
of
summit
them
they
at
barked
em-
contemplating
about
all,
of
one
were
which
had
Christophe
was
of
24th
1572.
During
the
prominent
parts
followed
Guises
Beau-
at
which
Renaudie,
La
eagles
and
in
pier
by
Guise,
de
age,
by
once
the
that
flagrant
accompanied
river,
prudently
blow
great
became
Cardinal
Due
of
looking
the
famous
second
position,
fall
heads
which
on
down
the
warriors
which
pal
princi-
him.
the
east
Blois,
indefatigable
the
into
most
documents
exalted
for
sail
set
peril
valuable
most
the
the
left
he
in
scene
him
to
when
with
the
compromised
partisan,
about
was
morning
very
The
the
assigned
makes
which
devastated
with
been
Study.
this
reformer
zealous
on
and
which
begun
had
son
roles,
disasters
have
to
furrier's
the
perilous
said
be
may
of
years
this
and
by
night,
in
double
the
the
three
twelve
years'
conspiracy,
Reformers
(133)
who
noblemen
alike,
played
drama
plotted
had
which
by
arrived
the
at
the
chateau,
riding
half-dead
horses
word
all, how
mother
of Henri
his cousin
Prince
wife
His
addressed
him
and
Guise,
grand
him,
to
signed
cardinal,
and
Pope,
he
Church
the
had
he
was
his
time
and
and
Italy at
of
by
and
ing
reply-
close
and
the
acted
alpine
Trans-
His
"
and
ness,"
Holi-
dealt
of
Vain
the
with
his
quence,
elo-
of
theologians
watch
to
the
as
subtlest
devoted
night, and
"
portion of
of three
means
king,
to
calls
service,
the
maintained
once
known
equal.
an
absolutely
were
day
as
wrote
servant."
monastic
his
of
friend."
was
whole
one
address
Estienne
at
Father
Holy
which
the
France
in
who
whom
he
communication
good
very
Duke
Connetable,"
le
a
his
was
king's household,
sign
Your
"
for the
As
would
he
as
of
head
rency
Montmo-
when
humble
"Monsieur
wrote:
de
would
very
of the
master
Parliament:
him
"Your
concluded:
he
as
the
of the
Anne
Guise
de
Monseigneur,"
"
as
Due
ship!
relation-
Stuart
daughter
Constable
the
grandaunt
at
Mary
tell
to
moment.
is blood
aiming
was
Anne,
great
that
at
Bourbon,
Conde.
de
was
The
Ferrara.
he
word
"
little account
moment
the
de
the
to
war.
man
situated
was
how
of
great
Antoinette
Of
that
at
he
was
IV.
niece.
that
guarded
was
devoted
absolutely
men
left their
had
which
postern,
idol of all
the
concerning
first of
His
the
soldiers
Guise,
de
Due
MEDICI
at
at
and
officers
by
us,
DE'
CATHERINE
134
upon
France
religious orders
him,
as
travelled
his
spies
for
and
advisers.
These
few
words
will
explain
to what
great power
DE'
CATHERINE
cardinal
the
wealth
and
so
entirely
by
the
the
the
revenues
in
Balafre, whose
of
House
the
expended
seizing
the
family
under
Louis
had
vingians,
de'
no
Catherine
was
Florentine
Louis
not
For
his
son's
and
had
be
duke
frantic
Henrietta
d'Orleans,
Chevalier
the
niece's
de
of
of
this
the
time
known
all
to
Chevalier
as
de
She
when
Medici
only
because
be
the
England,
Louis
Lorraine.
daughter
XIV.
The
She
Charles
is
of
he
D'Estes
I.,and
supposed
did
have
think
not
Hence
by
declined
first wife
to
upon
mesalliance,
poisoned
was
rope
Eu-
hood.
brother-
looked
dauphin.
dauphin
of
as
and
parvenu
royal
I. had
D'Este,
of
their
the
spared
sovereigns
Franfois
ever
descendant
into
it
with
Guise
was
yet admitted
with
ine
Cather-
treated
de
the
reason,
Carlo-
mother-in-law,
whom
would
of
dethroned
Duchesse
Montecuculli.
brother
The
purpose
at
made
cardinal
Medici, the
son
of
him,
ruined.
XIV.
the
mortification.
permitted
Florentine
second
to
the
role
of
heirs
The
that
rage
of the
abasement
death
and
marriage
that
and
infamous
tradesmen,
had
the
XIII.
both
descended.
insolence.
Catherine
for
the
on
fashion.
menace
explains
Medici, their
utmost
death
the
century
an
to
the
after C"esar's
necessarily
was
were
too, that
constant
sudden
what
Claiming
was
crown
to
Lorraine
that
life
in
offices,they
generous,
35
their
Despite
irresistiblyborne
so
procured
Madame's*
Europe
their
or
III.
Guise
money
when
of
debt, doubtless
Henri
attained.
of politics,so
were
So, when
had
disinterested
current
of them
duke
and
MEDICI
been
of
his
the
to
Philip, Due
poisoned
by
136
DE'
CATHERINE
Medicis
recognize
the
sometime
tradesmen
duke
grand
the
to
their
France,
attachment
the
to
thwarted
their
"Caress
of
lack
destiny
too
royal
of
For
warrior
including
IV.;
which
did
of
It may
master
when
its
little
finally overtakes
less
useful
that
to
than
tell how
wound,
facial
strong
semblance
re-
all
had
ning
cun-
faces;
awe-inspiring
were
of
also
recognizable
and
their
and
for it
the
the
in
scars
bility
affa-
and
charm
won
Basque
bore
son
the
they
by
churchmen,
cardinals
of
which
all the
may
Richelieu
father
expression by
what
and,
Lorraine
de
is
which
them
no
been
Cardinal
time
deprive
not
received
the
which
underwent
bore
faces
both
but
be
been
moment
had
there
five
warriors'
soldiers
servile
traying
be-
profound
have
which
whom
same
type,
Henri
the
which
Charles,
the
the
of tradesmen,
extraordinary,
These
at
by
secretly
That
churchman;
Ximenes,
mountaineer
their
Lorraine
resembled.
whereas
until
Cardinal
and
title of
great families.
more
to
also
men
generations
even
appear
family
degeneration
and
and
by
until
it
which
"
to
seems
great, and
three
and
Spain,
that
great
that
races
the
purchased
only!"
enemies
became
soon
who
of
Catherine's
political gospel
not
accord
benefactress,
court
Not
plans in Italy.
your
remark
did
Medicis,
throne
institutions.
solve
to
maintain
to
did
long after,
how
"
Those
princes.
fact, trying
in
were,
republican
by
encompassed
Italian
as
impossible problem
the
MEDICI
hearts
of
great courage.
where
was
the
cured
grand
by
the
DE'
CATHERINE
daring skill of
Ambroise
Pare,
to the
indebted
side
by
entered
cheek
of the
and
action
right eye,
below
the
left ear,
The
duke
lay
in his
would
and
dismay,
the
died
have
the
side
weapon
emerged
at
remained
and
tent, amid
eral
gen-
for
bold
but
of
devotion
unhesitating
the
At
of the
head
neck
wound.
in the
being
as
pierced from
was
the
below
referred
37
drama,
guild of furriers.
face
duke's
the
in this
have
we
of the
syndic
characters
lance-thrust;
the
back
the
the
whom
to
siege of Calais,
to
of
one
MEDICI
the
Ambroise
Pare.
duke
The
"
is
about
looking
"
will
he
but
dare
to
long,"
said
continued,
he
of whatever
and
unless
"
going
am
happen
may
broise,
Am-
attendants;
weeping
already dead,
as
risk
the
at
the
at
ere
him
treat
venture,
die
messieurs,"
dead,
not
to
to
me.
Look!"
He
placed
shaft
wooden
the
worked
not
if he
as
scar
which
like reason,
the
in his
he
gave
rise
the
to
his
it from
drew
with
thing,
prince by
do
not
sobriquet
same
fingers, slowly
dealing
cured
could
chest, seized
last
at
were
he
treatment,
horrible
lance
Although
man.
duke's
the
on
forth, and
and
head,
audacious
of the
it back
duke's
the
left foot
his
his
with
the
sobriquet.*
For
away
given
was
to
his
son.
Being
whom
mutual
absolute
his
wife
love
the
"
LeBalafre,
the
of
of
masters
held
sway
which
two
Scarred.
great
King
Francois
by virtue
they
knew
Lorraine
of
how
II., over
passionate
to
take
vantage,
ad-
138
and
France,
de'
had
the
on
of
terrace
Christophe
when
who
affected
had
asked
the
Loire,
more
where
which
one
The
lovely valley.
overlooked
end, which
which
could
one
Perchoir
Bretons,
aux
Catherine
hoodwinked
them
of
one
her
double
well
the
by
secret
game,
Catherine
in
for
devoted
reality a
also
and
the
her
had
seen,
of that
the
at
site
oppofrom
Vendomois,
and
part of the
town,
the
the
teau.
cha-
of
postern
and
brothers
two
feigned dissatisfaction,
glad of
men
opportunity
an
had
who
which,
This
devoted
nobleman
servant
faithful
in such
boldly playing
was
of
for
speak
to
arrived
he
however,
servant
two
astrologer
whole
were
the
confidant, who
rewarded.
apparently
Lorraine,
three
upper
deceived
had
really very
was
haste,
the
see
the
the
still be
the
Lorraines
two
She
toward
her
can
overlook
may
different
cardinal.
gardens,
which
by
mortification
the
the
Guises,
brought
from
building, for
was
morning
the
news
had
by
observatory
an
from
she
occupied
queen-mother,
to
the
of the
end
Lorraine
the
arrived
dismissed
she
The
had
but
of
during
of
who
widow
places they
attachment
warm
the
at
ambitious
House
the
informed
be
politely
Ruggieri,
and
of the
arrive.
to
kingdom;
the
walking
was
erine
Cath-
than
court
politicians play
chateau
was
noblemen
being
with
at
ambitious
the
very
to
three
parts of
the
exemplified by
well
were
of
II. and
Henri
she
did
Never
Medici.
respective positions
The
of
foe
other
no
MEDICI
game.
wary
of
DE'
CATHERINE
was
the
was
tainly
cer-
Chiverni,
de
Cardinal
of Catherine.
retainers
in
the
DE'
CATHERINE
her
Gondis,
object
the
Guises
for
them
at
his
allegiance
abandoned
last
that
formed
in
Before
them
his
who
which
the
de
to
arms
held
Saint-Andre.
the
Chiverni,
As
to
by
the
employ
two
the
he
had
of
attract
Cardinal
marshal
arrived
secretly, and
to
Amboise,
of
chateau
the
entrusted
to
they
Catherine.
made
secret
instructed
been
which
more
had
intended
Guise,
chose
the
master
measures
under
Due
even
penetrated
had
conference
Guises;
again
grand
also
him
took
was,
built
who
the
to
personage
against
year
The
marshal
triumvirate
was
benefit.
was
he
creature
man
while
Paris.
great
so
of the
the
came
Saint-Andre
and
following
devotion
the
military
Ecouen
became
member
had
one
Catherine's
whose
secretly, departed
no
for
who
and
Guises,
the
them
Vieilleville, who
Duretal,
for
and
have
to
undertakings
Saint-Andre,
was
third
for
mission
to
take
all
him.
certain
the
formers
re-
result
of
as
the
de
Lorraine,
Birague, Vieilleville,
chiefs
Birague,
in
Pied-
cunning
their
from
come
Guises,
the
the
upon
firm
held
in
them
Italian
Chiverni,
like
queen-mother
spy
arrive
to
was
were
Guises
another
Gondis
he
act
the
was
two
pretended,
had
France,
for
queen;
encouraged
Chiverni
of
the
the
as
There
the
and
watched
also
kept
she
so
word
every
they
whom
to
who
montese,
acting
their
part of
the
on
abroad;
them
Catherine.
Birague
who
send
to
where
but
advised
named
her
39
Florentines
two
suspicion
much
court, where
watched,
and
of too
those
but
creatures;
the
were
MEDICI
of the
it is to
House
be
the
and
raine
of Lor-
supposed
CATHERINE
Chiverni
groups.
it,and
kiss
to
the
walked
"
the
to
queen-mother's
it
little note,
Catherine
of
corner
shall
you
have
you
set
make
serve
no
best
against
steal the
the
the
other
wars
for
the
hold
be the
they
The
it
burn
as
On
Melun,
soon
did
When
de
Duchesse
to
deposit safely
hoodwinked
to
espouse
toward
which
has
decided
the
goal
So
he
your
to
give you
his
vote
have
to
help
here
control
to
is
way,
I'HSpital
he
Guise
the
sees
ing.
tend-
are
utmost
council."
in the
council, you
them
de
with
queried Catherine.
been
impatient
because
de
at
Madame
the
by
cause
in order
the
constable
returning
return
into
Chiverni.
Monsieur
Messieurs
proposing
very
was
to
him
to worse,
with
passed through
proposes
sincere?"
by
L'HOPITAL."
the
to
he
Is he
bad
from
asked
that
put
must
visit
Lorraines.
the
mistress,
party in check
Olivier, who,
by
the
sirous
de-
alone.
be
Savoie, before
in
equally
are
bosom,
she
Berri, whom
Chancellor
enlighten
him?"
he
place
in her
should
from
returning
which
she
see
you
if
result.
paper
as
la
**
the
put
queen
to
as
Bourbons
Be
one
will go
kingdom
the
another
or
children.
your
between
one
"
haste
these
another;
advisers;
may
with
Lorraines
either
from
; otherwise
bloody
"
away,
read
balance
the
have
; you
one
crown
hold
contend
fear
to
reason
slave, of your
not
"
by
unseen
parapet, and
to
them
you
them
to
to
hand
turned
hastily
the
powerful enough
are
and
the
141
You
who
MEDICI
into
slipped
Italians.
two
words
raised
DE'
'*
know,
matters
The
raines
Lor-
and
there."
it
DE'
CATHERINE
142
is
L'HSpital
"
is
note
Chiverni
stock
good
all
at
not
his
events,
engagement."
constable's
the
is
"
sufficientlybinding
What
"
of too
Frenchman
said
honest,"
be
to
MEDICI
reply
these
to
Lor-
raines?"
He
"
orders.
his
await
forestall
is the
he
that
says
king's
that
Upon
resistance, will
all
did
"Well,
said
He
"
stand
"
defrise
"
Did
Very
bargain
the
woman."
Yes,"
your
Huguenots
at
such
plunging
you
position
is.?"
surprised
thought
no
of
said
de
present
my
He
considers
at
the
share
the
Gondi.
as
the
of
bribe
made
at
you
Madame
thought
queen
glancing
queen,
great blunder
blunder
the
you
king's death,
Guise
de
obligation to
the
that
late
Messieurs
all
1 made
Such
Charles
could
calmly.
ruin.
avoided
"
any
Guise."
de
the
use
can
Chiverni,
what
when,
for
had
"
had
"we
nearly.
Diane's
dis,
you
madame,
Messieurs
that
cried
queen,
accepted
"
dismay.
.?"
know
he
the
fool's
in
difficulties."
such
asked
alone,
you
and
think
he
perspicacity,
"
brother
kingdom."
the
I'Hopital give
crown
madame,"
"Ah!
into
that
me
the
does
chevaux
as
to
between
But
to
for me?"
advice
other
his
Catherine,
de
Monsieur
of
will
cardinal,
that
propose
exclaimed
"Already!"
the
reply,
appointed lieutenant-general
be
and
servant
they
by gratifying
the
two
Gon-
then."
gods
make!"
rejoined
DE'
CATHERINE
Messieurs,"
"
said
reformers,
to the
not
with
said
their
support
"I
be
of
that
with
said
Gondi,
them
serve
your
surest
are
"
do
we
success
the
queen.
seized
close
not
and
defeat
"A
single false
with
Guises
the
by
upon
the
Leo
the
Pope,
of
Huguenots,
X.,
as
Valois,
zealous
most
Catholic,
Italian
form
one
Reformation?"
the
the
an
such
can
"
of four
mother
widow
the
France,
of
aunt
make
tirely
en-
equally perilous."
of
of
persecutor
"1
niece
queen
the
fact
instantly
to
The
"
de
it!"
pretext
party."
eagerly,
they
moment,
Charles
are
know
step will
a
the
the
to
eyes
of
slave
must
you
you;
for
"Although,
our
the
openly
over
them."
you
reliance,"
if I go
"
become
I43
replied Chiverni,
agree
you,
tlie queen,
I shall
"Madame,"
MEDICI
ance
alli-
an
Charles
queried
de
Gondi.
"
if
But
lend
hands
our
Albert.
sees
an
"
can
abjuring
"
France,
have
resist
to
accept
snatch
is
which
in the
Reformed
the
replied
family
crown
the
of
support
madame,
entirely
the
if the
a
in
slave
It
"
Florence
not
we
gle
strug-
religion.
reformers
without
faith."
our
be
the
with
and
do
usurpation?"
deal
to
Guises,
the
of
act
Catholicism
Chiverni.
of
an
opportunity
Consider,
should
not
to
You
between
We
do
we
would
that
interest
the
of
the
be
Reformation
king."
your
King
for
the
could
family,
own
of
of
the
of
King
Spain!"
Reformation
make
which
the
said
morrow
to-
Duke
*'
quite disposed
am
than
purpose
priest, and
She
of the
chateau
"That
trio
held
She
which
nodded
from
the
with
genuine
floor
the
of her
apartments
I waited
head
de
Diane
so
State
long and
which
from
my
old
that
added.
she
stead,"
her
of
reins
the
in the
Chenonceaux,
taken
soldier, that
cardinal, and
the
were
taken
has
in my
toward
other
no
Stuart.
that
on
moment
if for
"
another,
duke,
the
on
Mary
after
one
glance,
and
Catherine,
revenged
for
hand
woman!"
that
indicated
Italian's
son
be
to
MEDICI
lend
to
said
Huguenots,"
the
to
DE'
CATHERINE
144
of the
direction
the
chateau
Poitiers
in
which
Loire,
had
she
for Chau-
exchange
mont.
"Mz,"
ruffed
them.
me!
Not
one
She
said
**
to
He
it
not
clever
could
venture
the
enough
I cannot
conscience,
you
that
seems
to
to
go
carry
you
has
ground.
could
have
met
in
brains
some
hunchback
the
his
head,"
she
Chiverni.
there, madame;
persuading
with
to
the
Monsieur
him.
enough
overthrow
for his
aid
"
are
my
the
on
he
was
in
cause
of
that
hoped
Ecouen;
at
By
"
stamped
Italian,
them."
to
message
"
to
in
Geneva
at
gentry
apply
to
said
she
but
constable
de
the
disgrace, but
could
he
make
to
not
common
ing
is will-
Montmorency
who
Guises,
he
will
do
ceed
suc-
sponsible
re-
were
nothing
to
heresy."
"Messieurs,
who
will
crush
these
individual
wills
DE*
CATHERINE
which
the
embarrass
God
another,
and
kingdom,
children's
my
XL,
the
five
or
destroy
men
is the
idea,"
said
of
greatest
in
parties
party
one
this
of
weakest
all."
them
Gondi,
and
"
the
There
will
cried
like
of
surprised
in
the
by
child
allow
no
Guisard
in-law,
interests,"
idea
the
made
The
joined
rewas
the
enter
will
make
them
not
with
you
1 should
by
friends.
will
then
you
will
If I
sort,
eyes
be
ished
ban-
Florence
to
my
day
some
be
fanatical
some
Ah!
"
her
no
jailers,who
two
back
sent
this
with
me
chateau,
and
them.
of
her
I have
daughterprisoner
how
know
you
suffer!"
grand
foxes
people,
commanded
my
that
by
or
Gondi;
nothing of the
I know
follows
cradle,
de
executions."
these
who
escort,
me
plans,"
of
machination
any
house,
their
Albert
communicating
Thanks,
own
of
kingdom
I trust
your
"
the
terrible
have
to
said
"
queen,
queen,
in the
one
from
with
crushed
XL
XL,
odium
the
plans
method
either
axe!"
an
the
the
or
were
as
incur
not
resources
reliable
behind
Louis
Under
"
heresy
But,"
"
de
great fiefs."
the
"you
ideas
always
are
Use
'*
Charles
Louis
that
parties
Chiverni.
called
an
held
were
"
is
Reformation
"The
in
four
are
Great
royalty?
great
Louis
by
There
kings.
your
done
was
as
these
I45
of
designs
make
must
we
MEDICI
and
master
tell what
cardinal
Chiverni
exclaimed
tell
the
them.
Find
they know,
;
a
"
way,
and
but
know
those
madame,
I will
all
two
to
sacrifice
146
for you
myself
by coming
MEDICI
with
terms
to
the
Prince
Conde."
de
of
Which
**
unable
their
the
have
Andre
it
his
few
days
best
The
for the
execution
can
"Abdicate
terrible
court
she
who
play
to
of
the
"
wife
No
hope
so
Catherine's
few
face;
lips, in
her
bewitches
strange
ivory-white
leading part.
long
him,"
before
lived
as
she
at
which
the
Chiverni,
from
ear
passed
over
not
was
yet
years
of
power
shadow
her
on
horrifying
language
boy
added,
was
chateau
in the
twenty-six
This
had
sudden
place."
she
immediately
that
pointing
is surrounded.
rage
exclamation
prediction
days
the
Now,
plans.
thought.
inward
determined,
lay
favorably
Albert
of
without
grand
the
Blois
in this
in
centrating
con-
Within
examine
exclaimed
had
is
The
secure
lost
know
master
chateau
than
was
France,
had
from
came
earth
old, and
forty years
the
on
Saint-
we
secret
said
more
expression
beautiful
her
no
who
queen,
queen,
left bank.
to
the
be
reign!"
or
grand
of his
which
which
consider
possibly want?"
he
men
de
Amboise.
at
not
anywhere
the
be
does
court
attack
of
will
precipices by
to the
of
the
on
land, and
can
the
Monsieur
the
terrace
situated
what
troops
to
came
the
that
this
master
of
and
orders
seems
you
asked
you?"
Vieilleville
received
but
nothing;
those
were
brothers.
two
de
"Monsieur
plans
own
from
conceal
to
pointing to
"
DE'
CATHERINE
been
of
"
arrival,
sentence
Dante:
lives!
after
at
his
"
little
pause.
inspired by
made
of Chaumont,
to
her
on
the
a
the
DE'
CATHERINE
opposite
with
her
lives
of
of the
bank
four
her
thither
of
prominent
the
Cardan,
fixed
shall
Oh!
"Of
Prince
de
to
and
divined
year.
this
matter.?'*
tleman.
gen-
"
said
with
Chiverni,
for
leader
of
talks
the
risk
can
son,
young
le Cardinal
Monsieur
prudent
interposed Catherine.
being
who,
cried
the
It's
that
the
writing
"and
queen,
am
enough
amusing
Messieurs
that
with
Guises?
excused
In
face
for
are
rightly
de
but
weighing
the
B^ze,
and
shall
Huguenots,
of three
such
our
the
with
playing
Calvin,
with
play
to
observed
thing,"
Bourbons;
the
ment
move-
had
France
in
great
Catherine.
in
Bourbons
of the
leaders
the
Reformation
ally
an
the
that
seen
an
playing
be
one
the
reformers
the
come,"
be
of
and
II. at
rians,
histo-
here."
him
It will
"
of
notice
!"
saved
"
This
"
queen,"
the
given
come
"Let
the
battle," said
Conde,
anything;
teenth
six-
great
others.
many
touching
queen!"
the
has
"
so
King of Navarre
course,
smile,
him
have
say
in the
most
Chiverni.
The
"
the
cretly
se-
escaped
advice
asked
We
and
the
to
soothsayer
occult
reign of Frangois
is your
Catherine
"
life has
the
"What
to the
gone
as
Nostradamus,
by
Paracelsus,
whose
woman,
consult,
to
physicians who,
clung
century,
had
she
celebrated
sons,
147
whither
astrologer Ruggieri
brought
"
Loire,
MEDICI
queen,
Huguenots,
others
be
we
cunning
Bourbons,
enemies,
powers!"
she
are
we
and
may
said.
DE'
CATHERINE
the
famous
his
inkstand
formed
German,
of
plans
nations
to
hearts
the
for his
by sowing
of
bourgeoisie,
the
reverses
well
knew
as
where
the
and
Charles
Charlemagne's
from
share
could
realize
the
blow
been
above
by
all
by
sect,
of the
in
two
the
flames
did
not
with
whom
; and
the
had
but
attempted
Medici, whose
twelve
Lecamus,
bourgeoisie,
at
one
Am-
second
then
eyes
of
years
of
blow.
single
day, acting
of
when
extent
printed by
Parisian
that
Suleiman,
in
had
war,
quently
republic,subse-
significant word
and
uttered
Reformed
the
on
he
heresy
de'
much
that
Guises
be
freely
too
fancying
The
it to
Catherine
with
closely
too
him
to
Alva
together.
attacked
out
Saint-Bartholomew's
opened
The
the
out
caused
they
on
accord
stamp
of
how
relying
was
pointed
Duke
quaffed
in
Guise
de
bound
with
head
they attempted
boise, and
time
world
abdicated.
he
to
thought,
That
whole
Granvelle
wound,
and
monarchy
his
up
by fresh
Due
at, and
having
his
first that
at
Cardinal
and
of
strength
the
the
were
cup,
in
make
to
the
aimed
from
drunk
V.,
and
royalty
whole
doctrines
order
II. and
was
aroused
fellow-men.
Lorraine
monarchy
nished
battles, fur-
battle-field
the
his
Philip
as
Catholicism
the
de
Cardinal
The
of
in
threw
sickly celibate,
republican
on
minds
in the
and
weapons,
and
devil
managed
campaign,
action
constant
progress
Picard,
face, the
with
princes
I49
the
with
fought
in his
MEDICI
the
that
had
of the
writers
men
typical speci-
already
omed
fath-
respect.
princes,
on
the
point of dealing
deadly
DE'
CATHERINfE
I50
blow
at
it at
one
stroke
the
from
would
it
triumph
of
heart
the
their
consultation
adopt
of
king,
while
nobility, in
everything,
the
to
as
order
to
religious faction
lose
in
whose
finishing
were
method
sever
they
should
their
disclosing
MEDICI
Catherine
with
talking
was
to
her
the
four
advisers.
d'Albret
Jeanne
"
She
Huguenots!
she
which
ram
grand
handles
of the
d'Albret
Jeanne
of that
minds
shrewdest
de
B^ze
receive
his
Theodore
**
Calvin
to
What
"
"Ah!
have
we
said
the
acter
char-
truth,
very
of
one
the
after
Nerac,
at
visiting
orders."
do
ing!"
in find-
succeed
master.
not
exclaimed
Renaudie,"
well!"
plans.
bourgeois
grand
the
the
age.
is
these
men
cried
in
was,
was
battering-
far-reaching
the
of Navarre's
Queen
she
patroness of
extremely
realized
who
master,
the
what
Reformation
in the
has
well
very
herself
declared
she
when
doing
knew
on
man
side
our
cardinal;
the
like
is
he
"
that
La
genuine
Catiline."
Such
"
the
duke
him
I overwhelmed
to
of
Parliament
France
Bourgogne,
by obtaining
and
I intended
him,
while
against
us.
he
to
was
The
do
favors,
I enabled
of
revision
him
his
in
everything
has
La
my
devilish
rallied
the
die?
Renau-
helped
condemnation
his
concocting
knave
interest,"
own
appreciate
with
of
time
the
at
escape
I not
Did
"
replied.
for their
act
always
men
to
him
by
the
return
to
prosecution,
power
for
conspiracy
Protestants
DE'
CATHERINE
of
Germany
the
to
by smoothing
had
that
dogma
He
has
the
cause
Catholicism
abjure
to
at
And
he
had
has
the
resort
to
force
it is
And
to
try
We
build
induced
be
"
said
us,"
passed
the
cardinal.
of
rest
which
compromised
the
to
as
Condes
do
threads
of this
that
bade
lawyer,
them
reason,"
that
Braguelonne
him
or
not
said
anything
like
which
dog,
he
the
assault
all the
but
me;
let
can
is
upon
fete,
is
nobody
chanics,
me-
difference
no
as
tion
informa-
noblemen,
them
appear
The
live.
yet, although
conspiracy."
the
Avenelles,
let
find
kingdom
it makes
whom
and
that
town.
never
yesterday's
sent
Colignys
"For
to
him
deadly
night reading
hang
the
tion;
domina-
our
whole
"After
we
hold
in
justifiableto
can
we
gold by
whether
they
distributed
town
impoverished
except
people
of
the
have
monks
my
it is
kill
Nantes!
consultation
shown
make
to
upon
the
and
had
family."
our
Languedoc,
worked
being
but
them
where
every-
at
king from
either
bridge
enter
Bretagne,
writing
never
must
him
to
to
circulating from
I have
yet
was
Languedoc,
everywhere,
to
he
year
in
the
rescue
now
him
kindness!
but
or
for
look
him!
to
Calvin.
noblemen
He
that
of
matter
and
Last
orders!
declare
France
requiring
report of
the
theologians
and
We
reduced
Germany
throughout
which
Lyon,
at
once,
without
his
the
great
openly.
under
thirty captains
in
Luther
between
Reformation
of the
of
heretics
discontented
the
151
difficulties
the
arisen
rallied
of the
support
away
MEDICI
duke,
sold
us
"as
the
conspirators go
soon
as
secret,
on
to
the
DE'
CATHERINE
52
end;
they
and
us,
My
beaten
for
That
"
are
leaders
the
perhaps
then.
MEDICI
advice
would
will
be
show
allow
to
would
half
be
hour
an
themselves
ourselves
be
to
"
forty-eight hours
about
surprise
to
"
long!"
too
exclaimed
cardinal, in alarm.
the
"What
fellow
brave
are!"
you
retorted
Le
Balafre.
The
cardinal
Whether
"
not, if
or
rejoined, unmoved:
strike
do
and
we
him
sure
down,
and
soldiers
shall
we
and
do
think
you
who
leader, let
be
judges.
for this
is
Victory
than
task,
always
battle-field
the
on
us
We
secure.
judges
am
enough
shall
as
parliament
compromised
is their
we
much
lack
is
less."
costs
"
in
he
then
so
never
certain
more
Conde
de
that
are
need
not
Prince
the
to
that
inspire
coming
are
Prince
the
much
so
strike
to
Conde
de
is
first blow
this
but
powerful
in these
audacity
"
duke;
the
people
us?
is it
when
he
at
not""
**
The
"A
King of Navarre,"
who
simpleton
speaks
to
me!"
his
have
coquetries
hat
"Can
duke.
the
cardinal.
the
off
takes
replied
Florentine's
the
said
it be
obscured
that
your
sight?"
"
"
Oh!
My
is to
be
able
has
is
even
to
what
in
only purpose
"She
"she
I know
read
no
more
about,"
am
seeking
in the
heart,"
said
ambitious
the
intrigue
an
depths
said
of her
the
than
with
her
heart."
duke,
we
priest.
quickly,
are."
DE'
CATHERINE
"You
his
are
"
behind
and
you,
I set
of
ever
dreamed
more
religious than
of
shall
but
we
the
test
far
and
only proof of
until
who
will
they
is
built, as
an
assault
and
go
whereas
"
"
Chiverni
at
will.
We
amusing
catching
Blois
not
himself
by
leave
made
have
it
is
is
the
a
at
he
know
is the
ing
wait-
are
the
by
bilities
proba-
know
soon
Last
by
night,
of conspirators
by-roads,
Amboise,
and
where
said, pointing
"
should
we
four
with
have
could
Huguenots
to
of Blois
chateau
Florentine,"
mistake,"
by tossing
the
they
the
the
hall
solutely
ab-
king,
that
her
by
us.
come
entrances,
bag."
the
to
just done,
result,
no
Amboise
I will
had
supposed
detachments
which
had
the
warned.
Here,"
cliff on
has
"and
us
when
heretics."
will
to attack
her
supports
she
perhaps
hither
in.
all
of the
with
the
soul
the
to
dazzle
no
inclination;
plot
is
are
their way
them
sides
three
follow
compelled
be
let
I shall
on
are
we
she
the
Renaudie
that
to
was
judge
duke;
to
La
success.
Nemours
the
innocence;
arrangements
my
to
that
who
last moment,
the
of
her
of
whole
the
it," said
about
nothing
disclose
to
you
is
is not
lack
well
with
queen-mother
the
for
how
see
communication
is time
to
If she
perfectly certain
am
no
"It
to
far
before
her
to
very
Catherine
opportunity
an
not
am
her.
shoe.
cardinal
the
watch
to
it is not
and
comes,
Mary
my
have
me,
suspecting
conspiracy,
the
Thus
believe
but,
53
brother,
MEDICI
hilt;
"we
his
said
rejoined
dagger
must
the
the
in the
adopt
dinal.
car-
duke,
air and
the
same
DE*
CATHERINE
154
with
plan
her
of
liberty
reformers,
the
with
as
in
movement
MEDICI
order
catch
to
full
her
give
her
in
the
act."
the
they
"
their
Monseigneur,
is at the
Oh!
in
Renaudie,
hither
says
that
that
need
he
the
by
he
race
ter-
by
which
has
queen's
ermine
an
admitted?"
be
she
mentioned
"admit
the
did
until
day,"
yester-
the
for
surcot
**
I do
"
I will
ask
said
the
know,"
not
him
morning
the
reception
aloud.
**
come,
the
grand
shopkeepthe
journey
By
in
the
he
was
gate
of
the
not
teau?"
cha-
replied.
question
to
that
master.
Pardaillan
Balafre
Le
he
reached
he
demanded
added,
the
on
celebrated
sent
cardinal;
road
what
challenged
the
grand
Loire."
the
By
La
her; shall
surcot
will
she
ing churl;
man
to
the
replied
the
them
became
with
gate, and
yes,
said
lives.
deliver
to
who
meeting
lost
garment
"
and
moment,
toward
nobleman
his
both
down
brother
want?"
coming
saw
young
of
furrier
"
he
as
reason
Pardaillan
does
What
master,
his
at
head.
his
shook
"
looked
cardinal
The
in the
himself.
the
"
"
salle
queen's
Let
des
him
await
gardes,"
Pardaillan,
way,
ence,"
pres-
he
is
he
young?"
"
Yes,
he
monseigneur;
claims
to
Lecamus's
be
son."
"Lecamus
is
who,
Caesar's
like the
memory.
good
Catholic,"
grand master,
"
The
cure
of
said
was
the
blessed
Saint-Pierre
dinal,
car-
with
aux
DE'
CATHERINE
Boeufs
relies
for
him,
upon
MEDICI
quartenier
is
he
55
the
at
palace."
"Nevertheless,
of
captain
it
is in
broise
the
knave
him
very
It
forward
to
which
the
Italian
said
she,
Am-
if
him
assisted
who
Pare."
Catherine
came
who
made
manifestations
of
spect
re-
detected
constantly
an
meaning.
to
as
But
from
brothers,
her, with
to
as
Ambroise
Queen
two
grand
way
"
learn
Ask
ago.
the
meet
Lecamus,
that
toward
such
can
of
son
moment
Messieurs,"
"
me
this
go
in
ironical
we
materially long
alone
to
chateau;
really the
is
at
was
haste
the
the
understand.
to
easy
the
with
said
in
verb
talk
to
son
Guard,"
the
meaning
the
Scottish
the
emphasizing
master,
give
allow
what
master's
will
hold
Does
lower
de
Messieurs
deign
you
going forward.?
is
widow
than
"
to
former
your
in
place
inform
teem
es-
your
Vieilleville, Birague,
and
Chiverni?"
Madame,"
"
"
duty
our
replied
as
But
rumors.
having
this
begun
with
orders,
the
you:
of the
king
What
we
and
is the
Catherine,
You
will
it
was
of
queen,
matter,
as
ladies
excuse
remain
the
the
hour
Monsieur
affectingalarm.
by
to
as
false
fer
con-
brother
my
purely military
to
unnecessary
attend
duty
our
is occasion
certain
questions
will
gallant tone,
the
there
by issuing
important
please,
said
alarming
morning
which
If you
"
avoid
affairs of State.
upon
for
to
cardinal, in
taking precedence
men,
politicians,is
the
to
be
morning
draws
le Grand
trouble
decided.
reception
near."
Maitre.?"
of
officer
guard
the
of
clerk
admit
the
tophe
standing
gazing
XII,,
than
curious
carved
the
with
doorway,
of
notice
pulled
dress
her
the
still
much
were
For
instance,
figure,
of
columns
and
up,
King
what
woman's
of
one
porch,
good
by
to-day.
are
to
Chris-
the
by
carvings
will
capital
chateau
of
judge
the
to
found
built
may
they
observer
in
we
the
front
in
fantastic
it, the
numerous
more
if
order
furrier,
facade
the
at
of
gate
queen's
the
where,
of
remains
the
at
the
given
just
open-mouthed
intently
Louis
the
had
who
Pardaillan,
the
laughingly
showing
What
to
column
of
the
of
statue
fagade,
that
carved
have
to
of
the
guard
"This
been
charges
shape
of
his
the
arquebus
sugar-loaves
subaltern
which
and
(157)
the
stood
time
the
windows
which
in
tunately
unfor-
"
or
seemed
arquebusiers
the
remarks.
jocose
comfortable
very
on
were
slung
responding
cor-
work
frame-
that
amused,
"
showering
find
the
style,
whom
upon
of
of
same
destroyed,
would
said
for
the
of
at
Several
already
were
fellow
there,"
the
in
Christophe,
amuse,
which
XII.
capital
side
other
above
Louis
the
on
the
on
door,
that
Marphise
showed
crouching
monk
stout
Brunnel
ters
quar-
duty,
patting
all
prepared
from
his
the
baldrick.
in
158
Parisian,"
I say,
'*
so
DE'
CATHERINE
**
did
of 'em,
many
He
said
MEDICI
soldier, "you
never
saw
you?"
good
recognizes
Louis
King
XII.,"
said
another.
pretended
Christophe
to
utmost
attitude
excellent
an
"The
feigned
front
of the
has
and
"come
wait
did
his
and
guard-house
was
eyes.
risen,"
said
for
in
not
and
amazement,
in Pardaillan's
passport
queen
captain;
in
hear,
to
his
exaggerate
foolish
his
not
her
the
the
young
salle
des
gardes/'
slowly
followed
admire
the
graceful
of
Louis
XII., the
reception-hour
under
Christophe
to
in the
reign
bad, and
where
of the
noblemen
which
led
to
in
of
tower
cried
front
their
is at
of
the
of
here
Christophe
he
as
or,
followed
the
that
quasi-Moorish
the
courtyard
talking
for the
case
stairwell
extremely
of
well
that
gallery
adapted
to
ing.?"
study image-carvLecamus
saw
of
the
standing
conies
bal-
outer
prefer, separate,
the
captain toward
the
young
glance
noblemen
several
arch.
of honor,
morning
to
if you
staircase
at
was
beholders.
dainty carvings
connect,
of each
end
architecture
come
you
Guises;
the
the
weather
moment,
apartments,
day,
gered
lin-
awaited
the
that
of the
Pardaillan,
which
columns
at
style of
did
"Well,
in
were,
He
gallery where,
courtiers
when
admiration
the
arouse
to
arched
cover
party
this
preserved
a
there
Pardaillan.
not
without
was
in groups,
casting
On
tower.
full of
their
an
enraptured
that
lovely
orderlies,
gorgeous
and
costumes
DE'
CATHERINE
animation
giving
carved
marvels
"Come
door
him
to
soldier
entered
the
it
well
it
mother's;
and
two
at
in
as
was
lighted by
the
left of the
and
king
and
Madame
of
beside
fireplace
at
like
it at
with
this
the
large
of that
end
one
Christophe
him
made
as
vast
end.
other
officer,and
telling
seated
the
queen-
queen's
her
of the
on
eventually
wretched
himself
appear
inform
that
took
at the
father's
fell
hall,
vast
surcots.
stool
the
by
women,
hall, facing
He
walked
duty
on
mous
fa-
the
captain
that
right
the
at
into
his
second
occupied
with
the
whole
containing
young
the
the
Pardaillan, Christophe
officer
as
in
pages
hall
the
from
an
of
of
the
on
windows
two
one
in
was
gesture
was
by
the
Dayelle,
place
of
of
third
floor
opened
such
partition through
bedroom
the
which
one
furrier
At
of
queen,
bade
the
door
the
when
authorities
tower
daillan.
Par-
of
was
suite
two
The
spiral stairway.
toward
which
first
the
on
open
imagined
by
king's
the
thrown
be
military
actually occupied
wooden
recognized
gardes,
it in two
cut
courtyard facade
as
des
carved
he
can
the
that
have
day
centre;
floor,
so
Lecamus,
to
was
when
guard
salle
size
present
through
amazement
that
immense
Pardaillan
said
floor, which
on
Christophe's
he
tural
architec-
facade made
still-new
follow
to
second
the
the
by
here,"
in
on
the
59
itself.
brilliant in
motioning
the
on
spot, wliich
the
to
MEDICI
into
corner
shop,
which
precisely
one
conversation
aroused
his
interest
of trade.
condition
such
his
genuine
l6o
tradesman
Guard,
conviction
who
came
who
fully
captain of
the
him
parted
im-
Scottish
the
courtyard
scrutinized
to
question
stealthilyand
could
ferocityof
Chaudieu
knew
had
the
knows
it
for
cause
Catherine
two
and
Guises.
Are
the
town
expected
nature
of
behind
the
just
of the
had
he
so
foolish
exhibited
guard, and
The
to
be
pages,
of the
queen,
mounted,
was
"
the
squires,
entitled
ascended
the
the
of
guarded,
and
conceal
risks
port
were
spies everywhere,
the
momentous
of his faculties
tension
exterior
which
the
to
he
officer
in
royal
to
the
no
in
enter
superb
the
save
one,
the
ning
begin-
was
horses
whose
noblemen,
remained
for
chateau
outer
the
inner
staircase
of
hour
the
accompanies
The
apparent.
"
which
of
men
captain.
which
chateau,
of
Pardaillan,
young
to
extent
commercial
reception
or
the
young
tween
life be-
his
many
snares
to
and
abundant
there
chateau
find
and
commotion
morning
the
resolved
to
in
way
to
his mission
been
pitiless machines,
the
and
who
historian
the
as
families, risking
From
which
spectacle of that
and
blooded
cold-
observer
have
powerful
the
the
among
an
scene,
the
run.?
Christophe
To
at
measure
the
him.
would
who
Blois,
comprehend
interests
there
courage
they
not
perilous position,
selfish
of two
hope
his
that
trembling
those
true
of
to-day,
the
man,
the
thrust
secret
of
warned
Lecamus
Christophe
and
and
convinced,
care.
Although
the
from
MEDICI
was
the
to
up
and
Christophe,
with
ofificer
the
that
his
had
DE'
CATHERINE
yard
court-
king
and
courtyard
in groups
DE'
CATHERINE
and
the
invaded
the
where
fireplaces,
of
tiles
replace
but
where
the
of
concealed
then
in the
floor,
the
and
the
where
of
annals
the
mankind,
resplendent.
and
news
their
for
affection
king.
the
with
politiccomplaisance
he
although
of
naught
royalty
marriage
paid
all
court
of
and
first
Queen
to
so,
knew
naught
In
passion.
Mary,
and
Lorraine,
comed
wel-
he
old,
the
and
power;
diversions,
delights
de
Cardinal
the
all
years
its
save
the
save
reality they
uncle,
seventeen
was
and
Stuart
Mary
king of
the
it, deprived
which
Guises
the
thwart,
to
pay
excessive
neither
attempted
queen-mother
the
to
as
II.'s
Francois
learn
to
much
as
Stuart, which
Mary
thither
faces,
scrutinize
to
to
court
flocked
Catholics
and
Reformers
of
of
spoiled
de-
little
beggarly
mosaics
tapestries
crown
its two
to-day
are
where
ingenious
the
epoch, unique
that
shone
nor
timbers
great
with
gardes
massive
the
des
decorations,
their
red
arts
salle
vast
l6l
MEDICI
to
grand
the
to
her
master.
This
general
who
tophe,
with
watched
on
and
guards
two
duty,
fatal
The
each
of
Scottish
to
entrance
the
then
grand
to
this time
queen's
II
which
the
the
breathed
of each
curiosity.
of
side
place before
arrival
eager
marked
Balafre, who
at
the
naturally
portiere,
took
movement
his
that
stood
of
honor
were
magnificent
two
pages
then
royal bedroom,
son,
the
personage
company,
master's
last at
Chris-
the
foot
and
of
on
so
second
the
bed
Francois II.
grouped
near
the
l62
fireplace opposite
conseil,
the
between
royal chamber,
courtiers
up
tesse
de
of the
that
salle
belonged
to
Fiesco
of
and
the
took
the
of
places
Guise,
the
royal
two
of the
the
Com-
the
the
side
queen's
who
occupied
chamber.
The
ladies, who
kingdom,
The
space
noblemen
greatest
Comtesse
by
were,
their
her
court,
on
of
Guise
to
for
young
groups
de
virtue
seated
ofifices,
all of
maidens,
noble
these
The
whole
by
de
de
Duchesse
were
queens.
headed
their
those
there
the
encroach.
to
of the
and
stand
like
which
upon
salle du
door
of honor
and
its
By
seeing Catherine,
privilege pertaining
midst
the
of
the
right
the
the
to
first families
yards,
had
and
king
the
toward
left between
alone
of the
maids
was
fireplaceof
wall
thereof
Duchesse
corner,
the
the
courtiers
several
of
and
du
opposite
the
apartments
guards.
mourning
her
Fiesco,
of
entitled
in
honor,
Christophe
thick
the
certain
from
came
door
path
were
of
maids
the
were
in the
directly
which
fireplace was
in the
so
who
noblemen
by
cut
was
MEDICI
captain
second
situation, that
honor, for it
that
to
with
talking
still
of
DE'
CATHERINE
whom
in
were
standing.
of the
One
these
leans, the
apartments
who
year,
ten
on
the
destined
to
years
battalions
was
floor
his
under
ventured
king's brother,
Cypierre,
was
who
men
formidable
two
de
first
the
old
who
above,
approach
to
Due
the
from
down
came
The
reign before
name
of Charles
and
excessively
IX.,
prince,
young
the
was
bashful.
his
sieur
by Mon-
accompanied
governor.
d'Or-
close
of the
at this
time
The
Due
DE'
CATHERINE
and
d'Anjou
well
of
Henri
IV.,
according
a
he
embroidered
still in
was
saluted
the
back
the
on
His
chair.
of
that
tutor,
the
Comtesse
as
in
Amyot,
the
the
of the
tutor
and
honor
and
high
stood
behind
abbe's
sock,
cas-
already
three
other
to
leaned
characters
was
proved
he
Fiesco's
simple
he
him;
be
"
place
Guise,
noblest
for
ing
overflow-
words,
de
father,
his
of
Cypierre,
de
afterward
affection
whose
of
one
his
took
House
of
and
black,
Already
duchess's
Monsieur
well
as
and
the
accompanied
also
honor,
the
shield.
king,
to
governor,
age.
like
him
for
in
all
"
attendants.
breeches,
flowers,
for the
of
ladies
two
replied coldly
in silk
black
cloak,
mourning
antipathy
with
with
in
charge
richly dressed,
d'Orleans,
velvet
mother's
his
near
so
his
princes,
profitable
him.
Between
other
of the
end
patron
and
France
have
was
non,
always
noblemen
to
and
arrived
sentences
massed
fro
with
as
from
tain
cap-
Chris-
Rome,
amid
the
the
that
day
general
this,
to
de
exchanging
wall
of
chancellors
Cardinal
the
from
along
their
the
Olivier, L'Hopital's
dressed
dressed
and
at
one
courtiers, and
several
predecessor,
recently
whispered
with
the
guards
box. Chancellor
his
walking
the
hall, where
standing,
with
tophe
fireplace of
the
were
the
doublet
the
to
come
as
wife
the
mother's
prevailing fashion,
the
to
Due
to
young
their
under
The
cloth-of-gold
small
to
still too
brothers,
two
afterward
Marguerite,
were
apartments.
his
d'Alencon,
remained
and
court,
Due
Princesse
the
as
her
the
163
MEDICI
Toura
attention
separating
few
of
the
DE'
CATHERINE
take
you
The
Dames.
he
"
said
fair Limeuil.
The
girl turned
his
volumes."
is!"
first,but
he
said
Comtesse
the
to
would
he
Brantome
Limeuil
family
Boccaccio
day;
our
de
which
accident
of
will
de
in the
stay
to
me
and
mother's
The
the
noble,
her
whom
the
after
her
the
own
for
indebted
was
for midwife.
Mademoiselle
of
She
in Catherine's
she
"
"
door.
to
married
which
Davila
morning,"
every
secretary
arrival
as
no
If that
of the
a
said
seems
Monsieur
queen-
secretary of State,
cabinet
minister
looks
looked
who
in
our
days,
sensation.
is so,
against Messieurs
to
toward
affairs
own
group.
precisely
caused
to
queen
your
Italian
an
to
lovelier
Robertet,
to
eyes
Alipantin,
grow
kinswoman,
having
Saint
By
her
happened
dressing-room,
honor
de
"Attend
her
queen-mother,
"
Sieur
but
expanding
us
Sardini,
awaiting
de
"
in
living
Madame
the
"
said;
Celebres
quarter."
was
to
to
came
"Hush!"
the
he
de
Mademoiselle
Madame
to
of your
ladies
Monsieur
replied
Boccaccio's
some
for
do?"
respects
hand
be
not
that
clever
fair
Guise
in
material
found
How
asked,
he
we
can
his
pay
in her
must
mistake
Fiesco;
at
to
book, madame,"
made
the
went
There
"
what
them,
held
who
"
in that
**
he
as
Guise,
have
like
ladies
Brantome,
de
barbarisms?"
these
Brant6me.
addressing
"
with
up
165
MEDICI
Robertet;
monsieur,
de
pray
Guise,"
**I know
said
it has
lend
me
the
Mademoiselle
been
lent
to
libel
vila
Da-
you."
l66
"
'*I
"
I will
but
Grammont
de
only give
to
it to
you
condition."
one
Conditions.?
"
Comte
the
Davila,
Mademoiselle
on
said
it,"
have
secretary, going
Guise.
de
Madame
MEDICI
have
longer
no
salute
to
DE'
CATHERINE
"You
do
fie!"
"
said
know
not
Madame
what
de
Fiesco.
mean,"
rejoined
Grammont.
Oh!
"
The
we
Italian
call their
"
You
it is
are
de
she
asked
with
"
ladies
cousin
and
The
hastily,
count,
Mademoiselle
to
other
de
is
it
bank,
Tournon.
of
in
Orange,"
Have
"
Flanders.?"
"It
the
Com-
the
myself.
happening
yielding to
Prince
said
girls,"
deliver
is
what
of
Alva
they not,
de Tournon,
taciturn
at
that
seems
new
ideas."
said
Cypierre,
significantshrug.
Duke
are
the
the
on
my
I will
"
of
the
most
in vogue
Jarnac."
compromise
d'Egmont
He
there,
the
Cardinal
Monsieur
"
of
news
any
peasants
as
then
was
of returning
Fiesco,
you
So-and-So,
matter
my
not
tesse
Limeuil.
calling ladies,
replied
one
from
"Do
La
La
mistaken,"
simply
letter
of
custom
said
court.
Matha,
de
that,"
guess
wives.
French
the
*'
can
and
monsieur?"
who
anxious,
Cardinal
and
stood
after
Granvelle
asked
Amyot
between
his
are
the
two
conversation
dinal
Cargroups,
with
the
chancellor.
"
Fortunately
put down
Due
the
we
heresy
d'Orleans,
are
on
alluding
at
peace,
the
to
and
stage,"
the
part
he
have
said
had
only
the
to
young
played
in
DE*
CATHERINE
fdte of the
the
with
knight
coming
over-
Reformation
word
the
of
that
preceding day,
hydra
167
MEDICI
its
on
forehead.
Catherine
de*
daughter-in law,
had
of
which
was
of
estates
the
for
as
hall
vast
the
meetings
said
have
we
The
Monsieur
de
Robertet
realize
the
State,
since
encountered
much
when
At
Robertet
that
was
almost
great nobles
were
of
the
council
by
letters
whose
opinions
in the
conduct
the
council
a
to
the
the
bishop,
by obtaining
handsome
into
France
departments,
all affairs
of
State
awarded
likely to
State.
of
be
public affairs.
president
of
untitled
an
of
and
of
under
perquisites
with
the
them,
in
Once
his
which
"
perintenden
su-
their
subjects
them
to
in the
crown
the
admitted
subject strengthened
offices
and
keeper
use
They
favorite.
was
There
their
chamber
and
places
those
like
princes
those
save
how
creating
simple,
the
to
and
in
of
among
kings
Few
ships
secretary-
had
and
pure
seemed
council, the
the
secretary
patent
of
chancellor.
finances, chancellor,
the
The
seals.
the
his prom-
first created,
were
functions
ministerial
no
of
in undertones
talking
transformed
decided
who
which,
chateau
resumed
which
consequence
no
the
but
and
scrivener
arranged
XII.
room,
period,
her
made
be
to
Blois, and
between
kings of
difficultythe
them.
of
obstacles
they
with
subsequently
reply,
of the
of
of
no
centre
persons
of
made
theatre
of Louis
in the
epade
with
the
that
cardinal
allowed
before, lay
I. and
Francois
therein
Medici, concurring
such
to
ment,
Parlia-
admitted
position
carried
offices
as
l68
DE'
CATHERINE
the
provincial governments,
of
grand-mastership
colonel-generalship of
the
post
admiral, the
frequently
some
of
the
of
sword
the
artillery,
the
of
MEDICI
of the
like
court,
and
galleys,
the
tership
grand-mas-
filled by
then
household,
marshal,
military organization,
some
at
of
baton
captaincy
office
the
constable,
the
Due
de
Guise.
"Do
think
you
d'Orleans's
de
Nemours
de
Guise
asked
will
Due
the
tutor.
madame,"
"Ah!
Due
Madame
Franfoise?"
marry
the
that
he
replied,
I know
"
nothing but
Latin."
This
who
brought
answer
within
were
of
seduction
Nemours
but
of
Valois
the
Nemours
of
and
which
Guises.
after
His
the
duke
it does
the
Mademoiselle
"
Just
look
Rohans
the
marriage
by
with
she
rivalry
asked
that
de
Rohan
at
the
the
the
group
House
looked
theless,
Neverwas
France,
so
Due
II., the
because
against him
of
influence
Duchesse
de
Amyot,
revealing
existed
the
Guise
by Poltrot, may
probably
and
the
family
brought
assassinated
was
question
the
leave
to
of
cousin
Guises
reign of Francois
adjusted
was
Rohan
de
sation;
conver-
seducer.
than
the
obliged
which
with
the
mother,
the
Due
the
was
connected
of
the
was
suit
the
by
Nemours
rather
influence
his
seduced
as
de
doubly
through
him
upon
Due
the
as
Rohan
those
time
that
at
all-engrossing subject of
the
II., and
Francois
de
lips of
the
to
Just
hearing.
Francoise
was
smile
plain
exas
between
herself.
of
malcontents
yonder,"
DE'
CATHERINE
Comte
the
said
de
Thore,
of
in
The
know
of
the
Bailli
the
Queen
the
upon
Navarre,
and
the
"Do
business
you
France,
also
who
"
We
induce
to
reformers
glance
at
chancellor
keeping
was
to
watch
he
so?"
Orleans,
of the
time;
his
d'Albret's
court.
queried
full
the
appreciating
of
Jeanne
was
French
the
think
Coeur
bourgeois
and
at
bailli,dryly.
Jacques
wealthiest
Groslot,
was
of
Nerac
with
was
place.
fire-
other
the
for the
do
of the
one
man
is at
added,
who
personage,
name
he
standing
were
Cypierre.
declare
to
Orleans,
of
will
This
Navarre
suspected
court.
"She
was
of
who
near
Beze
publicly,"
abjuring
by
de
Danville,
noblemen
astir," said
are
Theodore
Queen
the
other
windows
two
Messieurs
to
Chatillon,
Reformation,
the
Huguenots
that
pointing
de
several
between
together
"
and
Moret,
dabbling
Grammont,
Cardinal
the
Coligny,
de
169
MEDICI
the
of
chancellor
import
of
Groslot's
assertion.
Do
"
not
"that
that
virile
with
by
"
de
"
the
has
of
greatest
le
Tournon,
who
had
you
of such
The
think
Queen
She
a
Orleanais,
wealthy
of
none
is
the
attributes
of
devoted
to
entirely
mind
to
competent
her
is
heart
deal
querable
uncon-
disasters."
cardinal,"
of
the
State, and
Monsieur
what
"
she
affairs
said
sex?
her
pursuits,
great
has
queen
except
woman
know,"
you
said
been
Olivier
to
listening
to
Monsieur
Groslot,
presumption?"
Navarre
was
well
advised
to
for
choose
of
House
chancellor
her
his
of
suggestion
house
the
MEDICI
is wont
Lorraine
offers
who
to
king
going
court
whom
borrow
the
to
from
man
the
when
there
Orleans,"
to
and
money,
is
replied
cardinal.
the
Thereupon
the
glances,
Robertet
but
that
"
he
of
was
It is
less
infused
to
Armagnacs
Louis
see
in
And
that
the
Constable
Groslot, "for
in
moment,
Stuart's
and
of Navarre,
House
the
its
fathers,
rebellious
de
repetition of
the
also
the
realizing
they.
religion of
revengeful
devotion
spirit
Bourbon.
the
We
of
quarrels
Bourguignons."
said
XL
At
by
and
"No,"
"
it
into
going
are
that
for
them,
great personages,
than
changed
ex-
thoughts;
for
thoughts
consequence
the
cardinal
exchange
to
of abjuring the
abjure
not
the
display greater
to
misfortune
great
instead
does
their
those
than
and
venturing
not
it necessary
Guises
the
to
chancellor
expressed
deemed
he
DE'
CATHERINE
I70
Cardinal
Queen
de
there
is
Lorraine."
Catherine,"
Madame
of
something
retorted
Dayelle, Queen
favorite
lady's-maid,
queen's
chamber.
crossed
Her
the
ertet.
Rob-
Mary
hall
ward
to-
caused
appearance
commotion.
"We
shall
soon
be
admitted,"
said
Madame
de
Fiesco.
"
I think
Majesties
come
out,
for
de
there
Guise;
is to
be
"their
a
grand
council."
La
Dayelle
glided into
the
royal
chamber
after
DE'
CATHERINE
scratching
invented
knocking
adopted
the
by
her
fresh, fair
"Ah!
is
archers
and
bed-curtains
the
face.
Dayelle?
at
would
one
that
say
the
heels."
your
still
king
is the
madame,
"Oh!
said
Dayelle?"
"
it, my
were
and
"
madame
What
dear
my
aside
putting
Medici
de'
France.
weather,
Mary,
showing
"
of
court
of
method
respectful
"
I7I
Catherine
by
is the
"What
Queen
door,
the
at
MEDICI
asleep?"
"Yes."
We
"
le
"Ah!
this
dreamed
it."
the
that
leaves
of the
crowns
me
in
was
you
you."
kidnap
to
that
so
Dayelle?"
dear
my
religion
night
tell you
monsieur
peace!
no
prison, /, who
am
greatest kingdoms
three
earth!"
it
"
So
"
Kidnapped?
be
that
kidnapped
horrible
The
in
king for
intend
new
last
wear
on
is
and
why,
and
chateau,
come
reformers
The
"
know
you
the
leave
me
the
prepare
Do
"
to
bade
cardinal
might
to
going
are
the
robe
queen
large
banks
that
"
on
de
jumped
chamhre
at
the
of
the
would
nice; but
rather
be
of religion,and
out
waist
Dayelle
black
to
by heretics,
by
silk
are
of
velvet, in front
red
had
herself
seated
and
bed
helped
velvet,
mornings
Loire.
of
with
covered
of
madame!"
dream,
of !"
think
chair
account
fireplace, after
closely
the
to
only
was
cord.
her
which
to
she
Dayelle
decidedly
cool
don
secured
lighted
on
the
DE'
CATHERINE
good
in very
of
examples
us
"You
that
are
Don't
"
shows
to
good
for
you!
you
for
all
what
kept
whole
"
said
when
much
Oh!
1 love
to
tangle
your
again,
of
to
Scotland
"
haps
Perlittle
so
will
love
such
I do
fect
per-
know
not
before
the
dance!
torch
like
To
beside
servants
able
to
'
say:
arm!
locks.
that
it!
ever
white
have
that
that,
love
you
there
is
nothing
My
lover
is
king!'
my
neck,
It is too
love
yet
Why
Ah!
it is
I would
fingers through
fair
should
see
speak
you
best-beloved,
and
now,
prose,
you
little page,
my
allow
but
poor
pretty
run
in
only
well, my
be
kiss
not
lover.
loving
the
know
you
these
women
do
to
what
so
make
yesterday
seem
speak
you
than
will
Mary."
1 love
as
sweeter
"
women
darling;
my
only
you
mine.
cares
king.
danced
you
you
And
speaks.
him
heart, 1
for
credit
kissing you
beautiful
charmingly,
Dear
little
the
from
me
Although
were
great
all other
my
you,
fear.
show
mother
your
and
verses
world."
no
court
eyes
my
reason
my
him."
charming
were
from
four, and
the
sorry
if I
writes
to
me
are
you
never
the
queen,"
of
best
as
But
I deserve
**
as
the
is the
that
asking
me,
king
who
am
away
from
much
so
verse;
Amyot
brother,
your
are
already given
and
in
talents
learning
envy
you
has
person,
Master
take
is
them
I say
learned
very
praise your
who
brother,
Rabelais
173
it."
I would
king,
as
I cannot
not
and
taste,
MEDICI
much
touched
need
dress.?
we
your
soft
life, do
that
not
soft
that
them."
"
the
hair,
let
back
fogs
DE'
CATHERINE
174
Won't
"
Scotch
will
there
love
and
you,
in
rebels
"Who
Valois, putting
knee.
this
is
leave,
The
country?
will
all
be
rebellion
no
of
said
assuredly,"
the
king,
have
"
but
by
reign."
to
It is my
reigning?
de
taking Mary
most
from
cheek
Francois
and
sweet,
very
my
talk
Why
"
there
dressing-gown
your
dear
my
kingdom?"
our
his
on
his
on
"Oh!
she
see
here."
as
Stuart
and
come
you
MEDICI
will
this
morn-
ing-"
Need
"
you
whatever
But
"Oho!"
said
had
have
we
"No,"
"it
king,
said
Mary,
wager,
my
is
Is it
business.
any
is neither
about
do
can
you
kingly
that!
We
long
while
have
hand."
on
the
talk
matter
no
business
important
will, when
Such
choose?
you
loverlike.
nor
it is my
say
"it
has
since
amusing?"
do
to
with
leaving
Blois."
I will
"
of your
uncles, who
I appear
do
councils
decisions
king
as
well
have
well
that
so
roi
faindant.
I have
continued
first
the
you
manage
by putting
to
at
teen
seven-
truth,
do
on
eyes
one
attend
could
crown
their
seen
In very
They
one.
see
be
why
since
just
"
to
know
not
for I
love, that
the
thing
every-
chair,
my
and
give my
blindly."
monsieur,"
and
you
should
and
that
cried the
pretending
not
my
worry
uncles
to
be
standing
queen,
"
angry,
me
should
it
more
any
use
the
was
on
over
agreed
that
royal
the
that
subject,
power
for
DE'
CATHERINE
of
the
welfare
this
people
them
of
whom
offended
be
if
Oh!
they
II.
Frangois
"
to
me,
cardinal
and
me,
the
ground:
Your
"
infernal
How
you
well
love!
until
the
time
is
that
all that
But
my
so
work
the
stake
at
And
forth
solely
so
for
hard
we
for
are
do
king
like
doesn't
doing for
to
repay
the
as
know?
your
promise
all
roses
please,
we
to
me
you
and
be
not
can
that
when
day,
some
to
so
on,
wife,
will
queen.
Lorraines
time,
your
path
our
the
going
due
reign
I should
mother
uncles
is
in
said
these
am
when
comes
I queen,
your
'
him!"
what
will
We
nothing
Am
reign.
of
yourself,
is mine.
my
of
honor
"
to
says
are
is at
employ
you
majority?
you,
permit
he
agreeable
dis-
dling
whee-
and
ancestors
that
cried
that
on
the
Sire,
imitated
you
reign
your
there
caress
exceedingly
manners
cannot
informed
can
honor
to
of Lorraine."
don't
you
attain
can
said,
uncles!"
puts
humble
sure
House
why
keep
am
is
of your
faith
Majesty
on.
But
that
your
he
to
the
not
when
bowing
so
think
That
his
and
"
only
and
and
"
were
his
here,
seemed
whom
but
are
she
who
child,
speech,
air of
crown
his
the
master
whom
hear, monsieur?"
of
like
you
and
dearly
you
her
at
why
you,
rule
to
stern
lot,
mollified.
speedily
"
and
nice
bodily
you
of war,
men
so
forehead
the
kissing
love
less, do
love
never
need
are
undertake
should
swallow
hands;
iron-gloved
darling
would
They
strawberry.
and
if you
yours!
175
They
people.
your
they
alone,
MEDICI
do
as
Do
in evil
to
you
for
splendor of your
176
DE'
CATHERINE
throne?
And
what
for
and
you
this
whereas
doesn't
who
this
shows
who
is
and
She
is
in
while
all the
because
court
is in
my
hair
with
is still less
becoming
myself,
but
and
can't
says
with
Also
the
queen
kingdom.'
*
"
if 1
But
velvet
I appear
jewels,
lady
I should
not
with
ing
watch-
she
way
"
simple
myself
content
is
are
without
queen.
That
she
would
nor
to
face,
scarlet
wear
unbecoming
to
"
not
smooth
should
dance!'
others
she
darling?
mourning,
is
that
thing
I would
sions
occa-
solemn
in the
my
you;
all
daughter, you
see,
teem
es-
bourgeoise
because
woman
you
place
your
public
dance
second
frantic, don't
were
in
the
for
On
and
upside-down;
full of
pale,
displeased
only
as
her
me
are
shopkeeper,
or
house.
own
uncles
die
to
shrewish
her
am
doctor
as
her
Italian
everything
turn
in
rule
woman
is
willing
too
of
daughter
My
Charlemagne,
of
only
accident,
by
queen
like
difference!
princes, nephews
great
MEDICI
talks
to
me."
Oh!
"
I hear
Dieu
mon
"Ah!
you
"She
you,
Faith!
is from
annoying
you
"
Have
her,"
Let
she?
Florence;
we
you,
but
"
know
when
"
she
replied.
send
us
must
it
her
expect
comes
to
"
and
like
not
doesn't
I believe
"
"
In Heaven's
afraid
should
before
for deceiving
as
that, she
"
if she
king,
the
exclaimed
still tremble
annoys
away.
"
Dieu
Mon
her.
well
you
no
to
name,
pleased
lose
her
fear that
hush,
at
the
Mary!"
same
Francois,
said
time;
"
I should
friendship."
she
will
ever
fall out
with
me,
''Let
"
the
my
go,"
us
"
Go!
than
council^
etiquette,
grand
sire,
Yes,
"
boldness
the
but
and
leave
must
circumstances
come
are
to
entering
suddenly
master,
we
BLOIS
king.
the
said
cried
room.
OF
CHATEAU
THE
AT
beg
Pardon
Blois.
more
you
important
to
hold
O^^yMj^/tl
fd'Uii
"^y
0. JXJAi^Ui^
Ut^t.
DE'
CATHERINE
who
the
wear
my
dear
she
hates
in order
to
proofs
"
understand,
would
be
lost
innumerable
queens
of
custom,
and
the
of
his
from
away
had
here, that
the
father's
for
custom
be
and
grandfather,
your
So
clared
de-
kings
your
the
adopted
amours.
She
was
for
As
not
separate
among
it
Medici?
had
Saint-Germain.
custom
father
your
de'
have
Custom!
goodman
convenience
that
love
our
that, if you
should
wonder.
no
Francois, the
little
at
France.
to
one
alone
they
Mademoiselle
we
was
give
meaning
fault
it my
proofs
women
opposition
so
and
that
that
sort
malicious
me
here
that
the
endure
to
temper,
your
go
not
Is
loves
she
apartments,
we
cajoles me
if I had
constant
enough.
able
Indeed,
she
uncles."
whose
her
"
never
was
"Although
my
of
sentiment,
another,
Stuart.
reasons,
world,
the
from
me
angel;
my
that
in
you!"
"Yes,
of
177
crowns
Mary
thousand
separate
Hates
"
said
king,"
for
me
grandest
three
little
MEDICI
careful, if
very
grand
the
master
does
part us."
not
"If
not
we
go
we
can
town
the
world
over
If I go
you,
to
see
"And
you
the
knew
orange-trees
12
the
see
at
our
from
Saint
here, Mary?
this
leave
to
propose
which
from
away
our
delightful chateau,
Loire
feet,
heads,
in
and
Blois
and
the
and
Peter's, and
your
flower
Mary
and
and
to
its
loveliest
beautiful
these
here, it will be
orange-trees?
how
Why,
go
to
I do
from
borhood,
neighsky
in
dens.
gar-
Italy with
Raphael's pictures."
Oh!
my
longs
fruit!
darling king,
to
walk
Alas!
if
under
perhaps
178
DE'
CATHERINE
shall
such
never
see
song
under
those
blue
ocean,
MEDICI
Oh!
things.
perfumed
beneath
trees,
shore
sit
to
Italian
an
the
on
and
sky,
blue
hear
to
of
together
thus!"
Let
"
"Go!"
the
cried
king.
grand master,
the
suddenly entering
leave
must
circumstances
but
boldness;
than
the
Yes, sire, we
**
room.
my
said
go,"
us
etiquette,
and
Blois.
are
tant
impor-
more
beg you
to
come
Pardon
hold
to
council."
and
Mary
they
thus
were
the
wore
**
said
devil
behind
of your
"
said
Heresy
"
"
which
for
it is
wishes
to
king
appearing
of your
from
and
person
sleeping,
were
you
council-hall," said
hold
said
the
added,
speak
grand
master
brought
turning
to
shall
we
you
is dressing, will
to
as
the
go
little
you
by
queen,
your
the
the
you
Loire.
"
"
he
While
madame.
and
furs,
journey,
queen-mother,
well,
not
the
to
for
opportunely
that
the
council."
has
son
very
probable
he
while
will
furrier's
arrive
But,"
the
we
Madame,"
your
whispered
stake."
the
to
and
"
wrath.
cardinal.
the
"Withdraw
king,
safety
the
"
awake
was
said
Guise,"
de
cardinal
the
faces
their
royal majesty.
queen-mother,
is at
kingdom
sire,"
the
cardinal,
the
lovers!"
with
when
ear.
son,"
My
and
Monsieur
in Catherine's
"
by surprise,
grand master.
too
young
the
hastily separated,
expression of offended
are
the
"To
taken
same
You
had
Francois
Madame
la
DE'
CATHERINE
despatch
reine
not
may
be
your
MEDICI
and
him,
with
business
annoyed
179
by
delayed
so
this
that
we
trifling
matter?"
"Certainly,"
"If
does
he
not
expects
know
to
me."
adding
Catherine,
said
get
rid
of
me
by
such
mentally:
ruses,
he
The
two
and
queens
conseil,
du
alarm,
natural
so
horrible
became
resulted
brilliant
and
directing
in
shabby
Messeigneurs
have
master
in
council-chamber."
"Can
of
ambassador
followed
He
and
ground,
ushered
into
almost
equal
the
in
size
the
maids
one
of
to
princes
in
honor
the
of
whose
of
whole
packages,
and
the
with
thought
his
them
the
eyes
until
salle
which
gardes.
des
before
standing
other
des
two
(i8i)
side
gardes,
queens
on
had
he
conseil,
du
were
the
his
ment,
mo-
ments
move-
the
speak
to
them
the
salle
of
critical
Lorraine
keeping
the
end
fenceless
de-
reformers.
salle
vast
portance,
im-
him:
you
raise
on
eyes
de
the
usher,
not
fireplace
superb
the
did
Lorraine
two
from
the
the
the
betrayed.?"
been
sensation
usher,
to
for
sent
have
the
the
Cardinal
the
grand
the
said
of
farther
Christophe,
upon
aspect,
Christophe
the
of
approach
bring
personage
and
him;
when
assemblage
his
"
the
at
from
him
failed
usher
When
for
took
toward
heart
hall, his
the
he
salle
the
to
the
him.
passed
he
way
bade
master
whom
As
his
on
the
leaving
together.
before
coming
of
withdrew,
gardes
furrier
usher,
the
saw
des
grand
the
queen's
the
duke
king
the
salle
the
through
the
and
cardinal
of
the
before
were
the
been
was
The
the
partition
which
standing.
82
DE'
CATHERINE
"
You
"
from
come
Paris; what
did
"How
did
route
take?"
you
monseigneur."
by water,
came
MEDICI
Blois?"
enter
you
said
the
grand
the
duke,
soldier
who
master.
"
By
"And
no
No,
with
"What
They
Aren't
two
is
going
on
are
still
said
innocent
his
the
the
on
furrier
whose
queens,
come
my
broise, who
de
quired.
in-
of
murderer
the
deceived
Guise,
the
by
by Christophe
as
soon
subsided.
turned
master
concealed
showed
seeking
walked
toward
folding-doors of
face
his
king's
the
standing
was
the
in
friendship
which
considered
sheltered
France
overtook
that
he
the
was
the
whole
Am-
duke's
who
was
religion, ended
Reformed
but
of
the
met
Ambroise,
by adopting it;
kings
the
first surgeon.
the
the
to
corner,
him.
raised
hastily
away,
toward
disasters
cardinal
surgeon's greatest
already leaning
the
the
for
my
assumed
conseil, and
assemblage,
and
of
Due
portiere which
du
Paris?"
in
monseigneur."
grand
salle
who
I had
that
me,
son
had
first alarm
The
of
first
the
searching
expression
"Yes,
eye
stop
the
you
friend?"
the
I told
to
man.
young
Minard."
President
as
the
on
is."
father
"
fixed
eyes
said
you?"
molested
disposed
business
monseigneur."
harbor,
monseigneur.
seemed
"
the
one
his
keeping
"
of
way
of
him
from
all
The
reformers.
indebted
and
Guises
the
to
the
duke,
Ambroise
DE'
CATHERINE
for
Pare
king's first
the
Is the
"
The
"
Oho!"
the
is not
of
his
out
"
Very
"
Why
well.
"
seek
Master
it is not
the
Dieu,
entreaties
Grand
sums
due
to
way
The
glances
"
Now
the
surgeon,
How's
"
"
your
to
make
two
said
ages,
pack-
carry
a
you
of these
if you
lawyer.
great princes
"and
for
intercede
can
in
from
obtain
to
for
order
father, for
he
the
does
us,"
Monseigneur
payment
not
my
add
mine
an
Christophe,
said
yes,"
to
my
to
court?"
plied.
re-
profession?"
Master
to
business
your
patronage
interest, too;
the
door
the
Christophe.
to
come
you
intends
said, assuming
your
to
you
Christophe
Ambroise,"
have
in your
help you
father's
continued,
to
to
cried
Christophe.
to
ever,
How-
"
introduce
to
pointing
monseigneur,"
father
your
he
and
earth
on
*'Mon
he
he
hand
surprise.
you,"
I want
replied.
boy?"
surgeon;
to
Ambroise.
surgeon
in
duke,
"Ambroise,
yours,"
father, my
you
said
surprised."
the
I wanted
why
true,
holding
Do
the
council-chamber
"Ah!
the
be
not
pretty,"
ejaculated
pause.
friend
of
I should
is too
queen
that
a
before.
days
some
as
so?"
"Why
after
appointment
will, monseigneur?"
ill?
king
his
procured
surgeon
is your
What
"
"
life, had
his
183
MEDICI
know
of
the
which
turn."
cardinal
and
and
seemed
leave
us,"
the
grand
master
exchanged
satisfied.
said
the
grand
master,
waving
DE'
CATHERINE
reflection.
which
with
glance
their
which
the
rushing madly
of
depth
the
the
arrest
this
was
that
of the
her
was
she
it
the
last
of
out, either
Francois
tained
mainthe
II., and
opposition
would
thwarted
shrewd,
of
she
an
Although
she
tempest
of
of
perspiration
restrained
so
her
could
ambition
which
the
Florentine's
to
de
to
Italian
had
she
II.,or
was,
watched
humming
eye,
indifference.
that
was
father-
the
understand
Mary,
girlish and
out
air and
not
by
she
Poitiers.
fair-haired
the
did
though
rival, Diane
but
informed,
which
where
failed
her
she
of her
of Henri
utterly
creature
well
her
of her
have
queen
clever
so
slights
from
it, and
dauphiness
were
of power.
escaping
court,
of
royal life;
her
contempt
the
day
which
school
grasp
his
the
constant
be
of
first,so
the
powerful will,
the
by
the
of
to
that
by
As
days
in the
to
or
man
terrible
blunder
was,
cold
was
she
that
was
remainder
little consequence,
corner
making
of
feet.
Chartres
so
withal
and
blood
yet
excess
de
of those
virtue
by
formidable
in
her
of
this
speak, before
at
been
in
another,
one
veins, and
determined
was
tired
in-law,
the
difficulties
ringing, her
sceptre seemed
the
Although
never
her
Vidame
during
numerous
grasp
to
were
lay
second
the
hands,
so
politicalabyss
physical abyss
this
against
of
extent
the
off
ears
through
all
cians,
great politi-
but
them
Her
in
very
descry
chances,
minds.
their
the
to
they
path, setting
computing
so
is due
indecision
in that
blameworthy
so
which
floated
eyes
is considered
but
up
black
Her
185
MEDICI
of the
ing
feign-
divine
brought
brow,
the
drops
the
86
DE'
CATHERINE
girl with
pretty Scotch
of
elevation
the
Catherine
to
was
uncle
face
because
to
grave
of the
livid
and
which
face,
sixteen
had
that
made
her
so
of the
outline,
in the
the
curve
in
saucy
life
could
sight of
her
at
formed
dawn,
the
was
with
bride, who
The
visions
that
other
no
former
of
that
was
made
in
contrast
giddy
playthings
foresaw
the
would
queen,
passion
a
prove
of
terrible
than
her
to
be
childish
Thus
to
an
ghastly
queens,
of
each
life,
other.
impenetrable
the
passion
a
queenly
Guises,
only
for
heedless
crowns.
she
disasters,
the
which
the
summer
in
early
charms
two
her
and
eyes,
creature,
of the
assassination
her
those
the
plexion
com-
regularity of
captivity, nor
other
and
perfect blonde
with
kittenish
imposing
an
Mary
power.
the
by
rosy
mouth.
Thus,
complete
most
not
"
scaffold.
own
Catherine
widow,
destroy
brilliant
fresh, piquant
in the
lovely
those
displayed
she
nothing
one
her
ivory by
Stuart's
sparkled
bright sparkle of
of
Her
roguishness, clearlyexpressed
eyebrows,
of
celebrated.
so
Italy which
was
Mary
whiteness
pure
in
pure
of age,
years
terrifying,
dazzlingly
face
ways
al-
revenge.
yellow
other's
the
an
and
for
of
women
it becomes
spy
considered
almost
resemble
ing
noth-
the
play
humiliated
moody,
hue
caused
Now,
opportunity
an
candle-light; whereas
At
she
that
Guise
to
as
whom
complexion
daylight, although
merry.
her
upstart
grasp
de
knew
inwardly.
to
an
was
their
makes
fume
mother-in-law,
ready
Due
the
entertaining
intriguing creature,
Her
roguish face
the
and
rage
so
her
upon
her
MEDICI
had
divining
method
of
DE'
CATHERINE
crushing
above
who
men
throne
the
under
forms
the
"According
this
will
Thus,
for her
that
said
the
that
faith
the
science
"
duration,"
moment,
in
it
You
are
as
which
with
its two
wings
locks
which
belonging
obliged
could
not
daughter-in-law,
This
was
not
it with
the
to
"Does
Catherine,
the
queen
turning
the
of the
toward
far
sented
repre-
when
though
al-
she
II.; but
Henri
more
as
Scots,
charm
of
her
becoming.
queen-mother's
many
queen.
young
mean
of
graceful
was
fair
considered
be
for
head,
the
on
often
so
Queen
the
hands
her
it for herself
it
whom
least
grievances against
have
mourning
wear
wear
temples.
it may
designed
to
of
top
her
the
that
not.?"
you
Dayelle's
resting
that
to
are
lace
brushes
exclusively
Catherine
she
on
about
saw
exactness.
wore
rich
life,
her
practised
minute
she
of
as
she
as
who
from
head-dress
that
increased
took
their
with
Catherine
throughout
she
clustered
Painters
served
"
those
with
Ruggieri
science, to-day
thoughtful, madame,
very
Stuart,
Mary
and
embarrassment
occult
constantly
fulfilled
were
stored
re-
extent.
some
my
it did
of
had
thought.
an
as
predictions
little cap
was
she
judicial astrology,
"
at
prop
end;
soon
other
reflection
soothsayer
strangely enough,
unknown,
a
the
to
saw
fore-
murdered
be
to
curious
tranquillity
will
reign
of brief
be
law.
what
to
destined
was
of
Italian's
the
say,
she
the
rising
she
and
long conflict;
of
capable
Parliament;
the
of
that
suspicion
no
and
bloodshed
the
quite
were
187
MEDICI
to
her
reproach
me?"
daughter-in-law.
said
l88
DE'
CATHERINE
"I
owe
all
you
retorted
and
respect
Scotch
the
MEDICI
should
dare,"
not
at
Dayelle.
maid
favorite
The
motionless
as
might
losing
the
kingdom
late
is
Women
"
light of
as
and
king,
little
have
heart
as
when
queens
approbation
"At
you,
just after
that
my
see
son's
flame?"
into
with
concern
Stuart.
rejoined Mary
two
of
smile
point of bursting
the
on
the
life.
I be
can
between
fire-dog; a
her
her
cost
How
"
as
stood
politicalaffairs,"
all events,
uncles
my
are
here."
Those
words
like
were
poisoned
under
arrows
existing circumstances.
"Let
look
us
at
in
affairs while
proper
of the
but
madame;
But
"You
uncles
be
present
Catherine,
I do
we
the
attend
can
decide
to
affairs
the
this
at
well,
the
were
that
so
of the
wounds
which
am
was
cut
alluded
descended,
you
of
air
ine."
imag-
ment.
amaze-
Latin."
learned!"
I
madame,
I
moment
Medicis,
the
very
than
an
council,
the
at
there
with
know
not
me
"Ah!
Catherine
who
your
useful
more
think
Stuart.
retort
are
said
"
cure
way
shall
we
we
"We.-*"
as
that
replied
realm."
"Oh!
that
furs, madame,"
our
give you
studying
I may
laughed
be
my
know
to
able
as
some
Mary
word
much
day
to
kingdom."
to
the
heart
to
the
origin
according
to
by
of
some
that
the
stinging
Medicis,
authorities.
DE'
CATHERINE
from
wealthy
druggist.
Dayelle
blushed
in
a
and
physician,
of
search
could
when
the
from
of
think
which
retort.
no
looked
her
at
everybody,
inferiors
her
otiiers, from
to
mistress
her
applause
craves
queen,
according
She
189
MEDICI
even
there
when
are
spectators.
no
"Your
cannot
either
cure
Church,"
of the
them
while
this
is
admitted
face, feigning
in
upon
bold
jest."
door
the
first surgeon
the
and
self
him-
his
package
turned
in her
said
haste
to the
Mary,
to
means
taken
was
other
upon
the
surcot.
to
entine.
Flor-
the
Dayelle,
attention
furs
prise
sur-
pounced
and
queen
natural
un-
by
who
her
see
of the
advantage
bestowing
were
he
no
Christophe, addressing
his back
instant
by
of Queen
vivacity
Catherine's
study
to
but
place;
the
women
whom
if,
yours,
to
opened
embarrassment
an
by
taking
Dayelle
direction,
lose
may
continue
you
attempted
such
"Madame,"
He
in that
by scratching.
reformer
The
you
those
or
calm, cold
with
Catherine,
impending,
State
the
knowledge,
Christophe,
announced
of
whereas
juncture,
unfortunately
madame,
wounds
ancestors'
thrones;
danger
At
the
observed
My
"
dignity.
gave
words,
charming
the
two
attempt
stroke.
do
"What
darting
de
wish
with
piercing glance
Christophe
Prince
you
had
Conde,
and
the
placed
the
me?"
said
Catherine,
him.
at
the
treaty proposed
plan of operations
detailed
statement
of
of
their
by
the
the
formers,
re-
forces.
shirt
his
between
owed
Catherine
and
placing
that
Your
take
Pray
And
pity
the
the
sum
deign
to
cast
him
six
See,
the
your
eyes
the
"
uppermost,
in need
sadly
unfolding
added,
owes
her
is
paper
will
you
thousand
see
crowns.
madame!"
treaty.
from
the
king's
late
accession
to
throne."
the
Catherine
rolled
she
the
up
and
You
are
the
know
we
Oh!
would
roads
arms,
that
brought
venture,"
me
my
hastily
man's
roll of
made
and
she
paper:
friend,
young
You
should
hood
hardi-
stroke
understood,
furs.
the
she
masterly
the
You
head;
young
with
of the
preamble
to
learn
must
present
never
sent
preto
your
satisfied."
have
and
the
made
who
"If
not
that
awkward,
mesdames,
Christophe.
the
be
tradition?"
her
would
before
are
mother-in-law,
in
she
better!
Is that
you
mind;
cheek
account
bill until
"
that
very
women
"
of
his
lose
not
the
by
admiring
presence
said, tapping
"
did
paper,
feel certain
her
bewildered
was
but
treaty,
up
he
It dates
Read.
"
will
us.
on
handed
he
my
treaty
Majesty
doublet,
of
father
**
said,
the
broadcloth
furrier.
account,"
our
MEDICI
memorandum
if you
and
money,
upon
he
his
the
the
Madame,"
"
and
in
wrapped
whole
of
DE*
CATHERINE
190
young
excuse
were
not
had
your
is
there
nothing
less
here.
No
than
one
her
father,"
said
reply.
no
pray
he
asked
queen
so
our
but
my
in
need
furs.
much
The
would
was
money,
is
country
danger
distress
myself
of
on
the
have
willing
to
DE'
CATHERINE
This
"
lad
It may
but
momentous
the
as
itself
fittingjacket,
and
which
of
the
the
of
from
which
wider
or
thus
the
Does
he
has
and
sound
her
and
has
Ah!
"
said, looking
The
taking
least
in
the
boy's
in
surcot
explanation
the
everybody;
she
of
his
did
the
to
wise
other-
the
risks
them
safe
queen
young
could
he
her.
see
he
too,"
account,
closely
fact,
account
eyes
well-feigned simplicity.
the
from
that
said
noticed, but
hers
of
women
your
looked
to
in
behind;
might
through
that
so
with
and
Catherine's
to
come
have
queen
paper,
produced
aroused
her
young
the
her
at
importance
Queen
he
madame,
as
opportunity
of which
them?"
see
Christophe, turning
to
it fitted
an
bulk
speak
he
can
herself
at
how
see
Stuart,
suspicion.
ever
when
run,
the
papers,
man
to
fur
outside,
Mary
looked
and
with
the
on
happened.
outline
chest,
lined
border
tight-
bodices,
the
the
were
mother-in-law
her
aroused
have
"
mirror
their
back,
garment,
new
gave
examine
it
as
the
the
was,
of
sort
"
over
Surcots
also
was
surcot
hips, following
the
cold.
narrower,
on
wore
protected
the
Venetian
great
she
It
that
surcotte,
"
women
to
there
tried
she
which
figure.
remark
indicates,
reached
neck
Mary
of this trivial
understanding
to
scene,
word
said
smile.
be
191
decidedly inexperienced,"
is
Stuart, with
MEDICI
his
pocket.
admiration
but
not
she
at
indifference.
did
not
he
that
from
his
once
so
ask
without
attach
had
bosom,
Nor
which
was
him
at
did
her
the
taken
while
she
see
beauty
engrossed
herself
by
the
DE'
CATHERINE
the
ghastly circumstance,
filled
now
writes
his
to
with
the
"and
live, and
that
see
than
I in commercial
laugh; "my
that
quickly
love
about
this
to
you,
better
With
leave
her
conflict
queen-mother,
Trade
must
young
queen,
is better
versed
the
but
epigram;
out
with-
room
she
reflected
suspicion,
awake
her
she
so
the
of the
young
commerce
And
let
of
the
word
Teligny,
death
to
the
"
young
decide,
us
the
queen-
question
momentous
joyed
over-
queen,
in
to
go
of
the
kingdom.
took
first, saying
shocking
said
opportunity
Stuart
Mary
the
leave.
furs, Dayelle.
absence,
lieutenancy
cried
upon
the
mother
might
took
the
the
mother's
them,
erine,
Cath-
I."
she
away
at
out
said
to
last
council, monsieur,"
the
where
paid.
dear, understand
my
than
that
Put
"
spot
retorted:
And
"
nets,
cabi-
affairs."
indifference
her
and
principal nerve."
august
was
replying
culty
diffi-
quartermaster
the
are
youth,"
with
Catherine
very
said
you
is its
dear
my
determined
friend,"
money
Go,
"
halls
these
find
factions.
my
I will
the
on
thought,
various
"Come,
would
soldiers.
with
mistress
in
lost
193
historian
identifying all
in
to-day
MEDICI
in
the
king's
to
who
the
was
Dayelle
arm.
pages;
destined
Saint-Bartholomew
and
went
one
die
to
king!"
At
word, the
the
13
two
affair,
out:
"The
of
arquebusiers presented
arms
and
the
two
through
courtiers
and
queens.
All
only
the
staircase.
and
the
door
the
and
honor
courtiers
who
were
others.
But
the
and
drew
the
has
he
There
"
is
the
few
than
the
patient,
im-
the
great
of
sound
the
floor, announced
pages
and
the
noblemen
heads,
conversations
that
replaced
tinued
con-
the
concerning
discussed.
be
to
to
prince
no
of
the
said
the
meet
evidently
heavy
to
cardinal,
entered,
about
which
leading
terms
11. toward
the
come,"
not
gathered
some
was
the
two
questions of
the
familiar
Chiverni
sent
at
queen
on
private
affairs
They
smiled
more
had
their
on
caps
momentous
and
to
who
ringing
their
**
forward
Francois
royal couple
their
stepped
When
arquebuses,
door
the
the
answered
council-chamber.
council
master,
young
the
council-chamber,
from
the
by
of
grand
on
council-
formed
line
of the
distance
The
the
attendants
of the
sovereigns,
of
toward
double
members
chancellor
youthful
maids
the
MEDICI
way
female
short
was
the
the
the
at
group
led
pages
chamber,
in
DE'
CATHERINE
194
the
constable,
here,"
observed
de Tournon
seemed
summon
one.
of the
blood
another.
The
"
very
seals
there
of
not
will
grand
master
to fail to
be
be
some
sent
present
new
word
at
letters
to the
the
keeper of
the
council; doubtless
patent
the
result
below,
in her
as
it."
"
own
Monsieur
anxious!"
The
**
and
chancellor
How
can
the
apartments,
queen-mother
at
such
remain
moment.?"
DE'
CATHERINE
"They
going
are
Groslot
said
In
and
in
about
feet
catch
to
thick,
blue
had
his
The
her
mother.
of the
watched
the
bid
be
them
Shall
la reine
the
and
they
three
rich
the
tieres
por-
side
of the
the
whole
queen
ing
await-
was
his
mending
the
master,
council-
young
great armchair,
was
with
covered
centre
whose
seals, the
pens.
chancellor,
council, in short,
king, wondering
little
if
wall
table
long
grand
the
through
in the
in
fluttered
as
queens,
doors
Robertet
cardinals,
keeper
"
place
Some
say.
them.
stood
king, by
the
two
of
head
which
velvet,
taken
the
the
at
chamber,
before
hung
two
two
to
hall, others
two
or
through
which
Seated
word
or
the
us,"
Chatillon.
great
of
for
work
word
his
the
attendants
the
hoped
of
out
195
some
de
had
fact, everyone
went
out
Cardinal
the
to
cut
to
MEDICI
he
why
did
not
seated.
deliberate
we
mere?"
said
in
the
the
of
absence
chancellor,
Madame
addressing
the
king.
The
absence
Lorraine
two
to
stratagem
some
Inspired by
princes
"Is
without
it the
said
to
king's good
Madame
Francois
on
significant glance
cardinal
la
1!.,
not
Catherine's
attributed
the
their
niece's
from
her, the
part.
sumptuous
pre-
king:
that
pleasure
we
begin
m^re.?"
reine
daring
to
declare
his
wishes,
answered:
"
Be
The
seated, messieurs."
cardinal
That
set
forth
brieflythe
great politician,who
perils of
was
the
uation.
sit-
wonderfully
196
in such
adroit
lieutenancy
the
young
king
for
his
dangers
further
the
circumstances,
three
First, the
great
her
mind
see
nothing
is
was
of the
her
natures,
1 will
"
With
go
that
in-law's
that
as
her
and
her
although
who
at
the
place
her
own.
of
Obeying,
"
ladies; she
the
unbounded
the
like
that
and
room
to
her
salle des
door
bedroom
thought
senger
mes-
ran
of
amazement
down
went
mother!"
left the
through
be
not
An
said:
bring my
the
to
Guises.
the
he
ferent
indif-
attributed
once
Might
abruptly
to
to
seems
fellow's
the
niece
"
and
her
to
wondered.
she
out:
myself
she
presented
woman
she
vividly.
lynx; secondly,
she
suite, passed
nowhere;
remembered
impressed
Huguenots.?"
floor, opened
a
account
of the
cried
hastily downstairs,
courtiers
of the
which
hatred
voice
instant, recalled
remembered
expression,
inward
she
that.?"
to
extraordinary
thirdly, she
reformer's
which
veritable
replied
cardinal:
same
for
what
by
he
gard
re-
mother."
the
had
Christophe
Why
for
sion
oppres-
utmost
knew
Catherine's
elsewhere,
was
in which
And,
bulk
the
my
at
which
mother-in-law,
queen
the
and
threatened,
suddenly,
delay, Mary
had
crown,
by Queen
Enlightened
"
the
Doubtless
feeling of
mother
question from
await
us
his
was
power
direct
Let
that
question of
the
silence.
of
conscious
rights of
the
profound
was
realized
and
"
amid
MEDICI
broached
emergencies,
the
DE'
CATHERINE
as
shadow,
she
was
mother-
gardes
on
cautiously
and
certain
saw
to
DE'
CATHERINE
her
surprise
and
in
the
the
the
boudoir
the
the
that
carved
detect
of
traces
the
its
there.
is essential
about
which
hundred
and
or
the
by
The
wood
under
the
oak.
whitewash,
which
against cholera,
that
clearly enough
panels
has
of
parts
blue
or
of
dropped
the
on
green,
the
the
of
memory
The
red
the
we
useless
the
of
indicate
in
reveals
are
tection
procates
indi-
"
of
the
wash
white-
that
certain
colors, red
inclined
execration
find
the
The
purpose
while
Italy.
as
background
where
gested
sug-
we
precaution,
the
chateau,
to
consisted
on
gold background.
but, if
of what
which
laid
was
painted
were
osities
curi-
these
arabesques
to
seem
had
designs, evidently
spots
panels clearly
concierge
Catherine's
off
design
prying eyes;
the
The
gilded.
was
"
cover
dis-
embellished
all
exist,
beautiful
is evergreen
and
oblong panels, of
small
still
different
most
still
queen-mother
wainscoting
eighty
more
of
arabesques
The
finely
can
understanding
proper
crown
in that
observer
the
we
wainscoting
description of
place.
hundred
with
take
to
when
the
beautiful
which
the
played by
magnificence
exact
to
is
exists, and
Italian
An
that
epoch, played
in which
curious
hiding-places
made
of about
still
the
wainscoting
of
inexplicable
Blois, the
closet
room
bed-
recognized.
dilapidation
of
chateau
Catherine's
was
of that
seems
of
state
the
arrangement
customs
still be
can
chance
leaves
had
the
by
to-day,
consider
of
The
197
between
same
By
closet
superb
oratory.
oratory, which,
MEDICI
to
tude
multito
lead
mis-
doubt
commending
of the
or
human
it,
IQS
of the
race
of
base
wainscoting,
the
which
could
queen
alone, behind
of the
the
same
Even
depth.
in response
readily
believe
one
or
two
panels
Mary
Stuart
put
lock
of this
As
complicated
had
time
Conde's
de
Prince
had
sunk
take
out
the
them,
who
emissary
she
to
one
Queen
Mary
of
but
siderable
con-
expert
eye
of all those
by
the
the
on
spring;
colors
and
cracks,
one
select
to
of the
of the
latch
of the
magnitude
just pressed
of
one
the
spring
the
panels
turning
was
table, intending
safety
the
of
the
the
Hearing
alone
had
Italian, who
Catherine
them.
oblong
an
impossible
had
to
her
hundred.
the
look
the
to
invisible
that
closet, the
brought
that
knew
which
base-board,
from
then
most
hand
her
the
the
was
of two
of sight, and
papers
and
it
plans,
behind
concealed
panel,
conceal
herself
convince
to
the
to
to
that
out
known
is
still
concealed,
bewildered
were
eyes
can
springs
as
will
the
of
size
panels
when
beneath
panels
to-day
floor,
the
lifted,and
wall, there
and
with
the
would
move
visitors, at the
to
thus
spring
in
which,
hiding-place of
be
arrangement
certain
open
out
level
can
pressing
By
seen.
on
which
ingenious
an
MEDICI
day, points
present
base-board,
heavy
be
DE*
CATHERINE
could
to
hide
devoted
door
have
to
open,
entered
unannounced.
"
that
close
You
are
had
she
the
of
lost,"
not
panel
her
Christophe
time
she
to
said
put
to
the
quickly enough
Christophe,
papers
to
sublime
or
away
prevent
secret.
replied with
seeing
glance.
the
to
covery
dis-
DE'
CATHERINE
mio!"
Povero
"
her
them,"
she
duke.
Do
added,
In
it
was
had
and
And
in
in
For
face
its
lost
or
and
the
by
from
and
with
was
the
to
in
the
her
of
the
to
suspicions.
answered
by
one
for
the
that
in
door.
the
Her
of
was
made
Her
contrast.
to
of
she
the
pression
ex-
every
Christophe
alive
queen-mother,
Then
the
piercing
case
to
spark
word.
eyes
queen-mother
Christophe
malevolent
which
the
not
assumed
suddenness
from
eyes-ranged
opening
said
which
the
as
reached
was
queen
covered
dis-
hoped
credit
was
suspicion gives
woman,
terrible
claim
trap.
have
to
that,
doubtedly
un-
hand,
into
spirit she
should
and
gayety
which
man
the
Stuart
instant, Mary
an
in her
delighted
demanded
the
held
the
they
reformers
the
pitiless decision
while
moment
known
morning,
to
would
there
had
she
was
ignite, she
to
This
failure.
brief
that
adversaries
policy
them,
failed
had
her
impossible
was
Guises
the
she
although
so,
find
but
unfortunate
earlier
lists which
the
it
week
evidently leading
were
she
determined
the
him,
since
conspiracy
had
abandon
hide
not
time;
been
the
room!"
the
woman
to
Moreover,
still have
whole
shrewd
that
could
him.
save
and
cardinal
leave
to
1 have
madame,
for the
man
necessary
she
youth;
this
turning
Christophe.
to
instant
an
that
let
pointing
Send
"
cried.
not
Treason,
"
"
199
before
Catherine,
said
daughter-in-law.
MEDICI
rang
bell
queen-mother's
attendants.
*'
of
de
Mademoiselle
the
guard
who
is
Rouet,
on
send
duty,"
hither
said
the
Mary
captain
to
the
DE'
CATHERINE
its fullest
her
itself
manifest,
how
keenly
and
fear,
through
be
Each
of
those
indignant,
against
their
but
that
same
At
sky.
displayed
of
that
those
moment,
is
in
this
end
to
the
to
I hold
they
these
voice.
of
like
was
silence;
this
straight
"
he
sent
other
thus
his
situation.
when
itself
feels
for
As
captain,
listened
furrier's
son
two
The
its
fallingover
is
the
the
women
disasters.
Scottish
and
at
to
circumstances.
genius
who
their
commonplace
by
man
of
the
resorting
and
The
soldierly curiosity.
king
painful
at
generally
watched
he
young
other
superior
great
the
with
the
is
leaned
window
most
but
and
and
the
the
and
hatred,
eloquent
two
when
presence
queens
of
it
time
Lewiston,
precipice.
two
future.
with
overwhelmed
are
always
Christophe,
the
than
Perhaps
littleness
during
wit
more
her
shamefaced
eyes,
through
had
would
for
so
their
part
action
right, the
artifice, gazed
no
her
one
were
averted
they
beings
There
the
at
one
felt
she
as
window-recess
glances
mortals.
human
the
the
wall,
that
made
that
acted
overflowing
other
had
queen
trembled
women,
caused
conscience
young
part, had
she
to
the
feelings
the
the
walked
calm,
left;
two
afraid
was
and
understood,
to
uncles
distrust
youthful
for her
she
20I
her
constant
that
dishonoring
Catherine,
was.
which
part
habitual,
her
play;
to
the
extent
MEDICI
uncles
trance
en-
put
cardinal
an
went
queen-mother.
all the
yonder
threads
child
documents,"
of the
to
me
said
heretics'
with
this
Catherine,
conspiracy;
treaty
in
and
low
DE'
CATHERINE
202
Catherine
While
Queen
master's
who
few
the
in
words
cardinal,
the
grand
ear.
left
was
said
about?"
is all this
What
"
with
conversing
was
whispered
Mary
MEDICI
king,
young
fiercely clashing
these
amid
alone
the
interests.
The
proofs
slow
in
*'
not
of
I said
what
the
said
coming,'*
Your
to
Majesty
are
cardinal, seizing
the
papers.
The
of
the
Due
de Guise
fact
that
This
"
his
gave
brother
all the
grasped
false
"
Who
"
Chaudieu
*'
it
only
le
young
he
de
Monsieur
de
Thou,
has
that
know
said
the
Robertet,"
he
deceived
is
am
craftier
my
reply.
rejoined
"I
Justice,
his
am
of the
met
never
ing
study-
am
secretary
religion.
and
yielded
persistent entreaty,"
minister's
knave
Christophe.
soldier, quickly,
air ;
Palais
Enough,"
"
erine's
Cath-
from
monseigneur?"
the
the
at
already
Conde!"
surprised
the
the
said
Conde,
de
to
was
from
doesn't
he
duke
the
lie!"
de
with
am
with
sition."
oppo-
had
derived
be
minister,"
you
Prince
said
you.?"
Prince
Christophe,
him.
he
that
to
only reply; it
cardinal's
understand
advantages
the
the
"The
the
was
to
man,
was
whispered
position.
sent
"Young
and
lieutenant-general without
me
crafty glance
aside, heedless
interrupted him,
he
makes
his brother
took
cardinal.""
said
to
than
brother,
Lewiston,
many
and
sieur
Mon-
Summon
old
"for
this
politicians;
myself, too,
who
DE'
CATHERINE
would
have
"You
*'
and
we
He
"
said
no
will
treat
aside
cunning
in
cried
the
duke,
the
mother,"
august
your
and
king,
him
bring
to
the
rejoined
and
expression,
him
leading
his
order
"
fession."
con-
man."
corrupt
to
without
trying
around
to
his
to
designs.
Alas!"
was
as
you
203
sacrament
cardinal, addressing
him
"
the
child, morbleu
are
attempted
the
lead
him
given
MEDICI
into
situation;
the
of
House
the
as
to
him
result
of
of four
mother
to
my
tated
irri-
be
to
of
princes
little influence
so
cardinal
subject
the
see
ful
reproach-
naturally supposed
have
Valois,
son
oratory
"you
am
I, the
because
her
detaining
perilous eloquence;
present
assuming
queen,
in
the
public
affairs."
The
seeing
led
into
with
doubtless
him
just
seized
the
of the
same
before
lonne,
Catherine
de'
their
received
secret
The
youthful
instrument
and
good
orders
thereupon
The
the
relative
of the
taken
brothers
papers
handed
de
to
Brague-
to
had
believe
Robertet
to
intel-
ChMelet,
in
came
Christophe.
of the
mation
Refor-
by four
of the
leaders
away
said
therein
of the
and
two
Monsieur
faith.
cajoled
had
she
inclined
were
she
Finding
criminal
Medici's
those
read
spies
they
and
was
to
and
arm
undertone,
an
rose.
Catherine.
lieutenant
knowledge,
in
as
they
opportunity
of which
the
nature
his
where
recess,
spoken
when
by Queen
ligen .e
window
words
took
contracted,
Stuart,
Mary
attentive;
became
brow
soft
the
them
no
his
that
him
him
king
young
Scottish
Guards
him
to
led
Monsieur
de
the
to
tophe
of
cellars
downstairs
Montresor,
the
of
provost
of the
in
the
that
Chris-
the
which
points
tended
at-
person,
conducted
ruins,
Blois
remark
the
ered
deliv-
in
chateau
in
now
chateau
and
official
sergeants,
of
tower
the
with
to-day
his
prison
the
of
of
MEDICI
him
redoubtable
five
by
vaulted
the
out
cierge
con-
visitors
to
used
dungeons
to
there.
After
such
young
Lorraine
returned
the
by
speak
to
Lorraines.
necessary
functions,
the
de
Guise
of the
the
of
slavish
did
measures
not
mended
recom-
Olivier,
proper
of
with
devotion
which
only
pendence
inde-
the
of
his
tenant-gen
lieu-
appointed
Robertet
the
the
discharge
was
kingdom.
documents
necessary
panied
accom-
who
suggestive
for
Due
the
word
Cardinal
Notwithstanding
Chancellor
the
uttered
who
the
to
the
king,
the
Catherine,
assent
the
the
and
ing
noth-
be
council-chamber,
the
to
opposition of
person
master,
vanquished
except
by
faint
grand
could
affair;
formal
mere
the
queen,
council
the
episode,
an
than
more
de
who
That
chateau.
be
DE'
CATHERINE
204
produced
promptitude
ative
indic-
be
called
might
complicity.
The
passed
more
the
king, offering
through
that
court
Amboise
the
on
had
he
been
killed
frame
of
door
his
the
to
arm
saUe
proposed
des
to
go
following day.
abandoned
himself
that
since
there
was
his
mother,
once
gardes, informing
to
the
That
royal
Charles
by running
being carved,
chateau
of
dence
resi-
dentally
VIII. acci-
against
thinking
the
that
DE'
CATHERINE
he
could
Catherine,
that
said
of
it
for
Chenonceaux
momentous
her
was
the
was
by
that
events.
205
scaffolding
the
conceal
to
Amboise
deceived
under
pass
MEDICI
the
Crown
being
pretext,
of
projects
to
purpose
while
and
finish
her
finished.
the
Guises,
the
chateau
court
of
chateau
own
But
the
stooping.
without
no
one
was
anticipated
After
had
he
his
Christophe
dungeon,
was
wooden
make
and
in.
Beside
and
air
of
Blois
belonged
so
many
builders
Upon
feeling
gave
Ages.
Christophe
it
from
of
were
idea
an
tapping
of
its
on
the
the
"I
*'
said
gency;
am
the
thickness,
of
which
Middle
sheathing,
right
them
separated
and
left
obtain
to
surprised
was
teau
cha-
to
hear
side.
other
his
asked,
neighbor
speaking
corridor.
Lecamus."
Chaudieu,
Captain
voice.
but
he
the
the
which
one
in
Venice,
of
the
the
on
little
of
during
on
went
school
those
pen,
pig-
dungeon,
the
above
tapped
Christophe
am
he
you?"
are
walls
dungeons
As
came
Venetian
that
similar
brick.
"Who
through
the
opening
architect
Europe
and
he
dungeons
the
to
discovered
two
of
that
to
when
there
the
thick
to
grating
which
that
enough
clearly
iron
of
but
entrance
arrangement
that
there
healthy
cage
double
an
through
like
respect
showed
was
This
light.
every
door
corridor,
bend
to
that
quality
the
of
darkness
discovered
in
like
endeavoring
the
square
was
had
the
of
sort
door
had
he
in
rough
little
the
The
habitable.
hours
two
finally
sheathing,
to
enough
about
surroundings
his
distinguish
to
passed
"
luckily
was
there
the
taken
is
(207)
minister's
last
nothing
night
against
brother,*'
at
me."
Beau-
DE'
CATHERINE
his
bound
hands.
Montresor,
the
Hark
"
ye,
At
went
friend,"
tophe, playing
with
the
This
food
had
of
thought
with
friend, you
My
Monsieur
between
Catherine.
but
will
you
of the
fellows
like you,
produced
be
will
great
will
humble
who
find
have
it to
"Alas!
nothing
persuaded
to
me
kingdom
depended
have
"Never,"
14
never
said
of the
to
tenant-gen
lieu-
intelligent
face
has
will
queen-mother
Monsieur
word
my
themselves
attach
Tell
Conde
de
Take
trial.
on
you,
to
everything,
me
the
you
advantage."
replied Christophe,
in the
making
You
put
Queen
done
be
honest
and
ment.
mo-
suffering
and
service
The
no
negotiations
your
tell; I confessed
mother,
"
harm
the
power.
your
Guise
de
the
whom
monsieur,"
to
that
likes
ought
the
at
him
who
on
be
was
kingdom,
Florence,
to
undoubtedly
into
son
they
there
Conde
no
deep impression.
back
sent
and
de
will
taken
furrier's
plainly that
of
he
hour.
yourself cruel
Prince
only
be
the
know
you
le
Not
gave
saw
save
that
all
by telling me
late
trying
or
can
Order, for
the
Certainly
him
hanging
of
He
him.
de
Chris-
to
provost
that
at
thought.
done
not
"
for
the
collar
triflingcircumstance
much
Monsieur
out.
said
was
209
from
signal
sergeant
my
MEDICI
lay
me
all
queen's
some
seen
I know
before
that
have
sieurs
Mes-
to
Chaudieu
chamber.
papers
believe
upon
that
"I
the
the
peace
queen-
of
it."
the
Christophe.
Prince
de
Conde.?"
the
DE'
CATHERINE
2IO
and
into
went
remain
not
had
did
who
men
noises
in the
Christophe's
envoy.
poorly-clad
assistants
thick-set
room,
had
which
the
him
in
and
likely
seem
whom
these
whose
blood
horrible
de
is
Well,
new-comers
in
his
he
added,
his
assistants, "that
mattress,
objects
did
made,
the
result
to
with
addressing
the
the
the
**
"
stout
monseigneur
of
room.
provost,
respect.
and
Do
man
le
that
moment
same
for
Two
apprehension.
the
not
boy
poor
being
as
know,"
two
veins
at
saluted
assistants
other
the
to
returned
Montresor
His
and
were
ill-defined
entered
That
clearly apparent,
not
preparations
froze
looked
connoisseur
bringing
boards,
the
with
nerves.
Blois.
comforting
be
although
Monsieur
the
to
individuals
other
"
wedges,
ful,
power-
had
he
of his
times,
several
out
although
use,
of
coarse,
glance
like
resisting power
mallets, wooden
whose
victim;
the
entering
on
the
estimated
executioner
the
was
went
and
which
of
orders
the
ample
Two
eyes.
his
appraised him,
found
soon
Christophe
eyes
Huguenots'
preparations
his
ing.
divert-
machines
the
immediately
upon
cannibal
strength
man
the
obeyed
who,
man
cast
over,
the
in
before
made
new-comers
of
curiosity
for reflection
material
and
wood
torture
ing
out, mak-
far from
were
he
several
to
in and
went
pieces of
for the
intended
evidently
did
Which
passage
that
courtyard
brought
They
through
gave
it, but
close
not
door
and
opened
soon
Christophe
Christophe
room.
The
alone.
long
come
adjoining
an
left
Montresor
de
Monsieur
Thereupon
MEDICI
whom
you
and
cardinal
DE'
CATHERINE
believes
be
to
you
turning
continued,
And
he
The
pointed
doctor
Science
livery
black,
the
friend,
you
refuse
the
to
determined
he
in
asked
Very
of
His
courage
de
Montr
esor,
dressed
in
table.
stood
beside
Christophe,
having
been
to
gently:
questions satisfactorily,
my
be
you
informed
put
to
the
nary
ordi-
question
for
can
he
latter, who
was
bear
it?"
the
of
the
physician.
the
House
the
of
withdraw
well;
send
The
the
at
health, and
replied
physicians
consult
armchairs,
clerk
person,
answer
good
the
"Yes,"
will
servant
extraordinary."
and
"
tioner's
execu-
several
Monsieur
chancellor
that
back.
the
Meanwhile,
said
and
said, very
and
chest
brought
his
materials.
seat
returned
unbound
seriousness
all
second
his
My
clerk
the
on
in
report,"
take
he
"Is
him
Guises
writing
he
whom
Lorraine.
to
the
adjoining
it may
whenever
you
one
be
we
room;
necessary
to
you."
physician
first
anew:
Thenceforth
the
of the
to
to
Then
has
he
this
'*
new-comers,
prisoner,
examination.
Begin your
motioning
that
the
to
supplemented
table, and
"
Doctor,"
"
Christophe.
to
pounded
cursory
"
work?
at
of the
one
went
and
hands,
to
211
man."
is your
in the
already
MEDICI
left the
terror
the
he
arrangements
room.
passed, Christophe
hour
of his
watched
made
martyrdom
with
by
summoned
the
unmoved
executioner
had
his
come.
curiosity
and
his
assistants.
ready
for
consisting of
several
of
victim's
each
the
within
held
small
close
placed
to
planks
legs
gives
of the
each
wedge
with
which
legs
bound
The
give.
and
ankles,
if it
as
The
of
that
so
of
expense
wedges
the
two
at
as
the
eight
as
many
brodequins y^exe
for
pressed
and
also
time,
chancellor
applied
that
the
and
question,
that
the
of
power
period,
hands;
the
the
but, being
lieutenant-general,
Christophe
spared
of
ankles
the
sufferer's
cardinal,
the
form
provided
At
to
there
for itself
extraordinary
exhausted.
not
was
knees
the
room
at
two
the
did
they
ordinary question,
used,
that
at
that
In the
in the
in
makes
made
in,
that
spots, where
two
in
selves
them-
were
so
splittinga log of
of
matter
were
considered
physicians
feeling
but
knees;
which
driven
bones,
by driving
appliances
two
cords,
wedge
driven
were
produced
stout
One
those
the
gether
to-
put
arranged.
was
the
boards
binders
book-
legs
were
were
choice
is little flesh
the
wedges
by
way
fast, and
held
then
were
used
two
was
idea of the
between
were
he
accurate
effect
together by
not
wood.
very
the
mallet
the
legs
apparatus
between
of which
and
placed,
two
brodequins,
two
The
victim's
readily imagine
can
between
was
The
bed, the
called
mattresses.
volumes
by cords
in which
machines
use
together.
press
MEDICI
hastily prepared
Having
made
latter
at
DE'
CATHERINE
212
that
additional
torture.
The
a
few
report
sentences
meditative
begun,
was
as
he
the
walked
provost
back
having
and
forth
his various
dictated
with
names,
DE'
CATHERINE
his
and
age,
he
whom
his
profession;
received
the
MEDICI
then
21
asked
he
had
he
papers
him
from
handed
the
queen.
Chaudieu
"
From
"
Where
"At
"
he
whether
the
he
replied.
you?"
to
Paris."
handed
he
them
give
in
home
my
When
you
them
he
must
would
be
to you
queen-mother
told
have
pleased
to
you."
see
"
He
told
*'
him
You
of
know
to
minister
brought
the
ask
to
the
two
But
to
from
for
the
time
no
that
me
furs
their
queens
1 had
for
frequently,
journey?"
learn
not
queen-mother
these
without
seal
between
the
have
them
also
was
she
sum
owes
him
how
handed
to
ask
to
when
he
it."
learned
"
intended
did
father, and
my
Chaudieu
seen
your
The
'*
hand
to
me
secret."
in
have
must
the
asked
simply
Catherine
Queen
of
nothing
me
He
"
tophe.
did
minister,"
the
cover,
or
rebels
that
seen
awarded
papers,
those
and
they
persons
which
were
contained
proposed
Catherine;
Queen
exposed
who
you
dabble
you
treaty
must
you
to
the
in
rebellion."
penalty
"Yes."
"
The
this
persons
of
act
reward
handsome
"
I did
person
high
whom
it from
who
treason
and
persuaded
affection
I saw."
have
must
the
you
to
promised
queen-mother's
for
undertake
Chaudieu,
you
tion."
protec-
the
only
CATHERINE
214
"
Do
Did
Prince
the
not
"
**
Beware!
has
die,
One
tell the
obtain
finally
had
the
escape
Christophe
he
had
he
the
adjoining
gathered
flesh, and
he
seized
him
with
on
stout
that
had
Renau-
is, he
which
awaits
both
that
with
and
he
If you
you.
I advise
question,
he
wish
may
could
not
to
you
in that
you
way
for the
with
that
such
conscious
carried
him
of
to
his
cords, each
brodequins.
crank,
but
of
Then
without
body
his
the
assistants
causing
the
into
The
and
the
couch
placed
were
the
three
While
rough
to
traction
con-
camp-bed
that
cords
eyebrows
violent
it.
the
to
wrinkles
sank
the
suffering
nails
the
the
withdrew
his
forehead,
not
was
signal,
that
preparing
closed
plices
accom-
and
signal
At
room.
thing
some-
Thereupon
none.
executioner
assert
manufacture
nor
had
muscles
him,
executioner
the
confessed
known,
hands
of the
in
the
designs
he
as
torture
Perhaps
nervously,
His
with
the
Christophe's
on
contracted
laid
truth.
never
provost gave
men
into his
enter
Courageous
of the
replied
when
come.
that
pardon."
the
tell you
confederates, La
interview
an
agony
simple
to
your
against
out
he
prince
of
arrested.
hold
and
you,
to
never
you
him."
been
not
to
that
Guise?"
de
saw
never
Conde
de
disposed
was
against Messieurs
the
saying
Conde?"
de
Prince
queen-mother
did
in
do."
"I
"
MEDICI
persist, then,
you
the
saw
DE*
leg
tightened
reformer
much
DE'
CATHERINE
When
pain.
vise,
both
the
and
Do
you
"
I have
**
Very well,
his
told
do
cords
torture;
flesh
and
the
child
The
doctor
and
bade
asked
in
his
clerk.
the
the
clerk.
reply.
ing
clos-
clerk,
suggested
better
than
which
he
from
trunk.
ble
horri-
uttering
point of swooning.
called.
He
felt
Christophe's
the
wait
to
wedges,
for
and
the
not
allow
to
the
bare
the
ness
sensitive-
charitably
could
endure
it would
Christophe
an
clerk
of
beginning
escape,
of
for
time
victim's
The
pulse
quarter
that, if he
Christophe
but
into the
pressed,
com-
the
that
confess;
brutally
the
on
calm
could
and
upward
entirely restored.
to
painful of
seemed
driving
be
force.
extreme
most
refrain
not
executioner
become
to
forced
could
the
with
suddenly
was
blood
was
before
to
to
the
to
said
the
perhaps,
was,
shrieks, and
blood
and
Christophe's
was
tightened
were
the
poor
hour
mallet
victim
duty,"
your
as
his
denial?"
in your
truth,"
the
moment
The
the
confined
21
eyes.
The
That
from
looked
persist
thus
were
grasped
executioner
wedges
"
legs
MEDICI
the
agony
much
be
replied only
no
wiser
with
these
words:
"
The
king's
do
"What
tailor!
you
the
king's
tailor!"
by that.?"
mean
the
clerk
asked
him.
"
Realizing
what
Christophe, slowly,
"
to
rest,
to
increase
for the
I am
it
blessed
to
gain
summoning
by thinking
cause
torture
of
time
must
and
endure,"
an
opportunity
and
all my
strength
of
martyrdom
the
the
Reformation
said
by
trying
endured
the
late
DE'
CATHERINE
of
one
of
arm
die, and
which
There
intently
could
the
not
remove
third
blow
after
within
the
of
the
at
the
fifth
the
king left
the
to
summons
own
so
and
At
room,
appear
of God,
judgment-seat
said
he
as
and
room,
duke
the
the
extraordinary
cardinal:
the
to
shorten
pray
and
cardinal
first of
the
wedge,
Monseigneur,
The
fixed
was
sufferer's.
the
the
pad.
fascinated
was
from
his
question, Christophe
"
he
lever
heard
year
glance
that
eyes
leather
did.
actually
At
his
had
he
king,
the
upon
whose
knight
one
was
coiner's
the
with
provided
was
217
worked
which
lever
the
MEDICI
my
returned
the
to
less."
use-
ing
adjoin-
Catherine
Queen
heard
Christophe
it is
agony,
say:
"
Go
on,
She
than
The
for
on,
it
deemed
at
prudent
executioners
the
go
sixth
and
he
to
appear
seventh
only
wedges
implacable
more
face
his
strength
fanaticism.
find
the
When
Where
courage
the
lasted
The
actually
eighth wedge
to
took
went
an
to call
could
in
up
be
the
to
such
the
This
with
shone
the
human
superkindled
could
sentiment
endure
smiled.
than
more
clerk
but
plice.
accom-
in without
thoroughly
by
necessary
executioner
Christophe
had
else
her
driven
were
Christophe;
heretic!"
against
themselves
from
murmur
is
best
he
suffering.?
eighth wedge,
horrible
scene
hour.
doctor,
driven
to ascertain
without
if the
endangering
2l8
DE'
CATHERINE
patient's life.
the
MEDICI
Meanwhile
duke
the
returned
to
fellow,"
he
Christophe.
^*Ventre-de-hichel
in
said
his
service;
will
do
shall
mangled
your
in
party
order
always traitors,
are
of
enough
limbs;
1 will
like
going
their
and
know
the
about
nothing
me
my
favor
my
ask
not
to
to
your
there
us;
afford
what
to
you
back
Blois
on
de
Prince
and
plans
prisons of
the
queen-mother
"I
happy,
divulge
to
Enter
men.
and
dastardly thing,
any
brave
rich
be
plucky
like
"
ear.
you
cure
you're
proof
the
terms
Conde
are."
it, monseigneur,"
replied
Lecamus.
The
said
physician
that
"Drive
the
as
could
he
it
bestowing
in
him.
She
of
her
he
is
front
at
of
two
from
future
keen
glance
she
other
the
upon
"
have
for
upon
him
hand,
she
hated
of
the
the
and
woman's
felt
test; she
but
courage,
and
stern
at
tion
atten-
her
ambitious
solemn
was
room,
coldly
scrutinized
Christophe's
cast
gazed
object
That
that
upon
added,
he
adjoining
and
who
brothers,
hung
admiration
the
the
became
all,
Christophe.
upon
accomplice alternately.
whole
heretic,"
Christophe,
once
and
"After
cardinal.
only
slowly
came
victim,
the
eighth wedge.
the
frightful smile
the
the
said
says,
Catherine
stood
endure
home,"
queen
examined
came,
harsh;
Guises,
yet
the
on
smiled
them.
Come,
seen
handsomely
young
the
man,"
Prince
rewarded."
de
she
said,
Conde,
"
admit
and
you
that
will
you
be
DE*
CATHERINE
"Ah!
what
The
said
exclaimed
be
to
you
Christophe,
gaged
en-
in
tone.
started.
queen
He
"
219
for
business
sorry
in, madame!"
pitying
MEDICI
me!
insults
the
to
will
who
brothers,
two
him?"
hang
not
you
seemed
she
in
absorbed
thought.
What
"
in
with
the
I will
window
recess,
confess,
looked
provost
upon
the
other
person,
martyr
him
moist;
but
were
wedge
self,
him-
to
his
consulting
The
indeed,
brother
but
he
was
Let
him
last
words
We
must
duke
let
exclaimed,
him
addressing
which
was
and
driven,
was
shriek,
displayed
after
radiant
by
seen
of
like
from
start
no
to
them,
dried.
The
boards
the
broke.
seemed
eyes
instantly
one
bestow
to
Christophe
did
tears
executioners
able
was
great queen's
in, and
it
the
and
fell upon
back
fearful
sound,
revenged
be
"Proceed!
Catherine
two
driven
was
I will
"
away
which
forced
emitted
and
she
glance
and
which
The
that
so
refreshing dew.
"
master
Montresor.
occupied,
that
grand
queen.
die!"
him
let
de
The
were
the
France,
the
thought
or
Monsieur
in
remain
them,"
on
said
glance.
"
woman!"
tween
be-
Christophe
he
which
face:
made
he
no
believed
dying.
die.?"
with
not
"
^the cardinal
an
ironical
break
this
and
the
repeated
intonation,
thread,"
cardinal
he
consulted
"
"
said
the
no,
to
queen's
indeed
the
vost.
pro-
in undertones.
DE'
CATHERINE
220
shall
What
"
"Send
him
"
duke;
de
The
the
the
by
said
added,
he
the
addressing
him
hang
tioner,
execu-
without
Christophe's
resistance
of all the
existed
in
He
senses.
Due
sensibility produced
employment
frame
the
Orleans,"
not
delicate
organs
human
which
"do
the
me."
excessively
internal
the
asked
at
things,"
Montresor,
from
order
an
prison
all
above
him?"
with
the
to
but,
Monsieur
do
we
MEDICI
Guise
de
which
force
the
alone
sitated
neces-
possessed
degree
same
heard
by
in all
words,
these
in the
whispered
in
cardinal's
ear:
"
I do
abandon
not
this
through
When
knave."
two
princes
released
of
idea
young
the
executioners
the
left
had
their
the
truth
room,
the
getting at
the
victim's
legs, taking
no
precautions.
"Did
said
the
the
chief
of
"
his
such
strength?"
The
"
to have
ought
without
me
fellow
died, and
hurting
Christophe.
poor
with
stood
I lose
the
body."
Release
said
he
rascal
assistants.
his
to
eighth wedge;
worth
see
ever
anyone
"
Some
me,
day
my
I
friends,"
will
reward
you."
"Come,
doctor.
the
"
the
"
am
going
executioner,
Here
comes
has
to
humanity!"
some
Monseigneur
highly, and
man
show
come,
le Due
commended
Amboise
brutally.
the
him
with
"
esteems
Take
jailer."
my
to
exclaimed
this young
me."
assistants,"
care
of him
said
self.
your-
DE'
CATHERINE
The
in
hands
assisted
of
the
by
him
him
disappeared,
executioner
the
to
with
bed,
"You
"The
is
did
agony,
his
to
my
of
which
and
obtain
jailer
of
child
of
the
sleep
after
that
on
town,
which
the
from
and
horrible
man
to
Christophe,
in
after
who,
well
results
have
spared
over
me
herself
them
mirable
ad-
enduring
turning
not
him
the
endanger
said
to
pains
doctor
secrets
overtake
of
took
his
concluding
of
his
to
men
fell
into
almost
childbirth.
the
place
the
to
cap
he
that
temper.
him
transport
Christophe
where
is
four
ordered
stretcher
Christophe,
nothing
Blois
the
reply,
left
and
could
telling
look
to
me
said
might
by
have
you
nothing."
know
hearing
cloak
she
and
persecutors,
Upon
But
suffering
extreme
to
propose
"
that
developed
and
feel
must
voice.
low
had
vision,
not
devotion.
such
me
fed
talked
and
"You
kind,"
very
of
clearness
of
in
suffering
intense
such
ried
car-
soup,
pulse,
charged
queen
added,
he
queen
whose
hot
knowing
in
The
duty.
welfare,"
your
his
said.
he
satisfaction
your
custodian,
some
felt
him,
die,"
not
inward
done
him
who,
him.
to
will
great
doctor,
future
brought
Christophe
leaving
man's
beside
it, sat
221
honey-tongued
the
young
consolingly
MEDICI
the
all
The
poor
prison
profound
mothers
When
to
hoped
to
that
that
bound
go
and
Amboise
to
Now,
that
at
that
delicate
turn
and
in
travelled
He
dome,
order
in
When
that
end
nobles
lives,
called
brief
at
the
prince's
Saint-Andre
affair
arrival,
to
in
led
with
which
escort
of
Amboise.
the
Lorraines
meet
him,
(223)
crown.
all
d'Al-
sent
attended
Ven-
success.
to
of
flower
Calvin
Upon
him
brought
the
and
played
dis-
to
of
was
on
At
Huguenots.
case
of
of
Conde
conspirators
by
the
hands
Jeanne
the
in
went
made
of
of
Amboise
shrewd
the
which
which
astray
an
the
of
the
uprising
affray
de
plans
them
support
been
Tumult
of
rear
chateau
the
the
general
armed
prince,
the
that
to
had
who
arrived
the
first
the
by
of
if he
to
Lorraine.
Prince
the
was
neglect
the
de
of
vassal
court,
in
cunning
doughty
the
of
Cardinal
and
interpreter
but,
mercy
come
Conde
council,
affairs,
to
To
united
the
decision
worthy
bret
and
him
blood,
the
at
had
they
As
felony;
were
of
the
crown,
power
Guise
the
the
commands.
himself
de
Due
king's
moment,
of
elements
obey.
of
constituted
placed
he
there,
to
princes
whom
order
to
prince
the
obey
to
the
for
king
refuse
quarters
Lorraine
two
Conde,
the
its
change
to
the
de
would
place,
court
Amboise,
inducing
by
crown
the
Prince
the
trap
the
of
chateau
the
laid
caused
they
lost
an
the
their
fifty gentlemen,
the
ing
follow-
day
politic
Lorraines
learning
the
by
of
Marechal
a
hundred
the
de
DE'
CATHERINE
position
as
dawn,
when
"
entered
had
you
had
that
had
who
"And
the
In
"
did,"
force
take
to
the
gate
them.'"*
to
Saint- Andre
de
these
have
to
there,
was
in
military arrangements
made
"the
said,
he
the
preparations
lieutenant-general
of the
secrets
his
reformers.
he
as
have
must
fellows
Those
clearly betrayed."
were
The
prince
after
of
gate
barred
the
chateau,
his
We
"
"Am
"
be
instructed
to
you
I
If such
the
by
the
two
apartments
cardinal
he
by
toward
the
way
stair-
king, monseigneur,
the
king's purpose,
prince of
functionaries
where
guards
as
to
the
would
you
Church
escorted
and
him
of honor,
without
for several
hours
From
window
he
looked
fields which
form
such
out
a
upon
to
to
sent
were
mark
remained
15
chancellor
not
by myself,"
chancellor.
him, ostensibly
his
walked
and
the
at
apartments."
your
were
attended
Those
the
friends
his
prisoner, pray.?"
said
from
king's apartments.
the
to
nity;
indignity after indig-
to
him
when
path
are
escort
subjected
was
separating
leading
the
the
terms.
order
known
until
come
destroying
were
at
men-at-arms."
prince praised
warmest
arriving
town."
reserve
le Marechal
five hundred
The
of
didn't
rebel
the
betrayed
been
Monsieur
with
did, the
king's troops
the
225
Instead
battle.
others
the
night,
fellows
avoid
to
MEDICI
suite
attend
and
where
of
upon
he
seeing anybody.
the
Loire
lovely landscape
and
from
226
DE'
CATHERINE
Amboise
and
Tours;
to
of
door
the
his
"
his
his
appearance.
I heard
that
were
in
believe
how
uation,
sitdare
he
heard
Chicot,
and
formerly
you
would
when
open,
had
his
over
Lorraines
person,
chamber
who
king's jester,
made
the
against
undertake
musing
was
what
wondering
to
he
MEDICI
belonged
the
him,
to
said
disgrace,"
the
prince.
You
**
has
would
King
should
be
fond
king.? Francois
II.
the
Why,
virtuous
of
since
become
"
not
death
the
king
the
II."
Henri
of
court
hearty
laugh."
Which
*'
"Aren't
speak
Chicot
won't
punish
me
replied, with
"And
"
of
the
duke,
that
raine?"
Lor-
de
dare
you
to
so?"
He
"
afraid
you
Francois
or
aren't
Why,
of
manner
the
owe
entitled
you
arrival?
your
that, monseigneur,"
smile.
do
what
to
for
of this visit?"
honor
to
bring you
my
the
and
cap
bells."
"Am
I not
"Try
it!"
"And
if I succeed?"
"
I will
"
anyone
walked
who
said
you
the
to
Chicot, you
Chicot
He
that
say
contrary
by
liberty to
at
go
have
"
yes
him
with
and
Are
me.
is interested
toward
the
won
ing
by play-
game
rule."
frighten
"
hence?"
of his
movement
gave
sent
to
me
welfare?"
in my
a
you
him
to
head.
understand
DE'
CATHERINE
somebody
that
MEDICI
and
them
watching
was
227
listening to
them.
"What
have
to
you
me?"
to
say
the
inquired
prince.
"
That
fix, and
said
alone
audacity
that
from
is
message
his
jester, breathing
the
extricate
can
from
you
this
queen-mother,"
the
words
into
prince's
the
ear.
"
"
Say
1 should
that
had
had
"
who
those
to
I hasten
have
not
aught
fear
to
to
or
replied
to
come
this
the
if I
chateau,
for."
cried
reply!"
brave
prince,
myself
reproach
that
report
to
you,"
sent
the
jester.
Two
hours
before
and
chancellor
him
present
had
coldness
asked
"
its
You
of
conspiracy
wish
not
fetch
11. in
the
great
hall
There,
before
the
of
the
the
young
and
prince
feigned surprise
where
noble
the
at
and
king's greeting
the
"
with
draw
had
having
reformers,
loyal subject
to
said
charged, cousin,"
been
sternly,
yourself
Conde
Tournon
de
cause.
have
mother,
de
afternoon,
to
held.
been
in the
Cardinal
the
came
Prince
the
marked
o'clock
one
Frangois
to
council
court,
at
king's dinner,
the
the
the
later,
down
hand
and
the
queenin
show
must
you
the
and
the
king's
wrath
upon
do
your
family."
he
When
most
arm
stood
heard
profound
of
the
at
her
these
silence
king,
her
left, the
words,
uttered
by Catherine,
son,
while
the
prince stepped
amid
held
who
Due
the
the
d'Orleans
back,
with
228
DE'
CATHERINE
movement
instinct
with
looked
about
and
sword,
MEDICI
pride, placed
all the
at
his hand
who
persons
his
on
rounded
sur-
him.
said
"Whoever
that, madame,"
"lied
indignant tone,
an
He
Let
"
his
threw
the
glove
chooses
thrill of excitement
when
feet.
maintain
to
in
hood
false-
that
forth!"
come
exclaimed
!"
throat
king's
the
at
who
man
in his
he
Due
the
of
but, instead
he
supposed
Guise
de
was
picking
would
the
glove,
walked
he
whole
leave
to
seen
up
do,
the
through
ran
his
place;
everybody
as
fearless
the
to
up
court
hunchback.
If you
"
to
accept
for
and
mistaken
they
if
are
said.
he
show
honor
answer
Huguenots
of
think
they
I will
"
the
the
me
how
taking you
for
leader."
The
the
shall
you
prince, do
second,
services,"
my
you,
their
require
prince
compelled
was
of
lieutenant-general
picked
the
up
glove
and
offer
to
the
his
hand
Chicot
kingdom.
handed
it to
to
Monsieur
de
Conde.
"Cousin,"
draw
the
to
come
said
sword
brother's
young
in
except
king, "you
defence
of
must
the
not
crown
dinner."
Cardinal
The
the
de
Lorraine,
The
most
serious
hand
to
Prince
danger
Queen
dining-hall ; but,
with
went
manoeuvre,
Mary
while
de
Conde
that
him
was
to
escort
gave
her
his
ments.
apart-
escaped
him,
paying
by
his
to
having
threatened
Stuart
he
surprised
to
the
his
the
compliments
DE'
CATHERINE
to
the
Balafre
politic Le
In
did
not
revealed
it to
**
laugh,
admit
my
is
it
uncle
is
for
than
is
pity,"
clever
else
anywhere
them
been
madame,
"Yes,
on
on
than
uncle's
your
sentiment
Do
fancy
that
is
is not
yet,"
how
you
behave
at
prisoners,
council
the
who
other.
Has
small
But
he
not
expense?
simple
one
matter
to
blood?"
rejoined.
she
friends
are
shall
of
the
shall
men
gentlewhich
yours,
carried
be
We
"
of
execution
the
decided
has
the
at
well
look
although
part?
such
the
end
The
see
it
prince of
must
you
not
shoulders,
my
for that
"
Mary-
said, with
she
would
head
my
credit
Queen
generous!"
obtained
prosecute
ment.
mo-
brains, he
his
fall, and
head
perceptibly higher
generosity
you
that
at
until
scheme
so
see
that
of
have
to
him
trap the
him.
It would
"
what
prince cudgel
the
duke's
the
guess
for
setting
was
did
vain
229
tried to divine
he
queen,
young
MEDICI
out
with
the
greatest publicity."
do,"
said
the
king,
the
queen-mother,
I will
"
**
prince,
whatever
the
king
does."
"The
be
to
is
to
factious
the
the
and
the
court
act
of
crown
of
prince, ironically.
said
that,"
than
question
submit
for
queried
of faith, an
act
whole
pose
pro-
"
fete?"
"Better
the
myself
"
ambassadors
"A
with
present
and
the
queen,
young
"an
high politicalsignificance.
forcing
and
opposition and
the
of
nobles
of
destroying
intriguing."
France
their
It
to
liking
DE'
CATHERINE
230
You
**
will
them
that
stake
you
incur
they
the
their
abate
not
MEDICI
bellicose
such
ing
show-
risks, madame,
itself in the
crown
spiritby
game,"
and
replied
the
prince.
the
At
Queen
enough.
to
lead
the
of
the
noblemen
and
of the
close
to
Madame,"
said
King of
make
Your
in
arms
in progress
their
to
witness
greatest
know
that
is to
of
and
the
is it not
II., "
of
blood
the
shed?
be
enough
must
so
we
them.?"
said
example,"
an
the
hands,
Catherine.
father
your
of
burning
were
tomed
accus-
heretics,"
said
did
they
Stuart.
Mary
"
trial then
Francois
grandfather
to
the
hardihood
execution.
show
"
deplorable
gentlemen
triumphal
"
their
France
excellent
many
the
with
gloomy
was
necessity of making
the
to
at
for the
to
taken
possible display
"
had
Mary
conversation
recur
which
dinner,
The
who
kings
and
I propose
"Philip
II., who
chose,
reigned
do
to
as
before
I
me
choose,"
as
rejoined
the
king.
observed
Catherine,
Countries,
until
"
asked
*'
must
caused
had
he
do
What
If you
the
are
auto-da-fe
to
think
monarch,"
great
to
in
be
the
Low
postponed
Valladolid."
about
it, cousin?"
the
king
Conde.
avoid
papal
being
nuncio
willingly
go
attend
the
to
is
being recently
an
de
cannot
have
ladies
you
Prince
the
"
returned
I will
the
certainly
present,
there
myself,
f^te."
and
since
sire, you
the
I know
sadors.
ambas-
that
DE'
CATHERINE
The
de
Prince
at
course
time
the
of
Amboise,
from
arrived
in his
family
If you
he
barrier
that
hope
would
or
pass,
long
without
was
compelled
tavern
to
courage
the
of
persons
given
man
sented
pre-
and
nounced
an-
captain
be
name
out
go
broken
of the
he
down
into
without
his
the
on
was
When
to
and
the
the
waylay
thrust
or
and
the
town,
to
clerk.
took
for
day
had
he
tion
execu-
had
been
hanged,
as
of
the
recognize
his
syndic
execution
purse
day
knew;
the
who
wheel
not
all
day
next
The
overjoyed
could
who
per
window,
consequence.
queens
executions
uprising,
in
waited,
in
difficulty,
livre
The
the
self
him-
there
he
pay
from
seated
two
sat
public
to
you
and
whom
not
square.
of
them.
went
his
the
witness,
furriers
of
he
on
despair,
one
person
to
man,
attendant,
where
obliged
small
among
end,
aroused
good
my
But
lodgings,
abettors
to
square
was
looking
sentenced
son
the
of
son.
last
at
obtained
He
of
his
seeing
on
place.
guild
had
chateau,
away,
female
some
news
he
where
the
anxiety
furrier, the
in
yards
retainer
of
him
room
the
also
courtyard."
father,
few
some
give
teau
cha-
the
old
the
hanged,
in the
the
words,
be
to
step foot
to
those
on
the
by
When
of
the
queens
tumult
queen's
the
was
want
only
At
the
gate
bold
him:
to
have
the
at
that
"
of
two
thither
Lallier's.
and
reached
the
to
Paris, brought
upon
de' Medici.
prince
furrier
the
himself
said
the
circumstances
the
which
Catherine
that
23I
resolved
had
from
glance
About
Conde
MEDICI
was
After
filled with
at
he
an
had
crowns
DE'
CATHERINE
whom
to
he
chateau,
the
lines
of
stand
back
long
compelled
to
It
horrible
was
were
women
squandered
of the
he
the
sometimes
took
servants
the
letters
cardinal
of
to
that
neither
the
gold,
of
He
cardinal
spectacle
be
which
at
on
acts
so
tion,
corrupthe
concerning
with
town
which
preparations
for the
scale
vast
Prince
the
with
fear
of
the
about
the
as
Amboise,
at
information
wandered
making
was
ered
deliv-
activity brought
gloomy
but
precautions-
instrument
any
and
to
more
court
greatest
furriers
fate.
the
potent
the
the
son's
most
nor
took
never
Mary's
behaved
reason
every
which
chateau,
Guises
the
had
sojourn of
this
the
As
they
during
do.
servants
maid;
gold,
of the
provost
and
letters
queen-mother's
and
than
his
the
there
Lecamus
Queen
goodman's
cruelty, they
revenge,
syndic
the
them
bade
incredible
the
to
for
the
on
Dayelle,
to
pass.
mothers
deliver
to
guards
to
Old
tears.
go
passing
room
money
them
t)egging
sometimes
wrote,
of
mission
com-
the
desolation,
in
deal
of
the
petitioners,
families
great
chateau,
maid,
the
whole
daughters,
of
scene
to
whom
him
give
to
house
and
Parliament,
petitioners
among
his
sessions
the
the
by
233
leaving
attend
to
or
appointed
through
times
several
saw
MEDICI
Conde
de
rible
terto
was
present.
curiosity,from
Public
by
methods
the
execution
had
the
and
vicars
victory
over
been
the
cures,
Paris
to
in vogue
announced
at
Nantes,
that
from
simultaneously
heretics.
Three
period.
the
with
handsome
lated
stimu-
was
The
pulpit by
the
all
king's
tribunes.
the
one
others,
in the
middle
were
built
Amboise,
of
board
tier
seats,
night before
roofs
The
for
let
the
livres,
ten
father
poor
best
places
view
of
the
were
to
perish,
fatal
victim
in
place;
then
the
clerk
of
their
the
The
of
block
had
crowd
from
solemn
mass
of
the
saw
which
the
put
black,
for
and
it
was
announce
from
guarded
Guards
it
of
was
"
duty
overflowing
morning
and
king's household,
the
days.
he
in
was
Scottish
the
were
noblemen
on
knelt
culprits
enclosure
place.
unobstructed
the
whose
the
take
many
Parliament,
of
gendarmes
the
the
on
one
an
draped
names
by
seen,
armchair,
an
thousand
licity
pub-
windows
On
he
ten
of which
black.
"
the
in those
so
centre
after
head
morning
the
obtain
chouquet
sentences.
early
the
the
to
which
with
the
his
have
in the
and
and
by
by
to
sum
we
upon
draped
placed
call
which
stage
day,
as
filled
fields
was
people,
erected
were
About
enormous
an
had,
from
tall scaffold
with
execution
were
thither
the
chateau
the
surrounding
the
black
the
square
ghastly spectacle
were
The
the
drawn
in
camped
persons
the
auto-da-fe.
this
to
which
tier, which
crowd,
given
of
wall
of
Around
than
sumptuous
the
foot
above
MEDICI
more
against
place.
enormous
an
being
the
at
take
to
was
to
DE'
CATHERINE
234
by
to
vent
pre-
before
the
and
the
execution.
After
of
churches
forth,
the
noblemen,
the
the
last
question,
town,
were
the
remaining
of
some
at
whom
assembled
the
chateau
noblemen
brought
were
conspirators.
had
already
at
the
in
These
undergone
foot
of
the
DE'
CATHERINE
scaffold
and
attended
them
not
of
one
who
to
sent
were
and
of their
French
only
of
affecting
as
singing
this
for
just
stanza
"
nous
Nous
benissant
Et
son
de
their
upon
designedly placed
d'Orleans.
her
with
son,
nuncio
was
the
of
below
the
"
Lord
On
us
The
the
of
Thy
us
Thy
radiance
was
show,
mercy
with
Thy
good
will
of
Thy
who
grace,
bestow
face."
the
sat
The
The
queens.
marshals
two
us
Medici
left.
her
at
turned
once
and
Mary
kingdom
to
at
de'
behind
bless
them
hear
Conde,
de
Queen
cardinal
And
arrived:
were
Prince
with
tribunes
had
bonte,
sa
reformers
the
an
was
who
to
favorable,
et
Catherine
standing
as
la darte."*
between
Queen
try,
coun-
adorable
luire
the
It
crowd
court
par
visage
of all the
leader,
the
ducted
con-
but
worship.
soit doux
fasse
be
of that
gentlemen,
as
Dieu
Nous
eyes
those
is well
as
sense,
in the
those
put into
should
common
spies
tions
persecu-
Calvin,
Roman
the
to
pity
of
matter
men
to find
psalm
language
but
Lorraine,
the
worship
in the
country
incident
of
The
that
assailing
feeling
de
escape
Marot.
ordained
in each
method
Clement
by
had
not
to
verse
known,
order
In
Lorraines.
the
Cardinal
the
by
of those
whom
among
of
them
to
suade
per-
Calvin;
of
words
the
to
to
strove
doctrines
the
listened
them
235
who
monks
by
renounce
MEDICI
on
was
Due
next
papal
tenant-gen
lieu-
horseback
of France
and
236
all of the
MEDICI
Prince
de
and
be
to
gentlemen
him,
saluted
the
When
captains.
his
be
courteous
The
other
and
to
passing
from
just
it
as
returned
court
will
that
be
always
The
joy
he
when
signal from
place
on
the
furriers
his
de
scaffold, at
of
death,
of
of
the
heart
ing
govern-
toward
France.
of
felt the
son
Paris
not
was
the
called
among
death.
to
Guise,
once
the
present,
was
of the
condemned
Due
word,
lightness
policy
that
pleasures
a
vited
in-
courtiers
scenes
the
their
saw
the
to
foreigners one
fifty-seven gentlemen
At
of Blois
with
of the
syndic
unhappy
keenest
to
In
not
persons
the
by
court.
from
war,
of
considerations
the
chateau
later
perils of
the
to
and
**
die."
to
filled by
festivities
joyous
d'Orleans,
about
are
were
at
of the
passed
Due
spectacle,
duty
population
whole
who
men
the
on
persons
his
him
knew
hunchback
the
to
tribunes
two
witness
to
said
he
hard,"
It is
"
the
appeared,
who
decapitated
fearless
the
Conde
salutation.
their
to
DE'
CATHERINE
clerk, from
out, in
loud
voice:
Jean-Louis-Alberic,
"
heresy, of
of
with
assault
Baron
the
crime
of
arms
in
his
de
Raunay,
l^se-majeste,
hand
convicted
and
of
an
upon
the
king's
the
scaffold
with
person."
A
ascended
man
step, saluted
assured
an
the
crowd
and
the
court,
exclaimed:
and
"
arms
tall, handsome
The
to
Lorraines!"
sentence
deliver
states
the
what
king
from
is
false;
his
I took
enemies
up
the
DE'
CATHERINE
He
head
his
placed
reformers
The
"
Dieu,
tu
Par
of
it fell.
feu
tu
I'epreuve
examines
as
nous
I'on epreuve,
que
affines."*
as
Comte
Briquemaut,
Jean-Rene
of
the
dipped
his
of
crime
the
upon
assault
an
and
block
mis
I'argent
convicted
mongis,
nous
nous
Comme
Robert-
237
sang:
Et tu
"
the
on
MEDICI
de
Ville-
lese-majeste
king's person,"
called
and
the
clerk.
The
count
blood, and
"
"
Tu
nous
how
to
culprits\"
know
ennemis,
nos
tu
ou
astreindre,
to
the
how
to
mis."t
as
nous
monsieur
agree,
Conde
joindre
et
as
filets
must
gentlemen
de
pieges
Des
de
real
the
fait entrer
as
nous
Tu
Prince
Raunay's
du
sang:
Aux
"You
fall upon
blood
reformers
The
in Baron
said:
this
May
hands
le
nuncio,
nonce,"
that
"
conspire, they
die."
*"
Thou,
Lord,
And
As
So
"
probed
finers
Thy
we
has
our
loins
'Tis Thou
tried
our
the
led
foes'
endure
hast
us
least
and
more
desire
precious
more
ore,
by fire."
proved
are
hatid
Within
Our
test
hast
our
feet, O
Lord,
fell snare,
the
toils'
brought
harsh
us
cord,
there."
said
if
also
the
French
know
238
detestation
What
"
of
DE'
CATHERINE
Guise
"This
much
bloodshed.
Bah!
"
They
moved
spectacle
and
crowd
by
the
cried the
He
feeble
the
last
"
he
and
deem
one?
who
ing,
sing-
upon
the
of
volume
the dread
they
nobleman,
had
been
the
reserved
whom
Et
son
of the
owe
we
in
yourself
in
leading
to
luire
Prince
de
favorable,
et
bonte,
sa
par
adorable
visage
fasse
de
assisted
It is
soit doux
benissant
de
ladder
sang:
Nous
weary
to
death
one
of the
foot
nous
Due
"Come,
you,
axe
last, that
voice, when
one
all,who
Dieu
Nous
Conde,
At
moment
of only
tones
the
at
scaffold, and
the
the
stroke.
alone
was
in
people
of them
considerable
for the
and
of the
a
so
Guises.
the
"Mercy!"
most
forget for
of
Medici.
produced
diminution
young
sight
de'
their
to
impression
them
made
inspired by
hear
going
the
the
air.
the
men
progressive
singing,
could
of
all,the
above
at
singing,
the
through
constantly
sublime
the
still hear
could
ill," said
me
rejoined Catherine
rebels!"
de
Duchesse
the
deathly pale
turned
had
who
heads
the
on
Lorraine.
makes
spectacle
king,
said
de
Cardinal
the
to
drawing
are
you
brother!"
children,
our
MEDICI
la darte."
said
Nemours,"
part he
the
taking
duty
Castelnau,
bound
who,
playing,
was
happy
result
these
to
as
the
men,
ask
I
am
"do
of the
"
do
mercy
not
affray,
not
you
for this
told, received
DE'
CATHERINE
that
word
your
should
he
MEDICI
239
treated
be
if
courteously
surrendered."
he
"Can
it
that
scaffold
Due
de
be
that
waited
trying
to
before
Nemours,
The
I have
slowly
and
losse, accused
and
majeste
crime
to
of
the
the
him?"
said
the
that
stern
of
crime
the
lese-
king's person."
"it
proudly,
and
doubt:
no
Castelnau-Cha-
the
tyranny
so,
proof.
re-
be
cannot
projected
tion
usurpa-
Guises!"
tired
executioner
"Monsieur
Baron,"
le
suffer
you
observing
himself
busied
tribune,
make
of
upon
Castelnau,
oppose
the
The
assault
an
said
No,"
"
of
on
by
de
convicted
he
was
purposely
"
Baron
iWichel-Jean-Louis,
"
save
affected
deeply
called
clerk
until
adjusting
and
his
moment
in
axe.
don't
said, "I
he
much,
too
commotion
wish
more
to
may
you."
save
people cried
all the
Again
"Mercy!"
"So
be
Castelnau,
it!"
said
who
saved
the
king;
the
to
"mercy
life of
the
Due
poor
d'Or-
leans."
The
so
be
cardinal
it.
He
Castelnau's
intentionallymisunderstood
gave
head
the
executioner
fell while
the
king
words
the
signal,
was
so
that
pardoning
him.
"
That
one
goes
to
your
account,
cardinal,"
said
Catherine.
On
Prince
the
de
day following
Conde
started
that
for
horrible
Navarre.
slaughter,
the
DE'
CATHERINE
opportunity
any
Queen
to
Catherine,
himself
along
himself
to
as
go
under
After
duke
ride
la
the
to
"
on
invented
legs,
fashion
that
man
attention;
him,
assumed
"
Off
with
speaking
to
anxiety.
Procure
"
States-General
the
Paris, and
then
you
your
son."
*'
Is he
16
be
will
still
on
know
air.
and
let
by
my
the
side
whom
she
no
assemblage
in
to
asked
living.'"'
the
session
rely
the
upon
old
feet
velvet,
one
of
having
"
Thus
Catherine
election
own
your
both
queen
man.
de'
recognized
one
something
with
had
the
them.
attract
as
who
passing
As
to
given
with
and
indignant
said
with
show
soon
as
goodman,
she
then
accused
to
to
but
name
back
order
that
litter,loved
covered
was
queen-
knew
saddle.
she
in
an
you,
me,"
the
enabled
was
Medici's
she
in
posed
im-
rode
horse's
the
notch
who
had
they
by Catherine,
pack-saddle
on
shapely
very
old
of
sort
the
or
and
leg,
in
the
Conde,
de
Lecamus
was
for
lined
left the
and
able
was
who
that
travelling
invented
he
Prince
the
for
taken
being
believed
such
planchette
leg through
the
of
instead
her
of
creatures
of
returned
syndic disguised
disguise
that
or
station
to
they
The
risk
Mary
was
when
freedom.
more
Queen
purpose
Huguenots,
the
sitting sidewise
had
of
cardinal
stirrup
resting
the
unfortunate
on
injured
once
at
the
little
Catherine,
Blois.
departure
silence
a
to
241
to
court
the
and
mother
his
the
cover
the
among
road.
the
beggar,
and
spy,
bank
river
the
and
path of
in the
either
speak
to
MEDICI
as
see
very
you
like
deputy
to
of
guilds of
at
Orleans;
in
respect
to
DE'
CATHERINE
242
**
! I
Alas
Lecamus
naught
hope
was
but
those
secret
that
the
which
the
queen
said
so,"
obliged
the
to
MEDICI
queen.
States-General
had
just
and
words,
unsatisfactory
to
were
divulged
Paris
to
return
to
be
him.
with
with
convoked,
the
Within
few
of
Lyon,
the
commanded
of
done
have
with
General
wished
who
de
Bourbon,
of
prince
him
favor
evening,
Aignan
think
on
of
and
Tower.
of
on
taken
Having
concerning
his
He
arrived
the
he
the
cing
enti-
in
Christophe
to
to
of
he
boat,
Orleans
during
knowing
could
the
Saint-
celebrated
means
transfer,
(243)
river
the
up
to
no
stretcher
wind.
taken
was
Blois,
at
prison
morning
westerly
and
convict
succeed
should
in
Navarre,
IV.;
to
and
power.
in
and
Henri
dinal,
car-
attendance
of
King
in
purpose
the
the
cied
fan-
more
other
no
States-
The
once
prey
they
policy
consented.
secure
he
her
to
order
who
Medici,
Christophe
if
king's
bed,
a
of
treason,
one
to
father
months
two
the
had
and
use
the
carried
placed
to
high
into
After
by
make
to
convoke
his
than
Conde
de
proposed
to
prop
Bourbon,
Prince
Antoine
seize
States
the
convoking
the
of
House
the
which
joyfully
to
in
who,
means
possible
Am-
at
by
de'
the
people.
executions
Catherine
representation,
popular
was
proposed
saw
the
princes,
heresy
secret,
she
that
crush
the
of
prince
raise
bloody
At
Huguenots
some
to
Lorraine
Orleans.
at
tried
dence
evi-
Navarre.
enterprising
the
the
carefully kept
of
after
of
court
Dauphine,
had
astonished
the
most
Bourbon
audacity,
boise,
to
in
the
by
House
of
culpability
obtained
had
cardinal
the
Mouvans,
at
Such
days
devote
what
all
his
thoughts
there
legs.
for
the
His
that
strict
of
which
the
which
them,
the
the
the
had
when
the
de*
his
to
ideas,
knew
remain
to
Medici
the
such
without
sent
graph
auto-
of
sense
attend
to
king's
installed
was
at
secretly
princes determined
court
Groslot, Chancellor
the
ment,
confine-
secret
advice
urgent
not
other
any
released, for he
given them
learned,
was
in
States-General,
the
him
to
severity,
according
or
the
Amboise.
at
Bourbon
of
him
asked
town,
allow
This
lay
move
he
respect
even
food.
hanged
to
the
with
keep
to
He
When
from
not
his
events
two
letters
it
could
Catherine
meeting
and
orders
be
future.
broken.
his
he
Notwithstanding
home
cot, unable
Christophe;
either
nothing of
his
surgeon
was
surprised
should
his
him
bring
to
person
that
MEDICI
and
on
were
of
services
so
effect
more
bones
jailer replied
were
conduct
his
to
months
two
his
he
DE'
CATHERINE
244
at
rity;
secu-
Orleans,
from
astonishment,
of Navarre,
that
princes
had
palace of
the
the
arrived.
II. took
Francois
Chancellor
of
This
the
peculiar
Navarre,
and
town,
did
afterward
who
of
features
one
not
"
his
double
period
to
name
heirs
provincial government
as
charming
by
a
structure,
office
is
of
bourgeois
it
the
of
one
palace;
crown,
which
it
that
was
edly
undoubt-
was
home
of
Coeur
Jacques
his
leans.
Or-
Huguenots
when
wealthiest
his
That
the
of
Bailli
also
bailliage,for
the
from
in the
was
Groslot,
of the
leave
called
purchased
the
abode
Groslot, whose
possessed abbeys,
Orleans,
his
up
for
we
or
that
owe
by
bunal.
trito
DE'
CATHERINE
the
of
bourgeois
complement
nobility, and
the
for
palm
their
Middle
the
Orleans
de
Ages
and
The
how
wood
the
To
at
have
a
period
the
was
on
king
during
Cathedral
by
Place
in
Henri
the
sincerity of
his
and
but
of
admirers
to
go
Place
on
former
bail-
house
in
in
"
civic
offer
neighborhood,
with
nificence
mag-
must
have
Orleans.
that
in
the
completed
process
with
of
which
time,
pledge
strewn
piles
to
the
commander
as
that
It
and
guard,
At
was
much
Guises
the
word.
of sojourn
Groslot
house
of
noblemen
so
subsequently
to
when
significant
residence.
encumbered
but
assigned
"
time
frequently
more
that
of the
eyes
at
was
Hotel
was
chose
the
displayed
the
conversion
its
day,
our
king's place
finest
Sainte-Croix
and
of stone
and
review
IV., who
d' Hercules
ville
none
the
the
king's
of
it
"
court
Cypierre
de
inform
much
I'Estape
de
H6tel
illustrious
most
manors
the
largest
superb
ville is the
when
as
pomp,
passed
Monsieur
build
to
when
and
been
and
selected
been
de
built
stone,
right
de
h6tel
edifice
were
of
than
the
of
the
It is difficult to
magnificent
houses
another
neglected.
most
of that
remains
bourgeois
and
Groslot, the
the
archseologist
archaeologists
hotel
king,
richness
so-called
despair.
That
when
and
in
fitting
one
standing
noticing
Hotel
Orleans
the
is still
to
with
Varangeville,
and
drive
to
I'Estape.
had
witness
"
without
liage,the
period,
refinement,
Paris, which
condition
that
the
grace,
is
century,
contested
of Ango,
manor-house
in
history of
245
bourgeoise
dwellings
in
sixteenth
the
the
to
MEDICI
of
of
the
struction,
con-
blocks
boards,
was
246
Guises,
the
occupied by
The
town
under
was
taken
measures
of
freedom
action
States-General,
and
caused
The
hovels.
d'Etat,
the
and
their
entered
order
with
the
her
indignation.
between
had
Conde
king
young
an
two
princes
stood
aghast
Lorraine, who,
it
end
not
before
and
the
his
mouth
her
of
chiefs
Prince
the
speak,
interview
the
to
Medici
tion
explana-
two
to
him
betray
to
brief, for
was
de'
solemn
in
remained
stood
order
the
my
affair
Amboise
and
indulgent
Adieu,
wrath.
was
that
cousins,
at
de
the
wish
of
king
Guise,"
monsieur,"
I had
de
when
with
these
to
that
supposed
end;
an
you
treatment
is not
Messieurs
with
de
ensued
"Messieurs
"
courtiers
Thereupon
put
the
the
words:
terrible
"It
in
away
bility,
no-
coup
some
that, Catherine
At
hardly opened
II.
Franfois
When
of Navarre
King
branch;
younger
meanest
pretensions aloud,
head.
eyes
the
city
fulfilled when
Cardinal
his
the
to
militia, the
was
the
little
the
anticipated
arrived.
of the
in
even
the
how
leave
to
bourgeois
royal chamber,
uncovered
turned
the
blood
while
covered,
the
and
flooded
rents,
anticipation
proclaim
to
proposed
bourgeoisie
insolence
the
at
the
the
in
in
quarters
indicated
members
court,
and
princes of
Lorraines
they
rise
their
demolished.
whose
had
military occupation,
the
by
MEDICI
who
since
bishop's palace,
the
DE'
CATHERINE
that
see
make
us
the
taken,
mis-
was
regret
our
you!"
who
is
retorted
said
speaking,
the
the
Prince
little
so
de
much
as
Conde.
king, purple
DE'
CATHERINE
In the
the
captains of
of
French
the
drew
the
whole
from
When
guards.
the
forward,
stepped
his
blocked
was
breast, and
said
captain
the
prince
before
him
to
by
court:
Will
"
the
company
letter
247
prince's path
two
MEDICI
read
kindly
you
for
this
Monsieur
me,
de
Maille-Breze?"
"
Willingly,"
"
'
Cousin,
word
royal
said
that
captain.
in all
come
you
safe-conduct,
the
safely
may
these
confidence,
do
my
If you
so.
will
presents
give you
need
the
serve
pose.'
pur-
"
said
"Signed.?"
Signed:
"
"No,
said
cousin
and
prison
the
king
in
soul
this
The
the
guard;
least
"
silence
been
is
which
have
is
put
what
Messieurs,"
"
I follow
you
ordered
by
to
the
of
nobility
enough
that!"
understand
silence
"
tionate
affec-
reigned
the
throughout
Guises
princes
listen
Cardinal
de
on
their
with
to
attention.
said
Monseigneur,"
have
authority
which
you
to
well
might
following
you
hall
but
There
me.
'Your
is:
Guards,
have
back.
hunch-
Maille.
Francois!'
friend,
you
profound
hall
said
intrepid
prince, "it
the
which
to
conduct
to
"
Scottish
the
to
and
shrewd
Francois,'
'
no,"
cried
he
the
the
at
the
in
those
"since
prince,
engaged
Lyon,
king
had
terms."
the
in
the
affair
at
enterprises against
and
no
at
Mouvans
knowledge
in
Tournon,
Amboise,
the
royal
Dauphine,
when
he
wrote
of
DE'
CATHERINE
it is all that
messieurs;
rest, I place my
the
The
at
liberty,
was
somewhat
the
only
difference
for
it
the
Christophe
by
kept
of the
of
the
giving
The
prison
that
but
their
both
carefully
of the
kingdom,
was
tions;
posiheads
secret
and
simply for
seized
letters
in
cardinal
evidence
magistrates
culpability.
his
respective
that
so
orders
the
was
blow.
same
was
the
of Navarre
brother's,
their
intended
right."
watched;
his
For
me.
my
King
between
was
fall at
should
and
The
larger than
from
notwithstanding
closely
was
249
hear
proceeded,
silence.
but
will
in God
trust
magistrates
prince's obstinate
you
MEDICI
of
tenant-gen
lieu-
the
the
purpose
prince's
the
La
upon
finement
con-
Sagne,
the
to statesmen,
prince's secretary, although intelligible
sufficientlyexplicitfor judges.
not
were
had
meditated
between
meeting
had
been
looking
on
took
plan
prince
courtyard.
the
to which
refuge
in
the
system
chance
Christophe,
and
in
design,
Tower,
On
cardinal
arranging
with
who
lower
window
of every
occasion
the
trial until
the
naturally prolonged
of
without
not
Saint-Aignan
the
examination
he
the
placed,
of
room
the
upon
The
denial, which
the
of the
opening
States.
who
Lecamus,
election
as
of
at
deputy
Etampes,
knew
of
not
the
Paris, reached
prince's
the
had
of the
Third
to
That
redoubled
his
anxiety,
between
by
few
which
news,
his
procure
Estate
Orleans
arrest.
interview
failed
for
the
own
the
geoisie
bour-
days
after
he
learned
he, who
prince
alone
and
his
under
son
tophe's
the
Pont
fate
in order
devise
could
of
see
her
furrier.
with
the
to
connected
him
gave
his
and
son,
he
that
himself,
had
to
and
"
act
as
The
syndic
that
Christophe
went
Tourillon
recommended
a
States.
his
his
discovered
life does
son's
but
bosom,
to
expectations,
de
Thou
himself
The
old
man
his
had
furrier
in
gold
warned
of
the
be, like
to
religion;
fears
for
tinctions
fine religious dis-
walked
trance;
him
had
Lecamus
who
scarf
foiled
availed
learned
Reformed
of the
man,
reer
ca-
judges.
session
desperately
color
his
upon
Sieur
father
information,
gain
like
the
to
Thou
Renaudie
the
understand
of the
Him.
place upon
La
the
that
not
throws
heedless
streets
attached
de
dinal
car-
prisoner.
offered
believed
proach
ap-
to the
Conde's
whom
had
to
concerning
blot
but
throughout
glover
soon
able
patron, and
alive,
to
persons
Monsieur
de
son's
his
glover,
house
The
he
Prince
she
pitch of desperation
that
son.
for
the
was
indelible
an
still
was
himself, secretly
but
it is
Christophe,
in
room
learned
to see
the
he
such
of the
one
of
point of appealing
the
he
when
consented
"
on
his
saving
one
whom
reached
States,
Catherine,
Not
clash
to
of the
satisfactory news
any
was
of
study
to
began
opening
Queen
court
had
he
which
method
some
audacious
determined
he
the
upon
think
not
refused
So
Chris-
that
of the
that
interests
involved
to
understood
with
up
immediately
court
He
bound
Reformation.
obscure,
MEDICI
Change,
au
was
of the
leader
at
DE'
CATHERINE
250
upon
which
in
men
all his
nothing;
that, if he
tempts
at-
the
through
contrary
him
God's
to
his
sieur
Monshould
DE'
CATHERINE
bribe
his
throw
money
allowed
tarnished
he
to
was
his
his
months
he
to
word
as
of
contemplation
by
should
had
happen
been
would
On
the
communicated
Place
de
dead,
I'Estape,
refused
and
Tourillon,
his
room
furrier's
side
of
thought
and
old
the
that
he
to
being
he
take
him
inflamed,
was
fate
Chris-
if
anything
that
he
of
the
because
such
me,
ominous
fanatic
him,
tears;
the
wrinkled
weeping
was
Pare,
room,
on
half-
supper.
about
in
his
to
any
reply
friend
his
returned
showed
eyes
the
leaving
believing
to
by
troubled
found
surgeon
illness, replied:
that
Lecamus
to
of
long ago!"
when
evening
had
Stuarts, irritated
the
and
listened
hanged
been
which
The
on
reformers,
of his
had
uncles
have
of
based
mentioned
probable
the
suddenness
my
he
king,
by
He
Hippocrates
Mary
as
her
the
to
poisoned
opportune
"If
soon
In
house.
thin.
Pare.
Queen
daughter
the
name,
the
the
Ambroise
to
but
and
furrier
the
friendship
warm
himself
century,
room;
tophe's
the
upon
but
life that
godson's
wofully
grown
between
say
king's
had
Chris-
hope;
some
around
dinal
car-
crisis, had
alarmed
only
prowled
man
the
is somewhat
that
father
for his
himself
consolation
old
existed
tried
at
despairing
sixteenth
the
played
the
only hope
long
he
glory
give
The
simply
and
duke
whose
role
of
would
transpire concerning
to
magistrate,
alarmed
251
he
the
the
words
three
for
away,
by
so
more.
Guises,
the
nothing
That
tophe.
tried
of
retainer
MEDICI
and
flesh
went
as
on
eyelids,
blood.
up
the
the
the
to
poor
under
glover
DE'
CATHERINE
252
comfort,
"Take
father,"
bourgeois
of
treated
if it had
as
Orleans
life
Conde's
de
down
been
Reformation,
you
death
their
reformer, **the
to
city
by assault, patrolled
danger,
for
will
if the
would
we
Tower;
and
their
see
our
rise
Prince
soon
pull
whole
city
in rebellion,
"
that!"
if you
Even
**
taken
in
were
is for the
promise
the
furious
are
Saint-Aignan
the
said
de
by Monsieur
MEDICI
should
give
back
me
the
hang
son?"
my
would
Lorraines,
the
rejoined
despairing father.
At
that
lon's
door,
and
it.
It
answer
there
moment
the
Tourillon
wicket
in
black,
asked
to
in
his
and
Tourillon
the
furrier
was
time
to
found
understood
*'
looked
out
to
saw
Lecamus
him.
admitted
minute
through
the
on
matters
of
At
sight of
the
the
suppose
his
finger
and
gesture,
have
you
to
said
come
his
to
to
of
dressed
He
Italian.
an
but
cautions.
prebars
stranger,
to
troublous
most
terribly startled,
put
down
those
betrayed
accent
speak
the
Touril-
at
went
In
took
door, and
whose
himself
dark.
quite
was
gentle tap
glover
householder
times, every
the
was
business,
stranger
the
stranger
Lecamus
lips.
him:
of^er
some
me
furs.?"
"Si,"
The
stranger
new-comer
to
his
the
own
guest's
"Where
the
was
famous
the
realizing
down
went
his
ger
astrolo-
presence
in
to
his
inopportune.
was
can
that
Italian.
Ruggieri,
Tourillon
queen-mother.
quarters,
room
replied discreetly,in
we
talk
without
having
reason
to
DE*
CATHERINE
fear
that
we
overheard?"
be
may
MEDICI
253
said
the
prudent
Florentine.
We
"
must
city;
No
is
one
Work
"
in
seen
Cypierre,
even
like
If my
day.
God
May
devil
to
smiling.
who
you,
"
For
watching
Touchet
de
d' Orleans.
little Due
horoscope,
and
it
lady
and
loved
he
the
to
he
furrier
or
de
to
of Charles
accession
Sieur
will
have
day."
consult
to
and
the
Beauvais's
being
seen;
astrologer,
I have
the
the
lieutenant
has
caught
I have
cast
that
The
king.
is devoted
be
the
stars
indicates
apartments
bright enough
The
by
procured
queen
said
daughter
really
intelligentman,
is
supposed
Beauvais,
of the
the
tine.
Floren-
decisive
you
are
be
paws
the
next
the
little
an
be
erty."
lib-
our
crafty
the
quarters,"
my
bailliage,whose
great
the
all
we
of
your
correct,
or
States,
only!"
"Come
Sieur
said
are
to-morrow
hear
let
never
from
pass
session,
undoubtedly
observations
again
son
your
will
abridgment
do,"
you
To-morrow
this
the
guarded.
are
of the
our
Le-
leave
us
member
but
mole,
let
gates
at
of
for that,"
without
out
To-morrow,
anything
"
of
go
complain
to
propose
won't
strictlythe
to
myself.
like
fields
open
they
how
allowed
de
Monsieur
the
know
you
the
but
"
replied;
camus
"
into
go
to
for
fanatical
the
me
tower
of
fancy
the
the
she
the
child's
will
be
lieutenant
is
sciences,
in his
Guisard
so
house;
pending
IX."
astrologer
abode
but,
in
betook
without
case
themselves
meeting
Lecamus's
body
anyvisit
DE'
CATHERINE
254
should
be
for
account
it
fate.
Christophe's
the
floor of
upper
study
Is my
"
Thus
Hark
you
live, repeat
**
sous
been
him:
to
dealer
**
but
in
skins;
1 would
life,if you
should
ever,
while
about
ye,
warning,
unnecessary
furrier
to
XII.,
and
this
is
soon
say
the
Louis
reached
astrologer's
cerning
con-
not
am
you."
to
An
the
to
alive?"
for your
two
say
said
had
they
give
to
When
turret, where
surely
son
saved.
be
to
Lecamus
was,
**
the
proposed
consultation
astrological
an
as
Florentine
the
discovered,
MEDICI
the
since
court
the
of
time
fourth
the
I have
good sir;
my
King
reign
have
seen."
"
You
"
What
do
you
"
Well,
he
has
will
boy!"
"Poor
"
has
will
said
His
knees
put
to
the
earned
son?"
question."
the
goodman,
his
raising
his
over
Christophe
whole
the
eyes
Catherine.
Queen
of
clutches
counsellor
in
might suffer
good
genius
the
of
bones
that
will
to
extricate
Lorraines,
to
dear
triumph
over
thrice
sovereign,
all
him
see
day.
broken
from
son
will
you
little
great
our
your
some
be
Your
"
service
we
which
Florentine
the
dismay.
parliament
all his
who
father's
If
the
graces
life," said
he
bit; but
royal personage
rendered
has
crushed
were
protection of
the
extend
ankles
and
hastily,observing
the
my
Ruggieri.
Heaven.
to
the
of
know
been
fifth," observed
man
to
win
dent
transcen-
obstacles!
DE'
CATHERINE
have
killed
within
Prince
the
Do
"
past
in
placed
the
your
son
cast
their
say
by
from
To-morrow
the
of
word
And
so,
rely
to
"
they
will
although
She
will
prince
God
will
the
will
receive
I cannot
themselves
of my
what
by
send
your
may
single
fidelity
his
prince
has
him
son
forewarned!
the
can.
trustworthy
that
lations
calcuwe
shall
we
cost
I have
death;
to
do
queen-mother
it to
put
Neither
live; but
must
be
fear.
certainty
we
be
will
what
extricate
grant
not
Christophe's
has
will
in which
recognition
on
the
question,
warning.
of
glance
put
they
Leaving
discreet, for he
be
be
will
Monsieur
knows
never
am
recognizes
son.
your
But
and
of prayers,
book
the
who
son,
God
will
prince
means
know
to-morrow,
fall.
accomplice!
of the
out
hand
will
affair.
the
if your
Now,
horoscopes,
what
saw
friend, I
good
my
prince recognizes
the
nor
future,
the
prince's path
of his
become
Christophe
"
be
furrier.
the
head
Conde's
de
know
fact.
if the
or
see
questioning you,
the
telling you
him,
said
not
am
us
will
he
horoscope:
"
who
you,
well?"
Let
"
255
"
Conde
de
Guise's
de
year!
not
as
"
Due
the
cast
MEDICI
life.
reason
every
"
"
some
severe
tests!"
cried
the
queen
the
furrier.
"
Do
not
She
happy?
had
Guises
she
Now,
speak
does
so!
proposes
determined
well, wise
she
You
relies
have
Do
to
on
and
upon
some
fancy
you
take
measures
for
influence
if the
prince's death;
the
prudent
you
as
queen
assistance
in the
that
in
third
is
she
and
is!
thing.
every-
estate.
DE'
CATHERINE
do
which
he
has
"
"But
is
quartered
that
at
had
girded
of the
no
to
throw
in
acting
be
of
the
Guises
to
had
thwarted,
the
plan
Spain, to
17
which
seize
struggle, though
she
as
of
two
by
upon
blows
warning
they
with
had
Beam.
the
hand
urged
with
the
that
in
just
ing
deceivthe
upon
to
her
to
Bourbons,
of
the
allow
she
Navarre,
concert
State
to
oppose
despite
Queen
formed
moment
had
fixed
and,
who
raine
Lor-
threads
was
obstacle
she
formidable
her
cardinal
had
As
gressed
pro-
two
the
Catherine
the
at the
had
propitious
Guises;
Gondis,
same,
Although
The
Italian
the
to
come
Events
suitable
first discomfiture,
that
plot against
wily
pretensions
advice
the
The
branch
younger
had
in her
that
Chris-
which
perilous than
mask.
the
in
was
practicallythe
awaited
only
Medici
woman.
held
Martroi.
she
harmony
devised
du
Though
more
the
positive proof
him.
the
you
first surgeon,
in
Amboise.
than
away
obtained
that
the
and
of
less
associates, and
to
de'
to
for
Tumult
cunningly
Place
on
Blois.
princes, Catherine
of
inn
at
critical
more
seemed
king's
situation, although
even
time
otherwise
of the
loftyintelligencein
her
her
was
in
furrier.
the
similar
loins
her
up
an
her
seen
exerted
had
fellow;
Catherine
moment,
politicalextremity
tophe
dear
in search
went
was
At
operation
began.
right," thought
he
who
the
faith."
much
so
257
bewildered."
He
And
describe
blindly, my
be
"
and
me
Lecamus
"
"Obey
will
to
come
you
MEDICI
secret
with
was
258
DE'
CATHERINE
known
the
only
Lorraine
two
princes,
their
ally, determined
and,
to
State,
leave
duke
and
of
her
had
entrusted
of the
The
taken
Bourbon
proved
known
been
taxed
in
indiscretion
She
king.
great
but
served
by
queen
"
not
allow
or
Catherine
disgrace.
of
Orleans
they will
that
reason,
the
very
make
begun
to
be
had
State.
the
herself
she
like
bilities;
capawell
was
sent
the
to
be put to death
of the
with
with
you
to
this
also!"
bid
three
the
leagues
L'H6pital,
queen-mother's
by
by
States, despite
within
night,
loyalty
her
fresh
any
exalted
Vignay
to
arrived
the
to
away
session
on
ness,
faithless-
blood
the
secret,
Lorraine
her
L'H6pital
Birague
himself
whose
of
de
that
that
words
soon
Birague
declared
Chiverni,
prince
attend
his
friends.
de
queen-mother,
her
confess
these
sent
chancellor
good
in
note
that
endanger
demonstrated
close
that
peril, bore
extreme
must
we
her
commission,
thus
in
being
Antoine
case
part should
her
their
IL, threatening
in
banishment
her
by
with
Francois
the
"
of Navarre.
King
Cardinal
queen-mother
the
to
State,
to
the
to
The
her.
of
of
on
Catherine,
Do
the
presence
edict
an
and
Florence;
to
the
brothers
two
divulged by
forthwith
with
the
to
themselves
to
only
had
instantly
duplicity of
treason
was
the
back
Lorraine
cardinal
the
queen-mother,
Catherine's
of
of
House
the
certain
send
to
doubt
no
the
"
and
themselves
to
MEDICI
time, and
suspected by
Messieurs
who
side.
with
de
DE'
CATHERINE
made
had
Guise,
hard
his
de
of
audacity
furious
sudden
Francois
fifteen
with
In
order
hundred
de
from
and
Corbeil
of
for
only
which
Orleans
noblemen.
Guise
more
from
Pithiviers
to
life
his
hundred
going
Paris,
the
Montmorency,
out
de
of
and
disease
set
the
pletely,
com-
Ecouen
by
the
will
be
to
valley
Essonne.
the
"Captain
work
against
do,"
to
bold
Anne
and
horse
avoided
he
of
Conde,
surprise Messieurs
to
Corbeil,
de
died,
eventually
II.
life, had
perilous plight
the
of the
appearance
by-
informed
prince owed
the
that
learn
to
the
Lorraines.
the
and
his
He
of
Prince
the
him
cost
Montmorency
nephew,
Orleans,
hours.
ten
259
from
escape
nearly
in
Ecouen
Connetable
to
which
riding,
reached
of
his
MEDICI
observed
he
there
captain,
on
the
occasion
had
saved
some
of
that
march.
Anne
de
the
time
Due
de
Charles
that
Guise,
waited
kindle
disgraced by
as
hoping
the
to
The
would
the
of
arrival
the
constable's,
be
able
to
to
rode
warn
queen-mother,
come
of the
the
of
feeling
assistance
two
moment
to
had
who
been
ever,
How-
Lorraines.
force
the
Catherine
time.
off to the
him
the
commanding
a
at
emperor's
opportune
Simeuse,
de
Marquis
and
truth,
constable,
influence
the
learning
upon
most
of
hatred
the
the
the
this
at
the
in
were,
France
France
Provence,
checked
Metz,
in
until
invaded
had
at
greatest soldiers
had
V.
who
invasion
second
who
Montmorency,
so
Due
Gien,
at
ble
considerade
Guise,
in time.
sure
that
of his
the
ble
consta-
nephew,
and
260
DE'
CATHERINE
the
relying confidently on
king's
had
cause,
the
had
made
attacked
had
dared
when
the
she
of
expiration
her
the
in
kingdom
of
case
faith
whose
faith
in
Church,
in the
her
against
pressors
op-
actually dying
son
fixed
time
Nostradamus
whom
openly proposed
was
measures
saw
Bourbon
secretly formed
the
her
any
of
interests
Catherine,
II.
exceeded
take
to
of
Colignys
common
it
lence
inso-
queen-mother's
was
where
regent
judicialastrology
House
between
to the
the
The
the
enemy
of Frangois
death
with
common
Catherine
make
and
hopes
imperilled
States-General,
in the
the
the
cause
devotion
Reformation.
coalition
by
the
the
common
partisans.
to
of
friends
and
chancellor's
revived
party of
of the
MEDICI
the
by
had
brought
the
shocking
to
her
at
sorceress
teau
cha-
the
at
of Chaumont.
Some
trip
Prince
the
about
was
blow
along
such
it
to
pain
the
again
his
an
palace;
he
the
and
had
the
took
to
an
uprising
de
Conde.
the
bed,
contradiction
exception
of
antagonists, Pare
formed
in
the
and
which
caused
was
de
As
winds
he
his
he
Cardinal
of
that
ear
Despite
with
enemies
abscess
in
city
the
winter
early
take
the
to
of the cool
one
in the
alive.
physicians, who,
were
embark,
Loire
the
severe
return
leave
to
head
to
After
executed.
Princesse
the
in
be
of
scenes
wish
to
dread
equal
supplications of
of the
that
in
not
was
prince's
lived
he
Lorraine,
closing
expressed
order
Conde
de
abandoned
had
to
Loire, in
the
on
the
when
he
II. had
reign, Francois
this
a
before
days
him
obliged
to
never
of the
Chapelain,
maintained
king's head,
and
DE'
CATHERINE
unless
that
of
chances
the
foreign
the
substance
discharged,
were
life decreased
his
saving
261
MEDICI
from
day
to
day.
which
being
practically
shone
in his
friend
from
The
the
"Are
cried
old
friend,
the
I
crisis
expect
have
was
had
to
good
Monsieur
de
of
store
re-
before
by
your
and
this
Piedmontese,
to
perfect.
Pienne
at
the
lying
and
taken
made
an
cision.
in-
king's life."
do
it?"
king,
my
abilityto
The
pressing
wiser
into
skull,
brain.
the
operation,
and
The
which
first
since:
the
it, and
the
siege of Metz;
man
on
fill
and
relieve
fortune
been
the
scattered
had
but, by boring
pus
said
books
buried
break
performed
a
his
abscess
eventually
the
own,"
existence.
my
hand;
has
you
shudder.
pernicious
expel
invented
he
of
as
is at
thrice
and
the
with
man,
will
the
him,
saving
certain
brain, which
and, while
instruments
he
very
has
old
room.
which
in
of
certain
his
your
his
question
old
the
called
that
skull, recently
you
"As
and
cemetery,
It's
"
lamp
had
he
ordered
sitting, with
table
before
about,
the
was
the
on
when
waste
you
entered
surgeon
open
from
others,
he
as
city
Lecamus
studying;
rest, Ambroise,
no
life to
the
siege, Fare's
was
physician
law,
admitted.
be
take
he
curfew
the
Orleans,
of
street, and
the
should
furrier,
and
the
name,
"You
in
state
window,
him
his
out
in
and
hour
strictly enforced
was
hailed
late
the
Notwithstanding
he
which
I have
was
on
I cured
had
an
262
DE'
CATHERINE
abscess
caused
second
The
I wished
by
operation
submitted.
that
known
is
is the
name
because
of the
I have
succeeded
"You
be
would
be
would
of
boring
hole
no
you
you
the
crown
know
to
that
in
to
it
which
menting
experi-
am
fail
to
not
the
on
be
the
the
streams!
will
cured,"
be
confidence
of
friend, what
to, with
amount
do
day
every
outspoken
the
does
due
in
caution?
pre-
battle,
is to
king
heir
of
of
triumph
of
the
sleep
great
late
Lorraine
Do
genius
your
If
of the
the
citizen
to-morrow,
place
to
entangled
religion.
blood
the
help
Charlemagne?
politics are
your
France?
ruin
will
head
the
on
"do
bourgeois,
instrument
and
Be
and
"
he
old
the
that
the
regency,
"
case
serene
my
your
whatever?"
the
of
in
for
ground,
your
life that
Valois
the
Yes,
great surgeon,
of
save
surgery
downfall
the
flow
order
little
undergo
instrument,
the
soldiers
said
that
of
moment?
the
ning
Trepan-
is but
"
to
in
head
it what
that
claims
know
had
man
gentle-
to-day.
improving.
"Ah!
precautions
know
Do
who
well
dacious
au-
Pienne
upon
reluctant
danger
with
in the
son,"
"My
in
my
genius.
isn't
with
was
in
sure
wager
replied Ambroise,
man
last
of the
de
operation
are
head,
should
head
"I
perfectly
whom
upon
to-morrow."
king's
own
operation
imperfection of
this
on
pauper,
head.
the
beneficence
of the
at
in
Monsieur
Patients
yet.
as
which
third
who
the
to
The
in Paris
"
life of
the
demonstrate
to
shot
arquebus
an
saved
MEDICI
at
this
means
Guises
reformers
rather
you
tain
re-
will
than
leaving
the
DE'
CATHERINE
sick-room
will
king,
the
"I!"
myself
Do
when
little
doomed
cried
God
duty
duty,
the
at
strangled
1
to-day
are
There
one
Lecamus,
"
on
first
Conde
crush
the
at
your
is
who
man
was
of
the
is
I will
"
at
the
aloud
being
erected
will
door, and
servants
read
de Conde
God
these
at
the
is to be
de
of
being
alarming
Convent
beheaded
the
conviction
France!"
few
handed
and
Guise
cried
save
a
on
more,
nay,
king!"
enthusiasm
and
of
Messieurs
my
foot
my
retainers,
king;
the
save
solemn
knock
Prince
the
I did
"
risk
his
find
motto:
one
put
the
religion,and
Ambroise's
who
to
events?"
may!'
ran
to
surgeon
the
trying
but
come
friends, by
his
Reformed
scaffold
which
de
future
have
face:
genius imparts,
which
later
all
by
with
surgeon,
in
Calais, when
of
friends.
my
hand
order
what
come
siege
am
of the
am
the
men
master's
grand
the
not
not
life of
to
Honest
"
your
take
proposes
Pare.
Do
the
to
propose
you
how
out
Do
ment
mo-
"has
Prince
princess?
nothing."
me
Lecamus,
the
be
die."
to
Do
"
said
prolonging
religion by
'
of the
solicitation
the
refuse
will
pardon
to
will
is your
king,
the
the
to
go
only favor
the
certainly
Mary
refused
king
saved
I have
friend,"
my
I will
that
can
hanged
be
to
were
Calvin,
know
There
Queen
Alas!
"
cure
when
die
man
of
not
you
life?
Christophe's
though
ask, after
to
let
accomplice
an
king early.
propose
no!
No!
as
"I
Pare,
him!
save
fail to
they
France!"
cure
cried
if
physicians who,
the
to
263
MEDICI
moments
a
paper
to
words:
des
Recollets,
to-morrow."
DE'
CATHERINE
"Alas!
to
see
son's
my
There
"
Ambroise
for
answer
What
"
At
left
who
the
as
devil
Which
"
old
Place
he
as
man,
de
whose
old
poor
secret
aiming
man
the
to
father
knave
in
peated
re-
tine,
Florenthe
street
divulged.
was
at?"
hurrying
of
to
had
and
speak,
around
order
the
the
of
nothing
place
sentence
because
the
Ambroise
Ruggieri
saw
knew
taking
caused
faith,
surgeon's
that
cried
the
toward
away
I'Estape.
Lecamus
was
is
and
king,
Ruggieri.
queried
heart-broken
great
operation
the
furrier.
old
with
the
the
life."
good
interview
his
soon
of
proof
that
rejoined
the
on
I take?"
shall
oath
perform
the
skin
own
my
carefully
me
son's
your
give
ermine,"
in
to
to
cried
Really?"
"
as
dealer
the
proposes
will
would
whole!"
and
explain
"but
that
safe
spoke
Italian;
to
know
you
265
MEDICI
whose
king's
the
erect
the
terrible
bed,
royal
the
been
scaffold
and
for
pronounced
execution
illness.
had
which
scene
by
been
had
which
the
prince,
default,
postponed
so
In
the
of
courtyard
save
of
actually
Navarre,
nobility,
'advisability
the
branch,
younger
of
his
Italian
her
secret
his
yield
States
had
This
question.
from
making
of
king
the
the
found
not
favor
the
that
upon
made
pression
im-
deep
returning
on
as
ure
meas-
the
upon
attached
were
to
until
attendance
who
true
was
city posts
in
friends
the
but
of
the
Bourbon,
when,
master,
round
he
prudence,
none
his
to
fortunes.
own
The
that
at
composed
and
in
room
adjoined
grand
of
dinated
subor-
judgment
solitude
profound
the
on
her
felt
sion
comprehen-
no
de
in
their
pronounced
French
head
Catherine,
regency
of
Guises,
the
having
the
laws
queen-mother
with
the
to
of
The
the
Antoine
agreement
claim
of
around
and
policy.
tude
multi-
the
to
the
seen
apartments
belong.
the
seeing
be
great
according
rallying
Guises,
the.
to
to
of
The
insolence
the
by
in
to
was
the
would
regency
alarmed
one
duty.
whom,
to
the
realm,
the
no
on
and
stairway,
crowded
courtiers
the
of
the
on
baiUiage,
the
persons
King
hall,
great
principal
time
wainscoted
of
torn
down
long,
was
background,
nearly
II. 's
Frangois
the
painted,
gold
which
of
hall
with
decorated
fifty
part
years
(267)
of
blue
which,
ago,
was
It
The
cunningly
with
placed
was
baiUiage.
oak.
boards,
narrow
the
bed
was
ceiling,
matched
arabesques
when
acquired
it
on
was
by
268
DE'
CATHERINE
of
collector
with
antiquities.
This
and
tapestries
naturally
The
that
resembled
Queen
were
Catherine
famous
afterward
was
The
reigned.
Guise
sat
on
and
Mary,
watched
the
on
Madame
for
queen-mother,
pale, was
almost
de
Queen
young
window-recess,
of
the
dangers
of
her
lateness
of
the
movement
realized
she
little face
Duchesse
the
and
look
closely every
was
silence
Fiesco, in the
de
who
profound
The
stool, assisting
The
IX.,
pinched
pillow.
raine.
Lor-
duty,
on
Charles
and
his
de
easy-chair.
to
it.
curtains,
Cardinal
an
thin
was
bed, by the
the
most
bedclothes,
visible
hardly
The
king,
silk
physician
physician
young
the
among
in
the
fireplace.
the
standing by
lost
first
of
the
seated
was
and
and
floor,
hardly lighted
side
one
Mary
Chapelain,
Jean
torches
hung
was
the
on
columns
On
tomb.
which
room,
carpet
the
four
bed, with
huge
pillow,
dark
so
had
MEDICI
the
position.
In
the
hall, notwithstanding
de
hour. Monsieur
leans,
and
occupied
was
one
Cardinal
queen-mother's
treated
as
an
in
talking
chal
de Vieilleville
the
inferior
the
and
dangers
the
States.
keeper
Tournon,
this
by
Due
of
the
de
to which
the
the
city,
the
two
espoused
Cardinal
he
the
Marechal
who
d'Or-
crisis,because
the
equal
with
of
the
fireplace with
at
cause
undertones
was
over
de
to
governor
the
ecclesiastical
whose
discussing
of
corner
The
with
tutor
lately appointed
Gondis.
the
Cypierre,
the
he
de
raine,
Lor-
certainly
was,
Gondis.
Mare-
Saint-Andre
were
Guises
seals, who
were
posed
ex-
presided
DE'
CATHERINE
lieutenant-general of
The
hall, casting
Due
the
swift
"Monseigneur,"
teach
nobility of
heretic
grant
who
caused
to make
passed
into
in
was
the
Ordinarily,
the
had
of
of
great
heart
his
his
civil
military courage,
in
as
disguise
to
face
an
strument
in-
the
The-
pieces.
great
forward
stepped
by
moment,
that
seeing
was
courage
asleep.
that
at
falling
was
power
than
scarred
he
king
young
able
was
adapted
prince,
the
rather
smile,
to
of
heart
affability,but,
brother's
his
as
meet
to
lieutenant-general.
"
Robertet
thinks
queen-mother,"
into
the
the
Bah!
the
what
wasps
we
are
are
him
to
back
him
work
to
the
upon
States."
"
on
is sold
leading
ear,
used
have
it that
everybody
lieutenant-general.
and
in his
matters
when
secretary
said
"they
of
little Pinard
that
he
hall ;
members
"
the
kept
be
well
where
of
whose
in the
Guise
cardinal,
the
traitor
the
to
States
the
of
were
torpor
de
Due
the
not
heavy
appearance
of
expression
which
bed-chamber,
the
sinister
he
upon
grandfather
words,
these
sort
Catholic
that
heirs
to
serve
attendance
the
illustrious
saluted
the
believe
to
deep impression
may
the
prison."
said
Having
"this
in
they
regency
your
in
long
so
because
the
there.
mankind
are
and
espied
said,
kingdom
the
prince,
will
he
crossed
kingdom
around,
he
understand
to
you
the
glance
whom
d'Orleans,
269
MEDICI
The
the
we
are
betrays
city
eve
discontented,"
betrayed by
us!"
is for the
of
he
an
cried
tion,
Reforma-
uprising.
added,
the
using
Yes!
the
nickname
shall
have
For
lay siege
to
last few
the
I have
her!
forgive
"It
her
is too
much
The
out
the
in
cardinal
sent
is
of
charm
for
The
Ecouen
gentlemen
Have
had
caused
of the
him.
dear
of
he
bid
by
which
they
nized
recog-
Lorraine
his
adherents
guards
brother
the
Gien,
the
who
admit
went
out
duke,
asked
upon
with
accustomed
to
the
play
dis-
sword.
the
is
fifteen
entering
hundred
Pithiviers;
horse
and
"
"
an
two
torches
the
his
was
speed
arquebusiers
Simeuse?"
governor
which
they
in
The
and
famous
the
one
full
at
porch
hat
meet
constable
with
do
not
Conde
de
window,
the
and
of
men
God
bailliage.
sentinel's
he
manner
death,
should
we
riding
while
the
there
Prince
to
it, my
sits
the
antechamber,
to
cardinal,
King of Navarre."
the
to
horseman's
landing
recognizing
"
we
bed
hot-
the
the
under
the
What
of
went
new-comer,
"
is
who
son's
if
horseman
burning
He
adopt.
"
long
gate
the
Italian
as
and
which
the
shall
we
the
rejoined
for her
concierge's
the
on
to
which
leans,
Or-
duke.
the
at
always
the
Orleans,
have
to
princes
light of
were
Before
that
well
as
of
clatter
Lorraine
to
king,
shields.
wondering
am
cross
the
save
minutes,"
watching
arrest
to
were
to
watching
been
utterly unmoved,
rang
not
people of
the
to
Huguenots."
of
well
does
clashing of
terrible
have
"
if Pare
and
MEDICI
applied
commonly
"
"
DE'
CATHERINE
270
escort.'"*
said
the
duke.
he
left
hundred
DE'
CATHERINE
Some
in all.
of them
a
there
Yes, monseigneur,
"
of
body
for
his
constable
son,
hundred
self
him-
amuses
time
have
you
with
is behind
Thore
that
If the
27I
twenty-six
are
say
infantry.
by waiting
MEDICI
defeat
to
him."
"Do
for
"
this
appeal
Anne
talks
little
said
will
him,
As
soon
as
you
who
can
streets?"
replied
the
wishes
"
"
enter;
Constable
dangerous;
we
tricked
L'Hopital
for
Robertet
was
turned
that
meet
to
out
city?"
the
will take
citizens
of
result
in
Robertet,
these
shall
up
battle
narrow
the
at
and
gate
Cardinal
de
Lorraine.
together
would
be
the
chancellor
hurriedly
him?"
admit
we
replied
We
them.
separate
the
rushing
is
chancellor
were
in the
queen-mother
too
somely
hand-
of
choice
office."
motioned
awaiting
back
by
who
presumption
if I go
bourgeois
said
must
vant
ser-
marshal.
the
and
his
marshal,
the
for the
answer
and
him,"
Admit
has
forth, the
meet
with
sending
the
to
hold
to
out
him.
arms;
to
go
stairs, "the
to
duke
the
under
"Monseigneur,"
reasons
him
greet
to
constable
horsemen
between
the
go
cardinal,
come
undertake
you
And
arms.
up
to
Orleans
at
appear
to
the
call, "the
his
at
came
writes;
he
as
I prepare
Vieilleville!" cried
**
"
as
Robertet
bid
to
to
arms
head,"
nephew's
Are
divulged?"
to
while
brother,
him,
more.?
nothing
know
you
orders
hastily
with
at
to
his
the
head
foot
listen
to
to
of
the
the
captain
who
stairs,
then
cardinal's
structio
in-
DE*
CATHERINE
for
to-day
She
"
is
longer
no
this
is the
and
energy,
too
by
people
many
Besides, there
away.
moment
cardinal
followed
apartment,
with
are
grand
the
by
Energy,
motto."
my
returned
said
judgment,
her.
that's
energy!
more
the
Thereupon
done
queen,"
in my
reason,
have
to
and
that
is all
she
mother,
for
cardinal; "and
the
her
273
princes!"
other
three
send
to
us
supported
is
queen-mother
The
MEDICI
king's
the
to
The
master.
priest
straight to Catherine.
went
The
"
Conde's
have
have
secretary,
they
and
not,
I know
"
Very well,
do
Sagne,
know
replied
that
the
intend
you
Prince
the
communicated
children?"
your
that,"
all
"
La
been
you
dethrone
to
propose
from
taken
papers
to you,
Bourbons
the
he
de
said.
Italian.
to
the
arrest
King
of
Navarre.?"
is
"There
At
that
left the
doctor
and
"
began
to
examine
Well, monsieur?"
I do
first
Master
dare
not
draw
to
cataplasm
Ambroise
operation, and
"Let
us
18
"
and
he
his
of
severe
piteously.
groan
self,
him-
warming
was
The
head.
inquired
grand master,
the
dressing
ad-
physician.
take
out
has
it upon
the
myself
matter,"
promised
I should
postpone
coldly,
to
fireplace,where
went
the
"
and
ear
II. complained
Frangois
moment,
in his
pains
an
kingdom,"
the
said.
she
"
of
lieutenant-general
to
interfere
it till
said
save
with
to-morrow,"
physicians
apply
to
Chapelain.
the
king by
it."
said
be
erine
Cath-
present;
DE'
CATHERINE
274
for
know
you
calumnies
what
to
MEDICI
prince's
death
gives birth."
She
How
"
calmly
alludes
suite!"
had
Can
"
cried
the
the
the
drew.
with-
ter
daughwho
of
was
her
own
Stuart.
little
the
that
prevent
we
and
dauphin,
Florentine
grandfather
my
of her
innocence."
from
woman
here
coming
asked
queen
young
"
king,
slightest doubt
to-morrow.?"
her
uncles, in
undertone.
an
**
replied
all
us
would
What
die.?"
into
Thus
the
issue
indicated
would
clearly drawn
was
de'
and
Medici
that
the
arrival
revolt; therefore
should
king
"Catherine
cardinal;
chancellor's
The
if the
us
push
tomb."
his
the
of
become
Catherine
and
the
night
of
House
the
raine.
Lor-
constable's
would
morning
next
tween
be-
decisive.
be
The
to
morning,
next
She
appear.
Queen
Mary
passed
the
Duchesse
the
night,
duke
nor
priest, more
the
queen-mother
in
found
night praying
de
Guise
and
the
young
cardinal
courageous
said, during
that
the
by
of
maids
the
king
had
than
last
who
queen
had
appeared
the
night,
through
Neither
as
had
The
relieved
asleep.
first
only
bedside.
the
honor
was
chamber
.exhausted,
attended
had
the
was
son's
her
The
another.
was
of
hands,
tradesman's
impudent
death
Mary
Mary!"
soa's
her
Montecuculli,
cried
never
that
the
to
poisoned by
**
kissed
and
went
yet.
one
the
The
soldier, exerted,
all
his
powers
it
of
DE'
CATHERINE
persuasion,
the
upon
and
de
the
refused
Gondis,
He
life
the
upon
The
walked
with
an
her
brought
had
been
Cardinal
the
depend
must
in
the
king's
Madame
gazed
de
her
upon
Fison
grief-stricken air.
eyes
and
drew
with-
Madame
de
Fiesco
her
fixed
she
the
measures.
by
her
eyes
the
to
come
that,
if
At
alone.
princes,
that, if the
the
had
nine
in
attended
guard
of Ambroise
physicians
Ambroise.
on
gone
the
in
Pare
the
had
duty
with
in Catherine's
the
upon
the
room;
notified
them
Chapelain
cardinal
and
interest, all of
and
come
Lorraine
two
suites, who
king's
the
would
he
the
succeeded
Gondis,
two
wrong,
morning,
their
by
and
constable
opposition,
with
palace
hall, appeared
the
without
city
anything
Catherine
between
agreed
Tournon
de
entering
would
of
There,
queen-
courtyard.
It
the
chair.
the
violent
where
window-recess,
the
attempt;
upon
well-feigned
to
not
dwelling
reigned
and
handkerchief
did
II.
attended
bedside
the
the
Tournon,
de
projects
silence
with
for the
Navarre,
of Frangois
profound
her
put
Balafre
such
brother's
admirably
to
in
follow
death
to
Le
Birague,
Catherine,
esco,
the
or
most
chamber,
She
and
his
that
conflict
of
seize
to
States-
Cardinal
the
would
which
insisted
assembled
the
King
chancellor,
Ruggieri,
outbreak
of
favorable
the
duke
the
Montmorency,
arrest
to
275
induce
with
circumstances
the
mother,
face
threatened
Connetable
consider
not
In
crown.
General,
he
could
but
MEDICI
remained
the
of
captain
the
three
whom
in
val
arriother
hated
276
DE'
CATHERINE
In
few
gardes
Guise
Blois
at
made
was
and
the
precisely
presented
des
the
moments
with
love
whereas
and
from
encamped
were
queens
fireplace,where
hall
was
put
in
circulation,
had
one
no
conceived
the
to
bailliageand
of
front
the
nobility. They
the
to
the
People
to arms,
which
events
the
House
efforts
of
prevailed
the
of Valois
Catherine
within
king's chamber,
The
blazing.
was
for
plan
all the
The
courtyard
filled with
the
for
certain
which
distance
was
at
as
accustomed
revolutions,
unexpected
Medici.
of
mixture
become
died
and
remarks
solemn
gradually
all
surprised
peals
ap-
momentous
the
ious
anx-
prince
the
same
sudden
of
undertones,
in
the
were
staircase
Recollets
to
who
outer
were
conversed
the
saving
nobles
prepared
des
de'
great
Am-
rebellions, and
marked
the
that
court.
commotions,
civil
two
by whom,
beginning
were
of
the
knew
of
been
presented
conversation
their
slipping
had
daring
Convent
the
reigned,
was
honor
umphant:
tri-
were
report that
scaffold
The
groups.
in
at
appear
the
The
with
death
corner
fire
enormous
an
full of courtiers.
broise
of
each
at
kingdom
Guises
power
maids
de
royal apartment
and
sorrow
salle
Due
the
torture,
the
their
The
the
of
the
joy,
felt that
hands.
their
and
to-day
Guises
the
time
that
at
the
to
put
the
as
when
day
hailliage
the
appearance
the
on
was
that
overflowed
same
of
hall
great
lieutenant-general
Christophe
exception
MEDICI
which
of
the
guarded
silence
door
by
of
two
DE'
CATHERINE
halberdiers,
two
Guard.
found
Antoine
divined
lodgings,
he
that
the
night
In front
of the
stood
of
one
with
ermine
and
with
courageous
man,
had
represented
had
interrupt
Robertet,
the
of
The
their
but
who
those
The
Stuart,
caused
in
a
custody,
goodly
not
had
trial
to
in
the
be
of
to
his
the
head;
of
he
State,
malicious,
of
begun
at
compromised
and
love
in the
who
of
dared
plunged.
of;
keeper
the
of
the
cellor.
chan-
especially among
the
Guises.
Scotchman
the
Minard,
Tours.
of
he
stable,
con-
one
and
captured
President
terror
and
actually laughing;
not
were
ereigns,
sov-
marshals
front
in
group
last
his
was
two
Saint-Andre,
That
the
no
in
were
of
with
in which
chateaux
inspiring
spur
counsel
losing
of
terrified, however,
a
take
at
assassin
number
of
purpose
to
robe
office.
his
queen-mother;
partisans
not
cardinal
his
the
were
were
the
by
that
head
cause
courtiers
remarks
his
on
cap
the
made
red
espoused
and
seals, formed
the
his
benefactors
secretary
Vieilleville
France,
his
in
his
meditation
the
was
hailliage,
that
of
risk
the
at
to
Ecouen
to
gone
he
grandest figures of
with
seeing
heart,
at
and
of the
hall
privilege of
the
he
preparations
I'Hopital,
de
his
execution.
in the
and
noblest
border,
accordance
rebels
fireplace
in
when
court
more,
brother's
his
Chancellor
the
time,
the
once
tish
Scot-
the
prisoner
of the
news
for
the
of
hopes
the
captain of
the
left alone
by
277
Bourbon,
de
the
was
overwhelmed
during
and
pages,
MEDICI
Blois
He
and
had
also
held
of
and
Tours,
noblemen,
for the
nobility,who
were
found
revolution
in
the
mation
Refor-
inspired by
278
Now,
king.
the
of escape,
means
Tours
at
Madame
prisoners
At
toward
Yes,
"
his
Messieurs
Blois
have
; we
are
will
learned
to
in
turned
of
the
de
Tours,
He
his
face
honor.
Prince
at
them
the
of
that
annoyed
so
bring
Chatillon
great danger."
the
jest.
Conde's
emphasized
this
wrote
note
to
de
We
bitter
found
interested
maids
detained
was
flight by
is
chancellor
Desvaux,
young
de
in
queen-mother's
who
equerry,
the
the
the prisfatality,
oners
Cardinal
are
had
with
Blois.
at
if anyone
"
words,
the
Blois
at
those
Tours, they
those
equality
strange
the
Fiesco,
at
former
and, by
said
de
MEDICI
prisoners
imitated
"Madame,"
we
of their
consciousness
the
"
DE'
CATHERINE
back
to
of
escape
have
we
started
soon
prisoners
your
as
off after
them
have
you
as
not
displeasing to
we
at
;
caught
^them.'"
the
Although
he
bestowed
Chatillon.
in
the
and
not
court
of the
that
was
loud
moment,
The
room.
of the
in the
secret
that
examined
ensued
the
his
operation;
II.
might
de
Guise
die at
the
if it
her
not
were
appeared,
moment.
he
Robertet,
for
had
it
death;
was
the
adherents.
The
Ambroise
had
favorable
seemed
moment
any
or
de
perilous position
deathlike.
was
king,
life
of the
silence
door,
king's
cellor,
chan-
heard
were
marshals,
the
near
the
Monsieur
on
voices
two
drew
matter
glance
stern
chancellor
simply
whole
for
At
king's
the
jest was
cois
Fran-
performed,
As
soon
explained
as
to
sieurs
Mesthem
DE'
CATHERINE
the
of
causes
and
he
with
de'
my
that
horrible
The
physicians
words
heard
if it
as
such
other
were
of the
side
Catherine
Ambroise."
Catherine's
but
loud
board,
cried
consulting;
in
physicians.
it. Master
allow
the
him;
trepan
the
instrument!"
were
the
on
head
not
uttered
were
were
I will
"
from
word
that, in
to
necessary
son's
into
Medici;
was
the
awaiting
was
"Cut
and
it
279
and
king's illness,
the
extremity,
present
MEDICI
voice
that
door,
they
she
as
had
intended.
"
if there
But, madame,
said
him,"
exclaimed
will
you
other
no
to
way
save
Stuart, weeping.
Mary
"Ambroise,"
that
is
Catherine,
the
king's
life with
that
Master
Ambroise
for
answer
"remember
your
own."
"
We
said
method
the
oppose
three
the
in his
king by injecting
draw
out
The
the
physicians.
who
grand master,
went
the
can
which
will
ear."
Catherine's
drew
and
the
save
of the
passage
watching
was
her
to
We
preparation
through
matter
face, suddenly
ear
"
gests,"
sug-
her
into
the
window-recess.
"Madame,"
your
son
and
Counsellor
Prince
de
young
man,
with
to him
You
watched
have
de
Viole
during
Prince
he
told
head
who
as
since
been
Conde's
the
in
acting
are
you
desire
said, "you
he
de
passed
your
your
concert
Blois.
torture
Conde,
the
unhappy
be
to
made
window
death
with
our
This
furrier's
was
his
the
that
off.
denied
a
the
That
tions
all rela-
sign
of his
accomplice
mies,
ene-
morning.
son
cut
of
of farewell
dungeon.
under
the
DE*
CATHERINE
sorrowful
followed
murmur
allowed
cardinal
28
MEDIO
her
chancellor
the
to
words.
The
and
closed
enter,
door.
the
But
"
said
Due
the
Monsieur
for
de
with
success
if
"Ah!
Guise,
know.
must
you
Ambroise
will
this
take
to
are
great Ambroise
the
kingdom,"
the
answer
life."
his
affairs
and
"
that
Chancelier,
le
his
lieutenant-general of
am
Pare,
"
course,"
this
why,
claimed
ex-
is my
duty."
extended
He
This
"
"
his
and
bed
the
myself
I make
; 1 know
control
operate
king
mine,"
are
the
of
duties
claim
sole
I will
office, and
my
without
king
continued.
he
and
solely responsible
the
upon
bed.
the
over
arm
the
of the
consent
physicians."
"Save
be
richest
the
"
Go
"
"
said
Stuart, pressing
Mary
this
prevent
protest
Robertet!"
cried
are
he
stead,"
Am-
Monsieur
of
place
to
him.
to
confinement.
Catherine,
and
you
"
"
would
France
As
your
do
to
m^re."
tenant-gen
lieu-
the
room,
chancellor.
in
"Monsieur
I'Hopital
de
chancellor,
la reine
the
the
to
the
Guise.
de
of
chancellor
said
Due
entered
pointed
"You
of Madame
the
had
said
thing,"
behalf
on
Robertet
When
said
shall
you
hand.
I cannot
but
cardinal, "and
the
in France."
man
pray,"
on,
broise's
"
said
him,"
you,
protest
well
Maille,
Prince
the
for
de
to
felon's
that
Conde's
de
he
madame,"
will
reflect
duct
con-
not
be
that
ceived,
re-
such
282
DE'
CATHERINE
need
acts
acting
becomes
as
of
Francois
added,
he
de
Monsieur
"
violence
use
Ah!
"
that
King
or
in
are
cried
Charles
surgeon.
the
hall
cient
suffi-
you
well
as
may
if
"
great surgeon,
for
IX.!'
of
traitors."
to arrest
the
if you
"
chancellor
yonder
discussions,
these
'Vive
cry:
king
am
Proceed,
"
L'H6pital,
noblemen
messeigneurs,"
continue
you
there
of French
number
said
the
the
to
vant
loyal ser-
master,
turning
upon
force.
and
subject
II., my
Guise,"
either
reflect
France,
faithful
King
Ambroise,"
by sufficient
supported
be
to
MEDICI
King Frangois
is
dying."
Catherine,
unaffected,
looking through
was
the
window.
Very well,
"
of the
masters
who
started
But
he
to
"I
and
"
Guise
"
will protect
the
them.
said
physician
he
of
as
well
said, taking
first
an
would
He
the
cardinal,
that
see
The
the
hall
of the
convinced
court,
off
hurried
physician
and
she
said
Ambroise,
save
"
as
been
first
little
my
Ambroise.
to
Madame
to
de
saved,
surgeon!
syringe
fillingit.
am
from
"
carried
zeal
friend
my
injection, and
have
Stuart
Mary
you."
physicians,
in favor
are
said
ourselves
inevitable, had
was
duchess,"
you,
"
to
on," cried
go
"Madame,"
away;
death
make
Navarre.
de
Well,
"
to
door.
utterly deserted.
king's
Antoine
the
close
dismayed
was
the
force
use
king's chamber,"
to
bailliagewas
that
will
we
Chapelain,
bound
to
had
I been
Give
it to
the
me
hands
obey
first
me,"
of the
DE*
CATHERINE
Dieu
Mon
"
"Alas!
young
wife
and
other
the
held
watched
his
did
The
first
and
Robertet
closely.
at
Madame
the
princes
and
de
from
sign
Lorraine
two
stir.
physician
injected
Ambroise
The
grand
physicians
present.
not
good
footsteps
echoed
instant
off the
head
Conde,
his
"
handsome
but
you
den, and
Montmorency.
with
kings
sieur
Mon-
left
Fiesco
Catherine.
At
door
of the
whose
ried
hur-
the
mangled
enemies'
first
prince
the
Prince
de
Conde,
and
the
chancellor
Catherine's
Navarre
and
of
Prince
the
the
you
shall
my
great
de
forth
fumble
not
de
satisfaction,
to
to
be
battle!
in
swords,
head
king's
themselves
opposed
Conde
Prince
Connetable
Bourbon,
the
queen-mother,
are
cut
to
lion
the
peared
ap-
royal
the
added
blood, Antoine
the
of the
brought
allow
who
proposed
you
in
not
their
The
To
have
do
hall, and
nephew,
instruments
by
save
so
"Ambroise,
France
man,
doorway
is here!"
he
"
your
of
in the
my
the
through
messieurs,
of
eh ?
said
time,"
later
"Ah!
apartment.
moment.
the
the
ear.
in
The
nate
subordi-
and
come
about
"
chamber.
an
de
you
am
place with
her
proceeding
moment,
from
"I
Ambroise,
surgeon
head,
unnoticed,
king's
de
the
Maille
room
"I
among
persons
the
de
that
took
into
preparation
the
queen
king's
the
said
"
I order
"
gentlemen."
these
master's
Stuart,
Mary
said
madame,"
to
The
"
283
MEDICI
this
the
appeared
stable,
con-
tion.'*
opera-
King
at
of
that
284
is the
"What
In
"
capacity
my
sentinels
the
of the
States
constraint.
carried
thither
Conde,
whom
from
prison.
his
and
de
be
to
saved
from
France
it shall
that
useless
"Your
reign
expression
"Ah!
madame,
which
she
dear,"
"My
cold
glance
hatred,
held
"
owe
said
his
at
in
you,
death,
the
without
I
of
blood
royal
Ah!
all your
order
plans,
the
king's
which
sword,
this
of
released
kingdom.
under
V.
Ambroise
is at
there
Pare,
his
grandsire,
"as
it would
begun."
has
no
seizing
gripped
from
lioness
the
son,"
your
the
Florentine
by
said
bed
the
savagely.
Catherine
retorted, with
Mary,
in
which
check
for
six
may
hope.
more
killed
have
erine
Cath-
Ambroise's
from
seeing
was
you
to
said
end, messieurs,"
an
and
window
the
arm,
Charles
Mary
to
that
the
by
Lorraines,
the
to
and
nephew
my
shed
to
you
swear
effusion
now;
king
be."
not
"Especially,"
be
If
Lorraine.
The
gentlemen
distrustful
be
not
are
deliberate
of
of
nobility
you
States, messieurs!
the
proposed
opened,
dismissed
subjects,
to
hundred
You
I shall
Messieurs
his
the
sword.
I have
remonstrance
the
henceforth
head
from
three
decimate
of
entitled
are
the
his
to
here, I conceive.
midst
come
demanded
Tete-Dieu!
posts.
the
realm
hand
constable,
country
is in
master
our
his
as
at all the
enemy's
an
MEDICI
of this?"
meaning
putting
Guise,
de
Due
in
DE'
CATHERINE
his
go
frantic
now
allowed
she
months,
love
and
cunning,
to
of
find
whom
reign
in
her
pression,
exwe
your
DE'
CATHERINE
and
Scotland,
shall
you
285
MEDICI
to-morrow.
start
de
am
facto regent."
The
three
had
physicians
made
to the
sign
queen-
mother.
Messieurs,"
"
is
understood
said, turning
she
Monsieur
between
of
lieutenant-general
myself,
States, and
of State.
affairs
to
**
The
perform
to
"Vive
The
a
and
1" after
de
Guise,
*^Vive
the
the
place
gentlemen
Prince
the
in the
hall:
When
The
"
proclamation
by
few
to
persons
of
death
the
at
in solitude.
and
his
de
grand
de
Orleans,
IX.,
king
the
Due
respond:
went
the
master
the
Mary
by
two'
the
last
leading
the
where
pages
cardinal, and
ments
mo-
her
son
court.
Francois
Dayelle,
in
few
whole
Lorraines,
Stuart, and
door, the
and
the
out
chamber
at
for
Fiesco
de
Madame
followed
was
in
Guise,
guards
whom
to
Charles
hand,
breathed
two
but
were
remained
chesse
cried
take
official
the
Due
the
King
There
bound
grand master,
office.
thrice
queen-mother,
brought
the
attend
le roi!'^
The
by
the
the
by
le Chancelier."
King of Navarre,
cried
there
henceforth
performed
were
king-at-arms
is dead
his
which
France
will
pointed
ap-
constable.
ceremonies
king of
the
the
kingdom
it
"
Bourbon,
the
IX.!"
v.'ith the
come
Conde,
de
of
de
Monsieur
said
Charles
King
had
who
Come,
"
duties
the
we
dead,"
is
king
that
Guises,
the
to
the
with
attendance
their
II.
Duthe
on
private
secretaries.
"Vive
la
France!"
cried
several
partisans
of
the
286
DE'
CATHERINE
owed
who
Robertet,
everything
cardinal, alarmed
the
and
and
queen-mother;
England, Poland,
and
her, led
by
meet
to
had
gone
after
showing
just
of
them
himself
in the
the
plans
of
to
Spain,
the
to
hall
Tournon,
of
state
courtyard
protested against
she
as
notify
to
their
came
de
and
adhesion
his
Empire
Cardinal
the
of
tion.
opposi-
duke
ambassadors
the
the
in
gave
of
the
to
failure
the
by
enterprises, secretly
the
first note
the
religion, sounding
Reformed
MEDICI
to
Ambroise
who
affairs,
Catherine
Fare's
posed
pro-
operation.
"Well!
cardinal
They
would
have
the
grand
if the
hand
"
to
take
it.
he
ever
Will
"I
there,
I will
as
to
age,"
cour-
Lorraine,"
I would
not
have,
you
put
for my
that
plied
re-
Charles, that,
tell you,
leave
have,
lacked
have
exiled
been
d'Outre-Mer,
duke.
the
to
master.
were
crown
Louis
Lorraine
de
the
said
**
Charles
of
heirs
the
of
descendants
the
my
to do."
son
the
out
army
and
for this
poor
Church?"
the
**
He
will have
better."
something
"What?"
"
The
"
There
boy
is
the
so
to
weep
dearly!"
said
husband's
the
until
"Wait
replied
me
whom
said
but
one
dead
her
Through
queen?"
no
loved
who
holding
"
people!"
can
cold
hand
become
Mary
Stuart,
in hers.
reconciled
to
the
cardinal.
she
duchess.
we
me
quarrels with
the
Huguenots,"
DE'
CATHERINE
The
of
of
Catherine,
Reformation
not
until
had
lain
by
humble
in
Senlis
three
days
and
reached
party
retainer
of Chancelier
carriage
this
But
of
rebuke
What
thou
does
of
Charles
As
francs
soon
the
as
de
Montmorency
to
be
and
thrown
walked
"
Can
serve!"
Tourillon
went
he
in the
man
is dead?"
appeared,
of
watchword
the
bells
all the
he
and
those
de
Tanneguy
equal
"
obsequies
to
of
family?
his
and
stinging
Lorraines.
the
the
caused
hiding-place
that
a
the
where
announced
the
the
Connetable
gates of the
to
up
his
city
garret
wall.
exclaimed.
replied: ''Ready
reformers
who
Calvin.
That
man
the
no
it be
followed
had
had
to
of
ll. in Orleans,
open,
Thereupon
to
tolling
of Francois
death
of
benefactor
the
VII.,
history
crowns
upon
"
the
upon
"
that
know
not
to-day
Etampes,
Chastel,
Stuart, and
of
melancholy
of
du
coffin
Bishop
fastened
thirty thousand
expended
million
that
Frenchman!"
Mary
which
inscription which
Tanneguy
Catherine,
in
the
only by
I'Hopital
werta
Frenchman
Chastel
a
"
that
Saint-Denis
to
little town
de
of the
in Orleans
When
the
down:
thou?
art
attended
bitterly ironical
handed
has
party
despatched
gentlemen.
two
of the
hailliage,placed
and
carriage,
of Bourbon,
king's body,
the
was
in the
retainers
and
House
confusion
such
later
neglected
funeral
Guises,
the
produced
covered
of the
conflictinginterests
287
MEDICI
left
food
was
of
events
the
save
Chaudieu,
minister
a
the
to
whom
past week,
alone
twelve-pound
in
his
loaf.
Tourillon
during
which
rated
nar-
he
hiding-place with
DE'
CATHERINE
proposition
of
Catholics.
Catherine's
divined
the
that
allies until
deceived
a
constable
the
of
the
time.
which
then
make
historians
that
than
away
from
risked
man
every
was
February,
the
March,
before
19
to
over
At
Chaudieu
held
which
her
to
hoped
to
And
dinary
extraor-
queen's
most
uncertainty.?
directlytoward
her
seemed
to
goal
lead
incapable of understanding
the
not
life to
where
hour
hanging.
until
his
Orleans,
from
is
of
disputation
Is it not
reasoning, despatched
had
at
in
of words.
exhibitions
we
it.
Catherine's
events
As
clever
all
the
measures
in
and
all.
and
taken
King of Navarre,
he
believe
them
tournament
more
shrewd
in these
The
like
went
never
so
Bourbons
reformers
have
for
stratagems
Catherine
him
happened.
what
they
exceedingly
and
in that
mark
IX.;
singularlyfavorable
Catholics
precisely
adroit
become
posed
prowith
the
fooled
prevailed was
their
is
that
between
the
temporize
Charles
spiritof argument
The
suggestion.
to
making
Catherine
had
queen
short
forces
while
Catherine,
of
by
accurately
was
little about
desired
majority
and
simply
the
combination
see,
but
policy
at that
really cared
queen
colloquy,
her
deep
Guises
the
by
Calvinists
between
colloquy
289
MEDICI
and
whom
rate
of
likely
the
the
the
to
hanged
colloquy
not
could
beginning of May,
of
covered
dis-
be
trial,
banishment
Geneva
reach
vin;
Cal-
course
without
of
decree
could
to
likely to
was
travelling, at
negotiations
and
watch
he
hour
Chaudieu
that
time,
before
be
concluded
not
really
1561.
Catherine
be
DE'
CATHERINE
290
formed
had
first
his
by
bed
of
Thou
De
where
of
the
amused
parties
various
the
of
the
was
bourgeois,
Geneva!
The
Pope
now
at
powerful,
so
of
and
mother,
useful
men,
Louis
first
which
to
do
XIV.
after
that
teaches
homage
did,
by
of
Surely
kings
to
wherever
to
the
life
in
this
genius,
God
of
in
has
at
by
from
the
to
seek
placed
but
bination
com-
the
of
one
weigh
and
scurity,
ob-
check
blood,
is
no
authority
momentary
the
or
princes,
learn
to
see
ji^^s
long
held
it
can
them
Antoine
Lorraine
two
prince
Calvin!
for
Pope
paralyzed
the
lessons
lesson
the
jointly
age!
that
suspense
Transalpine
Geneva!
mother
established
time
entrusted
spectacle
who,
this
at
was
the
extraordinary
in
mation
confir-
kingdom,
of
prince
waiting
French
the
Paris,
the
IX.
his
to
of
and
of
Charles
realm
weakest
most
kingdom
whole
the
the
coronation
procured
whereby
letters
and
court
Parliament
the
at
L'Hopital
of
Navarre,
It
justice
the
king's
the
lieutenant-general
the
de
keeping
by
and
government
with
of
plan
the
MEDICI
queenthe
most
history,
qualities
it
it!
out,
of
as
Calvin,
the
was
whose
of
son
native
name
province
explains,
blended
the
with
of
who
little
of
ignorant
And,
indeed,
of
of
point
first
at
For
by
the
between
wielded
long
no
Genevans
within
illustrious
citizens
and
large,
This
Farel,
often
about
reformation
Farel
incomplete,
hold
in
him
looked
insuificient
France.
the
most
(291)
the
city.
the
their
in
teenth
six-
the
of
to
of
those
world
abode.
city,
that
between
of
fortress
Luther's.
had
"
confined
one
secure
which
located
first
the
In
Lutheranism
upon
Geneva,
ple
tem-
in
Calvin
than
work,
the
Robespierre,
place
very
detained
as
least
"
unknown
militant
more
Calvin
and
the
to
the
near
Farel
in
remain
1537,
it to
commending
who
of
limits.
had
who
republic.
maliciously
narrow
Geneva
his
one
and
was
power
tinguished
dis-
entirely
was
authority
great
very
his
time,
that
man
Rousseau,
in
him
the
No
spirit
cabinet-maker,
of
the
Geneva,
upper
was
than
upon
lived
over
resemblance
century,
at
who
of
Peter,
the
influence
stinacy
ob-
which
arbiter
knowledge,
man's
houses
Saint
and
the
century.
Jean-Jacques
Calvin,
pretentious
that
familiar
less
His
extent,
sixteenth
historical
that
of
Geneva
city.
Picardie.
activity
the
is
to
that
possessed
in
history
birth
gave
certain
abnormal
France
in
character
to
Cauvin,
but
in
Noyon
characteristic
distinguishing
destinies
of
cooper
Calvin,
not
was
Both
as
an
acquired
no
France
and
Italy, and
use,
was
citadel
of his
of
Calvin
first
which
Calvin
became
The
be
to
he
for
the
folk
There
old
their
But,
for the
holidays, except
were
instructed
Calvin
and
availed
themselves
from
exiled
in
Fare!
Geneva,
triumph
at
the
that
and
to
of this
which
of his
these
conform
their
the
Calvin
demand
of
his
issue.
no
more
were
the
Swiss
vans
Generitual.
politicalenemies
disagreement
city they
upon
bread
innovations
to
years.
at
be
and
and
the
fight
leavened
Lausanne,
who
worthy
admit
to
should
These
methods
living
question
use
siderable
con-
people
their
there
resisted, and
from
for several
real
should
Sundays.
Berne
at
they
and
communion,
disapproved
made
the
life,
cles,
obsta-
for
unwilling
were
with
that
Geneva
always,
as
his
serious
luxurious
efforts, and
insisted
of
party of worthy
energies
great difficulty.
severity
old-fashioned
points unconnected
Calvin
from
Farel,
authority,
years
such
of the
ridicule,
his
thorized
au-
tember,
Sep-
in
to
His
with
encountered
customs.
instance,
devoted
later
established
was
the
dreaded
object of
in the
because
for
out
it the
theology,
doctrines.
banished
was
time
held
his
absolute
of reform.
made
preaching
patiently
of
great agitator
that
and
in
left the
disciple,and
destined
was
eva
Gen-
adopted
Farel's
at
lessons
give
inculcation
the
fortunes
Geneva,
to
1538.
his
with
correspondence
Calvin
France.
general
ideas.
Council
The
in
language
for
situated
of his moral
seat
MEDICI
French
the
Italy, and
the
as
with
admirably
Germany,
to
DE'
CATHERINE
292
to drive
were
afterward
flock.
them
practically
returned
DE'
CATHERINE
Such
persecution
moral
power,
wait.
His
Calvin
the
his
of
return
admitted
of
residence
of
member
despatched
had
at
His
brother,
from
Place
the
in
of
Saint-Pierre,
Voltaire, and
of
in those
Descartes,
The
similar
enable
who,
was
Arras!
as
cruel,
supplied
for
the
shop
as
both
those
his
few
despotic,
who
punishments
lives
dent
resplenVico,
Kant, and
glorious
ting
set-
faces!
on
alone
as
the
the
Arras
to
ordained
examine
by
from
and
of
instruments
choose
of
tions,
founda-
lawyer
"
can
career
same
the
Picardie
those
stands.
Luther,
of
one
shines
forms
power
of
yards
in the
Robespierre
enough,
of
now
but
dred
hun-
where
understand
to
resting
Strangely
"
of
church
yearly salary.
lacking
ardent
existence
All
reasons
and
contemporaries
Calvin,
Noyon
sublime
the
Spinoza, Loyola,
surely
of ideas
measures
Rabelais, Campanella,
Rousseau,
for those
is
erine
Cath-
than
Geneva
in
become
king
street
Bacon,
Malebranche,
Jean-Jacques
the
on
which
disinterestedness,
Newton,
for his
wine,
was
after
that
more
time
fifteen
money,
and
he
not
pastor of
received
never
largest printing-houses
This
had
the
of
that
casks
two
career
mind,
him, that
to
envoy
fiftyfrancs
and
wheat,
At
to
Immediately
terror.
he
years,
than
Calvin
Geneva.
and
of
title
other
no
an
his
bourgeoisie; but,
council.
the
of
transcendent
that
patience
beginning,
were
religious
fourteen
the
beginning
Genevan
the
to
has
executions
organized
upon
The
prophet.
as
the
was
295
by solidifying the
victim
the
return
ends
always
when
MEDICI
ormation
refthe
Calvin
will
of
and
time
caused
place,
impious
the
retractation
Catholic
conference
about
Frenchman,
Trinity in
the
published
Geneva,
at
of Jeanaimed
France,
in
Paris,
the
published
author,
kingdom
where
of
the
brought
Genevan
to
of
conduct
tyrant.
judgment
ask
eloquent
book, which
written
for sale
and
to
undermine
the
and
lawful
authority
of
the
damental
fun"
with
Parliament
Lastly,
Bolsee
had
other
if
fence
de-
from
for having
yourself
nor
hangman,
"
and
of
banished
tried
religion
the
concerning predestination!
Calvin's
facts,
had
he
the
compare
by
foreigner, simply
verities
and
burned
simply
was
written
offered
but
was
mystery
religion,was
Holland,
in
the
whose
Catholic
the
Michel
accusation,
the
Rousseau,
Jacques
cerning
con-
Geneva,
neither
was
the
to
house
Calvin's
Remember
to overthrow
in
Calvin's
propositions,
upon
which
book
exacted
prior
years
burned
only by
those
passing through
at
queen-mother's
the
Servet,
held
be
to
offer
death
to
gallows
than
Seven
ask
absurd
cruelly
condemned
ignominious
Church.
cal
ecclesiasti-
tyrannies
the
and
sentence,
more
heresy, escaped
more
the
shocking
crime
having
poetry,
that
upon
Calvin
"for
overthrow
Gentilis,
Valentin
for involuntaty
the
of
Geneva.
at
licentious
most
saturnalia
judgments.
by
to
for differences
beheaded
be
Reflect
"
whether
their
foto
and
letters
ordinances."
for
to
MEDICI
allowance
in
1793
endeavored
for having
yourself
due
Gruet
Jacques
written
DE'
CATHERINE
294
that
also
was
than
ideas
Weigh
these
Fouquier-Tinville
did
DE'
CATHERINE
The
worse.
than
the
Calvin
redoubtable
earlier,
West
in
descent
and
centuries
Calvin,
that
had
previously
that
Through
of
his
practice
to
copiously,
up
Calvin
all
which
he
had
he
luxury,
without
enjoying
clothed
his
a
the
whole
genuine
absolutely
like
father
of
ten
years
in
the
there
"
have
hypocritical
of
in
turning
ing
silentlyheap-
it otherwise
In the
Calvinist
than
Calvin
dismal
same
one's
life,in eating
thought.
life.
morals,
good
in
and
vin,
Cal-
harshness
the
the
consists
fellow-citizens
created
there
in
Geneva!"
and
To
power,
found
Geneva
in
entered
without
his
the
where,
refinements
and
levers
porte-cochere
executions
mummers,
arts
enjoyed
his
his
the
but
luxury
Hermit,
men.
among
seen
mummery.
but
money
ever
introduced
the
the
on
to
none
door
called
according
back
been
doctrine,
the
idea
an
Geneva,
whole
the
Picards, three
unquestionably
first
rigor of
the
by
and
interests
was
the
town,
Peter
period,
said, pointing
man
upper
each
city called
melancholy
ago,
to
At
then,
centuries
led
three
those
shed
was
politicallyspeaking,
were,
selfish
in
support
Geneva,
Three
had
East.
the
pierre.
Robes-
political equality
Picard,
upon
Archimedes.
of
than
equality.
Robespierre,
apart,
of
apostle
also
monk,
blood
Calvin
ble,
implaca-
more
stage than
more
Catholic
to
a
Calvin,
of
shed
have
assimilated
intense,
more
of
intolerance
extensive
more
would
the
by
295
political intolerance
savage
On
"
religious
savage
morally speaking,
was,
MEDICI
as
gave
livery
in
consistory,
tribunal
of
quisiti
in-
Robespierre's revolutionary
DE'
CATHERINE
widow,
his
obliged
which
solicit
to
allotted
was
and
for
way
had
They
of
exception
for
by
of
the
mild
season
on
to
arts,
with
the
of
Helen
the
selves
them-
reproach
occasioned
heart-beat
familiar
evenings
which
the
of
the
the
absurd
de
but
Rives;
sight of
man
the
along
and
servant,
rather
not
ground,
of
road, leaning
shoes
the
and
walked
foot
one
with
of
until
evident
black
necessary,
but
to
the
abruptly
velvet.
female
he
city;
the
culty,
diffi-
with
was
pain, for
at
ing
walk-
was
and
other
Porte
toward
of
arm
slowly
were
the
who
plainly returning
was
then
on
thirty
concerning
horses
fiftyyears,
some
at
country-
evidently
riding
their
they stopped
arrived
banished
very
were
"
raising
laced
^then
that
at
former
Geneva
of
one
occur
who
men,
to-day,
stout,
and
"
the
Geneva,
of
laws
gates,
extremely
from
two
on
horsemen
two
of
Bishop
necessary
1561,
sometimes
called
so
was
in Geneva.
February,
Geneva,
These
with
closing
position
of
before.
years
explanation
early days
Lake
of
house
round
had
others
Calvin's
Pre-l'Eveque,
was
the
was
each.
the
whereas,
wife
single quickened
clear
those
the
whose
Luther,
millions
and
the
paved
or
women
conquered
of thought
men
hundred
loved
greatly abridged
make
In
whom
Germany.
woman.
This
to
created
and
Iliad, none
that
of
was
crowns,
of
elector
an
Bora,
hundred
those
they
hearts,
constructed
they
by
left three
empires,
de
Richelieu,
all three
action,
her
to
Mazarin,
Potemkin,
of
pension
297
Catherine
celebrated
the
MEDICI
on
he
the
wore
298
said
It is he,"
*'
The
back
avoid
to
exceeding
of
years
stout, and
to
double
bend
that
cause
the
before
trembled
which,
upon
of
was
betrayed
by
from
the
on
the
nose
the
That
beard.
there
deep
inflamed
like
patches;
but, notwithstanding
which
able
most
of
covered
to
toper's,
that
admire
perfect shape,
brown
eyes
his
paroxysms
his
obesity,
his
the
full
generally
red
and
with
black
which
have
or
toil,that
cap
one
and
gleamed
genuine
It may
yellow
velvet
head,
size
vast
emitted
of wrath.
or
starting
into
square
beneath
which
respite,
of
the
of
sembled
re-
curve
marked
enormous
no
of the
no
like them
was
forehead
was
wrinkles
face, although
long,
as
merging
have
strongly
him
gave
of
gout
face
the
on
Calvin
two
either
and
moustaches,
gray
rotundity,
which
physical pain,
him
would
broad
than
was
because
of
as
amiability
fifty
suffering from
man
almost
At
He
attacks
Any
VIII., whom
Henry
monster
its
despite
indication
more
face,
that
glance
compelled
His
walked.
drew
shorter
calculus
by
trian.
pedes-
Calvin,
seventy.
character.
malignant
the
disciple.
all the
from
he
companion,
bestowed
his
intensified
was
most
and
seemed
when
his
to
seemed
excruciating suffering
horseman,
toward
upon
Calvin
other
fact, Jean
embrace,
sternness
age,
and
short
in
was,
the
rein
arms
open
latter, who
the
to
his
threw
with
advanced
and
MEDICI
Ciiaudieu
dismounted,
who
of
DE'
CATHERINE
was
of
the
pair
flames
in
been
due
to
because
of
his
Calvin's
head
DE'
CATHERINE
had
settled
could
only
wear
face
his
between
Between
like
nestling
shape.
length,
and
that
by
face
for
its
with
in
pain,
combated
whole
attributable
sedentary
bearing
of
valetudinarian
mind.
an
of
Even
expression
so
face.
mouth,
of
cruelty.
There
whose
Calvin's
for he
wore
of
first
sight florid,
and
; that
and
the
was
to
The
in
that
the
the
most
human
it was,
wore
chastity enjoined by
by
the
the
tendency
written
was
in
of
as
exacted
grief
of
the
and
between
history
disease,
famous
fat due
one
charming
and
threw
impression
layer of
upon
the
of
that
serenity
expression
to
of those
terrifying.
tranquillity was
costume
at
conflict
regret
was
powerful brow,
eyes,
will-power,
the
the
forms
many
consumed,
indefatigable worker,
in
far-reaching designs
vals
inter-
the
and
constant
known
sick-
weekly
study
temperament
wills
to
was
of the
the
the
difficult
he
behold
color
habits
traces
powerful
to
the
to
by
end, in
expressed
during
which
by
whole
the
was
the
Calvin
nose,
its
force
of
perfect
square
at
it
face, although
terrible
something
mental
traces
attacked
fever
the
to
gave
by
Although
slow
physical
prodigious
head.
which
of
beard,
his
flexibilitythroughout
features
those
headaches
divided
was
the
on
graceful, eloquent
significantflatness
the
imperial
detect
and
he
which
above
Baptist's
the
his
that
so
ruddy-lipped, marvellously
His
with
harmony
ruff,
moustaches
was
rose,
and
remarkable
John
his
small
mouth,
in
Saint
299
shoulders,
fluted
narrow
resembled
charger.
broad
his
a
MEDICI
his
black
head
into
cloth
gown,
bold
relief,
caught in
waist
the
at
DE'
CATHERINE
300
by
the
ministers, and
cloth
regular
copper
of
costume
attention
the
with
offering
which,
concentrated
eye,
black
the
became
buckle, which
vinist
of
belt
MEDICI
Cal-
interest
no
to
its wearer's
upon
face.
I
"
in
am
too
Calvin
said
Theodore
of
who
age,
Geneva
two
all
like all
with
had
been
rise
originators of
social
He
contradiction.
But
himself
between
Theodore
and
him
he
legislator
never
would-be
cat; he
De
Beze
he
became
whose
as
had
he
met
de
B^ze;
that
of
him
with
at
of
liked
later
signal
to
and
of
to
in
that
guide
play
all
polished
he
of
meaning
finding
cheerful.
ments;
senti-
crabbed
that
with
period played
success
courts,
his usual
the
stinctiv
in-
uncivilized
his
for
him,
supple and
attached
inspiration
frequent
all
fear
ionable
fash-
face, full of
to
no
he
successor,
found
difference
laid aside
he
slightest
much
unlike
fond
was
Richelieu
as
him
the
so
utterly ignorant
was
affection; but
a
with
would
disciples, he
attractive
utterly
so
janizaries,that
his
accustomed
courtesy,
to
was
or
consumed
was
endure
not
there
cavalier, with
seemed
his
would
Calvin,
sovereignty,
systems,
detested
he
equals,
no
awe-inspiring
sovereign.
moral
to
request, presented
the
to
his
who
bourgeois
jealousy.
have
contrast
years
bourgeoisie of
Calvin's
at
made
had
forty-two
the
to
dore,"
Theo-
you,
cavalier.
time
admitted
striking
he
this
at
before,
years
whom
pastor
like
Beze,
embrace
to
dashing
the
to
de
most
pain
great
in
dore,
Theowith
Seeing
his
him
his
that
missions,
instrument,
believed
himself
DE*
CATHERINE
be;
to
is
true
so
do
cannot
men
Theodore
his
respect of
the
Geneva
at
listened
Calvin
and
heavy
in
disposition
as
great
the
as
Calvin
dieu
the
those
walking
his
on
the
prevent
Calvin's
closing
of the
attack
severe
very
Theodore
Vezelay,
its
of the
de
this
Beze
which
at
of
who
figures
is
in the
poetry,
his
contrast
men
was
humble
utation
sal-
Chau-
head.
his
through
de
the
mation,
Reforvin
Cal-
had
forward
ran
Rives,
pastor
right
to
informing
had
just
had
pain.
a
son
of
the
tion;
Confedera-
been
written
by
bourgeois spirit of
Vezelay,
the
has
of
commune
the
contributed
reformers,
certainly one
annals
inculcate
Beze, who
Porte
was
Thus
great uprising of
horses
that
the
was
Thierrys.
man,
of the
servant
interesting history
endemic
the
guard
of
two
very
left of De
right.
of the
captain
the
adherents
two
the
at
in
force.
mental
of both
reins
prove
own
the
the
Chaudieu's
to
to
drawing
Thus
slight inclination
followed
and
arm
in
refined
and
without
between
his
to
literature
together.
contrast
passed
wished
plans
person
responded
with
and
his
to
and
B^ze
larities,
irregu-
its
the
former
re-
his
sorry
hold
with
art
eyebrows
gray
not
was
de
for
taste
stern
manners
Theodore
affection.
overlooked
he
religion could
graceful
court.
the
Calvin
Reformed
the
that
spoiled child;
his
Perhaps
speech.
of
him,
amours,
unsociable
most
semblance
without
scold
not
30I
the
even
Calvin's
was
did
it that
MEDICI
of
of the
heresy.
its
in the
most
one
ance,
resist-
share
in
person
of
ing
interest-
DE*
CATHERINE
302
"Are
still
you
would
Catholic
"A
child !
end, my
And
which
"Ah!
Calvin.
replied
he
injected
nearing
am
become
of you
light from
your
will
what
asked
damned,"
one
bitterness
the
lightest words.
his
into
Theodore
like
say
with
reformer,
the
suffering?"
MEDICI
the
out
with-
me?"
will
"We
Calvin
smiled,
and
expression,
"
Well, have
Have
of his
"
No,"
"
So
said
any
In
Reformed
lips!"
She
is
studying
"
so
worse,
in
continued.
friends?"
our
he
in
joy
is
is at
everything
much
the
form
any
certain
should
cried
would
be
an
be
to
Where
strength.
our
Church
peace."
worse!"
the
always
not
were
said
"
Is there
want
to
swallow
the
up
that
to
such
irreverent.
with
is
just what
the
do."
said
Calvin.
"
am
"
woman
rejoined Calvin,
What
"
here?"
From
Theodore,
seems
that
"
faith.
he
religion?"
Indeed,"
women
Chaudieu.
mocking
gracious
eyes.
if the
queen-mother
as
exhibiting
persecution
be
we
of
many
upon
for me?"
news
Chaudieu,
if it
assumed
favorably
"Pacification
snare.
"
you
the
even
should
looked
brown
much
Calvin.
evil,
he
and
smiling
gleam
purple face
his
massacred
they
asked,
"
the
by
on
Chaudieu.
said
"
fight
"
cried
a
thing
as
distance
sternly, regarding
"
Catherine
craving
that
is
Chaudieu.
in
the
for the
the
craves
have
wind?"
neither
mind?"
interruption
power,
honor
and
nor
DE'
CATHERINE
she
*'Well,
suggests
said
council,"
of
sort
303
MEDICI
De
Beze.
In the
"
inquired Calvin,
of Paris?"
neighborhood
abruptly.
"Yes!"
"
Ah!
"
And
and
the
much
so
will
we
to
come
understanding
an
blend
to
public agreement
prepare
to
try
Calvin.
said
better!"
the
two
churches."
Church
French
the
to
ascend
be
pope
"Do
in the
points
She
"
his
But, my
"
act?
to
need
she
time
organize
it
make
gleaming
for
possible
wants
gain time."
to
disaster
our
resistance
formidable
him
niece
the
can
repair
to
Greek
the
eyes
son,
to
at
at
all
kingdom?"
has
sent
Scotland,"
of
Queen
the
away
Chaudieu.
said
less!"
One
"
Rives;
for
free
and
Amboise
reformer,
throne.
not
we
as
and
Rome
in
patriarch
the
separate
of
court
would
idea, which
at
the
to
courage
the
cried
Church!"
the
from
France
in
create
of
had
if she
"Ah!
Two
us.
is
one
war:
there's
of
rubbed
ferocious
in
caught
master
had
as
beautiful, and
of
hold
the
other
de
in check
her
will
together
near
Porte
they passed
will
England
so
queens
source
one
question
He
of
Elizabeth
"
Calvin,
said
be
soon
at
decidedly ugly,
irritation; then
there's
the
illegitimacy."
his
his
hands,
joy
glimpse
been
of
that
the
and
there
was
De
Beze
shuddered;
of
sea
gazing for
blood
moment.
something
at
for
which
so
he
his
DE*
CATHERINE
religion into
transports
convinced
the
selfish
enlist
is
Everything
iota!
pastor, meddle
of
streets
and
unloosed
the
Pierre, and
second
of that
floor
be
in
Geneva,
of
Calvin,
"
with
rooms
entrance,
where,
in
Geneva,
entered
for fourteen
next
to
that.
and
placed
the
furniture
in
corner
20
about
of
said
the
salon.
next, and
gave
three
and
which
covered
white
forth
The
the
with
tab'le
the
The
of
you
used
with
struggled
square
now
statue
no
windows,
dining-room.
chairs
large
room
be
houses
bourgeois
two
came
of the
the
adjoining.
kitchen, from
had
oak
is
there
wainscoting,
the
and
years,
Four
On
speaks
ever
way,
with
mind
pain
hardly
can
room
the
room
Calvin's
Saint-
Place
small
one
and
of
reception-room, salon,
where
the
cities
other
terrifying tirade,
which
floors
most
small
of
pastor's house.
no
the
who
men
lodgings, consisting of
through
was
one
of passers,
those
to
the
maid-servant's
as
it
to
Gascon
throng
that
to
by
his
spruce
and
kitchen
far
so
climbing
throngs
After
house,
were
"
add
were
the
the
of which
and
famous,
to
of
it to the
across
that.
now,
humble
attention
in silence
on
Theodore,
beyond
go
that
amid
no
France!
walked
they
paid
passions
ravaged
and
of the
not
Chaudieu
city
upper
throng
the
benefits
writing?"
with
the
I have
is said
do
Cameron,
B^ze, and
Calvin, De
not
is concerned;
does
Why
Do
everything
done,
the
ideas.
It is for you,
interests.
doctrine
the
as
people of
common
JOJ
of
world
the
of ceremonies.
suppression
to
MEDICI
as
study,
physical
bedroom
tapestry
comprised
all
porcelain stove
a
gentle warmth.
306
The
walls
were
sheathed
at
decoration.
attempt
no
harmonized
dwelling
Well,"
"
while
he
"what
said
the
of
give
Theodore
done
to
"
join
abandon
Italian, she,
when
that
her
so
completely
Theodore
and
kissed
this
Perhaps
de
it.
that
B^ze
she
Prince
she
will
lifted the
de'
the
remain
skirt
King
de
by
Medici.
weakness
back
has
will
manoeuvre
when
constable
his
turns
Coligny.
from
and
the
Catherine
can
finds
she
the
and
Go
"
induce
and
If he
pitifulmonarch.
shirts
two
he
kitchen,
continued,
must
Queen
we
the
dry.
to
we
alone,"
are
into
he
we
benefit
fication
paci-
respective
our
We
line
Guises
the
in any
Duplessis-Mornay,
Well,"
"
must
Guises,
the
nor
glance
ence.?"
confer-
unyielding.
result
r61e.
on
so,
all the
reap
in
by,
son,
and
ajar, disclosing
hanging
had
him
advising
it shall
alone
near
my
satisfactory to
was
doors.
to
queen,
leading
the
Navarre
the
house,
the
to
"You,
concise
suspicious
collars
all
that
the
of which
door
several
of
liis
sober,
them
inn
an
agree
Be
confidence
him
to
you
that
is not
said, casting
us
there.
propose
I have
selves.
Let
of
the
leaving
Calvin.
neither
us,
which
of
bareness
entered
they
as
Do
said
fighting
myself,
close
with
spruce,
great reformer's
horses
two
do?
I to
none
the
the
of Chaudieu's
the
took
am
must
the
B^ze,
De
"Assuredly,"
nor
unpainted
Thus
with
taking advantage
We
in
MEDICI
life.
simple
do
DE'
CATHERINE
on
lost
Conde
the
that
and
compromise
with
us."
of Calvin's
coat
DE'
CATHERINE
**
"
Unfortunately,
die
should
low
struck
and
by
of
"
The
of
foreign
blow
mighty
in
be
to
killed?"
be
to
than
more
still!
Due
pettifogginglawyer."
who
man
"Even
signs
so," cried
of refusal
dieu's
of
the
Catholics
for
us
and
churches!
their
have
you
"
"
Use
will
any
have,"
them
as
justify any
warrior,
he
us!
I should
"
time
"
by
By
and
lay
snares
it!
Burn
If
"
the
war!
Le
Balafre,
more
than
dynasty,
prefer
and
he
death
cause
"
to
formidable
that
a
is
triumph
our
man
capable
as
am
of annihilating
Lorrainer!"
the
by argument,"
argument?
of
instruments
Therefore,
time?"
Will
children.
my
to
we
Chaudieu.
myself,
is
work,
to
think
hardly
as
May
for death?
devoted
means.
is, like
system,
the
men
young
said
strike
to
in silence?
opportunity
an
with
on
right
death
us?
massacre
the
detected
he
noticing Chau-
not
and
wound,
lose
ever
and
not
we
darkness
for
wound
return
have
in
struck?
not
"
with
Theodore,
dismay.
opposition,
or
entrance,
are
exclaimed
king."
be
to
wants
Guise!"
de
involuntary gesture
by
said
he
minister
is
there
If I
king?"
Better
we
his
!"
are
Theodore.
dear
again,"
of
ear
grand you
martyrs!"
our
Minard
"
an
**
the
307
how
"
dying,
am
that
Something
"A
in
one
said,
seeing you
remember
"
"Another
"
without
voice
affairs,
he
master,"
my
MEDICI
shouted
Why,
said
Calvin,
are
De
B^ze.
overturning
you
mad?
his
chair,
Argument!
308
make
argument
with
easily enforced
Saint
impulse
of
to
lead
for it with
pray
do
to
are
men!
stomachs
If I die
of
hands
de
give
the
soon,
Antoine
coxcomb,
Navarre!
and
Catullus
damp
and
and
Tibullus,
Due
preferable
inviting
But
of
instead
of
life.?
religion is
lost
great
fool
as
I must
me,
but
naught
an
have
acrostics!
ass,
of
imitations
your
your
tholicism
Ca-
battle.
more
are
and
baboons!
true
make
are
whereas
rags
leave
are
an
of
years
You
go,
You
go
is
single
of the
dolts!
such
poet!
Defeat
ten
me
cause
negotiator!
better
with
Thou
"
what
persecution,
legs! baptized
two
on
wilt
too
in the
as
lieutenants.-'
my
God,
my
win
we
not
of the
donkey.?
of
you
they
its methods
has
it
catastrophe
unless
horrible
strength!
if
do
are,
assassination
understand,
is doomed
what
Reform
you
very
lightning
the
by
grow
The
all my
The
success.
defeat,
not
the
you
Reform
my
do
blood
would
Guise
de
to
Ideas
with
The
Strong,
that
pumpkin-head
Amboise?
watered
of the
sword
given
was
By
by argument.
Theodore,
see,
fool?
deal
my
Paul, by the
then, who
you,
nothing of them,
injures
that
MEDICI
Do
conquest!
know
men,
thing
is
DE'
CATHERINE
Away
you!"
The
torture
by
the
of
before
face
streaked
sky.
His
fire.
He
vast
was
himself
of
flames
its peace
was
calculus
the
that
terrible
with
brow
that
Calvin's
excitement.
like
glistened.
unlike
species
His
himself.
of
quished
van-
gout held
The
wrath.
purple,
entirely
to
his
entirely
was
tempestuous
eyes
He
flashed
doned
aban-
epileptic frenzy,
DE'
CATHERINE
full of
wild
with
him
two
hearers,
with
few
that
occurrence
common
Chaudieu
into
veins
thickness.
in
them,
to
covered
knotted
engendered
tempest
Horeb!"
chair, and
their
of
Bush
pered
whis-
he
as
whose
hands,
of his
silence
the
by
said
life, he
309
Burning
sank
his
moments
of
blasts
his
The
"
visibly despite
throbbed
observing
speak,
to
face
his
and
B^ze:
De
ceased
he
was
to
which
rage,
MEDICI
in
the
by
voice
the
last
of
chastity
with
trembling
emotion:
vices, which
My
"
than
overcome
shall
are
Ah!
impatience!
my
"
never
cost
numerous,
conquer
less
me
beast,
savage
you?"
he
added,
said
De
B^ze,
to
his
striking
breast.
"
dear
My
master,"
voice, and
"
gazed
said
and
Try
"
I understand
to
"You
killed
men
world
the
Nay!"
president,
when
faces,
as
if
they
softened
pression,
ex-
we
is at
bring
were
peoples
replied Theodore.
shoulders."
whom
the
thoughtful,
Calvin,
they
smile."
of whole
shepherds
Chaudieu,
whom
said
to
friends."
my
your
rendered
upon
with
kissed,
he
how
burdens,"
on
said
had
martyrs
the
terrible
have,"
diatribe
'*
disciple
me,
that
carry
have
"I
"
to
knows
ing
sooth-
him:
to
understand
"
have
his
at
which
hands,
he
but
Jupiter thunders,
Calvin
his
taking
in
can
"
rely.
three
Stuart,
who
"
gently, smiling
ashamed
have
"
liberty
back
master's
fair
like
weather
of
having
all
great
to
their
allowed
DE'
CATHERINE
3IO
the
to
storm
man
kill
may
there.
rage
MEDICI
I know
"
president,
one
mankind.
but
he
doesn't
kill
two."
Is
"
this
necessary.?"
said
inflating
nostrils.
absolutely
step
De
B"ze.
"
leave
Nay,
you!
Will
"
know
"And
yet
Calvin,
He
"
Chaudieu's
reformers!
Alas!
must
words
this
merit
"
Calvinists!
is
not
Uphold
sects
new
Anticipating
which
done
this
with
be
"
queried
"
of Calvinism
for I
of
Huguenots,
no
dying!
am
Luther,
no
only!
but
we
the
to
even
Lutheranism."
Chaudieu,
said
"
well
do
honor!"
uniformity
the
go
can
"
them?"
Speak
man,"
examination
more
us
may
safe-conducts
said,
he
vestige
and
divine
such
of
We
spare
ambition,
destroy every
"But,
you
be
Lutheran
Which
said
hand.
things,"
all
Above
you?"
him.
embracing
took
embrace
"
our
guide
street."
to-morrow?
would
you
God
the
emotion.
notwithstanding
you,
following,
May
to
to
Do
now
Paris.
me
happen
may
are
frenzy
decision.
friends
permit
deep
with
what
arrested
in
his
into
me
path you
flock
not
drive
my
light my
you
B^ze,
De
the
your
Dinah!
"
with
follow
maintain
will
you
hence
Chaudieu,
and
me,
Go
again.
Calvin,
said
"Again.?"
for
Study
from
Theodore
We
the
concerned,
de
B^ze,
no
lost
are
bosom."
our
moment
is
doctrine, allow
remodelling.
or
forth
of the
who
with
occurrences
and
to
have
Paris
with
in order
went
to
if
DE'
CATHERINE
Chaudieu,
pistol
confession,
So
that
did
arguments,
crime
that
But,
famous
trivial
to
century
Due
the
France
de
that
the
See
the
Guise,
de
the
lament
the
at
it
the
upon
written
one
end
of
proved
this
volume.
throughout
work
at
Theodore
of
death
the
of
was
de
dore
Theotime
same
Marlborough
by
of
eighteenth
the
sung
the
was
was
the
on
was
first
at
subject
of
chanson
which
and
famous
note
the
Bdze.
de
the
compiler
of
conception
Theodore
on
historical
the
dissertation,
Huguenots,
B^ze,
from
that
prove
by
led
has
chanson,
that
tortures.
the
to
importance,
incited
been
retracted
all
that
time,
months
subsequent
charged
be
he
weighing
Bossuet's
of
the
consider
not
should
since
sight
after
Bossuet,
had
B^ze;
de
during
however,
eighteen
he
that
torture
charged
dis-
who
Poitrot,
Guise
de
Theodore
by
311
that
Due
the
under
crime
that
remark
at
confessed
later,
to
will
we
MEDICI
giarized
plaB^ze.*
On
the
dieu
Paris,
reached
Reims,
which,
made
very
imposing
f^tes,
had
enabled
in
all
them
to
Catholic
Prince
Conde,
de
the
Reformation,
that
religion,
Guises
the
in
him
prince
their
party;
of
Queen
interfere.
These
on
Catherine,
whose
period
the
reply
had
been
of
de
devoid
of
with
which
of
Chatillon.
sent
by
to
the
whom
the
awaited
the
Beze,
did
needed
impatiently
and
Conde,
and
enlist
wife,
authority
de
de
impression
an
queen-mother,
(313)
De
Chaudieu
Prince
to
his
by
made
D'Andelot,
Coligny,
But
warned
the
side,
and
attempt
she
to
Antoine
character,
so
of
party
inclined
over
newly-born
Calvin,
the
their
win
obstacles
tranquillity;
of
Navarre,
being
the
queen-mother's
the
On
to
morency,
Mont-
nephew,
were
against
list
en-
oppose
de
of
sons
to
to
or
whose
reformers.
Navarre,
not
whose
endeavoring
were
Bourbon,
and
either
leader
the
was
liberty
at
was
Connetable
Catholics,
inveighed
with
alliance
of
she
all
different
the
all
throne,
The
of
leaders
the
the
was
magnificent
of
alternatives:
of
support
another.
one
occasion
parties,
these
between
choose
direction,
studying
and
That
crowned.
been
assemble
to
After
interests
conflicting
them
her
the
from
thither
Catherine's
and
her.
about
had
under
ceremony,
to
IX.
Chau-
and
returned
court
Charles
where
parties
the
B^ze
de
Theodore
when
day
De
the
the
Beze
King
Cardinal
meanwhile,
DE'
CATHERINE
314
her
to
was
true
The
chancellor
try
of
and
the
had
Sagne
to
the
procedure
declaring
blood.
The
anew.
handed
The
Parliament,
restored
and
property,
at
the
king's
of
accession,
for
advocate
to
de
Monsieur
which
under
constable
was
to
was
set
free
on
the
admitted
the
in
and,
once,
as
an
of
exertions
part
interests
is
join forces
with
to
in
so
always
that,
them
orators
provide
an
of
politics an
of brief duration.
sooner
against
all
imposing
process
chemistry
Guises
the
interests
first shock
the
conference,
proposed
the
to
in
as
at
union,
in
was
Just
fully realized
of
acts,
eyes.
forced
their
of
coalition
first
always
self-esteem
intended
at
isfactory,
unsat-
privileges,
Orleans
at
the
by
his
who
first
the
proofs
the
La
burned
who
was
all
to
future
certainly return
The
the
from
taken
through
that
her
of opposing
would
began
sufferings, was
substances
Catherine
she
Parliament
acquitted
Catherine's
by
disturbs
alliance
the
the
Thou.
formation
hostile
of
finding
Parliament
the
triumvirate,
menaced
of
his
to
solicitation
excitement
was
powerless
the
Christophe,
the
be
queen-mother
prince
honors.
time
recompense
The
the
of
papers
the
liament
Par-
judgment
Catherine,
of those
delivery
the
to
papers
to
against
the
it to
At
Conde.
de
cause
quashed
pledge, fruitlesslygiven
Guises.
the
queen-mother,
been
The
them.
end
an
the
prosecution
the
Prince
by
prince
Guises
the
Paris, which
commission
the
to
transferring
by
of
promises
put
Christophe,
MEDICI
which
later,
or
and
the
the
guenots.
Hu-
tickled
parties, which
ceremony
to
DE'
CATHERINE
follow
of the
that
from
the
coronation,
bloody
already inaugurated,
of the
Guises
would
of
pretext
under
Cardinal
with
the
of
eloquence
his
a
brother
this
to
of
Catherine
his
Amyot,
of
This
informed
of this
counted
a
firm
intended
from
to
to
order
to
crutch;
such
have
was
persuaded
were
peace
the
it upon
in
the
fond
of
Almoner
Due
the
by
other
pupil.
the
the
Gondis.
de
She
to obtain
crown
in order
Cardinal
she
coronation
by
Cardinal
phrase
on
Paris, Catherine
Church
in
house
Grand
giftof
as
him,
voys
en-
to
Reims
the
by
the
very
IIL, Amyot's
in the
to
the
shared
so
up
down
when
was
him
office in the
oppose
bestow
the
compromising
At
appointment
supporter
somebody
in
that
upon
by
Coligny's
was
Henri
journey
heretics
day
who
affection
the
During
Catherine
handed
Louvre.
appointed
afterward
mother.
building
very
at
IX.,
tutor,
France.
d'Anjou,
was
the
Charles
ceremony,
France,
his
near
scene,
arrived
near
the
on
all
of
was
the
on
Geneva
Bethisy,
olics
Cath-
by
months
very
following
historians, occurred
from
eyes
queen-mother.
which
The
of
Church,
the
war
opportunity
and
the
Six
was
laboriously.
face
cajoled
of
princes
the
The
the
king
vanquishing
the
in
Huguenots,
the
the
occurrence
power
Rue
of
consent.
to
trivial
in
tion
atten-
religious
useless
seize
Lorraine,
the
boon
great
A
de
idea
would
doctrine
protection
The
the
the
their
the
of
distract
in Catherine's.
as
conferring,
proclaim
to
to
quite
was
315
and
carpet
well
as
be
MEDICI
to
Lorraine;
de
have
she
Tournon,
L'HSpital,
used.
arriving
On
second
3l6
was
repeated by
are
"
the
Conde
dirt, and
eat
miserable
little
with
with
the
"
like
had
his
won't
de
neck
my
fied
satis-
be
had
for
asked
not
honored
tutor, deemed
poor
replied Catherine,
IX.
temporizing
of
to
if you
the
IX. missed
Guisard
probably
place
What!
him
has
grand
he
be
on
your
make
wear
his
and
asked
Amyot
almoner?"
put
perhaps
hiding
very
ished
cher-
king
and
the
out
of
in
the
first dinner,
for him.
the
he
son,
hat, adopted
into
At
clesiastica
ec-
cobbler's
and
went
informed
been
considerable
cardinal's
he
little circumlocution,
the
covetous
Amyot,
between
III. gave
don't
so
most
crown,
Saint-Germain.
Charles
won't
you
with
the
policy;
Henri
such
"
mind."
very
ambition
and
hence
resignation of
become
the
made
he,
"that
"
office under
*'
the
Prince
own
death, threatened
and
taken
the
who
In truth, he
hours
pupil change
abbey
which
Colignys,
around
you,
Charles
author,
great
Between
have
post of which
twenty-four
who
and
of his
title which
that
your
Navarre
assured, master,"
Rest
feet
strange words,
unworthy.
the
was
priest
king,
that
himself
cobbler's
upstart
the
I must
apologized.
anything;
in
in
wrought
bishopric of Auxerre!"
the
Amyot
that
Guises,
of
House
the
havoc
wrath
memoir-writers:
some
constables,
him
him
I make
What!
of
ambition
Her
tutor.
the
saw
addressed
she
that
son,
she
the
policy by
MEDICI
for the
sent
when
great
so
her
she
Louvre,
the
at
to
DE'
CATHERINE
of
Some
what
had
queen-mother.
sight
asked.
because
DE'
CATHERINE
He
went
frame
of mind
when
one
of their
children
inquired,
sign for
to
me
of which
promise
not
will
me,
should
cared
bestow
father
my
The
were
was
"
He
king!"
she
office of
you
with
any
other
thought.
king
whom
you
other
candid
These
have
and
upon
difficult
as
yet
to
deal.
those
alive
If they
yonder
the
Lorraines
with
me
as
You
sew
than
me
she
have
never
mother,
your
long
have
alike,
person
in
tached
at-
efforts
Guises
sack
and
said, waving
her
up
be
lioness
the
and
master-minds
for whose
your
the
"
days,
been
The
him
replied,
it would
am
breast.
made
will
have
and
manner,
character;
who
the
friend
river,"
feel that
cellor
chan-
king
his
in these
one
to-day.
"
I have
treat
in the
she
except
could
and
me
who
crown
Seine,
my
! and
blow
to
me,
reliable
your
into
toward
be
to
of his true
a
service, and
not
that.
me
very
that
fourteen,
at
choose
Monsieur,"
"
"
than
her
might
mark
hand
retainers
designs
toss
is
to
unacquainted
are
to
you
thus
speaks
of age
spoke,
son
received
had
you
were!"
Catherine
to
if she
as
her
Did
The
jealousy!
you
virtue
by
only favor
the
king, by God
be
in which
revelation
and
letter
asked
you
it to me,
declared
grandfather
and
tone
handed
your
now,
"did
kingdom?
yet
me
I will
which
the
"
my
and
arouses
baby.
you
from
years
like
when
of having
talks
three
govern
yours?
be
to
to
are
you
thrown
entered,
he
letter
Parliament
the
violent
always
are
as
the
unhesitatingly sign
not
in the
is thwarted.
caprices
he
317
apartments
which
into
"Madame,"
it
mother's
his
to
MEDICI
done
to-night.
defending
3l8
DE'
CATHERINE
her
who
whelps,
reach
alliances?
his
will
of
Instead
weakened
have
threatens
in
head
blood;
of
cobbler,
be
shoestrings,
However,
you
him!
consult
me
State,
and
when
the
man
are
fond
let
in
to
know
you
the
Amyot,
you
as
fore,
there-
endowed
this
Amyot,
lance
his
tying
with
him?
have
pointed
ap-
sieur!
gratified,mon-
be
up
mind,
your
Heed
of
reasons
will
sense
perhaps
long experience,
my
difficulties
the
prince of
making
decision
same
hat
than
more
good
boyish
you
his
keeps
Will
friendliness.
all
words
Lorraine
cardinal
break
of
his
importance,
first wish
your
your
the
to
nothing
services
de
he
his?
hereafter, before
But
come
of
capable
to
are
power,
first
the
another
authority superior
will
king,
utmost
him
to
oppose
the
what
Cardinal
of
presence
where
your
up
the
plays
it not
was
to
with
he
you,
his
The
it.
he?
weight
propping
For
crown.
stand?
has
what
you?
for the
tutor
your
which
hands
the
out
influence
what
render
he
have?
on
does
for 'iyhat
whom,
back
thrusts
they presumptuously
MEDICI
that
in
lie
your
path."
"You
king,
will
who
give
had
"Yes,
you
neither
he
how
reign."
"You
by
his
sullen
shall
nor
shall
brutal
that
do
triumph
expression
in her
him,"
have
which
his
aside
features
his
to
replied.
Cypierre
laying
the
rejoinder.
she
that, mother,"
and
said
overcarefully
listened
not
master!"
my
mother,
to
back
me
will
teach
"But
you
said, mollified
he
the
threatening,
naturally
wore.
DE'
CATHERI^fE
Catherine
sent
courtier
stricken
in
the
than
the
to
of
king,
her
Charles
conduct
with
only
over,
Louvre
the
friends
her
as
with
the
complimented
upon
firmness.
is
"What
question
the
to
done?"
be
to
Gondis,
She
"
propounded
Ruggieri, Birague,
and
the
"
He
de
of
is
courtier,
no
and
all," said
"
Whom
"
One
of
"Faith,"
the
king
"
as
You
do
said
allowed
your
at
and
Chi-
chancellor
to
other
him
said
accede
proper
to
your
discharge
of
you."
thwart
exclaimed
the
queen.
Birague.
"I
handle
the
the
to
Condi,
to
replace Cypierre.
"
never
that
I trust?"
us,"
easy
would
he
required
can
Birague,
think
would
functions
his
the
Anjou.
First
views,
save
but
blown
adopted
had
Cypierre
whom
and
instructions
from
be
to
the
to
IX.
having
counsel
that
returned
her
absent
been
In
protection,
with
that
terror-
was
write
to
he
that
follow
took
year,
course
young
his
abbey.
hurricane
had
who
the
would
little domestic
Catherine,
leave
obliged
told
been
he
of
relations
discovered
queen,
terms
he
had
had
grand
new
the
was
such
that
in his
This
not
319
of the
bishop
by
assurance
condition
blindly
the
Catherine
herself
more
Florentine
would
and
received
on
the
sent
was
extremity,
tutor
in search
retreat, and
Amyot's
the
Condi
When
almoner.
MEDICI
as
Constantinople
the
king
late
children;
will
now
"
do
promise
to
make
King of Navarre."
to
die
in
as
the
men
great noble-
simply
make
order
this
to
one's
DE'
CATHERINE
produced
remark
that
king
bestowing
doing something
lost
has
live
I will
oppose
We
should
have
de
Tournon
on
one
of my
his
cardinal's
been
As
for the
bourgeois
by
which
my
find
Condi
actually
Retz, and
de
and
it
Paris, 1
bishop,
by
Cardinal
the
grand
the
made!
have
a
and
them,
as
head
his
on
devising
am
knave
long
as
would
wheedle
may
his
trio
Thou
De
of
method
shall
we
in them."
support
sure
What
side.
our
son
hat; yes,
strong with
very
to
That
friends.
Pope's putting
the
The
assent
my
flat-footed
for
L'Hopital,
almoner,
for
me
that
effect,
Condi.
governor,
on
favor
whom
upon
pronounced
very
certainly repay
must
Amyot
king's
the
be
shall
"you
321
rejoined Catherine,
agreed,"
It is
"
MEDICI
became
appointed
marshal,
the
to
governor
created
was
king
Due
a
few
days thereafter.
As
de
Tournon
at
summoned
once
of maids
of honor
built
her
by
of
Louvre
In those
the
Tour
were
in
in
part,
des
the
queen
at
the
them
into
passed
the
does
which
to
of
sure
en-
The
Louvre.
redoubtable
her
envoys
body-guard
reception-hall,
exist
not
in
the
to-day.
days,
the
on
and
husband,
de
staircase
salle
the
respectful treatment
them
queen
to
Cardinal
end, the
an
Coligny accompanied
Admiral
Calvin;
to
came
stairway
old
buildings,
courtyard
the
ballets.
Musee
A
of
the
Louvre
Catherine's
I'Horloge.
the
of
the
which
of the
was
ballet
are
at
apartments
still
on
that
standing,
The
Musee.
built
in
was
the
site
period
present
of
was
the
a
whole
aroused
passions
credit
given
be
to
king,
made
him
placed
under
Louvre
the
side
"//
words:
citizens."
"
It is
which
Louvre
which
the
is
of
the
like
the
Musee,
the
greater part of
was
occupied by
of
the
House
for
Charles
Henri
under
the
now
river, or
under
monument
site
of the
to
see
even
did
not
Charles
possess
maps
itself bears
ing
connect-
Apollo
the
by
IX.
fajade
of the
on
Infanta,
belonging
Louvre,
of
from
to
the
which
windows,
and
the
Louvre
represented,
refutation
was
crossing
if scholars
Even
on
it
as
Huguenots
accurately
the
and
Charles
present
Bourbon,
Seine
edifice.
is
under
the
that
IX.
Louvre,
tlie
physically impossible
was
boatload
the
part of
so-called
Garden
de
It
II.,upon
walled-up, of
libraries
the
Hotel
French
Tuileries
the
tJiat
historians
quay,
the
by
fire from
to
the
exist
the
old
the
on
so-called
wijidow
all that
not
Navarre.
IX.
this
did
of the
and
quay,
of
It consisted
future
that
with
inscription
fired upon
called
Louvre
to
tragedy
an
quay.
remind
Louvre
the
adverse
projecting portion
from
hatchet
of
memory,
to-day
with
salon
gallery, and
The
the
persons
projects
halls
of
fitting to
sober-minded
and
the
IX., of execrable
Charles
ing
Dur-
Chenier's
of
cerning
con-
misrepresented,
was
was
caused
error
belief
influence
the
the
on
these
the
Louvre.
the
monster.
window
the
upon
of
popular
perfect
laughable
most
character
whose
written
was
to
Revolution,
that
which
Revolution
the
by
IX., apropos
Charles
the
in
participated.
court
The
MEDICI
entertainment
dramatic
of
species
of
DE'
CATHERINE
322
of this
the
error.
DE'
CATHERINE
All
the
an
of
anagram
bears
quay,
which
his
are
of D
the
with
and
first
portion of
the
Louvre,
Infanta
Henri
did
would
The
la
from
Henri
III.,Henri
same
narrative
real
with
the
begins,
appearance
which
which
nothing
we
When
enables
us
of
other
exists
the
court
to
to-day
refer, where
deteriorating day
by
the
descriptions
that
in
the
Hotel
de
the
mark
ture
architec-
fashion
under
This
arch"-
"
is
in
which
an
idea
of
corner
the
superb
tecture
archi-
the
with
save
III.
calumny.
way,
form
was
the
Renaissance
XIII.
it
Henry
Louvre,
Louis
been
as
of
in
de'
have
of Paris
of
style
IV., and
He
its unfinished
difference
the
so-called
the
IV,
its gardens
of
ciphers
part of
that
sort
domain.
contradict
architectural
the
to
plan
protuberances
of
united
with
means
exist, the
not
IV.,
Henri
carvings
the
unsparingly
and
transition
by
if the
and
vermiculated
Force,
Henri
joining Catherine
Louvre
Even
the
upon
forming
Louvre
valuable
IX.
IV.
of
looks
Bourbon,
the
to
galleries, whose
or
III. and
Henri
de
idea
the
to
Charles
which
projects
or
and
venerable
Catherine,
Hotel
the
sadly neglected.
cipher
superficial observers.
his
palace
Henri
of
appurtenances,
Medici's
and
from
C's
two
conceived
under
of
ciphers
add
to
it their
that
misleads
which
left upon
that
building
Now,
different
very
able
was
the
in
co-operated
of the
Garden
the
323
sort.
some
blackened
to-day
upon
have
invariably
have
pile
vast
who
kings
MEDICI
the
this
of
the
Paris, of
portion
bas-reliefs
to
are
by day.
learned
that
the
queen
was
about
audience
give
to
introduced
who
thither
then
of
The
would
he
be
to
grown
while
incurable
one
meditating
Catherine's
and
of the
time
at
populace
his
between
that
dead
shocking
trivial act
of the
character
deserves
abundantly
of
the
two
formers.
re-
had
admiral,
and
after another,
trust
Dis-
"
constable's
of
time
"tio"
to
Saint
the
for
lay
mammoth
three
pick
tooth-
chroniclers
be
tholomew,
Bar-
gram
ghastly epi-
which
The
ascended
battle-field.
by inserting
midst
just
proverbial expression
body,
teeth.
had
toothpick
the
perpetrated
jest worthy
in the
depicts the
the
one
the
At
Montfaucon,
at
was
court.
Coligny's
on
in
teeth,
on
interview.
the
of
toothpick, the
"yes,"
the
days
retreat
admiral's
the
habit
audience
he
as
between
all his
upon
of
admiral
the
handling
courtiers
the
teeth
Louvre
constant
an
use
his
Chaudieu,
hall
witness
to
o'clock;
the
and
all those
the
enter
picking
was
staircase
the
six
B^ze
de
in order
about
and
supped,
to
MEDICI
Coligny,
de
entitled
were
was
Theodore
to
Admiral
by
hastened
It
DE'
CATHERINE
324
thought
recorded.
terrible
That
catastrophe
Parisian
populace,
in
jocose quip
well
which
Boileau's
line:
"
The
At
Frenchman,
all
during,
after
and
black
breeches,
de
silk
a
mischievous, created
Parisian
times, the
Theodore
in
bom
the
B^ze
has
horrible
was
dressed
stockings, strapped
slashed
doublet
of
jokes before,
cracked
most
guillotine."
the
revolutions.
like
shoes,
black
courtier,
tight-fitting
silk, with
the
DE'
CATHERINE
short
velvet
fluted
ruff.
He
at
his
sword
walks
cloak
the
with
with
the
him.
whose
bilious
sour,
What
vinists.
of
in the
how,
in that
be
daggers
at
desperate
place
may
that
court, at
drawn
war
six
and
friendly terms,
all, and
of
the
isterial
min-
the
Cal-
time
understand
to
us
who
men
to
could
wage
meet
and
courteously
to
were
later, and
another,
in
took
doubtless
help
months
talk
contrast
own
what
epoch,
one
upon
wore
our
very
to
band
in
and
Deputies
Convention
place
familiar
who
De
was
striking
is
by
time.
that
which
starched
the
takes
Chamber
the
poets of
Chaudieu,
and
costume
round, almost
tic
is characteris-
which
face
looks
or
surmounted
eyes,
formed
stern
Whoever
his
manner,
He
imperial, had
Louvre,
knows
and
snow-white
cane.
the
forehead
attractive
to
Coligny,
carried
sparkling
ample
an
serviceable
to
its
prose-writers
had
Beze
and
collections,
unusually
of the
moustache
galleries of
the
Odieuvre's
jovial face,
fell
side, and
through
over
325
which
over
wore
MEDICI
on
jestingly
together.
As
he
advise
entered
in
enjoin
upon
not
miss
to
Coligny,
blood
cold
and
the
his
of
massacre
de
the
Piedmontese
dear
admiral,
who
occasion,
forward
said
to
to
was
that
on
stepped
to
was
omew,
Saint-Barthol-
Lorraine,
Besme,
servant
admiral,
the
and
the
Cardinal
the
who
hall, Birague,
to
meet
with
him,
smile:
"
Well, my
to
**
present
Perhaps
these
you
will
so
gentlemen
impute
you
take
self
your-
Geneva?"
from
it to
it upon
me
as
crime,"
326
DE'
CATHERINE
admiral,
the
retorted
entitled
were
is
It
"
said
that
trust
Sieur
that
de
had
that
you
claim
Calvin
Lorraine
shall
we
would
you
if you
for it."
credit
to
Cardinal
the
jocosely, "whereas,
yourself,
it
undertaken
MEDICI
Theodore
to
ill," said
de
of
suspected
be
not
is very
Beze.
"
poisoning
his
soup."
"Ah!
it!"
monseigneur,
Due
of
both
were
taken
who
remain
in
of
scandal
But
said
religion who
that
remark.
"the
heretics
sharp politics."
difficulty,the
queen,
determined
moment,
by
to
with
conversing
vigorously
from
dear
the
the
are
upon
the
Calvin.
constable, that
admiral,
two
conversed
have
churches
the
of
Birague,
that
by
matter
began
instructions
his
which
my
and
receive
we
formality."
"these
bear
by
Chau-
eyeing
cardinal,
animadverted
see,
Madame,"
queen,
the
She
who
without
them
the
at
been
aback
receiving envoys
you
much
too
brother
possible
any
standing.
constable,
"
cried
announced
was
"
"
heterodox
forestall
To
his
at
whom
not
are
had
who
earnestly
l^rai-Dieu !
"
the
Guise,
de
dieu, gazed
lose
B^ze, shrewdly.
replied De
The
would
you
professors
to
France
of
Calvin,
with
relative
of
approaching
the
the
new
and
who
conference
may
adjust
B^ze,
to
at
their
differences."
"
wife
This
is much
coming
"
is Monsieur
And
attached,"
and
forward
this
Theodore
is
said
de
the
cried
my
King of Navarre,
taking Theodore
Chaudieu,"
whom
by
the
the
hand.
Prince
de
DE'
CATHERINE
Conde.
minister,"
the
know
327
Guise
de
Due
the
will
he
captain; perhaps
brother, the
to
friend
My
"
MEDICI
added,
he
his
knows
be
not
sorry
glancing
Le
at
Balafre.
That
Faith,"
to
fellow
and
men
dying,
stand
I could
when
brave
it
how
them
in
their
proper
said
to
he
the
out
with-
anything;
not
am
sure
did!"
Pare,
the
but
to
"
spear-head
never
said
of your
face
you
out
Calais."
at
Catherine,
the
at
silence.
Scrutinizing
to
penetrate
gaze
of
her
studied
"
them
One
"
to
you
may
be
thoughts
and
her
absolute
reformers,
with
the
black
Albert
Gondi,
de
said
hold
converted
who
smile,
"so
the
scabbard,
the
messieurs,"
to
Church,
honor
famous
two
their
be
to
restrain
leave
the
circle
semi-
the
fast
stead-
eyes;
she
other
the
closely.
said
Well,
of
beautiful, speaking
seems
blade,"
of
centre
left, maintained
and
right
tried
the
maids
her
by
courtiers,
she
in
standing
described
the
well
man,
he
as
pulled
lighted
de-
am
so
admitting
Ambroise
said
Humph!"
word
even
knows
without
"
extraordinary question
and
myself
Guise,
friends,"
the
yes,
I consider
who
your
minister, "endured
"
laugh,
court
de
employ
to
of
One
spheres.
that
whole
Due
the
replied
meet
his
select
the
herself.
Catherine
"
made
gasconade
in
her
Catherine,
your
by
are
the
the
words
glory of
at
of
our
new
able
last, un-
has
master
public conference,
ear.
at
given
which
Fathers
realm.?"
you
of
DE'
CATHERINE
Saint-Germain,
and
this
colloquy to
be
will
hold
it in
it would
as
held
the
MEDICI
in
329
royal residence,
the
Poissy,"
village of
little
for
unbecoming
be
we
said
Catherine.
"Shall
safe
be
we
madame?"
there,
inquired
Chaudieu.
"Ah!"
"
"
to
What
do
with
do
you
Chaudieu
aside
precautions.
Guise
and
constable.
the
ousness,
ingenu-
understanding
of
on
morency."
Mont-
"I'll
have
give
them
it."
do
to
sectaries
your
strength of character?"
such
take
an
cousins
my
of
touch
to
have
it!" said
take
Plague
how
will
with
subject
nothing
know
I'Amiral
Monsieur
with
queen,
will
"you
that
the
replied
few
said
leading
queen,
furrier's
My
"
steps.
the
to
son
was
sublime."
"
We
At
that
with
"Oh!
madame,
have
new
the
"Do
queried
us
you
the
projected
of
the
"
Colloquy
Chaudieu,
at
ing,
meet-
of
characterization
name
looked
if you
court
returned
given
the
groups
and
it,
of
said:
faith!"
"Yes,
Christ, which,
has
the
with
dotted
was
queen's
Catherine
with
hall
animation
the
taken
already
Poissy."
we
the
much
from
which,
alliance
replied Chaudieu.
moment,
discussing
had
faith!"
have
to
of
Rome,
the
equal
consider
queen,
you
rights
the
equality
by your
see
of
that
Jesus
of
souls,
earth."
on
Calvin's
yourself
shrewdly.
would
doctrine
true
by establishing
all
blinded
not
were
"
Nonsense,
equal?"
we
are
equal
in
only
simply,
the
Catherine.
against
the
about
and
the
heretics
not
are
obeying
king,
while
Pope."
the
and
abruptly,
talk
to
people
You
"
off allegiance to
left him
She
really,
between
rebel
you
throw
you
bonds
cried
throne!"
MEDICI
But,
church.
the
loosening
returned
Theodore
to
B^ze.
de
"
rely upon
this
monsieur,"
you,
in
colloquy
faith.
good
said,
she
Take
"to
duct
con-
all the
time
want."
you
"
supposed,"
Conde,
"
igny,
**
affairs of
all
The
hunchback
left his
This
appointment.
of
leader
of
party,
the
for
triumvir,
in
order
Guise,
wife
of
his
being
from
his
bestowed
her
with
the
the
prevail
who
utmost
to
to
with
Conde,
this
lants
galof the
women
the
fine
but
the
of
wife
that
time
death
Due
Mademoiselle
de
de
upon
de
before
by
the
Nemours
Rohan,
the
ture
fu-
Saint-
Duchesse
short
his
the
of
estate
the
over
favors, meanwhile,
keep
desperation
compass
seduce
to
favored
most
such
her
man
de
loveliest
two
him
in order
Prince
Saint-Andre,
the
intrigue
reformers.
him
to
unable
of
one
gave
Valery
axe;
said
glance with
knowing
partisans
great
the
de
Marechale
done
was
court;
fought
time
had
exchanging
ously."
seri-
more
want,"
we
Col-
de
treated
were
what
Admiral
de
B^ze.
de
the
know
Conde,
de
State
Prince
the
to
and
Navarre,
that
Theodore
an
of
King
we
Chaudieu
said
the
Oh!
Prince
the
DE'
CATHERINE
350
leader
she
of
DE'
CATHERINE
different
**How
Theodore
of
the
people
I
reason
in
Paris
most
devil
Calvin.
dangerous
of
and
as
as
advocate
first
I know
he
rely,
can
is
and
said
and
saints
have
will
make
to
propose
rid
us
of
the
enemies."
our
for
whose
more
sake
before
who
him
Parliament,
than
sold
poor
caused
the
tale-bearer
Avenelles,
the
already
has
advocate
an
very
erous."
treach-
so
"
question,
Remember
"
bridge
that
are
ear.
Christophe
the
admitted
an
our
to
treachery,"
more
queen-mother,
endured
be
to
for
and
they
companion's
his
of
The
why
with
whom
on
prophet
"
little
the
on
lively;
more
treachery
Chaudieu,
are
understand
cannot
"Fight
in
stood
they
as
Chaudieu
said
Louvre.
These
"
331
Geneva!"
from
B^ze,
de
MEDICI
an
the
sin.
assas-
secret
uprising."
Christophe,"
the
envoy
said
from
Chaudieu,
Geneva
parted.
confidently,
of
Several
same
year,
days,
the
reign,
the
see
drama
Mademoiselle
stool.
Lallier
had
with
preparation
Catherine
had
Once
of
with
the
house
Christophe
admiration
rife
were
him
of
with
exerting
done
to
all
his
deserve
his
nor
The
to
hold
visits
of
the
skill
father
now
her
save
peace,
Ambroise,
word
who
(333)
did
tales
strange
surrounded
He
gone
under-
had
Ambroise
Pare
What
him.
had
to
the
was
say
on
that
found
Prince
surgeon
he
tophe
Chris-
Neither
all-powerful,
as
ing.
even-
wondering
the
halo.
celebrated
to
Lecamus
until
which
treatment?
had
Babette,
the
and
quarter,
poetic
such
Catherine,
interest
the
and
question
of
object
the
became
leave
not
apprentices,
mysterious,
did
the
throughout
the
was
the
Christophe.
boy
to
came
and
was
whom
attentions.
consent,
morning
every
saturated
after
the
family,
he
Babette
Ambroise,
look
devoted
most
father's
her
his
by
and
by
to
easy-
resting
bandages
brought
instructed
recovered
object
the
an
were
Lecamus
renewed
just
until
living-room
feet
His
those
which
dark
large,
began.
in
from
fireplace
the
in
that
adopted
lying
was
the
in
river,
this
of
being
vin's
Cal-
of
close
Easter
at
not
Christophe
side
the
near
began
year
of
reception
and
calendar
"
that
which
on
the
present
on
could
in
for
"
next
chair,
Catherine's
ambassadors,
secret
the
after
days
it
de
ject.
subto
her
Conde.
to
the
and
king
and
the
of
accused
man
confusion
the
and
visits
those
of
causes
about
his
saved
him!
put one's
his
put
hand
and
youth,
This
has
decided
me
de
Justice
will
Palais
words.
his
now,
had
have
been
myself.
for
This
I don't
broken
conduct,
was
of
the
the
on
a
is
who
it; but
I have
of
but
the
his
and
acts
Scotland
in
son
Reformation
Except
cruelly
more.
now;
for
may
business,
up
any
"
lawyer,
suffered
court
legs.
enough
great.
my
giving
my
to
son
My
"
it has
Ambroise,
1 be?"
remarks
to
it
go
it
weigh
to
with
"
My
advantage
boy
my
to
to
and
arms
should
Thanks
tophe
enough
his
where
too!
never
get anything
never
him
have
to
"
from
to
him
to
must
bark!
fawning
do
confreres,
took
queen,
to
plan of
one
took
They
"
lead
may
propose
had
and
teach
imprudent,
son,
spoke
and
make
to
out
expect.?
from
deal
Bceufs
lucky, gossip,
tree
young
good
"
has
son
The
"
who
fire
misfortune
and
shame
friends
bourgeois
we
stand.
under-
aux
his
to
you
down!
house
strange
could
mapped
very
the
in
inexplicable the
more
replies
between
in
my
am
can
finger
burn
his
What
"
had
the
"
son:
involve
young
condition.
who
and
tradesmen
church-warden's
still
evasive
gave
to attend
Saint-Pierre
his
see
rendered
syndic,
procedure,
the
to
permitted
was
nobody
of
Christophe's
old
The
yet
to
which
cure
times
several
came
tended
heresy,
Lastly,
and
queen-mother
incident
an
MEDICI
of Guise,
House
the
latter
the
by
to
DE'
CATHERINE
334
was
no
of
declared
this
in
sort
the
longer afflicted
and
to
quarter
with
his
prudent
that
Chris-
Protestantism.
DE'
CATHERINE
Everyone
thought
should
to
and
try
the
detect
the
walk
and
talked
now
that
lectured
he
in
take
of
the
strous
mon-
lead
part
king
of
brewers
to
and
in
fly
in
If you
do.
day,
remember
by
not
and
his
two
subject of
godson
visit,
Christophe,
Parliament,
his
by
odght
oath
of his
doubt
no
those
the
bound
subjected
of
the
life
to
doxy,
ortho-
will
are
be
that
devoted
of
not
face
a
so;
treat
en-
and
favor
the
bestowed
on
enough
quence
conse-
Messieurs
as
counsellor
you
that
reason
for
be
not
cruel
henceforth,
disturbances;
to
to
treating you
king's
wish
for
You
the
could
words:
queen
storms.
bed,
his
in
myself
any
old
love
fashion.
tranquil
in the
and
his
paid
been
had
on
Christophe deeply;
be
have
idea
week
to
Thou
these
Guise
to
no
some
not
months
him
pitilesslyon
would
added
for
touched
advocate
he
no
de
you
to
seemed
Babette's
president, having
have
Messieurs
fatherly
an
child, you
I
Guise
de
was
the
"My
about
him
him
to
gravely
test,
did
they
three
lying
confined
was
Catholic,
but
be;
extraordinary.
have
prepared
had
President
religion.
after
crutches.
care
he
had
would
sitting up
tender
while
be
which
been
without
mother's
to
seemed
syndic
Parliament,
syndic's misfortunes,
had
been
women
old
the
in the
place
advdcate,
which
hall, had
now,
that
longer
no
ambition,
young
bed
yet
the
son
335
them.
to
The
visits
by
his
natural
get his
cure's
Engrossed
it
MEDICI
can
attachment
de
in Parliament
obtain
to
that
the
DE'
CATHERINE
Despite
this
Christophe
for
with
that
the
she
his torture,
had
tear.
ninety days
and
advocate
new
Orleans.
speak,
the
He
than
and
toward
the
queen,
served
her
better
for
such
of those
mind
circumstances,
at
so
to
the
incline
had
he
a
woman.
hope
always
from
than
woman
to
young
to
was
will
man
a
in
because
she
tections.
pro-
and
certain
much
from
reward
greater
and
serviceable
and
were
because
as
the
the
two
queen
more
reformers,
so
of
Blois
at
the
in
promise
spite of himself,
been
not
during
who,
convalescence,
between
had
sary
neces-
silence
events
in
the
to
heart
both
Under
his
the
certainly
explained
unreserved
nights of
wavered
and
profound
the
prince,
absolutely
respective advantages
Catherine
man
In
had
him,
an
estimated,
He
prince.
him
reviewed
He
who
was
sacrifice
given
half-shed
it
that
should
for the
profoundest respect
the
great queen,
glance
337
admiration
cherished
also
Catherine,
him
to
feeling of
MEDICI
man.
'*
I sacrificed
myself
she
will
do
for
me?"
He
himself
asked
that
remembering
"
Povero
man's
mio
"
thoughts
alone.
which
himself
Prince
de
expected
become
22
to
even
is the
alone.
By
be
to
when
he
Conde's
to
tone
It is hard
Everything,
of
of
the
in which
realize
dint
some
how
leads
of
said:
personal
in bed
exclusive
the
him
and
tions
attento
exaggerating
think
the
him,
Christophe
important
office at the
obligations
offered
had
she
is sick
he
object,
tarily,
involun-
almost
question
to
338
DE*
CATHERINE
rapid
their
the
of
in
confinement
dark
necessarily ungrateful
it triumphs,
it has
continue
be
to
ingratitude; but
whom
of
own
the
leaders
leaders
against
have
marched
its
manoeuvres
based
were
Christophe
which
it be
Wouldn't
Babette
of
the
wife
be
called
mad,
are
To
and
and
the
and
he
them
from
get your
to
gossip
real
whom
into
son
regent would
smells
footing
among
old
self
him-
last
at
all his
that
so
of
wolf
succeeded
hesitation
natural
victim.
he
had
said
family conclave,
in Parliament?
would
in
year
on
that
thing,"
in
master
"
You
to
be
to
would
1"
fine
counsellor
Madame
You
the
to
this
to
proclaimed
had
the
was
night before,
the
and
upon
not
remembered
thoughts;
secret
when
himself
numbered
shrewd,
party is
new
alone
Lecamus,
martyrs.
have,
who
the
it
secret
submit
long
so
Reformation
the
forgot
he
reward
to
Soldiers
"
people
Christophe,
of
of
one
**
many
turn
events
fighting; and
it is
too
and
Every
while
sufferings,already
his
hall.
in
position
practicallyin
was
old
their
and
ungrateful.
they
equality.
of
he
novice
men
leaders;
party
that
of
through
readily because
more
with
anxieties
progress
minds
the
engross
child, still
the
that
politics,forgot
and
This
Navarre.
of
court
MEDICI
I"
get
you
estate
that
would
you
Parliament,
have
little too
help him."
said
to
be
strong
Lallier.
the
a
ten
In
**
thousand
counsellor
purchase
the
must
a
seat?
queen-mother
interested
of
the
the
in
stake
him,
for
DE'
CATHERINE
would
What
**
of
wife
fox!"
want
said
to
of
Christophe's
ears,
Christophe
of
of
journey
syndic
feeble
attempt
affectation
of
boise, they
Navarre
Queen
To
"
you
look
out
air beneath
took
the
Tumult
that
much
for your
the
an
tween
be-
place
of
Am-
of
House
the
future."
father,
for
undertook
to
Now
the
read
he
Conde
is unable
Saint- Aignan
for the
of
instructs
Tower,
moment,
me
anything
whom
he
chase
purOur
letters
Conde
de
from
sieur
Mon-
Navarre.
Guild
to do
to
the
reply
of
Syndic of the
made
Beam.
Prince
the
Vice-Chancellor
de
of
deliver
to
name
"I
permission
magistracy
le Prince
whom,
his
behalf
LECAMUS,
to
all his
him, making
what
in
continued
in your
regret that
and
Chau-
of
word,
joyous
begins,
Christophe.
Pibrac,
in the
reminded
and
beside
sat
leaders
in your
Monseigneur
his
conceal
Jeanne.
SIEUR
and
when
narrative
in
"
in
rang
morning
one
Renaudie,
Blois,
so
Pare
I wrote
La
you
ofifice in
friend
de
"
to
request
which
and
owed
good,"
an
good
old
phrase
this
which
came
the
Yes, "said
formal
purse,
river, which
said, "after
he
ought
"Very
the
at
to
to
and
you
**
the
gravity.
son,"
"My
daughter
my
That
Conde,
de
the
"
of
colloquy,
with
scene
dieu, of his
the
gazing
Prince
hopes,
your
bottom
Parliament!
was
the
the
the
see
after
time
long
him
see
Lallier.
Counsellor
to
339
counsellor?"
You
"
give
you
MEDICI
he
Furriers:
to express
for
his
remembers
offers the
to
panion
com-
fectly,
per-
position of
his
make
in His
you
this, Monsieur
with
And
le
be
will
well
placed
opportunity
an
let it escape
her.
Syndic,
pray
we
to
is.
he
that
man
will not
Christophe, and
Sieur
he
awaits
Navarre
of
Queen
brave
the
MEDICI
wliere
company,
like
way
The
"
his
in
gendarme
"
DE'
CATHERINE
340
reward
to
God
have
to
keeping.
"
PIBRAC,
"
of Navarre."
Chancellor
"mrac."
"
Gascons,
they
his
with
can't
of
think
no
themselves."
but
one
from
anything
expect
"You
Babette.
said
Lecamus
Old
glanced
at
son
mocking
expression.
"
He
his
had
who
to
proposes
put
and
knees
boy
poor
horseback,
on
crushed
ankles
"
Lecamus;
Mademoiselle
exclaimed
for
him!"
ghastly
what
joke!"
"
said
Navarre,"
"
said
"
She
your
could
promised
I
make
of
counsellor
for
"
He
if I
me,
and
a
that
bourgeois
to
were
call
upon
discomfited.
said
she
laugh
not
Queen
what
at
and
the
would
man,
trades-
remember
But
you.
a
old
how
Protestant
Parliament?"
can
has
confine
not
his
abjured !"
cried
bette.
Ba-
religious opinions
himself, surely."
"
The
Prince
in
magistrate
know
to
nothing,"
you
Christophe
"Why,
well
certain
am
sufferings
she
right
Christophe, utterly
but
"
being
your
syndic.
do
would
Catherine
her,"
the
like
should
of
little chance
see
de
Conde
would
be
less
contemptuous
to
DE'
CATHERINE
with
of
counsellor
MEDICI
341
Parliament
the
of
said
Paris,"
Lecamus.
"Counsellor,
to
"Yes,
if you
do
you.
for
gladly give
much
a
hundred
it, to
it to
you
for
I will
said
Paris,"
"Well,
add
fine
in
put
seignorial
the
as
estate
line, and
male
for
more
in
house
without
Babette.
queen,"
the
the
was
reply.
after
days
apprentice
if I
dowry."
your
something
reckoning
are
few
would
who
Lallier.
advocate's
Lallier
livres
Christophe.?" queried
"You
young
buy
I propose
what
thousand
descent
give
with
gossip
my
for
And
"
Here's
with
possible?"
interfere
provision
will
we
is it
don't
two
more
with
father!
handed
this
disillusionment,
bitter
Christophe
following
the
an
laconic
note:
Chaudieu
"
Let
"
him
"O
he
wishes
entered
"have
from
Thanks
endure
to
received
of
God,
as
embraced
who
gave
But
what
advocate,
an
allegiance, you
"
It
"
But
wives,
was
my
must
father's
we
everything,
minister,
the
as
advocate,
injuries.?"
your
have
not
and
you
do
the
I hear.?
have
you
acknowledged
the
the
Pare!"
torture!
the
been
oath
recovered
Christophe.
cried
martyr!"
to
son."
exclaimed
and
thanks
his
see
room
the
you
"Yes,
"
in!"
come
blessed
my
to
strength
have
you
taken
the
to
the
harlot,
Church.?"
wish."
leave
endure
our
fathers, children,
all
for
the
blessed
DE'
CATHERINE
342
of
cause
Calvinism?
the
great Calvin,
rely upon
your
have
must
is
Christophe,
the
party,
courage,
remarkable
that
the
sacrificinghimself,
hope
in the
most
river
to
his
boldly
to
that
between
crushed
We
the
Thus
life,the
had
he
the
During
the
on
if discovered,
child
and
terrible
where
when
Christophe
asked
his
of
romance
treaty, which,
those
death.
to
of
minister,
had
him
cost
Catherine,
and
being
forward
Guises
the
Change,
au
likely to
was
upon
soldier, and
the
Catherine
to
carry
builds
perilous emergencies.
Pont
under
of soul
self-sacrificingman,
most
while
prince,
the
future,
characteristic
even
the
world, the
grandeur
your
Calvin,
life."
this
mind,
human
whole
your
There
Ah!
MEDICI
relied
had
gone
the
enemies,
just escaped
torture,
he
said
himself:
*'
I shall
But
boy
that
at
who
from
still almost
life because
he
impossible
was
and
torture,
do
"What
it is
demand:
brutal
was
the
this!
get through
who
had
seen
to
indulge
you
want
only pain!'*
Die!"
"
made
recovered
helpless, hardly
the
was
death
so
in further
me
to
as
Stuart
more
near
upon
attached
to
it
hand,
at
illusions.
do?"
Christophe
rejoined, tranquilly.
"
Fire
pistol, bravely,
"At
whom?"
"At
the
de
Minard.**
at
Guise."
murder?"
"A
"
Due
did
An
act
of
gentlemen
vengeance!
slaughtered
Do
on
you
the
forget
same
the
dred
hun-
scaffold
at
DE'
CATHERINE
Amboise
saw
"
that
butchery:
We
should
the
Oh!
"
and
religion of
strike
them,
Chris-
retorted
Church
the
if
'*
France.*
not
Gospel,"
the
he
we
itate
im-
to
are
Catholics?"
friend,"
my
will
replied
the
be
lawyer,
you
Chaudieu.
said
advocate.
the
and
ungrateful things,
principles are
followers
made
have
they
pleading!"
are
No,
*'
and
blows
reform
Christophe,
you
said, when
beheaded
have
They
receive
"Why
tophe.
343
is the
that
MEDICI
of
playthings
"But
you
and
the
House
your
of
Bourbon."
Oh!
"
would
know
Bourbons
that
this!"
Pibrac's
Ah!
"
the
the
betrothal
drag
himself
o'clock
his
was
of
and
house
to
pay
you
The
gloves!
hands."
the
the
handing
ter
minis-
down
Chaudieu
were
The
with
his
forty
and
no
The
thousand
to
his
livres
of
in
old
the
for
he
beginning
was
they
contracts.
family
longer slept;
It
crutches.
and
room.
in honor
Babette,
family notary
business
Lallier
assembled,
stairs, and
without
left the
the
scene,
evening,
no
can
you
pity you!"
Christophe
Pare.
covered
Christophe
along
the
this
family
and
up
in
Ambroise
like
Calvin,
ambitious,
words,
after
hall, where
go
table
noble
Lecamus
could
them
are
are
yourself
days
and
dark
heard
Christophe,
child, you
those
Some
we
had
letter.
my
With
gloves,
said
sacrifice
longer
handle
we
the
are
Read
"
if you
Christophe,
nine
was
expecting
were
sat
to
in front
furrier
had
of
sold
cash
for
the
DE'
CATHERINE
linen.
Good.
Hurry!
hurry!
the
By
hunt
MEDICI
in
wax-candles.
finest
things
put
way,
all
up
345
the
you
own.''
what's
"Why,
Saint-Pierre
The
"
for
the
whose
for Monsieur
and
Do
bargain.
In
de
mother
Christophe's
with
about
the
of
activity
Notwithstanding
surprise.
notification
caused
in the
made
were
with
you
from
the
were
on
such
by
speechless,
and
stared
bustled
taken
confusion
of
the
that
tions
preparathe
on
surprised,
favor,
founded
con-
utterly
was
while
mechanically
by
which
celerity bordering
mark
feet.
their
aunt
Christophe, bewildered,
marvellous.
have
Louvre."
family party,
a
may
that
housekeepers
the
ing
wait-
are
concluded
Babette's
and
to
who
Thou,
families
both
They
Christophe
it appear
let
not
instant,
an
of
cure
coming
are
"
seat
been
the
king
surgeon.
counsellor
aged
purchase,
the
and
an
asked
Boeufs.
aux
queen-mother
with
sup
matter.?"
the
others
the
worked.
The
"
king
and
house!"
queen
in
echoed
Babette;
our
said
the
old
we
to
mother.
The
"
and
say
In
hall
the
hour, everything
decorated,
was
of
horses'
flaring
escort
to
**
what
are
do?"
an
sound
The
queen!"
of
brought
their
table
the
hoofs
torches
was
carried
all the
windows.
was
transformed,
heard
by
in
the
of
commotion
the
old
The
fairly gleamed.
bourgeois
The
the
streets.
of
horsemen
the
hood
neighborwas
soon
346
DE'
CATHERINE
queen-mother
and
de
Condi,
Charles
and
governor
old
counsellor
and
two
the
the
king
the
on
so
Charles
IX.;
of
master
household
the
de
Thou,
in
said
One
must
must
be
the
Pinard,
Catholic
be
must
one
crown,
to
son;
remains
he
Catholic
sign
but
we
Catholic.
sit at
to
one
the
under
estate
an
the
to
Parliament,
enter
possess
come
furrier's
that
to
I have
our
Catholic
entering
on
queen,
and
of
condition
be
a
the
son
my
marriage-contract
do
the
king; Monsieur
the
to
pillars only
King
son,
grand
people,"
"
room,
her
the
pages.
Cood
"
under
remained
There
over.
MEDICI
king's
the
If
king,
but
we
Pinard
"
sire,"
Yes,
his knee,
which
albeit
the
few
"
to
held
king
who
hand
the
kissing
him.
also
kiss, suddenly
bending
Lecamus,
to
out
added,
he
assemblage.
and
difficulty,
with
fire;
the
raised
hand
her
gave
him
and
led
to
him
steps apart.
Look
you,
We
"
the
upon
little
the
into
not.?"
we
are
Christophe
said
Catherine,
Christophe
a
around
young
Queen
letters-
said
here,"
everything
throw
Catholics,
proudly
glancing
with
appeared
all Catholics
will
all
are
State
hand.
not
are
we
"
his
in
patent
"
of
secretary
my
fine fellow,"
are
playing
Yes, madame,"
reward
grateful
queen
for
he
his
bestowed
an
said,
she
open
upon
him.
no
terfuges!
sub-
game!"
replied, dazzled
services, and
"
by
by
the
the
honor
some
handthe
DE'
CATHERINE
"
and
son
give
queen.
of
Thou
De
"
I will
"
Very
the
said
here,"
Groslay
in
steps
foot-
the
president."
first
the
my
negotiate for
to
Goodman
king
the
You
"
the
of
347
Lecamus,
permission
you
Parliament
in
seat
Monsieur
well,
Very
MEDICI
forward.
stepped
for
answer
draw
well;
madame,"
him,
the
said.
he
said
notaries,"
papers,
Pinard,
"
Since
signing
will
"
king
the
the
The
ladies
mother's
my
Old
kissed
the
and
have!"
said
king began
Will
the
royal patent
us
see
Old
goblet
their
on
and
knees
bourgeois
these
ear.
so
kindly disposed,"
deign
to
permit
and
will
they
furs
said
the
dear
my
our
in his
supply
him,"
claims."
his
to
me
present
continue
to their
to
him
households.?"
king.
who
successor,
turned
pale.
"With
take
to
bride, I will,
laugh.
summoned
Lecamus
deathly
them
to
successor
Let
*'
king,
young
the
money
Majesties, being
their
my
"
to
Lecamus,
old
much
how
"
hand.
Gondi
whispered
The
"
sire,
to
the
my
fell
Lallier
king's
young
"Mordieu!
waive
assent,
Lecamus
said
wedding-gift
Lallier,
estate."
the
seated,"
be
may
For
"
graciously.
with
price of
whole
pay
of
honor
the
us
cried
contract,"
daughter's
my
does
master
our
seats
at
had
Lecamus
which
the
he
had
mother's
permission,
supper-table,"
the
tact
obtained
to
give
from
said
the
we
the
king
Benvenuto
will
all
king.
a
silver
Cellini
348
and
Nesle,
thousand
which
the
That
"
Pardon,
is from
Paris
by
France
is the
"I
this
"It
is
than
two
cried
the
king,
in
to
of
can
him.?
He
The
the
in
IX., "and
after
queen,
among
Ambroise,"
the
she
and
surgeon
taken
you
good
was
care
she
make
sustained
in
IX.,
subsequently
up
like
descents
with
with
the
which
the
the
of this
sort
only
queen
great queen
diamonds
goblet.
became
of
lack
levity for
which
loss
the
for
was
of her
one
for the
parting
ruin
animated;
slipped
finger,to
to
but
smile.
cleverly."
very
go
queen,
very
with
surgeon,
him
blamed,
so
was,
Master
the
not
beauty, and,
to
made
included
be
"to
"have
said
will
been
who
is
the
addressing
seduced
she
supper
said
Well,
"
tone,
fly,"
replied
always
Florence
walk.?"
he
monk,"
Babette's
from
what
made
was
goblet."
my
Christophe,
abbey
has
it
"
Charles
said
enough,"
low
have
you
but
queen,
chef d'oeuvre,
can
The
be
treasures.
pointing
Lecamus,
Anything
goodman,"
the
continued
Catherine.
king's."
beautiful
crown
said
said
the
it shall
examining
"
de
less
no
work!"
Florence,"
to
accept,
"Ah!
H6tel
its base.
Florentine.
belong
"
the
at
him
lovely
madame,"
would
the
in Paris
cost
what
goblet by
"
after
had
mother,
raising
in
residence
MEDICI
crowns.
Oh!
"
of his
time
the
at
DE'
CATHERINE
the
one
which
ficial.
super-
praised
that
she
on
her
Lecamuses
King
Charles
dicted
ad-
rather
too
much
upon
his
bourgeois
DE'
CATHERINE
heartily; then,
subjects, supped
new
incited
he
the
first
the
of
secretary
bourgeois
of
point
the
becoming
rose,
queen
took
women
the
and
with
women
information
If the
madame,"
Due
is in
Guise
de
are
smile,
removed
her
out
her
glove,
favor;
beautiful
hand,
"So
they
thought,
with
to
she
as
mounted
her
two
with
close
to
of
door
the
the
pull
erine
Caththe
two
Christophe:
so
famous
which
could
her
"the
ear,
for
rid
to
but
with
as
of
me
her
and
beauty,
considered
be
kissed
he
and
that
soul.
ling
swashbuck-
that
assistance
any
mule,
its
royalist,heart
on
her
you,
Catherine,
said
Christophe,
became
put
to
to
forget you."
hand,
that
benefit
assassins."
from
never
propose
from
me!"
she
glove.
and
returned
to the
Louvre
pages.
Christophe's
drank
two
the
and
of any
be
danger
soldier, without
She
said
will
I will
of
mark
and
ventured
loyal subject,"
and
"
held
She
that
to
Lecamus
said, speaking
he
"You
a
gesture, and
instant
is it?"
"What
"
old
the
on
significant sign.
stopped, dismissed
her
the
Catherine
hilaritywas
escorted
made
and
notary,
father,
Christophe
and
ex-counsellor,
The
his
precepts,
Queen
that
the
Christophe,
There,
sleeve
old
his
tion
instruc-
virtuous
uproarious.
torches
shop.
queen's
freely
so
under
the
cure,
her
took
State, the
from
word
was
the
president,
drink
to
said,
was
349
at
forget Cypierre's
him
make
to
it
who,
governor,
MEDICI
his
face
wore
guests;
gloomy
Ambroise's
expression
austere
as
he
features
for
him
reproached
would
his
have
wealth
and
him
has
Lallier's
successor,
body
piers of
for such
the
was
Such
guilty of
of
an
origin of
later
period,
the
advantage
President
Xlll.,
Lecamus
magnificent
palace
the
which
is
who,
mansion
of Parisians
unquestionably
in Paris.
Juigne,
at
was
pillaged
then
Archbishop
then
destroyed;
of
It is still in
Thorigny, although
it
one
as
and
the
with
of Paris.
wealthy
built
the
most
to
All
on
the
Monsieur
the
and
beautiful
existence,
of
the
Lambert
the
strangers,
outbreak
that
him
and
belonging
the
that
XIV.,
Louis
shared
which
in
succeeded
of
of
as
situated
father
under
found
themselves
who
son,
is
from
came
Lecamuses
was
the
was
admiration
structures
were
which
Christophe's
Louis
not
Reaux
des
they
describe
to
principal estate,
under
formers.
re-
tary
parliamen-
Tallemant
that
it to
celebrated
stating
At
province.
the
gratified,but
in
Picardie.
their
ilar
sim-
Calvinist,
long by
ere
to
dered,
shud-
undergone
was
the
Lecamus.
error
their
hair
Babette
have
of
naked
her
by
remained
ambition
wife
the
whose
Change.
assumed
assassins.
of
creature
might
name
the
family
the
death.
his
was
fate
au
she
Calvin's
after
cruel
Christophe
had
treatment
for
would
estate
days hanging
Pont
that
thinking
mark
beautiful
tainly
cer-
mew,
Saint-Bartholo-
seignorial
the
was
of the
until
his
subsequent
Christophe
the
escaped
recorded
History
but
syndic.
shining
MEDICI
apostasy,
old
not
made
have
one
his
justified the
events
de
DE'
CATHERINE
350
Rue
lution
Revode
paintings
boarding-schools
which
DE'
CATHERINE
built
palace,
Rue
de
la
formerly
be
to
by
rear
by
doubt
made
the
such
still
exhibits
the
spirit
whether
equal
monuments.
351
injured
have
money
produced
permitted
ever
with
Pelleterie,
engendered
will
since
it
occupied
have
MEDICI
in
it
the
family.
modern
division
old
house
grand
the
of
That
sadly.
on
results
We
may
individualism,
of
inheritances,
SECRET
THE
THE
OF
RUGGIERI
Between
the
latter
de
house
those
It
days
long
wide-open
were
and
in
the
of
carved
running
of
heart
low
so
additional
It
such
cats.
the
Saint-Antoine
that
householders
stories
may
seem
important
But
to
to
under
be
strange
that
offices
should
anyone
who
ence
exist-
in
specting
re-
them
are
in
where
rents
afford
few
the
are
build
to
eaves.
individuals
two
delves
(355)
there
principally
cannot
the
ordinance
there
quarter,
the
with
caused
ground
seen,
by
which
still
police
the
there
houses,
spouts
recent
to
old
the
in
receive
to
with
of
which
animals
zeal
Nevertheless,
still
spouts
the
roof
edge
and
impossible
levelling
the
disappear.
to
of
the
roofs
the
robe
ward-
the
gutter
here
projecting
when
gutters
of
edge
Despite
these
Paris
in
all
shape
is
stone
the
on
on
pierced
was
generation
many
the
of
seated
ordinary
and
France,
master
Saint-Honore,
along
Florentines,
of
were
in
night
one
two
grand
IX.,
mouths.
present
Tour,
the
was
ran
spouts
Marshal
Rue
rain-water,
the
Gondi,
la
on
gutter.
1573,
Charles
King
to
Gondi
o'clock
twelve
October,
de
Albert
Charles
of
part
brothers,
of
and
eleven
thus
among
ply
the
the
holding
trade
historical
of
356
of
treasures
interests
time,
that
that
may
fitlybe compared
in
suitably placed
interests
of
them
from
courtiers
had
back
to
of
brown
hall
of
apartments
the
their
paid
the
at
and
that
the
families
of
thread,
like
the
of
veritable
devotion
Medici,
and
how
had
taken
them
trusion.
intwo
must
we
in
go
within
the
II., where
the
to
the
two
noble
only remaining
the
supper
had
the
place
gutter,
Henri
who
why
there,
same
the
to
of their
consequences
"
cats
court, forbade
French
Louvre
nobility at
but
the
eight
and
seven;
between
supjDed
to
one
courtiers
and
queens
invented
France
XIV.;
Louis
by
by Catherine
Connetable
Medici,
more
difficultyin obtaining
courtyard
obtaining
his
of
the
distinction
an
advanced
first two
age.
kings of
the
was
past
re-
Some
introduced
was
who
was
made
it
so
had
Montmorency
horseback
on
sword;
indeed,
bestowed
upon
relaxed
Somewhat
House
That
privilege of entering
the
Louvre
constable's
de
fashionable
etiquette
court
de'
Anne
o'clock
to-day.
reality,it
that
six
nine.
in
strict
the
the
that
at
most
of
dinner
the
erroneously imagine
persons
supped
bourgeois
time, the
corresponded
at
skein
king.
At
in
France
themselves
after
court
of
de'
this
the
politics
Catherine
which
distance
around
Their
perched
scene
collision
seem
explain
to
in
gutter.
of
conflicting
many
tangled
will
the
at
any
But,
short
to
Queen
established
recoil
so
internal
Florentines
two
when
the
throne,
those
MEDICI
constantly coming
were
the
to
DE'
CATHERINE
of
Bourbon,
than
that
him
under
in
traordinary
ex-
only
the
etiquette
DE'
CATHERINE
assumed
it
from
came
with
but
entree
to
easily
be
doing
offices
Henri
III. at
it.
How
in which
occasion
the
eminent
buried
condition
had
he
fireplace.
in
like
eaten
of
so
at
glance
or
the
the
the
to
right
historian
real
to
of Blois,
chateau
placed
man
gentle-
realm
de'
Medici
On
the
and
side
persons
who
were
word
from
the
was
lethargic
hall.
speaking
trying
were
stood, with
Some
watching
him.
from
returned
avoid
courtiers
others
at
to
of the
her
seated
were
other
the
present
were
of Austria
prince just
end
of the
wished
The
the
undertones;
he
many
thoughts.
heads,
to
speak
to
easy-chair, affecting a
an
justified by
Perhaps
his
time
we
Elisabeth
Catherine
left of the
king,
which
to
Queen
mother-in-law
the
now
offered
day
not
has
could
Retz,
that
had
the
artist
the
personages
Louvre.
the
courtyard of
the
supper
one
style,
peri-
horseback!
on
at
he
it is to
laughable
the
them
opportunity
an
XIV.
with
de
of
money
when
moment
for instance,
most
for
Louis
after
gutter,
sons
per-
Louvre
the
Marechal
the
the
under
carried
that
of
closet
picture of
On
in
duty
the
drive
which
The
crowns
of
could
royal apartments
counted.
usher
the
the
thousand
see
peers
of
ported
im-
was
few
had
under
as
"
it
only
courtyard
torches,
and
sentry
do
the
enter
where
not
1573,
357
the
Empire,
In
and
dukes
"
to
to
servants
only
Persia.
right
under
Roman
the
from
the
form
Oriental
an
MEDICI
were
the
The
ing.
huntin presence
to
divine
uncovered
talking
in
king, awaiting
queen-mother
358
beckon
would
for
her
make
to
remark
had
he
seated
queen,
on
Comtesse
the
Sauves,
of
King
d'Alenfon,
Due
invited
to
being
ladies
two
They
stood
in
alone
had
the
it
baton
gloomy
created
Due
without
sufficientlyclear
small
and
the
On
were
court
allowed
the
king's
the
Marechal
on
of
side of the
de
the
and
cleverest
the
Chiverni,
in
those
them.
were
and
made
a
an
of
duty
ing
marry-
favor
makes
brother,
the
two
of
was
queens
familiarities.
some
front
had
who
Neufville
that
band
hus-
obtained
That
negotiators of
the
her
with
hearth, in the
of
been
commanded
his
Tavannes,
fortunes
had
had
the
indulge
to
and
Poland,
Retz
whom
those
mistress
Behind
he
he, like
particular business;
inaugurated
Birague
of
number
king
that
de
assemblage
Spires.
at
woman
kins-
about,
de
with
entrusted
of
having
ever
honor,
Madame
talking
after
chamber,
by proxy
queen
the
one
been
Gondis,
young
and
State.
that
of the
army,
of
whom
of
standing,
was
all
gentleman
marshal's
she
the
by
Coeur,
turn
two
Gondi,
man
Ger-
the
maid
King
the
laughing.
stood
lovely
and
only secretary
Strozzi
the
turn
but
supper;
her
Jacques
Navarre,
two.
Near
The
of
answer
Solern,
was
to
would
granddaughter,
Fiesco,
descendant
the
stool,
venture
or
France.
Catherine.
of
the
V.'s
to
de
of
with
talk
would
word
Count
accompanied
would
IX., who
or
Charles
beside
hearth,
he
another
head
the
nobleman,
and
Charles
to
of the
nod
MEDICI
of them
one
moments;
some
with
of
DE'
CATHERINE
de
that
family;
rank,
to
come
Villeroy,
age,
who
Messieurs
DE'
CATHERINE
confidential
and
Henri
brother
whom
Strozzi,
the
III.,that
his
as
enemy;
and
several
the
old
other
Due
distance
de
Catherine
by
of
leaders
two
Spain,
the
founded
League,
IX.
Charles
In that
in which
apartment
for
reasons
and
being
was
queen
young
husband,
her
Charles
chet,
month
like
passionately
adored.
had
returned
she
had
gone
to
the
only
de
Valois,
IX.
first Comte
at
d'AngoulSme.
chagrin
of
knowing
son,
while
she
that
had
her
had
rival
had
his
The
In
smile
to
tionate
affecTouhe
than
more
of
where
Charles
the
whom
to
chateau
to
as
Marie
"
mistress,
only
tion.
atten-
and
virtuous
the
Due
afterward
pretending
a
and
of jealousy,
tortures
by
await
thoughtful.
or
from
back
had, Charles
held, everyone
poorly
with
equal
was
of the
the
who
gloomy
as
Those
concert
with
before
Dauphine,
brought
in
itself
chivalrously faithful,
was
at
kept
was
victim
IX. 's
the
Catherine
other
whom,
wife, she
them
alike.
king
masters.
melancholy
them
disguised
upon
it
cousin;
nephew,
of servants
each
which
regarded
were
before
years
watched
of
Alliance, afterward
Holy
become
to
court,
the
dilection
pre-
among
his
of whom
submission
the
opportunity
the
and
and
some
affected
prominent
both
Guise,
IX.
queen-mother's
Lorraine
de
Anjou
service
the
to
Charles
noblemen,
Cardinal
young
himself
attached
had
of
queen-mother's
the
knowing
who,
359
other, Chancellor
adviser, the
Poland,
MEDICI
in
Fayet,
lie
She
in.
son
he
ever
d'Auvergne,
addition
to
the
had
given
the
king
daughter
only,
the
poor
DE'
CATHERINE
altogether bourgeois
she
ambition
of
maidens
of
families
illustrious
with
Touchet,
the
and
spared Catherine
son's
Jean
Touchet,
whom
several
have
of
one
at
without
woman
informed
and
to
the
royal
Parliament
the
him
by
will
and
her
later
for
Comte
asked
for
had
the
of the
with
the
already given
nothing,
the
from
at
of
first
when
of
and
indemnified
Marie
seignorial estate
of
became
thereto
of
him
Queen
annulled
duchy
mitted
per-
Auvergne
she
Parliament
Valois,
the
d'Auvergne,
comtes
to
greatest
bequeath
XIII., moved
blood
the
April,
would
the
jurious
in-
be
to
legitimacy
in
bequest
and
still, Louis
d'Auvergne
Catherine
this
France,
the
she
Marguerite,
contested
of
Queen
that
domains,
own
Lauraguais.
Navarre,
but,
IX.
well-
artless,
obtained
borne
young
acceptable
very
title of Comte
the
not
the
to
would
and
of
she
day,
and
evidence
recognizing
assume
assuring Charles
being
proved
had
his
clever
as
rival.
her
works,
certain
Indeed,
Touchet
to
their
were
decree
of
minds
great
some
as
up
ing
find-
of
of
Marie,
gave
her.
Marie
son
finest
power,
who
for
connections,
simple-mannered
wishes
Catherine,
affection
herself
dedicated
was
whose
one
set
court.
Marie
annoyance
daughter
hangers-on,
she
as
the
their
love.
family
the
the
poets
nothing
accept
to
mistress
would
family, who
of
weapons
Medici
for
fought
who
without
de'
Saint-Valliers,
the
origin
secret
alone
in her
and
inborn
the
inspired by
be
to
Pisseleus
the
therefore
altogether noble;
nor
likely
not
was
561
MEDICI
by
it;
spect
re-
the
Angoul^me.
Touchet,
of
who
Belleville,
362
with
estate
an
whither
title
no
mistress
the
king, after
the
the
at
the
passed
breathed
authors,
some
lay
to
when
go
of
chateau
cennes.
Vin-
in that
days
last
Vincennes,
near
accustomed
was
IX.
MEDICI
attached,
hunting,
Charles
his
last there
Louis
as
to
XII.
done.
had
it
Although
have
been
into
back
Charles
The
in
conduct
Queen
one
of
or
in
hours
yawn
about
might
well
cause
she
must
indeed,
than
worse
her
ladies, who
look
to
the
to
said
to
the
that
politics was
of
was
and
who
reading
innocent
discovery
of
after
reply
the
that
which
vertigo;
something
to
her
princess
precipices
attack
her,
as
Catherine's
even
of the
her
her
upon
reigned,
ever
that
deceived
Brantome,
to
horrible
induce
as
comprehension
experienced
have
cause
kindly disposition
occasional
an
the
just driven
of
anyone,
lawful
into
son
governed
glimpses
one
should
his
girl momentarily
But
throne:
vertigo
the
who
secret.
he
so
Anything
according
offended
to catch
beginning
her
outside
escaped
queens
adored
lover
when
had
which
who,
greatest
injured
hook
was
Elisabeth,
of the
never
affair
the
arms.
but
motives
this
and
beginning
was
Touchet's
interested
IX., who
enemy.
Marie
this
for
infidelityto
mistress's
toward
time
driving
Catherine;
to
upon
a
plead,
to
IX.
displayed
she
after
his
Charles
welcome
an
how
at
his
pleaded
know
women
kept
love,
expiating
bed,
queen's
lavish
to
Catherine,
spouse,
natural
very
of
proofs
constant
king
was
enamored
seriously
of
DE'
CATHERINE
even
to
one
king's
DE'
CATHERINE
death, that, if
mother
and
"Ah!
have
been
robbed
God
for the
took
that
he
was
as
of her
ladies
short,
queen-
rob
to
the
been
child
poor
tried
have
me
gave
the
State, He
the
cause
did
everything
portrait Brantome
flattered
the
qualities which
her
either
in his
the
the
on
night might
the
wife
during
noisy good-humor,
assumed
as
to
her.
noticeably
with
cloak
That
the
for
sudden
her
been
the
ordinary
princess
beside
who
of
book
a
useful
sustaining
no
mistress.
her
queen-mother,
king, who,
found
in his
or
that
of
have
who
IX.,
brightened.
women
something
to
less
queen
moment
sovereign.
Charles
to
for
to
attention
helpmeet
glory of
the
her
intensified
have
that
as
abandon
to
young
at
but
attitude
might
proved
fatal
during
As
she
than
are
be
which
her
and
rather
was
court;
enabled
grief,her
picture
Elisabeth
may
mind
behold,
to
she
at
consequence
plexion
com-
of the
those
as
although
her
that
pleasant
very
fine
of
afflicted
pious
hours
and
was
beautiful
and
twofold
of
gloom
adverse
never
painted by saying
court,
her
to
cruelly
be
I should
delicate
frame
herself
turned
had
of small
was
husband's
force
he
they
as
whose
figure
her
rank
that
happened?
pity on
princess,
himself
The
be
best."
This
that
and
husband,
my
of it.
the
would
have
king
would
she
son,
God
thank
us
What
would
regent.
let
son!
had
she
363
MEDICI
the
which
some
attention
she
well
step
gayety
perturbation
had
supper,
of
to
fested
mani-
knew
be
contrasted
mind
tred
cen-
was
which
to
taken
too
he
364
concealed
had
hunting-field,
dilificulty
by
and
by
he
what
guess
had
concocted
against
who
for
The
had
arrived
she
had
Catherine
combinations,
she
but
his
the
scheme
the
at
of
the
not
in
the
IX.
had
scent,
presence
time
same
her
as
much
of
strength
her
cumstance
cir-
ordinary
above
against
powerless
"
being
was
written, gave
was
was
aid
unlooked-for
virtue
By
could
for Charles
some
her.
thought.
she
spies off
that
at
erine
iron, for Cath-
lending
"
in the
madman
Although
was
doubt
no
it.
his mother's
Catherine
of Tavannes,
like
preliminaries,
of throwing
way
assiduity
hammer
to
by
statesman
negotiations and
his
working
loved
deceived
be
to
MEDICI
with
forge, where
the
DE'
CATHERINE
sudden
violence.
As
public affairs of
by
the
in
describe, in
that
shall
light, we
few
display
go
influence
whose
Those
France.
to
two
the
the
key
the
an
and
than
the
fatalist, as
left such
words
passion
so
all
were
crisis
de'
to the
at
by
which
the
same
in
Medici
to
new
episode.
of that
character
are
many
deep impression
power
and
Catherine
kept France
And
of this
root
were
it is necessary
perilous
Catherine
they
leaders
whose
of
condition
as
which
threatened.
was
is such
who
woman,
and
words,
furnish
words
Two
and
we
parties
private interests,
queen-mother
time
time, complicated
agitation,
their
of the
nothing
different
of
guided by
the
that
numerous
state
know
persons
many
for
had
astrology.
no
other
Superstitious
power.
superior
upon
men
were,
she
DE'
CATHERINE
believed
sincerely in nothing
Without
knowledge
never
be
will
to
faith
her
the
in
understood.
There
was
attached
one
than
to
with
she
had
made
Hotel
Soissons,
de
whose
advisers.
retained
the
of
physician
Catherine's
called
of
alchemy
Lorenzo
"
^to
called
the
House
Lorenzo,
concert
cast
to
is
name
Old
of
call
with
Catherine's
the
the
and
physician
and
his
the
Roger
two
sons,
cabalistic
by
oger,
astrol-
historians.
It has
highly
two
of
two
and
In
sons.
Bazile, he
capacity
physician
of
in
Cosmo
mathematician
in his
erine's
Cath-
esteemed
dukes,
his
as
instead
JWedicis
called
so
was
treated
have
Ruggieri, just
horoscope,
astrologer,
learned
Catherine's
some
godfathers
famous
Urbino,
most
Ruggier
Great
was
her
antecedents
of
the
the
commonly
Medici, that
of
sense
Duke
from
them
the
the
him
by
viser,
ad-
Unquestionably
Ruggiero,
Ruggieri
were
whether
who
called
Roger
customary
her
authors
distinguish
final
her
he
Vecchio
"
her
at
him
That
century.
Cosmo
which
of
one
more
was
mistress
Medici,
was
Cosmo
and
also
Medici.
de'
French
Ruggiero,
authors,
been
Lorenzo
the
man
good
his
moment.
Ruggiero
by
and
over
sixteenth
Old
VAncien
last
father,
the
was
Ruggieri's peculiar
influence
to
Study.
apartments
tell
to
was
opinions
the
justifiedthe
of
it
duty
confirmed
ordinary
that
him
ter
charac-
light upon
Catherine
provided
she
the
turn
of this
whom
children:
her
her
giving precedence
shall
we
to
man
Ruggieri;
men
By
sciences.
occult
facts,
two
philosophical personages
two
stars
the
but
of these
astrology,
365
MEDICI
to
the
of
ematician,
math-
House
of
366
Medici,
offices
three
In
they
perhaps
age;
the
sketch
studied
the
audacious
which
of
magnified
of
Never
pursuit
of
modern
Luculluses
modern
shrewd
debt-ridden
Paracelsus's
in
sixteenth
that
secret
were
in
in
word,
who
quest
started
reached
masters,
the
surrounded
princes,
certainly
were
Charles
In
which
to
astronomers,
the
the
V.
Europe
who
were
present
had
was
an
the
at
day,
and
the
the
Valois
of
head
of
the
of
uated,
grad-
Agrippas,
princes,
astrologers,
princes
"
interest
Cardans
the
those
all
beginning
the
Ruggieri
from
of
funds
century,
of
physicians
all the
their
their
whom
Fuggers,
as
sults.
re-
in
eager
The
ereigns
sov-
amazing
more
Nostradamuses
turn
The
in
who
and
retorts.
the
fruitful.
vellous
mar-
those
of
university
industry,
to
the
lent
as
Old
century;
justified,too, by
sixteenth
hosts
century.
and
who
the
well
as
illustrious
those
"
of
rulers
the
the
by
who
men,
the
the
their
not
calculators,
widely
them
art
to
acknowledge
as
historical
by
stone
bankers
hard-headed
to
accorded
mysteries.
these
the
without
to
thought
sovereigns
were
but
energy
inventors
philosopher's
the
this
sixteenth
the
their
was
of
creations
and
of
made
time
that
in
ascribed
devoting
universally
patronage
surprise
positive sciences,
was
and
art
were
sovereignly analytical
century,
investigators
instead
who,
the
founded.
con-
sciences
to
detect
nineteenth
poetic grandeur
occult
own
may
of
germ
in
our
often
are
calculated
well
of
minds
incredulous
the
days,
ardor
MEDICI
functions
whose
those
with
cultivated
of
DE'
CATHERINE
mists
alche-
Christendom
DE'
CATHERINE
in those
and
days,
who
in
comed
especially wel-
more
were
patronized
and
367
MEDICI
France
by
Catherine
and
Old
de*
Medici.
In the
the
horoscope
principal
who
with
an
deny
the
of that
and
their
were
to
and
all
the
kings,
be
fulfilled
were
believed
have
her
without
of
that
riage
mar-
accession
children
in succession
be
to
were
queens,
The
that
dictions
pretorians
his-
many
after
made
were
her
her
posterity.
they
That
her
sons
exactly,
so
those
marked
Florence,
birth
daughters
two
die
to
were
of
dicted
pre-
to
unhoped-for
the
Three
number.
were
sciences.
which
of
the
throne,
life
occult
siege
France,
the
to
son
the
disasters
the
of
son
of
Ruggieri,
disheartening
most
power
during
early years,
Catherine's
accuracy
foretold
horoscope
to
of
events
Bazile
by
cast
the
facts.
Chateau
the
thither
who
woman
And,
health,
four
the
of
who
seekers
of
and
of
the
belonged
after
famous
was
to
the
and
de
in
de
good
Valois
Bourbon,
friend
great
of
King
confirmed
That
horoscope.
endowed
the
the
marriage
the
with
school
future.
the
Elizabeth
his
went
II., when
young
before
Henri
to
doubtless
who
'fatigable
all
at
conspiracy,
Frangois
Spain,
Valois
predictions
and
of
Nostradamus
Navarre,
sight,
giftof reading
marriage
female,
the
were
the
de
Renaudie's
reign
sons
before
Marguerite
of
the
Catherine
when
La
of
possessed
produced
Nostradamus
Chaumont,
time
during
queen's
to
of
the
at
that
knows
Everyone
secondof
philosopher's stone,
indebut
DE'
CATHERINE
She
died
the
of years
These
all her
de
two
of the
turns
his
said
her
to
"You
in
of
the
Due
other
circumstances
faith
before
the
in the
the
History
not
to
two
Ruggieri,
has
recorded
enter
the
dream
produced
of
time
the
The
courier
tour
arrived
which
fatal
by
report
awakened
it."
"
described
battle,
the
House
24
on
it
had
her
the
of
erine's
Cath-
the
to
hear
to
king's death.
Henri
to
preceding
The
the
day.
declared
of
Moncon-
journey
she
some
The
that
so
queen-
and
news,
Brantome,
the
strange.
The
horses.
and
and
II.
memoirs
less
no
victory
triumph
dream.
Nostradamus
the
the
night
fatally
was
in
of
making
three
Bourbon
confirm
prayer
the
killed
son's
Spain,
blow
incident
after
was
of
II.
realized.
were
According
France
prognostication
another
night,
at
mother
I know
Catherine's
announced
who
he
was
predicted
The
purpose
During
Henri
the
lists.
swiftly that
of
to
sciences.
had
her
to
Poland.
tended
saw
Poland:
Queen
and
the
in
Catherine
wounded,
"
occult
jousting
of
was
of
King
was
to
not
Marguerite
Elisabeth
Navarre,
d'Anjou
Many
Her
IX.
for
attributed
and
his
Catherine
which
be
must
were
making
was
departure
sciences,
occult
Charles
poison
Queen
return!"
soon
the
his
on
dinal
Car-
the
to
IX.
words
strange
Henri
son
will
faith
to
The
last turn.
her.
reigned only
Charles
and
wheel,
ber
num-
witchcraft,
them
being fulfilled.
now
known
were
called
who
Lorraine,
allotted
horoscopes
which
prophecies,
full
the
next
that
369
MEDICI
said:
had
tually
ac-
details
of
astrologer
Antoine
de
DE'
CATHERINE
370
Bourbon's
of
scion
the
son,
prediction, reported
That
according
fact
which
of
much
on
the
that
caused
Henri
those
lying
in
believed
period
of the
majority
the
Magism
the
by
justifiedin
the
that
stumbled
sagacious
science
public
at
science
of
true
of that
men
called
astrology,
large, they
successful
the
dint
by
be, if it be
of the
by
fulfilled
horoscope,
remark
far-reaching
the
belief
that
the
may
most
masters
Witchcraft by
and
that
France.
was
sometimes
people
However
truth.
of
to
of
King
Sully,
terms
IV.
scended
princes de-
many
be
by
precise
the
to
so
would
Saint-Louis,
from
MEDICI
were
casting of
horoscopes.
It
Catherine
built
of
wall
of the
the
with
cherished,
superior
to
novelists
and
owned
dignities;
of
sufficed
As
the
money
the
time
his
for
represent
brought
over
as
his
aspiration
mountebank,
to
head,
in
Lower
ecclesiastical
exalted
the
whom
man,
a
sesses,
pos-
content.
was
Saint-Mahe,
superstitious passions
him
enterprises,
secret
he
That
ambition.
which
remnant
ambitious
declined
against
confessor
confessor,
of
last
that
Ruggieri possessed
that
an
abbey
had
extended
from
dramatists
and
for
Cosmo
moreover,
rich
the
market,
it,like
choose,
standing
now
influence
ordinary
the
Bretagne,
hair
wheat
mysterious
and
hand,
column
mathematician,
if you
sorcerer,
Soissons.
de
H6tel
same
He
the
the
her
Ruggieri,
astrologer,
astronomer,
the
Cosmo
for
was
in
and
abundance
the
protected
queen's
his
every
harm.
the
thirst
for
power
by
which
Catherine
DE'
CATHERINE
devoured,
was
in order
to
Guises,
the
of
reins
That
intrigue, as
play.
of the
Medici,
her
soon
took
she
families
save
the
in order
justifiesthe
that
in
with
each
Catherine
set
use
retaining
the
her
hands.
the
of
self
of
of
incurs
under
Louis
the
the
As
her
two
and
of conduct
Catherine
which
vented
in-
has
found
been
selves
them-
vinists
pitting Cal-
now
against
religions to struggle
of
the
people,
against Charles
made
use
selfish
terrible
hatred
in
forces
course
two
XI.
to
keep
to
between
have
she
that
another.
their
hers,
who
Divide
before
II.
Anjou
that
tious
licen-
the
public affairs
all their
at
excitement
maxim:
hearts
things,
But
head
d'
Due
threads
inevitably
one's
the
up
the
her
even
pitting Guises
the
every
discover
with
who
now
in
the
discord
to
to
only by political
years
Henri
setting
other
making
requires
the
princes
to
and
neutralize
of
Guises,
After
Calvinists.
the
never
of
position analogous
keep
politicalseesaw
all
by
against
own
of
game
and,
Calvinists,
necessary
prediction
since
imitated
After
could
kindle
to
That
crown.
the
the
even
to
with
Italian, of
an
reins
the
alliance
only by
twelve
forced
was
rival
finds
live
constantly contending
she
as
learned
had
force
hands,
one
could
Admiring
lover.
reign, she
one
friends
was
great that,
so
resorted
she
her
savagely,
so
was
throne;
lives
gambler
she
slandered
had
woman
37I
an
hands,
Although
race
she
her
freely sacrificing
children.
it
formed
of the
enemies
in
for
craving
it, she
seize
State
means,
of
her
MEDICI
or
of
necessity
men,
interests
game,
of
IX.
Louis
all
of
in
which
XVIII.,
parties
and
conquering
for
always,
selfish
interest
there
are
an
and
of the
obliged
for
army
Due
the
in
Due
d'Anjou
a
use
of
that
Charles
rivalry
the
great
so
noble
first
day
the
From
the
mother's
when
which
insensibilityof
accepting
her
the
her
throne
of the
the
intrigues
heart
so
on
her
she
from
son
fear
of
laboriously
the
have
queenat
the
absolute
her
the
so
conduct
demonstrates
toward
their
historians
most
for
way
of
of
king's
made
her
had
of Poland,
instrument
the
the
conscious
III.; but
write
we
made
great qualities
predilection
Henri
part for
of
of
the
mind
king's
hated
she
all
the
paved
facts,
these
theory
had
was
which
the
Saint-
the
tutor, had
mother
she
of
morency!
Mont-
Europe,
brother, she
in
his
they
the
power
acquired.
evolved
that
of
Cypierre,
Amyot,
man,
reign,
losing
time
and
in
out
wear
brothers.
first governor,
pupil
to
de
incurred
of his
really possessed
between
noble-hearted,
honor
arousing
jealousy
of the
Anne
IX.
dinary
extraor-
gallant young
and
all the
was
Catherine
statesmen
Charles
passion
IX.
under
of the
After
that
command
Connetable
reaped
secret, causeless
the
capable
eyes
therefor.
of
IX.
adroitness
obtain
to
of
while
Bartholomew,
odium
much
renown,
In the
the
of
by finding that
policy
d'Anjou,
lifetime
the
end
reign of Charles
the
domestic
display
to
every
How
woman.
was
makes
players.
more
triumph
battle
again, you
greater part of
The
MEDICI
single
enemy;
again
no
of
loss
the
triumphing
the
DE'
CATHERINE
372
Due
needed
children.
d'Anjou
to
keep
the
By
prived
dethe
DE'
CATHERINE
king engrossed
to
for
pasturage
neutralized
had
time
that
his violent
invented
in
connas,
the
which
d'Alenfon,
fell in
which
spirit
had
which
the
wished
to
young
duke
Navarre,
Charles
upon
king,
heirless
whose
had
reward
and
so
to
which
eagerly,
he
when
If Le
not
already proved
arrested
were
this
Laboureur
mother's
their
the
that
La
the
reasonably
certain
undertaking.
suspicions
That
and
death,
long
so
adopted
the
authors
had
Coconnas
and
after
the
beheaded
the
affair
forward
careful
most
weeks
were
his
honor.
Mole
and
in France.
before
Reformation
duke,
the
to
Calvinism
looked
that
prisoner
throne
had
politicalscheming,
in
one
"
as
days
the
begins,
following
April
seizing
in his
seven
narrative
Calvinists,
few
and
ine
Cather-
King of
the
the
designation Calvinism
conspiracy,
the
holding
sister
his
placing
to establish
obtained,
bitious
am-
an
which
to
by
leaving
was
Due
obligingly
by
This
point
of
and
thus
"
purpose
Calvin
the
IX.
the
exhibiting
brother-in-law,
head
the
at
his
Co-
d'Anjou
throne, very
the
Due
Navarre.
reached
now
by
encouraged
of
and
Mole
taken
views,
was
Queen
Marguerite,
the
to
mother's
his
La
became
up
erine
Cath-
Thereupon
of
was
he
when
which
by affording
energy
passions.
accession
with
his
hand
373
intrigues
conspiracy
a
who,
brother's
his
domestic
those
by
MEDICI
would
of
Cosmo
be
on
which
the
sufficient
of
month
queen-
Ruggieri's
to
ticipation
parmake
secretly directed
that
she
man,
of whom
against
night
in the
victims
who
"
whom
the
he
king
tertained
en-
cherished
DE'
CATHERINE
374
the
hatred,
bitter
MEDICI
for
reasons
furnished
king, pierced
form
of
days,
conjure
doomed
mind
to
form
prevailed
upon
Lecamus,
to
After
pardoned
pensions
that
off his
he
had
dealt
was
at
so
that
in order
mother's
whom
upon
to
test
manoeuvres
he
their
to
very
was
his
the
had
to
shake
sence,
ab-
mind,
of
progress
craftilylaid
loyalty.
son's
her
his
occupy
thought
and
galleys
Touchet's
Marie
watching
had
at
impatient
nothing
people
blows
many
having
He
the
to
court.
Charles,
him.
Counsellor
through
moment
to
powerful,
more
restored
During
himself
tine's
Floren-
the
III., who
yoke.
devoted
of
crime
Ruggieri
at
in
which
to
Cosmo
mother's
affairs about
his
him
of
law
the
astrologer
the
thus
The
thought
was
Henri
received
hatred
constantly
demanded
who
of
order
being
figure.
king's death,
the
of
one
person
constituted
her
those
world,
unseen
the
Parliament,
sentence
and
Catherine
heart
the
by
the
justly, that
Catherine,
in
depicts admirably
in
IX.
the
That
that
images
wax
given
the
had
he
expresses
effects
Charles
death;
for
and
was
l^se-majeste.
only.
it
the
by
days held,
bodily
word
infernal
its
in
needles.
two
encompassing
death,
to
brought
those
The
working,
desire
constant
that
constituted,
"
moreover,
up;
terrible
magnetic,
by
envouter
"
suf-
be
figure representing
heart
fascinating,
can
admitted
capital crime.
most
had
the
to
sorcery
the
with
Mole
will
implicated
was
He
proceedings.
criminal
which
that
he
He
had
concealed
snares
could
pend,
de-
watched
his
own
DE'
CATHERINE
from
her, making
in
him
to
wipe
Saint
horror
tried
and
to
skilfully devised
had
"4jeen
all the
which
gave
far
too
to
the
return.
had
mother
to
that
said
of health
and
when
and
On
the
the
King
IX.
Charles
him,
state
to
that
such
his
deathbed,
crying:
suspicions
commended
Henri
not
he
IV.,
lack
no
mother
called
in
her
of that
kings
son's
her
But
been
very
of
the
"
sons
Due
the
who
one
She
held
d'Alencon
reported
wretched
suspicions,
of
fact,
on
when,
on
his
she
the
and
guard
always
noticed
past the
man
to
must
readiness
La
of
queen-
had
determined
Mole,
he
showed
she
months
in
his
care
IX.
that
son
as
the
to
Charles
Catherine,
his
interrupt him,
to
Monsieur,"
went
words
In
him
put
had
suspicion
heart
them.
for several
to deceive
clever.
such
tenacious
so
manners
disguised irony of
of
respect, of which
external
mind
of domination
were
daughter
to
his
habit
horrible
invade
Although
always
was
the
and
attempted
against Catherine.
by
the
in
inclination
that, monsieur!"
say
by
first impulse
obliged
was
wife
his
her
of Poland
expel
can
cil,
coun-
the
over
when
day
the
Although
slope
conceived
he
mother
Do
"
and
feeling
was
king, nothing
son's
the
at
son
getically
ener-
government
downward
the
the
by
over
influence
authority
her,
steep
so
was
of
desire
attention
conduct.
her
means
maternal
her
of
reins
combat
to
his
sown
the
France
in
presided
of
course
tried
employing
the
grasp
had
she
with
turned
public business,
to
faults
caused
he
Bartholomew,
375
Consumed
her.
the
out
of all the
use
deceive
to
MEDICI
the
be
illvenged.
re-
have
spiracy
con-
in order
DE*
CATHERINE
to
that
say
hers
All
in
hall
the
at
of
aspect
an
other
the
word
awaiting
The
mother
had
been
were
lose
outwit
each
tired
out
of
to
be
of
the
some
forty
colorations
his
such
evening
were
in
serious
He
the
in Charles
The
months,
De
trying
question, Charles
and
by
reached
and
the
the
found
obsequies
"
of
ex
sity
neces-
seemed
stage
justified
that
the
IX.,
last
which
thinking
body
to
object of especial
Thou,
surgeons
for
eye,
if Catherine
were
the
died
in
IX. 's
Italians,
preoccupation,
had
he
to
six
which
circumstances,
son
was
persons
According
reperti livores.
king
which
kings,
the
were
"
surface,
sacrificed
and
evening
sober-minded
Valois
be
to
Under
old.
of
that
watchful
disease
idea,
playing for
mother
the
years
at
pensive,
the
it with
game.
when
almost
some
certain
concealing
poisoned.
the
by
other, the
by
unlike
so
courtiers
the
below
been
followed
On
attention.
far
had
son
the
time
which
assume
animated.
detected
all of them
and
give during
to
hidden
and
will
and
in the
scene
abstract
an
form
queens,
costume,
as
command
had
at
solemn
become
to
two
France
can
write
ingenuous
one
absorbed
of
who
we
of
lead
the
figure, the
of which
beauty,
able.
legs imagin-
planchette throughout
him
noble
time
and
especially,
should
that
"
drama,
the
To
in
much
too
followed
in
pensive
both
long
The
drawn,
daggers
la
grandeur.
character,
and
of
picture
great
fashion.
377
shapely
most
rode
had
of
matters
mental
in
women
which
Europe,
the
were
MEDICI
he
was
of
Tacitus
suspicious
causa
that
dis-
incognita
prince
were
378
DE*
CATHERINE
even
IX.
Charles
escorted
was
Saint-Denis
Brantome
by
commanded
guard
made
De
by
her
these
is
taken
from
whom
she
in
the
of his
abuse
his
last
minds
His
he
advice
of
him
make
to
him
intellectual
his
purely
that
courtiers
the
his
Charles
But
who
were
his
and
who
and
himself
the
than
at
displayed
gloomy
then
toms
sympbelieve
to
that
any
as
about
well
brought
other
majesty
his
deplorable
stationed
thus
and
unbiased
as
about
malady.
constitutional
not
live, his
to
poison
in
efforts
last
whose
physical
more
time,
IX.
lay
died
disease
real
him
squander
strength,
accidental
the
be
life, the
convince
IX.
under
sufferings
carefully studied,
to
of
last
be
may
IX.
his
any
to
We
mode
the
feel
king
Charles
consumption,
poisoned.
was
last
all.
to
in
soon
longing
led Charles
have
the
sensibil
in-
an
faith
her
his
tend
all
administered
mother
At
not
children;
faculties, his
power,
of
died
and
might
his
erine's
Cath-
to
as
were
his
the
certainly justifies
which
was
That
confirm
to
hardly
that
physical forces,
he
little known
that
to
mother's
could
excesses,
of
reins
the
her
was
believe
of
pleasures,
that
that
to
development
seize
to
III.
reign,
to
death.
sudden
She
Henri
was
with
pages
all
instruments
her.
Solern.
it
II.
of the
of
explained by
astrology.
permitted to-day
natural
for
Francois
archers
tends
son,
in
which
interest
deep
few
but
affection
of
decrees
Saint-Lazare
Thou;
of
lack
from
conjunction
opinion expressed
the
of
Count
the
in
of
hatred
supposed
those
and
by
taken
circumstance,
charge
than
neglected
more
MEDICI
in
his
which
life,
is
DE'
CATHERINE
unbecoming
not
noticeable
was
inherited
so
by
from
beautiful
of
fire of his
the
position of
the
harmony
with
the
raise
and
lower
at
thick
at
auburn
hair,
bleeding,
lip thin
lead
end,
the
and
infer
to
one
which
qualities of
that
The
heart.
youthful purity
whose
anxieties,
aroused
caused
the
by
from
him,
there
were
been
very
caused
two
others
eloquent
elements
of
which
modern
produced
cheek-bone
to
to
the
than
face
ears,
defined
of the
to
to
noblest
brow,
by terrible
the
remorse
Saint
of
which
tholomew,
Bar-
extorted
but
them;
would
endowed
to
Those
divine
from
and
have
with
two
furrow
mouth,
be
upper
that
the
him
physiology.
corner
large
enough
on
one
scholar
enabled
sharply
nose,
cunningly
was
his
a
long
the
interest;
more
on
could
the
heavy
of
in
he
almost
marred
been
which
had
special genius
had
uselessness
measure
nose;
wrinkles
intense
utter
broad,
possessed
deep
simulatio
dis-
to
eyebrows,
seemed
he
demands
which
a
lower
acute,
especially
consumptives,
the
sneering,
raised
lion's
of most
those
made
were
had
veritable
the
favorable
was
the
He
will.
being confined
thereby
forehead
broad
mouth
like
color
the
to
brilliancy to
imagination
Charles
by
the
their
adapted
undue
eyelids, acquired
kingly glance;
imposing
well
which,
eyes,
complexion
ivory-like pallor,
gave
Italian
light, so
blue-black
his
face, which
his
on
That
melancholy,
of
grandeur
the
mother.
artificial
thick
between
of
reason
his
by
expression
reflected
was
379
The
kings.
to
thoughts
secret
MEDICI
the
kles
wrineach
betrayed
380
inward
the
her
work,
the
necessities
all
would
of
effect
ghastly spectacle!
mind
had
firm
that
Warlike
valor
felt
the
Valois
to
That
smooth
king
without
not
friend,
thousand
opposing
spectacle
of
had
determined
of
of
sense
the
obstacles
the
king,
born
that
of
the
which
he
his
in
of
of
broken
noble
heart
by
had
everything,
his
even
to
but
in
that
lantern.
lost
and
life.
realizing
and
resources,
placed
kingdom;
for
melancholy
who
awakened
mother
his
thither
the
his
love
verted,
per-
generous
and
power,
the
refined
craving
facets
everything,
had
itself.
ferocity,
to
frantic
twenty-four
his
in
dainty,
all
support;
confidence
hither
stake
and
whom
without
having
suspicious
mission,
shone
in
man,
plans, presented
time,
light
all
What
misunderstood,
man,
son,
strong
so
by degrees
the
her
admirably tempered
was
little
driven
pacification of
acquired
hand.?
he
power,
was
to
short
his
on
man
illusions,
Within
her
insatiable
great
his
held
changed
an
If Catherine
purple.
that
that
sentiment
upon
dissimulation;
worn
soul,
That
IX.
if indeed
remorse,
intrigues
have
had
had
to
pleasure.
all
of her
doubts;
character
discretion
but
of
resided,
the
and
viewing
upon
stifle that
not
feeble,
become
full
was
power
of
in
mind
Charles
body.
from
politics do
clothed
the
the
queen-mother,
she, perchance,
healthy,
of
in
out
worn
of the
labors
suffered
have
persons
realized
had
The
must
organism
an
pleasures
exhausted.
was
MEDICI
for the
nourishment
violent
for the
of
struggles
supplying
in
DE'
CATHERINE
the
way
newly-
Two
had
whom
men
excepted
the
given
poison
his
Pare
and
the
to
his
from
from
Catherine,
time
for
the
in
their
which
time
to
tried
to
the
the
fireplace.
"Monsieur
de
title
the
in
you
In
send
to
at
The
back
service
to
the
court
king
into
his
of
or
at
watching
were
tioned
queslearned
two
the
deathFrom
pronounced.
and
eyelids
heavy
the
glance
he
cast
at
and
stood
in
front
of
said,
do
"why
Poland.?
and
Anjou
you
brother's?"
our
sire,"
service,
your
Spain,
of
glanced
I have
to-morrow;
come
case,
you
he
in
replied
low.
bowing
that
rose
Chancellor
entirely
Chiverni,
he
Louvre
concealing
courtiers
summons
the
the
his
Chiverni,"
of
our
am
"
the
had
"
courtiers
but
raised
Ambroise
at
at
mentally
Suddenly
mother.
"I
king
from
hide
his
Are
had
having
Chapelain,
some
replies,
they
time
retain
and
of
surgeon
Both
retiring.
other
the
him
he
Saint
of
with
haste
undertones;
measured
sentence
first
arrived
anxiously,
them
dine
hot
that
massacre
Jean
in
had
king's
the
master
men
his
"
physician
and
well
so
accused
enemies
provinces
the
to
gone
king,
first
come
from
had
when
loved
prince
them
and
time
their
of
one
Bartholomew,
at
this
for
strange
Madrid,
at
things
it in
mind
are
ing
happen-
threw
himself
messieurs."
his
chair.
(381)
wife
and
382
"Strange
said, in
of
one
He
things
favorite
the
the
of
corner
leash.
My
Three
months
in fact
You
have
court
to
that
you
is the
in
do
not
IX.
walked
her
be
dead,
on
that
here.
king
or
life!
Villeroy.
of
one
me,
my
your
and
you
and
go
pay
and
dying
am
it, because
regret
evil
all the
to
against
or
through
close
tell
mother,
my
be
I wish
breaking
Solern
and
it will
so
me
Silence,
you
keep
not
last.
am
either
name.
secret,
the
of
cause
I shall
known,
Do
window
him:
for
be
surprised.
as
of his youthful
to
until
will
Tavannes,
of the
said
stay
he
youth.
companion
and
you
hence
my
his
de
embrasure
you,
mother
If it becomes
three.
of
well
as
the
room,
look
not
of
the
whether
Do
me.
the
need
ascertain
to
led
into
I have
"
friends
everywhere,"
Marechal
the
to
and
again
rose
MEDICI
happening
are
undertone,
an
amusements
at
DE'
CATHERINE
am
poor
creature."
Charles
resting
on
talking
to
the
his
him
curious
be
like
Catherine's
nod.
had
and
an
eel
He
queen-mother's
said
said
he
king
to
each
did
wall
not
other,
to
which
ask
his
but
his
talk
from
a
the
At
that
of
the
word
she
State,
door
to
two
in
or
replied
mother
what
to
ness
cold-
with
join them.
returned
a
mislead
to
secretaries
whispered
ear,
to
hand
ostensibly
pains,
went
to
the
the
along
chair.
The
of
one
his
apparent,
Pinard,
moment,
the
too
with
shoulder,
and
aches
calling to Birague
queens,
glided
his
about
forth
and
favorite's
onlookers;
might
two
former
back
his
with
they
chair
glance of withering
DE'
CATHERINE
and
anger
jealousy
little incident
of all.
the
It
the
by
of the
was
like
was
glass
overflow
Elisabeth
and
unnoticed
accompanied
her
the
and
the
the
cold
that
when
the
there
the
they
in the
were
only
queen-mother.
remained
The
silence
but
the
she
was
compelled
arm
and
could
walked
her
put
"Monsieur,
discuss
with
Before
into
wink
lips
I
which
his
have
hall
two
choly.
melan-
from
in
his
Charles
she
took
so
that
him
the
erie;
rev-
IX.
his
she
whisper:
important
some
the
"
her
example;
and
the
retire, she
to
good-night,
ear
stand
under-
matters
to
you."
leaving
mirror
to
both,
Catherine
absorbed
steps with
to the
o'clock,
ten
blackest
escort
her
few
to
tedious.
remained
follow
to
mother
Solern, Birague,
wished
him
though
Al-
of
friends,
of
should
bid
the
At
in the
she
king
to
rose
door.
they left
gone.
most
king
the
the
attitudes
intimate
was
drew,
with-
queen-mother
to
way;
buried
embarrassed,
room;
the
king.
Fiesco
courtiers
Count
the
king
that
de
but
the
few
and
wished
the
the
had
queen
young
seemed
to
and
gave
Tavannes,
The
reference
greatest interest
very
glances,
Gondis,
the
authority
king;
demeanor
remained
of
falling-outbetween
imparted
son
exercise
daughter-in-law
evident
movements,
their
the
by
eyes
makes
water
Comtesse
the
in the
which
cool
without
That
court.
moment
drop of
that
"
whole
utmost
the
queen-mother
Queen
the
upon
383
MEDICI
and
the
room,
bestowed
escaped
the
the
queen-mother
upon
the
king's
notice
two
as
glanced
Gondis
he
was
at
DE'
CATHERINE
The
two
from
roof, and
to
offered
to
Count
The
Solern,
at
him
of
soul
had
who
enemies,
knew
he
was,
in
that
only
of
Count
of the
attached
to
sifting
out
king
to
the
king thought
The
"
an
had
but
what
Well,
for
excuse
Madame
this
Solern,"
de
is much
happened
25
of
had
guard,
men
form
secrets.
plan;
his
master
of trustworthy
number
his
obeyed
ders
or-
commission
for
engaged
been
devotedly
who
were
picked
company.
everything.
said
passing
Charles,
the
Belleville
Marie's."
**
do
not
we
need
I
night out-of-doors?
for
better, for my
at
and
whole
to
held
who
count,
devotion
king's
who
to
enough
the
not
his
Tavannes
the
disposal
retainers
The
in
time
some
his
wife,
were
fortunate
knew
alone
attached
archers
the
servants
portion of
of
tile
hos-
his
whole-souled
the
was
were
even
especially useful
at
blindly.
in
her
been
Solern
Solern
had
and
had
moreover,
he
who
perfect confidence.
warranted
Villeroy
The
of
Count
in the
which
IX.
Charles
"
aroused
been
indiscretions,
some
and
mother
the
quickness
anybody,
guilty of
his
had
people
by
the
Although
lacked
he
trust
to
been
that
knowing
find
unable
with
king's position,
Surrounded
him,
vagabonds.
alone
compassion
honor,
king.
the
of
costume
amazement.
the
and
loyalty
perception.
to
in
discovered
he
when
follow
remaining
whose
German,
worthy
the
assume
other,
to the
street
roof
from
leap
to
would
they
of
king, gazed
"
that
to
of the
side
one
wager
separated
They
385
MEDICI
pretext,
mother
to
may
be
sure;
find out
386
Solern,
who
permission
king,
his
with
Honore
To
who
the
The
On
be
where
princes
by
I.
Francois
his
confiscation
"
Arts
to
Francois's
the
Rue
ended
to
not
I'Autruche
de
at
the
Bourbon,
and
H6tel
effect
until
began
de
which
the
stable,
con-
France
That
estate.
demolished
when
judgment
fatal to
so
imposing
an
day
property
mother
rose
residence
pronouncing
"
day
one
de
his
which
garden
down
lawsuit
whole
stands,
was
the
avoid
which
upon
Bourbon,
of
and
garden.
of the
de
Louvre
the
now
d'Ancre,
in
Rue
was
great Connetable
of his
was
there
end
Paris
wing
drawbridge,
de
to
those
houses
colonnade
house
that
produced
and
of the
sequestration
terminated
XIV.
that
ordered,
river,
site
the
Charles
of
amid
H6tel
of the
the
between
Honore
Saint-
the
where
continued
At
of
explain
to
Marechal
the
treachery
Louis
started
gay,
of old
topography
the
and
the
of
towers
the
his
eleven
intelligibleto
more
des
assassinated.
ruined
of
of
I'Autruche.
de
the
Pont
moats
to
which
some
said
construction
being
place
Florentine,
the
the
the
as
not
ruins.
were
the
asked
explore
love,"
Rue
scene
was
to-day faces
of the
very
to
it is necessary
II.
of
heaps
into
was.
Henri
the
king,
About
become
courtiers
night
have
minds,
there
had
surprise my
this
I'Autruche
In
with
streets
consented.
who
turning
make
persons
of
and
go
Tavannes,
their
the
up
three
the
quarter.
I will
"
MEDICI
accompany
Charles
and
o'clock, the
out
beat
to
Germans,
to
was
"
DE'
CATHERINE
mansion,
the
on
the
at
Bourbon
by
Rue
bank
days
of
Sainton
the
DE'
CATHERINE
It
quay.
Rue
plans,
I'Austruc
de
from
Poulies
des
is
d'Osteriche
aviaries
thither
autruche.
by
Antoine,
where
at
the
Louvre,
Saint-Honore
the
to the
old
that
Hotel
son
Due
he
thereupon
mansion,
de
That
IL, who
caused
reverted
which
prince's palace
who
of
deal
to
was
included
on
the
the
torn
a
died
the
Saintof
walls
its abode
up
established
Rue
the
at
sponding
corre-
the
was
quay,
of the
of
counts
in the
nage
appa-
the
fourth
assumed
the
time
to
Henri
under
The
trouble.
was
of
the
included
this
"
princes
I'Autruche,
subsequently
and
d'Anjou,
at
ostrich
street
had
residence
always
was
live
Now,
de
Bourbon
title,belonged
Henri
title of
whom
which
the
of
H6tel
Rue
the
d'Alenfon.
name,
of
of
royal
all Paris
that
take
in
the
Faubourg
noblemen
neighborhood.
end
daughter
that
itself under
great
H6tel
crooked
to
the
nobleman
deserted
thorities
au-
of
neighborhood
the
the
The
of several
centuries,
two
many
in
themselves
see
that
it sheltered
for
Bastille
in
had
royalty
by
claim
mansions
lived
who
Since
the
of the
reason
Louvre.
it may,
of
site
from
French
to
Rue
etymology
street, and
time
as
the
comes
appeared
dis-
now
others.
occupied
that
one
that
blood
the
it
has
end.
the
Others
on
at
Be
notable
of
be
to
to
"
century.
used
flocked
on
married
who
fourteenth
the
out
that
Osterrichen
family
that
laid
as
suppose
"
many
agreed
not
Some
name.
so
Saint-Honore
Rue
the
are
like
map
old
some
on
but
others,
on
probably
toward
houses
of
the
d'Autriche
Rue
called
was
387
MEDICI
III.,
appanage
old
crown,
including
the
down.
In
those
days,
of
buildings;
vast
number
388
to
DE'
CATHERINE
form
the
covered
space
Marais,
of their
idea
an
well
may
who
persons
There
to-day.
were
existences
to
of
attached
valets
in
Saint-Honore,
a
d'Alenfon
built
his
king
Due
brother, he
that
and
1520,
the
had
had
which
afterward
built
installed
Marie
men.
trades-
by
Touchet.
conspiring against
was
him
incapable of thwarting
was
was
Duchesse
houses
d'Alengon
Rue
mansion,
famous
the
by private
the
the
Although
on
point.
As
it
was
in order
days
hard
Barri^re
for
the
king
there
were
listen
to
they
named
patrol
to
belated
fight, he
looked
see
state
passing
who
what
But
of
the
supplied
yond
be-
of
bourgeois
to
he
up
those
going
was
found
of
the
been
quest
In
tranquillity.
house
have
there.
stop
some
conversations.
Rene,
it would
closely scrutinized
lights, to
deplorable
were
to
looking for
and
windows,
not
in those
footpads except
Sergents,
des
house,
which
Saint-Honore,
for
one's
loved
his
pass
opportunity
no
the
or
Rue
descend
to
offered
pillage
to
necessary
adventures,
in
in
surrounded
There
which
and
Near
service.
of
garden
treasurers,
paid retainers,
pages,
prince's
little house
pretty
been
the
to
for
stables, quarters
enormous
household,
many
prince of
the
nances
appurte-
problematical
paltry condition
the
in
all the
magnificent
appear
see
measure
Soubise
included
those
by
should
one
Hotel
the
hotel
demanded
which
extent,
by
to-day.
MEDICI
his
at
in
on
all
the
which
or
good city
Suddenly,
famous
court,
to
as
perfumer
the
king
DE*
CATHERINE
seemed
conceive
to
which
suggested
are
noticed
of
one
sudden
those
inspirations
by previous observations,
in
bright light
389
MEDICI
last window
the
as
under
he
the
eaves.
This
rich
perfumer
uncles
ascribed
when
despite
without
into
pry
Cosmo
the
if he
police
It
and
find
is
certain
had
period
processes,
the
who
If
such
do
cradle
degree
Italy then
play
of
and
which
centuries.
not
had
been
he
could
which
proceed
to
intervention
his
whom
temporary.
con-
king proposed,
the
of
would
mother
sixteenth
the
that
the
they
never
part of assassins
monopolized
the
the
overworked
introduce
and
corded.
re-
at
secret
the
for
bore
have
was
of these
Thence
lost.
Italians
has
science,
mistress
Novelists
ing
follow-
and
history
as
modern
are
century,
degree of perfection
chemistry,
of which
reputation
to
without
inventor
many
following
The
attained
modern
Italy,the
that
laboratory,
immediately preceding
it, poisoning
to
opened,
king
suspicious,
that, during
years
unknown
been
IX., says
Rene's
soned
poi-
IV., who
whereby
visited.
matter
having
Henri
past, the
anything
Elixir
bribery.
or
in the
having
officers, upon
law
or
by fear
act
often
in the
personally
head
of
secrets
should
of
stratagem
some
Ruggieri
mother
months
two
court
famous
of
Charles
curing
ill;the
the
accused
of
order
invent
to
of
was
her
formal
the
For
trying
he
d'Albret,
buried
was
and
be
to
invention
the
of Inheritances,
Jeanne
claimed
they
him
to
of
strongly suspected
was
savory
un-
two
it
Italians
poisoners.
traffic in subtle
poisons
of
which
her
of
branches
which
of
historians
some
recognize
led
she
just
armies,
loved
songs,
At
Florence,
duke,
using
only
one
side
half
and
dealt
that
had
been
gloves
instilled
pores.
Poison
was
of
would
cause
have
the
the
death.
King
Charles
reader
will
to
surprise Rene
old
The
of
means
Rene's,
to
climb
worthy
Followed
along
the
bourgeois
who
IX.
called
of
which
pair of
the
through
of
natural
inhaled
once,
Austria
is said
to
justifiablycurious,
was
easily imagine
mind
the
that
made
him
sombre
impatient
work.
reaching
the
with
unpoisoned
bouquet
the
at
the
roof
of
king pretended
by
roofs
his
to
awakened
them
the
a
that
absurd
dire
by
these
names,
alarm
Rue
de
band
noble
house
companions,
the
of
corner
rebuilt, afforded
since
whom
visit.
at
cies.
poli-
attained
other.
of
to
peach
disease
a
sions
pas-
pair of boots.
fountain, situated
I'Arbre-Sec,
the
in
John
filled his
suspicions which
had
perfume,
Don
the
the
ate
the
fatal
mere
poisoned by
been
Thus
and
which
crimes
golden blade,
with
placed
The
guided
dividing
a
arts, in
attractive
art
poisoned,
scented
roses,
ghastly
death
out
the
frescoes, sang
ballets, and
with
all
splendid edifices,
herself
or
in
as
served
beautiful
woman
knife
she
made
that
in
Europe.
built
painted
festivals
perfection
such
she
as
queens,
kings, planned
and
hers,
not
simply
must
we
toxicology
for all
way
were
age
commanded
in
knowledge
the
period
the
MEDJCI
speak,
supremacy
human
of the
DE'
CATHERINE
390
adjoining
he
intended
he
began
of
divers
pretended
listened
to
to
bers,
rob-
the
DE'
CATHERINE
and
quarrels
some
began
cases
Italians
of
house
down,
sat
was
much
Tavannes
where
and
only
leave
would
not
have
brother
silence, and
suggested
the
heads
which
in any
by
place
themselves
thoughts
in words
in
their
over
availed
They
expressed
earth, thoughts
sky
exchange
to
who
king,
Florentines, who
two
the
for auditors.
circumstance
Retz
behind.
spies
but
naught
of that
on
his
profound
amid
had
cats
roof
de
his
the
thought
sport of the
made
they
tired, and
the
the
on
Marechal
the
in
When
king step
was
better,"
to
left alone
were
the
and
household,
side.
the
glad
very
he
391
entrance.
an
and
that
his
by
So
eacii
adjoining Rene's,
saying
remained
"
force
to
Tavannes
saw
the
of
diversions
MEDICI
they
other
spot
of
events
the
evening.
said
"Albert,"
"the
king
making
we
is
he
like
away
With
to
the
your
live; he
gieri has
"
The
ideas
such
Charles,"
follow
him,
when
marshal
king
is
out
worn
predicted
dying
that
boar
those, you
Catherine's.
his
when
and
mother
driven
be
not
is
queen-mother
tomb,
will
not
and
he
prosper,
"You
replied.
gravely
the
to
fortunes
killed."
or
as
the
are
moment
shall
we
we
own
to
against
supporters
imprisoned,
our
the
at
marshal,
queen;
faithful
king
beasts
as
the
to
the
far
so
the
serve
wild
banished,
"
for
to
men
master
over
mistake,
to
looking
adroit
prevail
over
go
grand
by remaining
concerned,
are
If
will
great
the
has
not
by dissipation.
Cosmo
he
year."
often
will
die
kills
next
the
hunter,"
will
long
Rug-
said
**
**
CATHERINE
DE'
prudence
itself."
You
are
Che
hestia ! I
slightest danger
the
were
any
with
our
the
echoed
"
coglione!
afraid
attach
we
suffer
just
when
spot
in
soldier, and
to fortune.
the
and
them
and
the
their
we
love
that
be
they
to
for them,
as
our
must
we
afford
can
all temporal
enrich
same
when
cause;
When
of
source
exalt
yet
profession has
Every
for Heaven;
heart
throne,
right, Albert;
are
venerable
relies
of
duchy
"Listen,"
sacrifice
die, for
and
pared
pre-
die
we
families
our
to
her
make
with
readily
But
knows
who
Perhaps
he
conduct
is
her
further
what
given
queen
the
you
skill
of
the
When
use
what
the
"The
king
his
mother,
He
told
talked
the
them
queen
Ruggieri
to
rascal
fused
re-
our
of
Rene,
her
son
the
carries
for
he
queen
over
crafty
suspected.
in
toward
the
has
marshal.
son.
divined
understand?
plans,
the
the
on
any
creature
she
Retz."
rejoined
confidently
reconcile
his
is
Eccol"
"You
you
the
on
be
kings,
to
for ourselves
survive.
of
remain
"she
master;
duties
our
vow
martyr's
much
as
eh?
protect
must
their
to
death,
to
who
we
to
us
to
have
we
power,
fills the
I should
instruments
want
ourselves
families,
If there
court.
away?
grand
her
you
of
duties, and
its
at
incur
not
heavy."
them
are
you
the
drop
to
finds
she
do
we
mistress."
dear
woman
I go
393
that
you
by remaining
should
danger,
**Dear!"
to
swear
MEDICI
his
his
hates
bag?
course
her, do
something
with
Madame
of
DE*
CATHERINE
394
Fiesco, Madame
de
the
queen-mother,
from
everything
It
"
and
since
reported everything
then
the
to
tcing conceals
wife."
Charles
said
Gondi.
de
for what?"
"Time
find
"To
the
Fiesco
his
time,"
was
de
MEDICI
grand
for
something
who,
master,
in Catherine's
the
king
although
confidence
his
as
he
do," replied
to
not
was
brother,
fully
so
was
less
no
clear-sighted.
"Charles,
said
a
I have
marshal,
the
duke
also, be,
she
will
remain
the
rest
of
and
the
and
under
de
and
the
all in leash
them
is
God
III.
wish
dme
King
of
than
all
is with
her,
Navarre
are
Catherine
under
be
to
damme;
stronger
Sauves
Sauves;
de
King Henri
ungrateful
she
Madame
Madame
hold
mistress's
for
queen,
great career,"
if you
"but
our
d'Alengon
with
to
I am,
as
to
you
gravely;
them.
Due
always
helped
will
this
grant that
king,
he
be
tinue
con-
yes,
not
!**
"Why?"
"
His
"
Oho!
But
exclaimed
the
closed.
The
"Ah!
see
will
grand
Ruggieri
not
he
noise
are
there's
been
as
them
put
Saint-Honore,"
in Rue
master;
hear
you
for him."
much
the
"
door
Rene's
footsteps
of
just
several
arrested."
for
prudence
impetuous
in
But
usual.
as
prison?
The
you!
Let
us
go
of
Rue
and
happens."
what
The
I hear
diavolo!
has
where
too
Don't
men?
king
does
mother
two
I'Autruche
brothers
as
the
reached
king
entered
the
his
corner
mistress's
de
house.
DE'
CATHERINE
light of
the
By
could
after the
running
the
We
arrested
will
who
noblemen,
in
foreigner,"
has
Ruggieri.
means
the
who
was
happened
to
for
succeeded
you
into
crown
you?"
we
and
of
French
in
getting
hands,
your
being
half-jesting,half-
Tavannes,
remarked
ing
return-
of yours,
benefit
the
master,
of sorcerers;
friends
are
explain,
grand
the
consistory
who
what
by
the
cried
full
to
offices under
two
a
able
be
concierge, they
and
what
"
of them
two
the
king's companion,
Louvre,
alighted
395
by
well, Tavannes,"
"Well,
"
held
Tavannes
distinguish
to
torch
the
MEDICI
serious.
"And
a
who
man
"
He
"
My
king?"
the
cared
with
brother
and
most
and
honorable
my
dear
The
three
his
joined by
they
as
retainers
I'Autruche.
of
Count
Seine
the
selected
In
a
"
by
few
My
king;
at
"
the
seconds
mother
she
rendezvous."
parted,
each
to
walls
point
German
they
see
the
reached
where
boat
not
us;
the
on
gone
we
to
bed
made
being
two
men
Rue
king
and
and
the
of
rowers,
opposite
them.
shore.
!" exclaimed
bad
de
bank
awaited
lence.
si-
in
them
the
nobleman,
were
Retz.
bordered
were
soon
adopted,
home,
that
noble
together
of
him
escort
men
who
has
will
along
two
Solern,
de
Marechal
of
virtue
by
too, have
walked
the
enmity.
masters,
our
you,
the
courtiers
Just
to
which
retorted
duke,"
Tavannes's
prospered
1 have
course
like
master,
mistress."
his
devotion
absolute
grand
the
little for
but
remains
the
queried
choice
the
for
396
She
"
"and
*'
Oh!
is
could
made
On
the
whom
withdrew
to
two
who
from
fence
they
bent
their
knees
No
knee;
heard
by
man
not
we
the
might
All
place
attendants,
yielded
watch
to
whose
life has
share.
Solern
the
and
not
was
the
conference,
in
the
in
order
the
ceding
preto
be
not
at
faithful
Charles,
like
witness,
which
soon
on
said
one
of the
three, "the
the
became
Connetable
did
burden,
animated.
"Sire,"
That
king.
only
for
followed
heavy
too
erable
ven-
could
which
suspicion
become
here."
died
Solern
the
before
them
rapidly,
and
whom
taken
conference
over
before
said:
been
he
dated
dilapi-
joined by
soon
walked
their
where
their
king's side, of
four
behind
raised
have
later,
picket, left
gentlemen
were
then
moment
king,
ground,
all
who
their
hiding
are
who
distance'^to
retainer
of
I'Hopital, had
year.
a
the
sentinel,
Charles
but
in
was
as
and
manner
were
gentlemen
de
words
of
be
to
Pre-aux-
who
acting
few
and
ashore
the
Solern,
man
approached
man,
of
companions.
they
reached
Chancellor
a
a
respectful
three
reach
met
seemed
and
tance?"
dis-
Charles, "my
leaped
direction
the
his
join
the
old
short
in
ceremony,
The
confidant
his
where
place
this
at
us
cried
me,"
exchanged
the
replied Solern;
distinguish
see
king,
he
men,
duel,"
arriving there,
of
advance
MEDICI
now!"
and
rapidly
Clercs.
is
she
up
king
walked
with
it
The
"
think
will
how
mind
the
DE'
CATHERINE
DE'
CATHERINE
de
Montmorency,
friend
best
with
and
Catherine
Had
that
still be
would
I
"
have
"from
find
to
from
of
plan
Your
Majesty
menaces
your
throne.?
which
Spain,
levelling the
by placing
France
of
nation
which
dreams
mother
be
proscribed,
Guises
for
support."
said
"Messieurs,"
with
aid,
your
distrust, I
will
kingdom
tremble.
the
power
royal
mother
as
am.
solubly
allowed
is
right
Your
to
to
in
and
which
is
this, you
with
religion to
are
your
our
be
project of
would
between
it and
If the
to
save
Ft
Spain
and
Be
as
high
without
in the
privileges
throne;
crushed,
when
the
for
time
assured
deeply
the
that
individual
is
queen-
"understand
every
itself.
assert
invention
an
its
look
Tete-Dieu!
the
admitted,
re-established
make
fear
secret
king;
being
property,
connected
the
the
to
the
alliance
will
and
to
world-empire.
she
peace
agree
alliance
barrier
moral
will
formed
Sire, Calvinism
Pyrenees.
four,
confusion
ago,
abandoned
not
the
everything
years
not
was
of
Catherine
into
not
we
That
has
conscience,
my
youngest
Catholic
of which
of
the
nine
who,
monstrous
men
king.
Have
Guises,
the
on
everything
auxiliaries.
into
thrown
excellent
exile. Queen
throw
to
way
find
the
of
place
any
and
feet."
Very
"
agreed
Madame
that
many
executions
replied
father's
secrets,
bag
done,
been
enough
monsieur,"
in
sewn
their
on
his
Saint-Andre
de
be
397
king your
all
knew
must
river.
the
was
who
Marechal
the
the
who
MEDICI
that
my
interested
are
indis-
you
hands
have
of
398
DE'
CATHERINE
which
you
throne
and
make
Let
them.
will
use
ideas
with
itself; but,
that
factious
spirit
rest
his
would
he
the
spiritual world,
kingdom
the
who
subjects
diminishes
the
realm.
sacrifice
and
are
crown,
our
great
care
have
disposed
men
who
up
your
ten
your
to
ruins
warfare,
I will
If you
which
of
XL
with
people,
and
of
the
henceforth
under
work
with
me,
refuse, you
kingdom.
State.
to
de
task
ranks
our
will
me
attacks
his
my
the
of the
return
on
of Louis
axe
begin
on
who
have
If Messieurs
negotiate
plots, and
father.
the
I propose
prosperity
days
and
us
attendance
into
disaster
subjects,
give you
in
freely
submissive
the
The
further, I will
miseries
consciences,
for
of
constant
shall
the
bring
mutinous
all
Alliance
Holy
cut
quell
set
so,
of
equal.
executioner
to
do
tranquillity.
place
little about
guidance,
break
the
subjects.
of
go
them
planning
of the
temporal
to
to
that
absolutely necessary,
I will
make
I understand
them.
am
to
the
power
Catholics
and
God
swore
limits
in
this
I will
mother.
my
them,
Guise
of
weary
equal numbers,
over
am
Protestants
both
revenues
that, if it be
weary
in
the
all
us
what
see
submissive
your
ress
prog-
admiral,
the
sovereign
your
make
he
leave
and
deprive
war
so
would
to
reach
not
us
The
enemy,
still in
assist
example,
all, let
within
master
if it be
Messieurs,
my
anxious
do
will
attack.
revolt
and
royal
will
not
was
keep
which
above
the
against
longer
no
weapons
if left to
soul
am
if Protestantism
see
us
raised
be
against you.
fight against
MEDICI
to
my
Messieurs,
people,
your
who
will
will
see
come
be-
great
DE'
CATHERINE
for
changes,
will
who
will
in
I shall
descend
take
for
pacifying
than
you
will
his
kingdom
my
called
and
let
second
will
The
the
duel
betray
You
own
to
sire,
head
ten
days;
be
make
of
"
need
listen
to
masters."
reason.
fail
but
take
in
hatred,
be
my
her:
to
worthy
me
of
so
to
eigner.
for-
the
to
me
is
my
fightwith
very
of
constable; you
his
took
spoke,
said, "this
hand
least
At
without
Give
move.
a
the
is
month
end
enough,
But,
injuries.
many
forward
go
at
my
did."
other
he
tail is difficult to
we
to
office
forget
cannot
wife
"
mother's
my
to
utors.
interloc-
it.
upon
one
his
call
not
Charles
whom
yentre-saint-gris!
our
lend
Germans
might
you
and
the
the
as
of
one
seem
you
us
to
his
and
will
the
direction;
about
am
I offer
prince
people
that
object
this.
to
brother,
shall
in
sufficientlyattached
the
and
throne;
have
and
Austria,
are
struck
"
of
are
that
not
whom
will, he
said
You
listen
esteem,
men
Catholic
Spain,
IX., coldly,
fight alone,
us
in the
good,
of
should
we
Charles
assistance
you
and
said
Elisabeth
advice,
If the
my
Spaniards,"
your
procure
execute
sire,
case,
Cousin,"
"
to
stronger
menaced
succeeded
has
him.
bidding.
of Alva."
Duke
match
of
degree
low
my
who
brother
succor
minister
at
king
defy
I have
the
of
by crushing
me,
to
399
people
nobles
some
to
In that
"
to
model
dared
the
me
the
upon
my
summon
if I lack
with
act
who
troops fail
MEDICI
us
to
of
that
the
more
tail,
than
make
time,
our
we
"Well,
and
forge
the
I do
another
who
when
"
and
all its
Sire,"
will
said
venture
may
devil
to
gives you
wish
will
the
all
pect
sus-
necessary
pleasure
I will
be
at
"
carry
all the
among
there
will
work.
such
replaced
in
fatigue of
their
the
are
cabriolets
but
bards."
scab-
tennis-
if I
the
which
Saint-
rapidly to
more
you
be
But
it, love,
say
smile:
forge swords,
not
the
this
in
the
pointed
he
with
hereafter,
to
entered
workshop,
said, "that
he
Solern,
to
by Solern,
appurtenances
take
work
your
no
Ruggieri.
woman
upon
"
not
of the
good
as
have
will
them
cause
court,
used
he
really king,
am
king;
the
arrest."
believe,"
France
said
decide
can
which
not
kings
the
king, followed
the
room
will
we
401
capture
here,
am
for her
When
the
MEDICI
besides, I do
there;
us
that
measures
lower
my
suspect
nothing,
"
forge,"
to
Knowing
to
to
overhear
mother
my
DE'
come
will
one
CATHERINE
Denis."
"Solern!"
knew
what
body!
my
of the
men
of
"As
"Very
said
a
fire has
nothing
who
well;
determine
upon
the
means
final orders
26
extinguish
can
have
kindled
the
custody
in my
it.
heart
Are
of the
you
you
and
sure
Ruggieri.?"
myself."
shall
my
the
during
upon
of
at
the
my
day
course
carrying
that
is
beginning, I
of action.
it out,
I will
Reflect
give you
de
ville's."
Belle-
first
the
As
with
mastery
the
and
ghost.
Although
Charles
was
she
retorted,
with
yourself,
madame,
with
both
robbing
of
fifty
and
from
which
thousand
of
They
the
crown
of
aim
by
person.
These
excellent
troops
(403)
you
of
gentry
under
read
ous
danger-
Due
d'Al-
in the
nothing
taking
tended
pre-
Navarre,
grandees
at
the
of
cealing
con-
abetted
streets,
proofs
King
the
confer
to
whom
brother
the
but
country,
the
the
your
half
and
went
mother,
with
scour
brother-in-law
involved.
your
to
contained
in
Conde,
you
Gondis,
you
monsieur,
open
your
he
I?"
night,
the
self""
your-
not
are
as
you
in
out
killing
But
riser
When
the
which
your
are
cumstances
cir-
horoscopes,"
"
all
enemies
going
conspiracy
de
like
sombre
are
of
up
movements
be
despatches
early
reasons.
and
to
"you
smile.
been
bitterest
Tavannes
Prince
open
existing
acquired
accuracy
as
different
your
engon,
door
impressionable,
under
albeit,
king,
half-light
and
said,
bitter
have
your
by
his
the
nervous
the
proving
am
very
in
apparition
"Monsieur,"
for
outlined
the
workshop,
heard
for
significance.
mysterious
"We
the
startled,
not
contending
were
alone,
very
the
"I
in
left
mother,
his
saw
dawn
light
had
Solern
whom
of
rays
less
forcible
dom
kingthan
sion
posses-
already
their
the
have
orders."
DE'
CATHERINE
404
"Indeed!"
said
the
MEDICI
with
king,
incredulous
an
air.
brother
"Your
is
Huguenot,"
turning
added
the
queen.
cried
is
brother
"My
Charles,
going
Huguenots?"
sword
the
brandishing
the
to
over
he
held
in his
Huguenot
at
heart,
hand.
the
"Yes,
will
be
soon
Navarre,
has
also
in fact.
What
"
Little
of
think
le Due
La
France
be
would
you
have
and
who
The
when
the
near
like
to
see
of Bourbon
always
law
be
than
can
by
senting
pre-
He
will
heretic."
throne
is the
kept
be
none,
them.
or
Let
it is
to
The
of
House
branch
younger
poverty, for
it is
folly to give
mere
it to
allow
every
whom
another!
one
of the
enemy
the
advice,
despite my
in absolute
and
family,
killing
you
is
with
save
your
of thrones.
king;
to
of
"this
the
this, monsieur:
it has
it seizes
branch
"
making.
nothing,
branch
younger
would
when
cried
to
conspirator by birth,
arms
Bussy,
queen,
great
his
marriage
Valois; understand
should
the
king of
amount
placed
House
loves
king.
become
to
way
of her
of the
the
continued
Margot!"
comes
head
she
you;
it is said."
"Wretched
"That
exclaimed
with
constable,
what
left for
she
of
Queen
sister, the
Mole."
Mole,"
better
no
Your
d'Alengon,
little La
heart!"
little affection
but
loves
"
d'Alenfon,
one
Monsieur
loves
she
Due
scion
of
keep
a
Asia
them
younger
injury, that
sovereigns of
it
follow
is the
that
DE'
CATHERINE
rule.
The
"
proofs
I
closet, where
hence,
if
shared
the
"
do
we
but
the
month
They
"
the
probabilities of
her
affection
of
price of
the
La
Mole;
knave
the
Comte
de
to
Coconnas,
Prince
for the
I don't
de
for
wedding-present
This
is
serious
predictions!
"
of
the
Valois
do
not
beware,
with
son,"
I
he
giving
of
the
House
it will
be
the
am
that
she
continued,
after
pause,
well
as
the
sort
pretty wife.
his
Do
agrees
into
thrown
Bourbon,
behaved
well
as
child
that
means
him
to
D'Alenjon's
brother
fulfilled.
has
done
way,
gives
sister, she
as
dangerous
me
which
your
heart
to
You
of
her
demands
monsieur.
one
throne
be
Conde,
that
matter,
I know
to
your
despite
the
to
by
nothing
of
out
whether
know
and
She
seems
from
come
herself
appealed
that
put
everything, provided
river;
of
should
they
amours.
fellow
that
but
we
As
all her
revelations
her
aloud.
D'Alenfon,
time,
that
say
combination,
said
he
"You
added
the
night.
very
is alarmed
brother
your
than
whom
man.
such
has, this
strongly
more
as
for
Valois
the
She
with
masters!"
be
he
Marguerite.
daughter
my
that
irrefutable, monsieur,
are
date
words.
proofs, madame?"
have
you
shall
their
have
struck
IX., thunder-
that
princes
we
himself, repeating
to
Charles
of
the
will
you
Simple."
cried
by
month
plans.
my
I left
when
me
other
the
coincidence
the
with
go
in
yonder
up
ourselves,
to
hence!"
demanded
"Within
look
405
are
had
of Charles
month
delay
to
you
you
not
fate
by
of
speak
begged
evening,
last
you
MEDICI
talk
the
about
throne
if
and,
not
be
angry
in this.
giving
we
"
My
tender
406
intonation
her
to
service
discord
between
only
accuse
you
Catholicism,
and
devised
with
the
of
holds
such
those
Medici
Charles
masters
for
at
it has
Florence
commercial
that
acknowledging
ais, and
fiefs
the
of
for the
the
on
tell you
lies
on
north.
the
ensure
you
war
Piedmont,
Gulf
mistake
death
the
do
Why
in
Lyon,
and
is
which
body
are
compel
you
his
us
magne
Charlepower
whose
two
as
are
we
again?
whose
Milan-
the
monsieur,
extending
and
advantages
just claims,
These,
Yes, France
of
have
you
things again
Italy
treaty of alliance,
hold
to
new
Medici,
subdue
crown.
Let
the
The
its
of
plan
to
will
of
the
brains?
and
which
which
and
the
Mad
all
the
circle
the
foothold.
Huguenots.
these
made
the
to
French
the
reasons
waging
to
Naples,
in
necessary
Rome,
they
cord
Valois
the
Valois,
destroy
glory
and
treaty
of
the
the
Joanna
which
shrewdly-
not
own
the
you.
between
House
together
not
gained
will
upon
bond
by cutting
their
of
race
they
you;
Do
lacked
the
where
world,
for
out
V., who
relegate
time.
should
Why
carry
the
kingdoms
know;
countries
under
result
three
faith.
one
of
assistance
chances
natural
are
reproach
I
it
skilfullyfollowing
united
be
plan,
You
three
Italy,
the
interests
forced
is the
sow
are
Bartholomew,
having
monsieur,
to
we
whose
that.
Saint
the
people
seek
although
me,
remember
by secretly and
may,
by
kingdom
of
Spain, France,
Guise
de
this
me
evil-minded
many
and
for
now
MEDICI
you
identical:
precisely
"
Messieurs
in
persons
yourself
voice,
of
the
in
us
DE'
CATHERINE
arms
ward
toheart
are
DE'
CATHERINE
and
Spain
In
Italy.
which
fall the
of
gentry
friendship of
in
own
alliances, perhaps
or
As
Spain.
ambitious
sold
and
Italy,
it; there
harmony,
your
brain
heirs?
having
and
to-day
the
hopes
are
based.?
three
Is it for
If
d'Alenfon
son
she
the
fastens
style
her
had
Catherine
concluded,
fascinating
of
of
son,
enemy
bear
have
seditious
these
monsieur,
me,
ing
belabor-
an
at
to
the
your
a
you
you
root
schemes
these
answer
would
our
Monsieur
conspiring?"
its
upon
daughter
upon
be
cut
not
in
prevented
would
all
you
am
Why
who
heirs
profit
daughter.?
which
upon
questions?
As
queen
Do
mistress
your
for
kingdom,
that
ble
hum-
suffocate
constantly
Have
does
Why
the
not
idea
household.
possessing
to
their
are
the
Guelphs
House,
order
the
to
reformers.
find
who
with
own
your
and
of
your
the
who
your
give you
the
that
in
of
enemies
people
of
is of
tight
furnished
is
the
to
lack
son
the
aid
listen
it
will
dreams
wife
your
and
Italy, force
which
to
still
squeeze
are
thence
Austria,
of
teeth
give warning
matter,
which
Although
Austria,
last
of
House
Spain.
in
this
to
inheritance,
an
those
in the
for
hoping
which
which
Medici
the
iterranean
Med-
the
into
upon
fattening to-day
are
If the
II.
Philip
rules
basket
Orient,
the
407
she
way,
it were,
is, as
treasures
Venetian
that
MEDICI
the
gaze
which
the
At
that
victim.
Medici
beauty;
face, which,
fastened
was
her
like
beautiful
real
that
of
bird
moment,
in
sentiments
of
upon
the
her
her
prey
the
iar
peculshone
gambler
Marie,
and
more
detected
of
melancholies
by
surprised
examine
and
DE
MME.
AT
carefully
then
the
melancholy
she
BELLEVILLE'S
his
her
knelt
royal
indications
m^ore
had
silence,
charmed
to
face,
zveariness
terrible
consuming
order
pale
master's
of
previously
in
all
than
away.
the
Ign
^"yiy""^Xi
Oy -^
'^AtMt^. Jt
/i.
DE'
CATHERINE
*'In
"Is
which
she
better
direction
deceiving
to
with
this
added,
with
bringing
the
sky
the
Dieu!"
Mon
"
"
that
left the
he
as
I may
glance that
Thy
by questioning
The
little
lived, and
toward
the
small
by
two
in
design
at
so
of two
the
holding
bound
eye
through
the
required
There
style.
was
At
invented,
represented
There
was
de
The
bestowed
on
Rue
de
scrutinize
I'Autruche
simple
very
and
their
ornamented.
It
recumbent
at
roundings
sursisted
con-
diamonds
as
persons
are
woman
heavily
was
the
concierge
his
street-gate, flanked
door, which
wicket
Belleville
of
level
who
in each
the
sought
pavilion.
services
small
ladies
heart
had
pilasters, cut
to
that
of
keenness
mother's
gateways
elaborately
which
extremely
at
for whose
IX.
one
when
iron, had
with
up
pavilions, seemed
stone
arch
looking
the
my
The
cornucopia.
admission.
The
but
last
time
were
cut, and
Charles
brick
a
bled.
trem-
Madame
which
Saint-Honore.
Rue
Louvre
Thou,
with
me
penetrate
in
which
was
"do
he
Ruggieri."
house
in
prisoners,
the
the
continued,
to
anvil
the
upon
of
den
bur-
directions,"
down
palace,
is
he
violent,
or
opposite
he
Life
natural
walls
is the
causam,"
meam
"
hammer
the
force
such
in
cried.
Which
eyes.
prefer death,
tugging
constant
his
he
they?
discerne
in
409
ambush?"
the
are
or
tears
me.
me,
Deus!
policy?
continued,
is
MEDICI
of
concierge
courtyard paved
period, when
went
about
night
in the
carriages
on
horseback
had
or
and
day.
Venetian
not
in
been
litters,
and
courtyard might
of
from
injury
the
of
was
crowned
roof with
The
apex.
with
of the
noticeable
the
four
stantly
con-
understand
diminutive
details
of
size
fifteenth-
led
walls
carved
bosses
facets,
in
windows
the
laid out
garden
and
vogue,
The
courtyard.
silvery pine
lawn
winding
stood
the
yews
at
laid
mosaics
patterns
that
of
bold
stoop,
was
in
at
the
were
in
the
to
in
of
centre
end.
the
small
Upon
peated
re-
fashion
then
occupied
to
the
vines.
extent
small
lawn.
flower-beds
clump
the
pebbles,
commonplace,
was
left.
and
with
covered
by
like
diamond-
flowers,
equal
from
with
in the
rare
the
on
which
right
planted
in
stone
surrounded
style
decoration
On
delicately
very
knot
of
multicolored
were
arabesques.
entrance,
walls
farther
and
some
relief.
house
leading
paths
of
chisel
into
separated
was
the
threw
and
the
dormer-windows,
of stonework
abounding
behind
space
the
at
embroidery
Venetian
system
"
ported
sup-
its
main
the
ground-
flat space
the
on
lover's
true
in
which
dentils
double
the
to
frieze
with
with
of
the
which
windows
above
sides, with
frames
reason
with
carved
covered
brick
the
landing,
This
must
to
the
floor
one
pierced
was
three
by
decorated,
certain
had
ground-floor,
in order
and
and
had
great artist
which
We
by
roof
pediments
Each
carriages.
streets,
house, which
floor,
or
danger
no
dwellings.
century
The
with
the
courtyards,
the
magnificent
fact in mind,
narrowness
of
MEDICI
be
horses
this
bear
in
DE'
CATHERINE
4IO
it
of
by
trimmed
walls
were
arranged
is
true,
in
but
DE'
CATHERINE
pleasing
of
wealth
the
On
door
the
of
and
of the
rooms
the
realm
that
for the
merit
which
garden;
But
meditates,
cast
moreover,
that
found
pro-
for
in the
soul
single thought,
or
silence, that
full of comfort
to
and
houses
neighboring
and
The
aspect.
d'Alenfon,
over
to
divine
the
last
but
arts, and
loved
he
"
his
in
as
house
quiet
one
most
greatness
few
his
interior
spot
of
in
the
himself
of
soul
to
the
his
poetic
one
and
royalties.
his
alone
did
he
fleeting months,
the
last
; there
could
display
of
and
whole
Valois
thwarted,
burdensome
ment
refine-
his
sorrows,
inclinations
appreciated
himself, during
the
only
abandon
of the
cares
only,
were
the
heart, tell of
his
taste
all, by the
valuable
characterized
melancholy
were
now
the
out
life which
sembled
re-
frames
with
which
there.
retreat,
where
pour
There
fail
could
of
it
that
loves.
one
Who
the
several
The
lantern.
incrusted
Hotel
one
centre.
well,
as
frieze, so
taste
courtyard
where
balcony
projected
the
a
that
the
courtyard
like
by
solitude,
resembled
stone.
it had
give itself
could
cloister
where
by
reigned
that
in
were
of the
the
on
window
exquisite
silence
that
the
that
carved
to
up
darkened
roofs
shadow,
of
window
pavilion,
house,
shadow
with
dainty
central
windows
were
the
the
the
on
surrounded
whole
by
and
small
Despite
the
of
garden
of the
carried
other
marbles
less, because
the
it had
this
were
a
on
front
in
garden,
decorations
feet
facade
courtyard;
the
over
the
none
eye,
411
flowers.
on
the
to
MEDICI
exalted
abandon
months
DE'
CATHERINE
She
removed
his
through
fingers.
hair,
Charles
pale face,
and
than
all the
in
speaking,
words
occasions:
wrinkles,
premature
impress
to
that
gentle
raised
him
caresses
her
against
"
the
color
With
the
exception
has
In the
from
the
voice,
come
door
said
prime
at
to
the
of
of
her
no
success.
king
"
how
chateau
his
of
face
her
for the
tune
oppor-
invalid.
dear
your
of
anxious
poor,
red
brow
lips.?"
he
said
in
named
France
end."
about
struck
in
She
hid
then
miserable
she,
spirit
Charlemagne,"
every
upon
king's, embraced
the
sweet
"
ing
try-
heart
own
cloud
your
by
cheeks,
tell your
not
which
thoughts
prince
of
will you
on
furrowed
dejected
the
do
forth
arms,
question
Nonsense!"
"
of
level
drive
Charles
her
know
yet
as
brow
with
slender
Chariot, dear,
low, hollow
"
the
imprudent
women
sweetheart
and
met
her
moment
*"
which
in
that
of
pouring
to
not
haggard
those
heart,
head
gently
and
that
from
refrained
loving
freshness
the
careworn
what
ble
terri-
consuming
more
did
she
kissed
she
of
intensify by
of which
in
knelt
royal master's
and
tear
to
did
no
previously charmed
had
not
She
nature.
such
back
order
suffering
the
forced
made
indications
the
she
her
silence,
melancholy
melancholies
She
away.
then
of
and
his
by
it with
it and
do
to
carefully her
more
detected
weariness
her
hands
her
ran
comb
would
surprised
examine
to
if she
as
413
cloak, and
and
cap
allowed
Marie,
reply.
order
his
MEDICI
head
"
king,
that
the
against
Amboise,
VIII. ?"
Charles
which
fortunate
un-
frame
he
was
decorating,
and
death
the
gave
"Charles
*'
died
of
the
do
"Why
of
thinking
"What
fate
what
awaits
soothsayers; they
to
this
at
am
Charles
died
and
Simple,
in
"Charles
he
"
"
poisoned
the
feared
death
his
son;
Charles
without
need
only
who
kings
seven
recourse
of
of
the
fate
his
crown,
of
captivity."
English!"
the
tain
ascer-
history.
avoiding
years
out
can
having
robbed
was
VI.
consult
upon
said,
she
past?"
them
drove
V.
the
life of
prison after
be
caused
father
in
intent
moment
the
should
expect, dearest?
you
voice,
mother!"
his
horrible
the
can
The
burrow
you
his
already
Sorel.
fears
son
kingdom."
he
lest
had
who
Agnes
the
his
lowered
king
His
agony.
family."
our
dreading
dauphin,
to-day,
horrible
reconquered
"
hunger,
MEDICI
in
to
crown
VII.
of beautiful
died
he
Little one,"
the
by
DE'
CATHERINE
414
she
claimed,
ex-
triumphantly.
"Not
of
Charles
by
Guesclin;
Du
he, but
and
Navarre,
for
he
poisoned
was
for
simply languished
years."
Charles
"But
"
He
IV.?"
married
the
notwithstanding
the
children
of
came
to
end
end
in
an
the
daughter
when
virile
Philippe
with
same
and
die, for
and
the
minority
which
the
event,
would
son
had
which
distinguished
the
queen
I shall
never
The
le Bel.
way;
only,
but
beauty
him,
with
calamity
In any
times,
three
not
would
heir,
an
first Valois
second
has
leave
be
kingdom
could
of mine
live?
line
line
given
will
me
enceinte
her
the
greatest
be
afflicted.
This
name
DE'
CATHERINE
is of evil augury,
Charles
I should
again,
has
"Who
said
"tell
call
"never
of
me
with
mother,
"Sire,"
said
praying,
adored.
his
might;
my
beloved
to
use
of
love
to
lifted
her
her
Marie
kiss
her
If my
stabs
Due
her
hands
me
of my
me
d'Anjou,
his
are
you
and
glory
'
monsieur
if she
as
in which
word
words
were
means
put his
the
which
did
the
about
arm
his
on
the
curls
her
which
"
melodies
waist,
which
and
knee,
he
gently
his
tress
mis-
coquettishly.
moment
favorable,
Charles
endured
two
not
musiquees
so
strength for
against
so
pretty gesture
depict
to
vogue
her
arranged
people
with
nervous
seated
brow
two,
The
in
the
and
hands,
then, between
"
the
fills it with
Charles
deemed
or
to
realm
the
heart.
with
his
had
is
there
then
noted,
rubbed
rob
mind
re-
lord."
that
"
jest; you
to
seems
clasping
MAJESTY
word
in
Poland."
"there
and
king, earnestly,
constantly
'
Marie,
unclasped
pointed
was
of
YOUR
She
who
son
my
the
even
she
King
were
my
little
bewitching
cheerful."
more
'monsieur,'
the
mean
with
Marie,
says
me.
"
me
She
crown.
pray?"
"
title, by which
that
X."
conspiring against
My
"
all
France
Charles
crown,
is
something
me
King of
myself
your
everywhere
"Monsieur,"
pout,
on
D'Alenjon
enemies
see
exhausted
become
call
to
designs
brother
My
"
tremble
415
Charlemagne
If I should
good fortune.
its
MEDICI
kisses, she
lie,you
and
rather
said
prowled
ventured
than
to
about
cepted;
ac-
him:
Paris
4l6
all
DE'
CATHERINE
last
foolish
things
"I
in
like
said
Yes,"
"
as
night,
honest
bourgeois
whom
you
criminals
than
Solern's
drunk;
the
room
or
is it
jest?
said
"Yes,"
reverie,
"I
Tavannes
the
and
our
not
jump
legs
who
have
across
At
last, when
few
steps ftom
clung
no
of
more
would
what
the
streets.
king
I know
"
"A
said
it.
You
seclusion
eaten
no
nor
to
one
them.
go
Is it
hoped
in
that
be:
to
However,
from
at
last
if he
days,
we
dared
the
we
had
cross
other.
gable
agreed,
that
them
old
certain
and
of us,
to
in
did
we
roof
one
chimney,
the
with
as
would
been
we
do
alone,
leap."
will
wager."
risk
your
smiled.
why
are
you
life thus."
lovely sorceress!"
tired
on
his
roofs
find
to
used
they
from
the
over
arrived
Neither
first,I
plague
the
of
taken
the
"Oh!
run
here, Tavannes
went
The
had
bar
have
"You
"
the
to
with
himself
escapades
my
not
we
such
matter?"
courtyards, leaping
two
allow
placed
you
Gondis;
of
are
neither
will
for
out
companions
but
in stricter
an
men
are
held
king, rousing
the
who
maiden
which
the
set
and
the
are
pray,
communication
serious
stripped
any
Germans
in
and
forbade
fellows,
those
near
was
thought.
watch
keep,
do
to
son."
in
Who,
to
me
you
Never
the
two?
or
gave
that
them?
beat
used
you
younger
still lost
king,
you
when
days
genuine
the
suppose
the
MEDICI
of life."
sorcerers!
king, resuming
am
serious
haunted
by them,"
expression.
DE'
MEDICI
she
replied, with
CATHERINE
**
"My
sorcery
Since
the
have
blessed
I not
will
you
which
allow
"Can
name
was
the
out
is
mistress,
when
kingdom
as
is
yours
Your
by
the
coup d'Etat
last
follow.
minate
Exter-
that
of Madame
do
to
it
done,"
is
"and
Charles,
said
she
Catherine's
day""
to-
rejoined;
opinion, that
than
only
to contend
to
Guises
let the
yourself
it."
do
Charles
"
VII.
am
confronted
can
kill men,
Charles
is
king."
his
to
must
you
ruse,"
the
am
better
was
VII. do,
his
English
that
something
"besides,
it
of
Charles
listened
religion.
path
blamed
It
"
the
new
thoughts
heresy."
the
"You
he
did
reconquered
by
of the
adherents
What
bear?
and
truth, the
unworthy
are
if
And
thoughts?
the
me,
he, bitterly.
be?
you
overrun
marked
said
not
monseigneur,
it
to-day
you
smile.
first loved
you
your
tell you
to
me
you
whose
divined
king?"
when
hour
always
torment
"Am
love,"
is
417
V.
but
one
cannot
abandoned
the
of all
On
Guises
the
kings.
will
right, among
Coligny
they
lastly,in
27
aim
front
and
at
the
the
of me,
his
on
it, and
at
whom
I lean
can
the
left
my
be
death
mother
"
the
of poor
over,
more-
throne;
"
the
Calvin-
bloodletting;
the
II.
for support?
I find
the
are
for the
suppression of
I have
Philip
it will
Catholics,
August
Emperor
son
the
forgive me
never
The
One
"
king.
the
attempt,
Upon
me;
with, and
kill words!
strength
threatening
ists, who
Pere
us
his
men
ideas," replied
with
exhausting
death
had
and
4l8
DE'
CATHERINE
"Arrest
The
daughter
who
Do
so
very
and
fond
was
is my
Medici
the
thought
What
Poison!"
"
Poor
used
who
whose
!"
an
rejoined
jesting concerning
Catherine.
to
acts
of
facts
to
caused
all
How
Women
to
of
kindness
is
she
at
the
"Ah!"
to
tinued,
con-
good,
base
me
and
of
your
from
me,
beginning
your
but
fidy.
per-
cruel
so
1 learned
Dauphine,
queen,
such
to
she
and
me
tears,
Catherine,
kind
concealed
the
to
tain
cer-
reign,
and
mother,
it
has
misfortunes."
whose
the
hearts
virtues
their
who
love;
but
them
by using their
women
in
always
cried
rely upon
to
her
joined
"
seem
kind
himself.
Madame
so
now
stay
my
your
so?"
hate
me
so
that
me
deeply.
me
seem
have
seems
tremble
restraining
strength
her
concerning
you
should
?"
Marie,
such
make
During
you.?
Catherine
king, beside
the
cried
to
Why
pure
between
doctor's,"
you
dread
you
moved
had
"you
"
not.
can-
it."
about
liberties, Marie!
exclaimed
spectacle
weakness
"
of""
child
the
which
to-day
great
of
rnother, and
is it that
**
for
such
take
not
de'
"
low
king frowned.
The
"
and
talk
to
the
in
ear.
for you
is not
Touchet,
Marie,
yesterday,
so
easy
distance
apothecary's
Marie
do
to
It is very
"
king's
the
to
I intended
"
her,
tone, close
MEDICI
evil
wish
to
whose
purposes
the
govern
them
inclinations
no
as
they
men
good
are
govern
levers;
now,
DE'
CATHERINE
the
transformed
has
queen
into
vices, and
instincts
evil
part for
of
manner
will
the
save
"We
Alas!
love.
bah!
mother
my
cards.
like
an
Guise
of
to
their
people,
the
on
most
seems
undertake
become
and
very
Messieurs
would
climb
the
Everyone
all, and
in
sever
in
distance;
as
Guise,
those
to
party
in
the
on
you
difificulties
nearer
itself of
the
leaders,
and
Catholics,
destroyed.
first
interests
as
of
tion
connec-
when
fanatical
serve
I would
draw
you
party
selfish
own
of
Messieurs
the
Calvinism
see
this
everything
but
is
the
'
lean
mountains,
evident
all
my
word,
make
house
my
I would
Rome,
to
The
of
bring
I would
religious opinions
ambitions.
but
says:
I would
interest
his
Charles,
clearly outlined,
are
Calvinism
despair
obeys
you
great things:
on
everyone
more
them.
de
be
of
at
slightest
the
favorable,
nothing
breathed
senses,
simple
to
and
is
accomplish
Calvinism,
and
more
nearer
do
bourgeoisie;'
to
tate
imi-
Calvinists;
the
moment
the
out
politics," said
to
and
court
the
proper
solitude
that
distance, questions
end
with
of
love, I thought
simply
mountain-peaks,
make
de
At
in
to
I determined
yesterday.
your
after
tyrant
estates
how
dearest
my
the
Italians, drive
in
babes
know
bitterly,"we
that
Poland."
two
are
that
The
throne.
is in
brother
your
the
magnify yourself
will
you
Was
Be
the
confiscate
and
believe
ities
qual-
XL,
Louis
noble
you
play?
to
Philip, banish
King
Guises,
virtues.
were
419
of your
some
made
has
mother
MEDICI
cloak
Charles
of
for insatiable
IX.
is the
DE'
CATHERINE
would
proportioned
too,
held
in
throes
the
knelt
who
knees,
without
in
buried
lethargy
of
despairing stupor
the
in the
distance
The
a
the
hand
remained
long moment,
reflection
inward
she
of
excessive
and
her
return,
not
feel strong
lover,
her
she
cheeks.
grief moved
eyes,
to
contend
IX.
in
body
saw
That
the
tears
in
sympathy
king
so
his
that
terrifying fit
not
the
terror,
had
greeted
king
which
against,
and
mind.
she
did
had
not
As
she
tears, toward
eyes
and
deeply
united
that
of
without
with
which
an
even
believed
this
enough
streaming
of
clouds
passion
violent
every
everything,
for
which
for
silence
the
herself,
with
the
Charles
enfeebled
raised
joy
sees
when
Marie
in
ends.
love
absolute
over
happiness.
was
who
moments
veil
asked
She
depression.
if the
sigh;
Marie
woman
when
partly responsible
was
in
hair,
a
and
so
king's
the
on
which
at
thus
cast
memories
the
loving
wound,
tempest
the
love;
Charles
impotence,
of those
one
makes
of
which
without
he.
as
in
was
mistress's
his
word,
boundaries
the
lovers
in
he
even
resting
motionless
as
was
that
saw
had
protracted
attacks
head
without
moving,
she
and
his
engendered
the
annoying,
floor, her
kept
from
those
and
painful
the
on
of
one
his
suffering,
was
Marie
closet.
of
is
everything
he
forth
came
was
which
exaltation
melancholy,
which
his
in
council
prostration
nervous
he
when
him
had
from
disease
seized
she
of
paroxysm
the
by
ideas
his
42I
king's
height of
the
to
and
courage
The
dismayed.
be
MEDICI
he
on
her
his
them
threw
pallid
even
in
off his
like
lethargy
his
his
"
I will
pleasure!
The
in
tone
horrible
she
accused
disease
of
moment,
the
You
"
abruptly
What
"
to
Be
do
are
consumed
fire
the
gratifying
of
love
the
that
Marie
At
her.
in
complicity
king
prisoners,"
that
ing
caus-
dying.
was
said, springing
she
me!
to
men
they assassins.^""
alarmed,
not
have
we
of them,
think
not
in
give
them
leave
me."
What!
"
of
which
those
are
assassinate
"
be
feet.
her
to
1 will
lifeless, caused
now
her
forget your
couch.
**
not
and
spoke
but
instead
pang
and
happy,
he
eyes,
could
throne."
which
in his
gleamed
die
to
the
on
put
forget everything
else, and
of the
anxieties
the
by
prefer
she
said,
he
he
spur;
before
her
more,"
no
lover, nothing
your
the
seated
had
he
king
be
with
waist, and
Marie's
purpose,
MEDICI
pricked
horse
around
arm
guess
DE'
CATHERINE
422
do
me;
child!
fast, dear
them
of
but
exclaimed.
she
love
not
you
me.?"
"
Sire!"
she
"'Sire,?'"
he
violent
fire, so
cried.
repeated,
forth
by
his
have
an
understanding
"
her
mistress's
God!"
cried
prie-Dieu,
kneel
and
pray.
and
of
unseasonable
respect.
with
Marie,
striving
"O
flashed
eyes
first outburst
the
was
his
while
God,
You
**
mother!"
my
gazing
to
called
wrath
at
reach
grant
that
the
portrait on
it in
he
order
to
understand
me!"
"
**so
Aha!"
you
rejoined
have
the
something
king,
to
in
threatening
reproach
tone,
yourself for.?"
DE'
CATHERINE
He
gazed
buried
his
of the
heard
for
D'Entragues
you,"
Balzac,
conti
Milan, the
Marie
and
de
Valois,
Come
"
from
child
the
"
in, La
You
"
proud
that
pression
ex-
moment,
just awakened,
his
to
salon.
adjoining
Marie, taking
said
him
he,"
than
beautiful," said
to the
king.
said, half
she
his
Charles, taking
arms.
I alone
know
Marie:
"he
said
had
carrying
child
Vis-
mollified.
is very
in his
son
At
in the
and
since
evidently bringing
heard
nurse
of
half
offended,
"He
the
certain
nothing."
such
Bourguignonne!"
more
are
with
who
was
nurse
of
married
at
ashamed.
himself
made
mother,
stick
gaze
was
his
whom
he
arms,
knaves
he
that
little Charles
his
passion
grandfather,
king's
the
met
in
her
mad
he
their
Captain
at
held
he
as
423
in hers.
eyes
I have
"
her
at
MEDICI
how
has
he
closely
gestures
your
you,"
resembles
and
smile
your
already."
"
small?"
"
So
"
Men
but
take
him!
"
see,
on
miniature
"
him,
the
Chariot,
exclaimed
of
never
leave
smile.
play
with
said;
she
watch
him,
right?"
part of the
copy
things,"
such
child
of
one
me!
he
king, surprised by
the
which
his
lovely blossom!"
The
will
my
I not
am
king, with
the
believe
never
It is true!"
motion
a
will
queried
will
him
to
gestures.
own
said
seemed
the
never
"
mother.
me
cause
He
any
grief."
The
his
son,
jumped
him
up
and
DE'
CATHERINE
424
kissed
down,
with
him
foolish, unmeaning
the
which
in
Marie
when
"
Will
you
and
intend
you
in the
"
Do
surprised by
the
me
clear
who
and
give
you
these
men
them?
with
are,
And,
I trust
much?"
so
of
radiance
which
glances
shoulder
lastly,
there's
that
case?"
still love
you
forgotten
ear:
roofs?
the
on
go
you
do
to
face,
Chariot, why
watch,
what
cleared,
had
his
on
his
my
and
woman
in
matopoeia
ono-
saddened
lover
head
tell me,
to
no
her
brow
his
her
not
assassins
did
that
him
to
invent; he talked
nurses
to
said
fascinating
finallyhis
words
me
where
the
returned
laid
these
whispered
words,
and
saw
she
everything,
passion,
and
voice,
joyful expression
and
intense
mothers
childish
MEDICI
said
king,
of those
one
know
women
the
how
to
tioning
quescast
on
occasion.
"Could
glistening
"
but
are
of
end
gable
few
was
I?"
steps
of
said
house,"
tears
adventure;
in my
Where
within
the
replied,
concerned
women
were
she
lovely eyelids.
witches.
are
You
me?"
her
between
There
they
"
doubt
you
here,
Marie;
**
on
the
what
on
street?'
**
Rue
seemed
Saint-Honore,
have
to
recovered
it the
determination
scene
about
window
eyes
to
take
to
that
passed through
my
dearest,"
under
under
last
attracted
were
the
his
prepare
street
eaves
the
king,
self-control, and
his
place
said
her
night
by
of
mistress
the
roof.
in
our
with
for the
"As
we
ings,
wander-
bright light
house
who
from
occupied
DE*
CATHERINE
by Rene,
I leave
"Ah!
cried
in
so
gloomy
"But,
"
has
Yes.
"
had
of
In
reached
of
damned
Florentine's
street
are
which
he
column
can
climbing,
Rene's
on
the
to
to
The
crucibles
cowardice
for
her
eaves
of
that
windows
on
the
the
last
going
Parisians
and
the
on
sleeping-
courtyard,
there,
wall
which
set
up
distil death
to
ensure
one
of
dream
ever
have
they
from
one
Soissons
high
who
in which
of
have
of
would
man
astrologer, Cosmo
is
what
observe
eaves
the
The
I
self,
my-
measures
the
men
climbed
and
coping
the
since
unseen
see,
is
no
smile,
Tavannes,
there
see
Dau-
you
"
by
the
de
built
corridor
from
kitchen,
H6tel
those
where
roof.
the
rooms
the
Under
climb
on
closed, except
see
that, in order
Go
examine
house?
mother
devil's
ever
always
Ruggieri.
must
death
sown
anything
I could
inspired
you
my
and
the
which
there
with
me
followed
spot whence
Did
so
have
house?"
moment,
taken.
room
continued
he
said, with
she
death.
Rene's
interior
the
things
up?"
him
returned
just
supplied
not
roof
the
to
have
of Navarre's
Queen
up
they
dauphin,"
our
Rene
and
the
child, I
my
with
phine,
here,"
was
doubtless
"
tone,
I gave
when
life
My
there."
me."
for
here
"
king.
and
Marie.
said
him
kept
you
picions
sus-
house,
is brewed
poison
to-morrow,"
him
the
the
my
violent
man's
in that
to
gloves
I have
court.
on
goes
poisoned,
am
"
what
to
as
the
425
and
perfumery
yourself, and
mother,
if I
of
purveyor
MEDICI
ends
in
at
those
counted
their
not
426
being watched;
which
it
with
on,"
which
L'H6pitars,
and
which
his
upon
cast
there
of
were
other,
voutees
Rene
in
which
my
nes
and
utensils
it may
mother's
were
The
and
of
of
lamp
his
the
in
old,
which
godly
un-
floor, ceiling,
visible,
and
them,
covering
and
ingredients of
distilling apparatus,
magic
and
astrology;
the
perfumer
thunderstruck,
tention
at-
ment
parch-
centuries
his
sleepless
nowhere
were
side, books,
payment
beneath,
animals
horoscopes,
and,
"
fires
several
plants, minerals,
one
deep by
manuscript,
been
velvet
dividing
was
old
as
black
beams
He
laboratory
filled with
boxes
the
on
white
on
in
hair, upon
toil
brewing.
many
in
white
the
ried
car-
seated
as
him,
of
light.
with
the
dried
kinds;
Marie,
are
forehead, furrowed
were
so
skeletons,
the
first object
man
beard
like
have
crucibles
walls
old
tall
venerable
must
concoctions
and
crown
brilliant
of which
two
was
concentrated
a
said
darkness
The
"
watchful
were
of
king.
broad
between
and
the
dressed
his
Upon
nights,
with
monkey
heart?"
works
magnificent
chair, with
placid,
the
dear
see,
the
fell
eyes
wrinkles,
to
gutter
apprehension.
replied
my
gown.
their
straight against
up
around
arm
the
along
stand
you
in which
den
did
what
trembling
without
ornamented."
was
And
"
I crawled
by passing my
jamb
MEDICI
reckoned
they
1 could
where
window,
"
but
Valois.
de
Charles
all
DE'
CATHERINE
he
hospitality
accords
I
en-
furnishes
and
him.
promise
on
you,
shelter
Tavan-
by
the
DE'
CATHERINE
of that
aspect
it,you
of
France,
us
I said
fascinated
were
On
of the
as
white
motionless
as
recently
exhumed
her
as
of
for
the
attention
eyes
The
old
his
that
interest
glance,
the
so
chills
of age;
from
emanating
folds.
nothing
His
check.
attitude,
in
his
so
perfectly shaped
immobility,
functions
on
unwearied
of
nature,
breaking
does
not
of
about
the
some
"
he
by
of
passion
sculptor's chisel,
criminal
or
intelligence,following
vanquished
under
the
abandon,
by
burden
threatening
its
found
pro-
verily
spite
bold, de-
lips
able
innumer-
face,
can
instant
sharp,
so
that
performs
that
idea
the
trated
concen-
experiment,
close
on
bent
audacity
creation
nothing
every
nature, and
of
such
indicated
man
scientific
the
pay
by admiring
their
his
I did
unique;
quivered
lines
the
"
still
be
by thoughts
which
daunt,
ment
experi-
me,
and
seemed
amid
can
woman
to
with
into
grave
always
Everything
which
hope
him
lips moved
that
not
him, I ended
those
corpse,
some
did
penetrating
desire
remained
which
and
keen
long
fixed, and
villain
at
eyes
girl
and
been
our
tacles.
spec-
lay
as
of
passed
have
were
gazed
mind
of
man
pale
to
for
eyes
slender
purposes
her
her;
to
beauty,
seemed
breathe.
old
the
It may
statue.
Tremble
'
"
Tavannes's
ermine,
an
shroud;
her
see
least
beside
wearing
not
couch
King
been
mysterious
most
peculiar type
snake,
or
But
that
I not
afraid.
been
Tavannes.
by
the
most
have
to
had
spell,and,
the
I should
both!'
427
devil's
fall under
at
MEDICI
with
the
that
heels
without
which
it
the
fire
DE'
CATHERINE
for
apply
women
their
and
lovers,
for
apply
whom
to
the
with
every
is
supposed
entered,
frightful
little old
horrible; she
more
her
skin
had
her
mouth
was
the
sardonic
from
black
myself
made
hair
she
on
Tavannes
two
brothers
paid
the
one
one,
hand,
pretty
attention
to
formed
life in death;
a
on
crutch
and
the
nor
God
that.
fallen
wisps
Tavannes
"
sembled
re-
exhaled
gray
on
being
the
who
in
nose,
eyes
brow
neither
as
had
no
her
but
apple,
her
witchcraft
human
beside
stool
which
young
for
us,
hideous
so
with
the
of
old
met
leaned
she
with
image,
an
escaped
smelt
for
her
anything
herself
On
her
man
backed,
hunch-
line, her
dice,
on
frightened
took
invisible
filthy cap;
walked;
she
chin
spots
old
the
Indian
saffron, her
almost
an
beneath
stake;
or
of
bitterness,
she
as
tinge
thing
every-
brought
as
as
who
toothless,
an
the
man
know
He
wrinkled
was
the
greeting
as
and
and
future
to
woman,
distorted, crooked
lovers
wives
hand,
brother!'
'Good-evening,
him
from
half-devil
that
"
in the
and
and
unfaithful
their
deals
and
horoscopes
husbands
husbands
the
who
man
429
their
help against
help against
mistresses,
MEDICI
never
She
seated
white
snake
in
love.
the
old
ghastly
The
woman
couple.
other, death
the
in life."
"
My
charming
poet!"
cried
Marie,
kissing
the
king.
"
"And
Good-evening,
they
both
Cosmo,*
looked
at
the
the
old
alchemist
crucible.
plied.
re-
DE'
CATHERINE
430
moon's
is the
*"What
MEDICI
the
to-day?'
power
old
asked.
man
'Why,
"
end;
ascertain
can
we
"
'
What
"
'
He
force
discovered,'
has
in
air which
the
from
earth
but
that
That
metals
be
creative
earth
with
things
all
that
us,
gradual
formation,
trans-
forms
are
of
"
'
There
**
The
**
Thereupon
tapped
on
is
the
some
one
thing;
every-
compress
well
as
dead
us!
I could
that
not
girl'shand:
is it.?'
Who
myself
at
window
the
that
said.
I showed
the
and
unites
position
near
morning
genius.'
has
a
also
to
king!' she
leaped
fellow
this
me
compression,
power
in such
was
Cosmo
seen,
of
everything,
That
I
told
said
believed,'
predecessor
result
fire has
separate.
and
of
result
the
to
concludes,
Palissy
divides
Although
"
back
gives
my
the
were
that
to
is
to-night.?'
us
all different
Bernard
fire, which
as
an
everything
replied Cosmo,
is the
is what
Lorenzo.
that
at
yet
substance.'
same
'
to
it; he
on
everything
"
not
are
while
nothing
the Orient
says
it takes
the
September
oger,
astrol-
confusion.'
in such
that
of
tides
high
the
mother's
replied my
LoreuT^o,''
caro
hell's
that
and
window
the
kitchen,
followed
the
Florentines,
by
Tavannes.
"
who
Yes, the
seemed
crucibles
you
king,' I
said
paralyzed
and
your
could
with
books,
not
to
fear.
your
divine
my
two
*
With
magic
visit.
all your
and
"
your
I
am
ence,
sci-
very
DE*
CATHERINE
pleased
whom
to
the
queen
I said
*You
the
In
goodman.
whose
dear
to
ye!
You
interest
are
ancestors,
from
father
cunning
embark
to
have
with
serve?
God
have
the
or
enterprises,
your
be.
You
will
tell
dealt
severely
ists
or
you
may
have
with.
Mahometans,
the
I will
give you
morning
are
my
where
"
kingdom
to
prisoners,
you
Before
will
be
search
you
here?
standing
under-
concerning
secrecy
they
therefore,
me,
may
out
with-
will
you
be
Christians, Calvinword
royal
my
in
that
case
consciences.
your
of
rest
do
make
you
you
content
capable of
am
to
the
you
ever,
How-
night
and
for
morrow
to-
your
consciences,
you
will
follow
guarded
like
precious treasures.'
my
orders, the
and
complying
consulted
the
prudentl
im-
not
are
unpunished,
peccadilloes upon
any
do
or
have
you
too
are
Whom
deceive
Pagans
have
kitchen;
blameworthy
If you
leave
you
everything,
me
concealment.
since
maintaining
that
since
well
power.
however
Hark
purses,
done
What
been
enterprises
this
truth, I
of
it and
Medici?
in
with
devil?
whole
the
of
gold; you
idiots
nor
money
son,
long
have
designs,
secret
neither
I will
like
up
here,
have
to
criminal
would
permission,
many
with
upon
you
so
bowed.
working
you
would
repletion
to
yourselves
must
in
and
my
House
hand
your
but
shut
the
ordinary greed
stuffed
been
of
heart
ously,'
mysteri-
so
rose
without
kingdom
have
of
who
man,
each
with
other
of
Ruggieri
speaks
whose
the
people
old
the
431
Lorenzo
mother
my
to
in
are
you,
illustrious
the
see
MEDICI
with
me
to
two
you
place
entines
Flor-
Lorenzo
pain
neither
their
said,
he
with
equality
God
God.
as
they accorded
to
answer
confidence
asked
girl's,and
not
choose
that
afraid
was
took
Lorenzo
placed
examining
were
before
mirror
in
it, and
strange
could
seals
on
all
Tavannes
exits
the
undertook
Chapelain,
there,
the
brought
we
by
my
of
all
to
two
that
guard
express
order,
drugs
two
that
were
in
women
myself
nor
sentence.
be
an
kept
"
placed
we
Bernard
should
make
ceresses
sor-
myself
at
laboratory,
until
to
the
held
look
here,
men
young
between
that
single
physician,
my
the
the
of
of
the
Tavannes
meaning
the
with
Neither
tongue.
gather
Before
talked
brother
left, and
Cosmo
hands,
to
hands.
my
and
I did
thinking
the
time
me
dertaking
un-
young
As
Christ
the
my
the
out
old
Jesus
requesting
me,
his
I held
the
like
was
before
for
Cosmo
of
hands
much
as
in
reason
any
Throughout
thieves.
two
them
from
woman's.
old
of
unreservedly,
left hand
the
prised,
sur-
but
one
me
questions
right hand,
that
also
Now,
witchcraft,
in the
so
woman,
of
the
them
in
give
to
came
place my
right
my
thoughts
me.
lips
footing
no
my
to
me
be
not
a
from
power
their
upon
claimed
they
make
acknowledged
for their
Therefore
they
who
king
from
any
1 need
dealt
they
that
him,
above
withheld.
tain
cer-
feebleness,
had
could
be
secrets
apparent
alone
minds
their
tell what
might
their
feelings
confidence
them;
over
that
extort
human
nor
MEDICI
me
could
torture
no
notwithstanding
them;
his
informed
Ruggieri
that
and
DE'
CATHERINE
432
which
Palissy
brought
exact
or
ventory
inmade
DE'
CATHERINE
there.
In
order
investigations
and
to
with
the
the
sight
same
is
dearest
the
future,
the
be
said
in your
why
"Will
See
"
myself
Then
other
at
You
with
your
all
Should
28
some
the
my
cabal,
legions of
the
of
masters
heart,
they
the
that
so
we
lay my
can
heart
for you:
terrors
no
of these
peaches?"
she
beautiful
fruit
gilt
and
grapes
eat
pears;
on
picked
them
than
the
great
deal
for
there
is
no
love-philters that
hands."
eat
your
blood, which
violent
I not
of them,
some
dread
to
should
cool
one
him
your
it would
"
Now,
Vincennes."
I will
from
"
and
us!"
have
have
the
poison
come
equerry,
sign of apprehension.
no
sorcerers
not
you
replied, offering
*'
of
if
been
fortune-tellers,I
and
become
to
spells yourself."
cast
plate.
mind
with
the
famous
happy
very
Marie,
I know
Bohemia,
all the
will
of
house,
has
keys of
leaders
the
equal
are
witches.
the
cocted
con-
placed
himself
Rene
I hold
of
of
who
two
the
princes
what
I shall
bare,"
all
the
Thune,
read
know
you
of
true
by Solern's
room
have
in your
here
Germans,
his
heirs
to
propose
"
in
of
the
sorcery,
"
confinement
darling, since
kings
may
mother,
my
kitchen,
communication
having
prison-walls.
in
kept
in their
with
Solern's
strongest
made
they might
in secret
by
ignorance of the
outside, for
scheme
devils
guarded
from
433
in
them
being
were
them
person
some
two
that
prevent
any
keep
to
MEDICI
also
of
you
fruit,Charles;
are
drying
passions."
love
you
little less.?"
up
injure you,
the
strength
the
man
love
my
Charles
wish
the
that
make
sad
him
Royalty
"
True,"
she
like
your
the
of
find
can
in
1 adore
you.
the
these
and
king,
tormenting
If you
who
has
cares
foot, and
not
if I
than
happier
in
live
to
poor
who
sou,
in
Beam
enough
barely
King of Navarre,
paltry kingdom
set
only
were
the
brother-in-law,
never
much
to
I love
"
replied.
happy,
"
love
thoughtful."
and
but
him
gives
than
naught
will
he
so!
them
deny
to
without
lady-killer
little
things you
ruining me."
is
"
prince
live
If the
thought
more
to
man
MEDICI
"
I have
and
"
said.
she
Perhaps,"
'*
Spain,
France,
I
on,
sesses
poswhere
which
should
be
really Queen
were
France."
But
"
are
for what
smiled, and
Nothing
of
with
I need
the
kingdom,
form?"
another
little
sweet
What
be
go
pout:
about
behold
in the
there
love, you
excellent
everything
kingdom
do
two
not
lieutenant
"
"
finish
is to
yet
Tete-Dieu!
are
difficult
as
I shall
And
away.
questioned.
Ruggieri
dearest
are
pleasant life
how
never
must
verses
pacification,but
Dieu!
Mon
and
politicsin
little one,
Dear
edicts
one
of
has
net
son-
my
is it written?"
"
"
said
She
queen?
welfare
but
queen
the
than
more
for the
only
is the
Marie
**
not
you
Charles
King
an
DE'
CATHERINE
434
lack
of
was
of
two
I wish
Florentines
I considered
more
them!
wit, you
police, for
as
soon.
yours
here!
me
the
to write
than
that
enough,
Listen,
would
you
my
make
divine
DE'
CATHERINE
But,
"
to
the
us
the
sire,
whole
"
My
Jacob
him
in
ask
if
his
all
his
of
result
they
are
stairs,"
the
on
wished
said
who
valet,
of
expeditions
master
the
on
men.
them."
king's favorite
the
was
voice
two
innocent?
they
is behind
mother
is
word,
these
probe
plans depend
my
Are
Jacob's
I hear
to
me
examination.
in
there,
true;
and
dread,
we
shrewdness."
our
all
moment,
guilty?
the
assist
well,
this
their
of
secret
"Very
At
is
probable
435
whatever
imagine
we
MEDICI
to
came
with
speak
to
attended
he
pleasure;
Marie.
the
two
prisoners.
The
king
of the
house
made
"Jacob,"
house
his
her
she
said,
the
draw
windows,
"make
le
the
mistress
leave
Do
but,
curtains
you
first
in
of
the
yourself
all, close
salon,
the
and
d'Auvergne
Dauphin
below;
the
and
everybody
remain.
may
room
sign,
orders.
Monsieur
who
in
main
re-
the
light
and
candles."
the
The
the
king's
impatience
preparations
a
upon
raised
placed
had
was
place
arm
chair
of
the
of
Florentines.
beside
herself,
portrait of
the
mirror.
his
was
in
which
of
front
bright
king
fire
in
Charles
chair, the
better
that,
great
so
he
completed,
were
in which
fireplace
the
gave
except
nurse,
affirmative
an
his
red
mistress
white
marble
velvet
rested
seat
pretty
blazing.
was
to
his
took
high
before
his
scrutinize
There
frame
elbow
the
in
on
two
When
the
windows
Jacob
drawn,
the
and
recognize
the
decorated
on
were
to
sit,
suit
more
striking
more
clearly
the
upholstery.
polished
in
the
to
in
color
Jacob
knocked
admitted
the
impressed
the
Ruggieri.
That
beard
heightened
cape,
face,
was
had
the
of
two
thrill
power
of
genius
solitude,
his
black
was
at
man,
effect
newly
genius
not
cast
(437)
and
vailing
pre-
Lorenzo
to
silvery
black
dome.
a
which
whose
velvet
His
one
feels
from
in
his
impressive
more
by
contact
stern
flame,
penetrating
forth
come
blunted
tributed,
dis-
was
aspect
small
by
marble
that
the
its
within,
Touchet
of
old
emotion
the
from
word
and
eyes
eyes,
was
Marie
in
love.
great
in
like
like
grandeur
austere
forehead
whence
caused
of
attention
great
sparingly
which
and,
the
by
once
of
fire-light
there
Florentines.
two
at
attracted
twice,
see
with
gilding,
of
abode
that
became
could
carved
brown
sombre
Ben-
reddish-brown
and
and
here
gleamed
might
apartment,
One
the
The
panels.
which
at
king,
light.
candle-light
silver
they
that
the
furniture,
The
that
of
daylight
by
carved
compatriot
of
bright
curtains
table
so
aspect
the
the
their
taste
the
than
ebony
life
rich
the
reflected
delicacy,
of
The
to
in
it
handiwork
Cellini.
venuto
and
candles
placed
Florentines
two
gave
the
lighted
candelabrum,
closed
were
ence
presfound
pro-
because
with
men.
438
One
has
that
made
"I
she
would
have
Charles
he
reply;
from
IX.,
"Your
sky,
science
"
suit
is
"
began,
Our
to
sun
too,"
witches,
did
thought,
not
bread-crumbs
effect
no
appear,
pointing
to
the
on
Florentine
my
the
which
curtains
"The
lowered.
had
atmosphere
fine
to
who
him
his
furnaces."
True,"
said
the
"will
he
explain
you
in
The
a
sky
laboratory by
us
tinued,
con-
applied
commonly
to
to
is
weather
Well, father," he
king.""
title which
with
us
"
works
light of
furnish
Lorenzo.
said
whim,"
our
men,
fullythe
aim
to
of
studies.?"
your
"Who
"The
was
will
exclaimed
What
guarantee
us
keenly
seemed
excited
to
impunity.?"
replied Charles,
king's word,"
Lorenzo
"
in
produce
using
old
her.
to
fading."
always
the
the
Parisian
gray
light
he
thanking
breeches.
can
compel
nor
friends,"
the
and
gerated
exag-
ear.
lost
more
not
man
the
see
king's
once
doublet
his
the
to
king
her, and
told
of
at the
had
he
absent-mindedly picking
was
blade
costume
looked
extraordinary
liked
in
whispered
the
wore
Marie
had
he
him
he
signifying that
all in what
at
of
steel
the
to
period.
gesture
him
Ruggieri,
of that
courtiers
MEDICI
used.
been
never
for Cosmo
As
and
likened
have
might
the
DE'
CATHERINE
by
the
hesitate, whereupon
you.?
we
are
osity
curi-
question.
detains
whose
alone."
Charles
DE'
CATHERINE
"Is
old
the
of
King
MEDICI
439
here?"
France
tall
the
inquired
man.
reflected
Charles
answered
then
moment,
"No."
will
But
"
with
bitter
lady
whose
He
whom
think
but
"
permission
kings
as
such
an
burst.
out-
angry
and
chair
down.
sat
dared
presumption,
not
their
above
in
lacking
me
said
far above
as
and
subjects,
when
courtesy
of
presence
madame,"
you,
"is
thereupon,
man,
are
before
IX.,
await."
should
you
see
you
in the
are
you
Charles
said
here, monsieur,"
irony;
tall old
the
took
man
by
is not
king
The
restraining
brother.
his
imitate
"
old
astounded
Cosmo,
"
Charles,
imposing
persisted Lorenzo.
come.''"
not
said
"No,"
The
he
will
you
you
kings
not
know
my
with
true
power."
Italian
other
emphasis,
and
in which
could
whose
there
was
appreciate
the
Ruggieri's opening;
king
had
Cosmo.
nor
cast
saying
be
from
himself
extricate
fixed
were
eyes
to
glanced
upon
to
his
himself:
evil
the
each
at
plight
are?"
we
Indeed,
Marie
and
seemed
who
he
will
How
Charles
Cosmo,
and
brother,
"
at
uttered
words,
insolent
those
Hearing
his
young
the
spell
Although
courtiers, and,
but
one
person
and
grandeur
that
mistress,
of
far
perhaps,
his
on
whom
audacity,
superior
to
craft
was
person
Catherine
present
to
of
Lorenzo
neither
the
who
old
the
man
but
the
the
cleverest
de' Medici,
wily
his
the
patroness,
Lorenzo
almost
upon
all of whom
were
of
sudden,
what
warmth
ennui,
odd, and
in
intellectual
with
spheres,
and
men
Charles
the
an
the
without
awakened
which
time
matters
but
as
the
art
on
the
king and
could
involved
was
but
in
render
the
and
cation.
abdi-
swords
public affairs in
of
be
rudely
denial
of
his
power
make.
the
to
wild
make
him
out
a
the
all
of
his
else
ward
for-
terious
mys-
gloomy
in
occupatio
preall
which
undertaking
of
impression
deep
conquest
an
of
at
tinized;
scru-
religion put
antics
in
Impiety
savagely
so
than
kingship
surprising
being
of
of
cares
means
no
danger
less
no
to
was
of
his
to
everything
eyes
it by
but
certain
Furthermore,
mankind
hausted
ex-
was
for
draw
to
have
the
overturning
certain
was
at
remains
sonnets
soar
only
was
foundation
to
in
by
Catholicism
when
new,
was
ventured
was
he
always
who
proved
audacious
had
Lorenzo
religious
had
the
those
anxieties
pleasures,
by
being
forged
throne
who
its
had
V.
IX., who
the
and
king,
To
so
with
the
strange,
avoid
to
consuming
when
age
knew
he
politics,naught
Charles
thought;
escape
of
were
they delighted
events.
interest
constant
intense;
so
weariness;
the
had
Europe,
the
by
absorbing,
so
their
of
political crises
especially how
the
brother
solitude,
sovereigns
they pursued
the
in
exhausted
unexpected,
so
their
pure
the
when
epoch
an
knew
odds
shrouded
scholar,
judgment
turmoil
his
master.
aged
passed
MEDICI
astrologer acknowledged
his
as
That
to
DE'
CATHERINE
440
which
quence
triflingconse-
Ruggieri.
Upon
their
CATHERINE
in
success
concession
important
an
and
ask
not
point
The
in
glances,
they
the
king,
"Sire,"
for
me
in
all
depth
nakedness,
of
the
to
us
Church
might
for
Charles
stoicism,
of
"
for that
miraculous
but, to
madman.
our
of
do
make
is to
human
think
not
gold
but
the
of men."
kingly
restrain
not
poet,
believe
not
maintain
to
it
of
son
affairs
the
ment
move-
an
to which
I have
finger guides
inform
me
obtain
The
the
triumph
I
nature.
with
have
the
am
vulgar
manufacture
incident, of
our
to
self;
my-
believe
everything,
the
present
ress
prog-
sire.
herd
I seek
of
gold
is not
that
alchemist,
that
in
am
king, therefore,
over
an
faith
no
devoted
it, it is necessary
pursue
Let
aim
which
the
1 do
conviction, I should
work
if God's
it; and
the
eldest
with
could
sound
nobleman,
the
asked
surprise.
Except
in the
IX.
Marie
you
from
abyss
the
resolved
firmly
of
it before
to
you
blasphemous!
Himself
which
have
lay
to
the
which
consider
with
the
in themselves.
cause
May
words
concerns
Although
order
well,
forth.
come
proud,
play
I must
supposed
forgive
God
in
stake
the
lives; and
own
Ruggieri, "you
but
its
is about
that
Lorenzo
truth;
that
suspicious glances
whole
idea.
new
and
essential
suspicions by
aware
their
and
were
said
the
well
submissive
keen
The
his
some
could
brothers
obtain!
forget
was
441
the
with
were
game
once
the
met
must
face
to
Italians
at
idea
Charles
face
strange
MEDICI
which
they
make
him
two
that
and
which
to
was
bringing
that
imparting
DE'
the
But
to
ject,
ob-
investigations; otherwise
effort
our
would
is
something
therefore, I should
in matter,
for
the
direct
that!
him.
degrade
than
Do
of
jealous
love!
is
old
the
religious; he
father's
and
soul
in
for
come!
live
of
number
I have
well-nigh
through
two
"
Who
"
The
will
last
be.?"
of
replied
an
to
my
his
Cosmo
"
Your
them.
of
our
Cosmo,"
of
repose
our
mother's
in
Christ,
the
transubstantiation;
indulgences,
His
in
he
hell, in
an
hour
is
not
yet
horoscope,
and
he
will
"
years:
he
is destined
and
to
see
the
queried
Valois
the
Lorenzo.
opinions.
alchemist
despotic
of
it.
the
of
basis
brother,
for
in
reigns,
more
with
divinity
things.
hundred
we
two
to
live
of
kings
assassinated."
France
over
the
cast
who
example,
is the
his
to
hear
Pope's
the
on
those
Lucifer's
masses
Conception,
Immaculate
endless
in
God,
things
atheism
imbued
to
goes
believes
astrologer
believes
for
pays
But
earthly religions
of
pointing
man,
lighted
deny
to
of all
doctrine
not
are
of God
ate
jealousy predicates passion-
that
Although
and
If,
to-morrow.
is not
accuse
that.
of furnaces
which
to
Following
God,
presence
Author
that
not
immortality.
seek
the
flame
the
place
higher plane
than
of God
action
WORK!
GREAT
bolder
extinguished
be
We
the
to-day
voice, the
my
would
mark
are
admit
centuries
deny
far
at
MEDICI
called
be
not
great work
The
to
DE'
CATHERINE
442
and
power
spirit."
over
the
and
king.
Cosmo
"But
Indeed,
Catholic,
matter
and
first of the
the
it is
to
impossible
believe
in
will
the
in
bons,"
Bourcome
to
be
man's
sovereignty
DE*
CATHERINE
"Cosmo
king, making
of
contraction
die
of
his
eyebrows.
the
have
do
death, why
your
foretell
to
power
the
moment
of
result
the
know
not
you
"he
confidently,
bed."
his
in
and
the
terrible
the
restrain
to
attempt
said
hundred?"
no
peaceably
If you
"
be
to
443
"Yes,
will
live
will
MEDICI
experiments?"
your
Charles
glanced
with
Touchet
Marie
at
of
smile
triumph.
The
swiftly exchanged
brothers
two
joyous
glance.
"
we
Our
"
of the
we
prognostics
rest
striving
is to
condition
present
and
nature
do
to
the
upon
between
relations
are
thought;
they
alchemy,"
!"
saved
are
in
interested
is
"He
relations
those
change
what
but
man;
entirely."
The
of
if you
But
"
thoughtful.
became
king
he
failure,"
your
As
predecessors
raising
his
hand
solemn
and
at
gone
retrace
the
tell
our
ground
that
us
cultivated
men
one
as
and
were!"
thought.
leap
to
the
it will
from
men
But
to
judge
with
again
the
and
judge
by
the
the
must
we
familiar
the
has
is built, you
century
it."
road;
not
to
mind
your
are
edifice
crumble,
fall
proportioned
of
end
our
century
ordinary
"
If you
steps, sire!
which
it
gesture
his
on
certain
are
rejoined Lorenzo,
letting
emphatic
of
grandeur
dying, you
said.
our
"
of
certain
are
with
may
science
greatest
DE'
CATHERINE
fire, metal
to
to
metal,
its
elements
burned
out,
original
molecules.
survives
that
everything
former
are
former
are
talk
and
Already
what
and
should
have
lives!
his
whitening
darkness,
the
share
my
"
But
*'
As
hair;
leading
cried
point,"
"Very
well,
de
of
than
to
in
be
man
secret
that
is the
quest
ours
Of
discover,
order
the
able
sensible
the
battle
be
faculties,
our
power.
us?
but
should
duration.
should
We
on
not
upon
he
may
which
fearlessly in
minds
which
day!"
some
the
of
first condition
said
in
or
scope
others
the
earth
on
I march
the
will
belongs
and
power
That
but
to
Life
it is the
that
Charles
my
world
the
life,
pleasure.
how?"
the
when
occupation
his
faith.
that
active!
life depends,
present
it at
continue
the
is another
there
which
is
other
no
when
if life escapes
is power
whether
of
only years,
planets!
the
to
live
here
the
I seek
trees
in
enlarged
into
our
have
either
ishes!
per-
period
that
motion,
or
ego
life; I seek
its
say
latter
creation
ours,
actual
present
you
the
for
ourselves;
of
the
live
speech
No
to
look
use
of
something
which
ego
term
do
passive
without
extend
to
actual
allotted
men
we
can
we
the
that
superior
be
up
What!
move!
and
make
to
duration
transformation.
centuries,
not
the
the
prolong
to
is
is
their
to
that
assert
you
coal
my
returned
something
goes
beyond
445
when
as,
have
it is this
Now,
continue
just
If
that
us,
MEDICI
to
man,
our
you
faith
must
to
believe
grant
me
Lorenzo.
so
be
it!"
Valois, fascinated
rejoined
the
already.
impatient
446
If
"
world
material
principles
endowed
are
of
Stop
"Do
acorn
motion.
The
there!"
subjected
which
contains
which
which
impose
constitute
the
in
in
plants
as
of
principle, not
we
shall
all the
we
are
us
it is
forms
creature,
which
to
we
face
see
with
thenceforth, being
form
see
it assume,
the
world,
we
and
please among
we
will
possess
give
to
"
to
assume
When
have
we
shall
know
it
upon
which
gold enough
ourselves
really
effect,
an
impose
all those
it
where
it is
when
starting-point,we
shall
we
atom,
able
tive
primi-
in life.
assume
this
its
at
its
it
motion
whatever
not
cause,
beings,
point
unit, where
surprised
laws;
is
by itself,formless, ready
it
see
face
in
life is
ble
impercepti-
an
the
which
of
as
be
ple
princi-
forms
There
it at
grasp
itself,where
upon
itself.
pure
must
phenomenon
develops
that
not
as
from
man;
motion,
must
the
well
as
forth
in metals
Yes,
men,
principle! let
of
successive
? for this
same.
oak
an
some
creator,
Lorenzo.
crucibles
came
force,
proof.?"
our
germ
matter
is
is the
replied
of
the
which
product!"
The
of
ments
ele-
Those
THREE
"
germ
itself the
which
germ
acts
of
world
everywhere
king.
the
those
one
number
heat
The
principles.
single
the
some
upon
our
of
motion,
contains
In default
joined.
the
to
quantity
principle to
up
its effects.?"
see
have
small
elements;
matter,
cried
not
embryo
that
into
sire, what
domain.
our
of
up
made
creation:
you
We
made
resolved
with
formula
the
is
world,
this
examine
us
themselves
are
"
Let
Man!
MEDICI
from
God
eliminate
we
remains?
**
DE'
CATHERINE
to
centuries
we
buy
of
DE'
CATHERINE
life to
All
seeking.
An
would
as
have
you
of
one
wealth
needs:
up
he
demand
To
of
water
of
the
air, and
and
we
find
we
find
smallest
our
labors.
conflict!
Hasten!
Almost
See
This
one
the
nothing!
sunlight,
tify
fruc-
to
of
blood
in general
of
the
contending
in
all
another
error
things,
in their
ing
concern-
patient, unwearying
and
is
species
for, although
common
all those
your
in
the
growth
of motion
principles
the
Mankind
slow
the
metal:
one
laps
seeks
revolution
resemble
our
pulverized.
that
persist
adept
to
in all
finds
of
by
furnaces
necessary
all
conquered
is behind
Omit
to be
the
elementary
Hence
his
examines
nature
known
thirsty dog
ingots
laws
forget
to
is due
of motion
with
all metals
details.
the
the
Just
If the
craving
he
from
distracted
watches
one
studies
intractable
whipper-in
*
That
bodies.
that
never
because
parity
its connection
several
I have
everywhere
are
Another
athletes, always
the
the
nourish.
the
dogs
work!
own
notes
water
heavenly
with
or
parity of nutrition;
animals.
and
melt
vegetable life,he
of plants, he
and
to
his
man
every
runs;
voted
de-
passion
of your
as
he
as
other
be
are
are
aside
us
motive.
that
greatness!
our
to
fortune
diamond
secret
so
power,
grasps
drop
of
avaricious
and
turn
any
one
quarry,
by any
or
craves
known
the
thoughts,
upon
portion
and
people
our
can
patient subjects
my
woman
of
never
and
beast
the
nothing
squandered
447
my
all
powers,
theft
is what
search,
hour
be
That
our
that
to
it.
it.
enjoy
MEDICI
always
behind
pack.
Sacrifice
us,
returning
sire!
It cries
out
the
as
to
everything,
to
us:
even
448
a
sire!
and
head
off the
we
buried
this
upon
died
in
career,
we
we
what
in
secrets
liberal
which
of
which
arts.
Our
shall
not.?"
"Why
of
ibusl
more,
and
at
from
time
second
God
has
hear
what
his
keeps
science
earth
the
grasp
is
thus
the
Man
All
Who
alembics,
our
political
are
king, rising a
the
us,?
new
disputation-
world
us?
motion.
escapes
waters
the
to
us!
Once
here
below,
of that
the
of
master
is master
created
secret
otherwise
light
instruments
mundum
the
abandoned
lost, nothing
elsewhere;
another;
"Tradidit
life in
of
vigils."
grand
I say:
disposal.
power
the
is his.
all matter
and
chair.
said
Templars.
discover
gleams
lightning. There
his
live
we
mechanical
from
possible.?" cried
be
and
have
we
we
perfect
forth
selves;
our-
believe
not
hearts,
our
emit
assiduous
our
does
the
more
came
the
in
it
endow
with
Powder
for
secret!
the
forward,
go
furnaces
overcome
"Can
we
we
societies
revolutions
in
men!
embark
we
working
who
race
As
with
arm
Order
whole
We
such
glorious martyrs,
are
looks
come.
and
finding
man
to
"
be
Yes,
"
which
When
not
may
We
men
quest.
of the
industry.
we
this
successors.
our
of
Strike
enemy!'
my
generations
is that
egotism of the
the
of
without
life!
in another
Hasten!
sentiment
die
may
death
DEATH,
number
vast
have
who
welfare
the
to
of
arm
MEDICI
yourselves!
inspired by
are
forward
have
sacrifice
who
ye
man,
"
DE'
CATHERINE
motion.
Why
motion
from
stars
of the
our
would
Flood
What
should
?
not
Nothing
planet
fall
are
one
still
to
on
go
upon
exist, in
DE*
CATHERINE
their elemental
vanished.
What
disunites;
force
do
of
air, and
contain
the
before
principle of
not
single
man,
is
face
and
world
to
for
people
the
knowledge
molecular
that
of
at
it to
door
my
pass
unknown
King
of
last
into
In
creation
hands
handed
Columbus
gave
immortal
an
am
as
it down
beyond
from
us
of
observer
patient
shall
lieve,
be-
Order,
I shatter
death
fine, I knock
When
day.
other
and
of the
destroy forms,
life!
imitate
the
in order
incessantly
continue
dead, the
to
knock
knocker
indefatigable, just
to
are
which
separates
I imitate
that
we
Stationed
combination,
giants
29
like
Matter,
Thus
I seek
which
which
its duration
as
master
France!
frontier
air
life of
the
in
Matter,
Spain;
of
movements,
I may
the
of
and
surprise
itself.
Christopher
King
the
of every
at
will
the
ments
ele-
earth, in
things
to
far
it, so
grand
penetrate.
our
the
earth
may
search
with
I, the
distant
most
bonds
face
to
the
other
we
mankind
to
which
to
propose
with
eyes,
extending
of
transformations, they
human
restricting the
but
found
who
therefore
eyes;
concerned,
brought
our
the
grasp
covered
Therefore
food.
in their
which
product
envelope of
the
force
waters
men
the
after
shall
the
the
of
millions
the
we
the
are
and
grasp
are
When
life in
our
secret,
We
above,
before
stroke
forth
place before
are
innumerable
same
came
their
the
to
has
single drop
below,
earth
reunites.
there
not
449
us,
seek?
industry.
globe,
take
the
we
the
at
which
visible
issued
thronged
Flood.
the
around
whence
who
men
principles, and
All
elements
MEDICI
me.
Fabulous
as
DE'
CATHERINE
450
hitherto
not
images,
understood,
Pan,
Ixion, Adonis,
the
us
religious beliefs of
this
that
hope
transmitted
each
the
Templars,
he
in
of fearless
with
of that
I
birth.
and
all
powerful
the
sought
is mounted
his
human
command
interests
for
far
toward
the
united
the
am
and
essence
which
of
life!
the
seem
bold
sages
very
and
as
us,
we
Sire,
and
far
more
have
when
he
so
cover
dis-
we
ceded
prea
has
brethren,
trivial;
our
corpuscle
who
when
my
are
cule
mole-
will
elementary
all the
abyss,
ices,
nov-
eyes
we
ereign
sov-
by
eludes
us,
gave
by
not
imperceptible
pursuit.
as
from
turned
ourselves
Religious disputes
dangerous.
are
by
that
upon
the
nature
sublime
in this
us
make
primitive atom,
courageously
nation,
unknown
the
crucibles,
those
than
rebuilding of
the
men,
knights, companions,
our
will
we
sire,
The
election
toward
follow
we
shuns
but
all
of
Order
the
of toil.
seal
red-cross
master,
which
under
them
Therein
inseparable,
people, first by
guide
one
the
all
fruit of
the
only
an
investigators, all
idea, stamped
eyes;
of
watchword
of life,all brethren,
Orient
exalted
ancestors,
your
burned
Moors,
most
majestic
keeping.
our
the
generation.
of
race.
the
in trust
and
inform
human
Greece,
holds
part of
all ages,
the
Magism,
grand
one
is the
Temple
grand
the
When
remain
secrets
races
with
succeeding
of
bond
burned
an
of
Temple.
the
another
one
form
countries, in
born
was
of Prometheus,
those
etc., which
sciences, which
occult
the
was
the
to
vigils
the
all
like
Chald^a,
of the
MEDICI
man
divers
all other
are
not
sions
politicaldiscusabove
all
such
DE'
CATHERINE
things.
When
does
descend
not
in
will
make
will
make
of
one
will
do
without
will
make
empires
by
mount
to
be
deceived
as
his
innocent
wealth
at
of
"Why,
men:
peoples!"
king,
that
of
the
well
as
tangled
en-
pompous
lovers
tested
at-
mysterious
that
seemed
they
to
caught,
of
full of
caverns
of
stoop
himself
allow
all
of
face
to
see
gnomes
curiosity dissipated
the
suspicion.
in
case,"
that
who
"
Why
not?"
it is
can
cried
give
can
Lorenzo,
demanded
given
from
result
we
of
them;
impatience
"
will
eyes
wind,
never
the
already
The
subterranean
great statesmen,
"Sire,
by
meshes
before
out
The
of
unrest
and
little
the
will
to
was
We
We
the
wiles, the
effect
dazzling
line
work.
folds
loquacity.
spread
long
not
mistress,
the
the
determination
Florentine
and
make
we
gehennaed
ble,
cruci-
our
Barcelona.
at
But
the
enter.
gold
transform
will
be
to
make
will
we
industries!
by
charlatan's
wind,
of
little water
did
in
interests
heat
will
predict
fluctuating
the
we
minable
deter-
and
and
their
to
with
light, we
his
in
diamond
the
throne,
Despite
and
brethren
our
new
is
one
over,
More-
two.
or
measure
can
men
move
nature,
small, is fixed
diamonds,
vessels
fire, as
man
everything
the
subject
we
we
into which
combinations
we
science;
our
all; whereas
them
will
throttle
to
451
with
contending
result, however
every
We
is
one
MEDICI
say
an
what
to
are
light."
us
king.
mortal
assemblage
one
king, "you
artlessly.
the
no
the
man
of
will
to
some
foretell
what
millions
do, how
long
of
he
DE'
CATHERINE
"So
king, piqued
before
that
he
would
But
how
"
king;
stood
by
France?
tell
to
Can
know
What
power
enabled
mother
the
We
"
have
our
is
can
night
of the
order
tell
about
thinking
of
one
at
brethren
sons?
three
which
what
me
of
King
your
her
who
man
the
was
of
you
inquired
the
that
destinies
master
world,
seeks
the
to
queen,
moment?"
this
sire."
answer
Do
Poland,
you
last
brother's
"
them,"
horoscopes?"
cast
you
did
grand
"Yes,
his
ers,
sorcer-
burn
to
irony.
window
the
That
can
how
mother,
my
of
real
were
unable
been
your
my
you,
mould
king of ideas,"
am
if there
touch
too."
martyrs,
the
and
men,
have
with
replied,
"
of
Charles
upon
him.
paralyzed
"Moreover,
replied.
he
the
little consequence
so
bestowed
master
which
king
are
you
said
man.
flaming glance
"You
of
find himself
to
453
sorcerers?"
of
king
imposing grand
The
a
the
are
you
MEDICI
sleeve
is
to
know
you
before
given
was
bid
why
returning
to
could
Cosmo
him
be
my
brother,
pull
silent.
the
of
King
France?"
sire."
"Yes,
"Why?"
"
"
To
Our
cried
neither
your
nearest
place."
kin
are
the
room
brothers
right; my
with
nor
to
long
sons
executioners
his
feet
in
strides.
nor
are
enemies!"
cruel
most
our
king, springing
the
pacing
was
take
"
mother.
not
the
rage
Kings
and
have
Coligny
Huguenot
preachers, they
the
word
as
of
tree
The
smiled
king
grand
intelligentand
"Answer
of
"
You
what
his
old
terial
ma-
in face
Lorenzo
France;
the
knights
governed
an
pledge
word
my
though
shall
dabble
be
in
what
as
as
tleman
gen-
it be
fession
con-
if it had
never
poisons?"
life, surely
gives
we
death."
causes
the
possess
ness."
bitter-
govern
even
know
to
of
taste
world.
crimes,
You
order
know
must
"
horrible
its
scorn:
royalty
answer,
your
of
have
to
pitifulthing
red-cross
the
desired
bitter
hardly
frankly;
uttered.
In
him
to
submissive
me
that
of
intellectual
of
master
tors
impos-
are
Ruggieri
complain
not
could
"the
You
smile
Charles
Ruggieri.
do
seemed
boundless
the
Touchet,
science,
You
call Solern."
gentleman.
royalty
been
Marie
said
MEDICI
Louvre!
the
"
"Sire,"
your
in
are
regicides! Jacob,
or
of
DE'
CATHERINE
454
of
secret
preparing
many
poisons?"
"Yes,
sire, but
know
we
"
Has
in
do
but
them,
mother
my
theory only,
make
not
asked
ever
of
use
for
in
not
practice;
them."
asked
any?"
the
king, breathlessly.
"
too
that
to
the
king
poison;
of
the
Tuscany,
inherent
is known
in
at
employ
or
are
such
court.
such
queen
Borgias,
"
and
notable
She
methods.
who
uses
Bianca,
the
examples
wretched
You
Catherine
Queen
kill
dies
poor
by
Duchess
Grand
expedients.
can
knows
poison
of
is
the
dangers
Everything
devil
in any
DE'
CATHERINE
choose,
and
But
when
you
single
you
way
him?
is there
killed
the
or
as
poison
twice
the
only
as
caused
she
although
who
has
would
it, she
acted
of
doctrines
is
queen
safely
can
be
vengeance.
she
to
came
Madame
Diane
poisoning her,
would
it; what
yet,
within
more
of
virtue
by
since
and
if,
had
the
done
she
her
right
Madame
impunity.
and
de
still lives."
Valentinois
"And
said.?
use
Princes
The
of
done
was
humble,
personal
dreamed
certainty
absolute
the
chagrin
have
one
cannot
poison
left her
much
never
have
No
way.
of
not
father, have
king, your
you,
kill their
not
that
instrument
might
only by
one
for
of the
out
knows
she
her;
does
one
how
that
sovereigns
the
knows
France,
with
she
shot
impunity.
As
men
The
me,
with
become
ideas,
the
brother,
My
politicallife
they
Florentine,
used
in
poisoning
prominence,
Guises.
Believe
that.
of
power
the
or
of
fired
been
successors.
Luther,
by putting
a
have
of
use
secrecy
to
have
always
the
455
persons
of
queen-mother,
deceived
like
attack
could
Coligny
is
what
chance
MEDICI
of
what
the
pierced images?"
rejoined the
king.
"Sire,"
Cosmo,
said
innocent, that
blind
passions,
dough
that
swain
they
whom
are
invalids.
our
it
on
the
represents.
taxes."
the
of them
use
doctors
by piercing
misfortune
brings
things
make
the
imaginary
to
believes
as
we
"those
to
of
of
an
the
would
fectly
per-
gratify
of
made
desperate
heart
What
so
give pills
A
head
are
woman
image
she
unfaithful
you
have?
456
DE'
CATHERINE
The
"
indulgences,"
sells
Pope
MEDICI
remarked
Lorenzo,
smiling.
"
Has
"
Of
what
Could
"
ridiculous
such
are
Catherine
Queen
"Why,
we
in
are
that
house,
peril, he
will
added,
alluding
to
struck
for Charles
beneath
brother
my
Henri
111.?"
"A
violent
"And
He
will
"
Will
"Yes,
"
And
"
"
And
dame?"
and
sound,
king
will
but
if he
law
this
as
be
ward
to-
in
be
king reigns
well!"
as
device
on
he
medal
IX.
impatience
die, who,
die
I shall
as
you
"
that
soon,
his
king, concealing
the
feverish
but
say,
is
to
is
anger
how
will
be
King
death."
d'Alenfon?"
Monsieur
"
the
celebrated
the
said
well,"
very
reigns by
sion.
expres-
Lorenzo
said
it. If the
over
everything,
know
it safe
days hence;
triumph
he
"You
few
ment?"
mo-
1 entered
before
ill-disposedthe
a
sword,
the
all
one
this
threatening
knew,
from
go
how
brother
"
I should
I know
as
my
by
to
at
you
danger, sire,"
no
Ruggieri tranquilly.
any
methods
save
well
images?"
all-powerful?"
is
who
use
in the
dealt
mother
my
not
Henri
reign."
de
Bourbon
reign?"
sire."
how
violent
will
he
die?"
death."
when
asked
the
am
dead,
what
will
become
of
Touchet.
ma-
CATHERINE
"You
Belleville
de
Madame
**
impostors!
are
"
DE'
MEDICI
will
marry,
sire."
Send
them
away,
457
sire,"
Marie.
said
"
love, the
My
said
have
Ruggieri
the
king,
word
my
with
smile.
will
live
"
as
tleman,"
gen-
"Will
Marie
more
than
children?"
have
sire, madame
"Yes,
be
to
eighty."
"Shall
his
mistress.
d'Auvergne?"
Marie
Touchet
asked
that
moment
they
Madame,"
"
my
going
to
him
the
brothers
us
king
son
the
asked
Comte
him.
should
marry?"
during
the
brief
alone.
were
tell
to
the
fetch
I
that
with
replied Lorenzo,
ordered
king
tell
you
of
what
added,
he
did
Why
"
And
"
"
hanged?"
them
have
we
the
dignity, "the
truth, and
we
doing
are
so."
"
Is it true,
"
As
loves
true
"
But
1 do
"
Very
true, madame,"
loves
at
this
you
not
Can
Governor
the
him!"
love
not
declares
"
she.
of
Orleans
distraction."
horoscope
you
said
it is that
as
to
you
then?"
smiling, "for
said
that
you
cried.
she
Lorenzo;
will
but
"
the
marry
your
who
man
moment."
lie
little for
the
suppose
my
king
sake?"
should
she
said,
believe
your
predictions!"
"Is
it not
innocence?"
the
in
favorite.
our
regard
necessary,
said
"
Cosmo,
The
have
too, that
with
precautions
caused
us
to
he
believe
shrewd
taken
in
our
glance
by
conclude,
the
while
at
king
we
458
DE'
CATHERINE
have
confined
been
that
sciences
occult
the
in this
MEDICI
have
slandered
been
to
him."
Never
"
and
his
"So
is
much
having
The
at
that, if
suppose
where
hide
to
Where
and
conveyed
the
smile.
innocence
Poor
poisons,
do
we
that
do
fools,
you
know
not
the
are
Cosmo
your
them?"
Rene's
"At
king
the
with
other
"
meant:
proudly.
moment."
this
for amused
make
we
well,
crucibles, and
each
at
mistook
really
him
"for
Marie,
by experts
glanced
which
smile,
said
your
Touchet
I know
laboratory,
brothers
Marie
"
your
the
better,"
the
examined
phials
said
innocent,"
are
"
vanished."
have
suspicions
We
"
Marie
house,"
Lorenzo
replied.
again exchanged
The
"
thought:
same
Cosmo.
glances
H6tel
which
Soissons
de
is inviolable!"
The
that,
had
king
when
stopped
him
he
went
to
to
hand
him
he
opened
it with
he
should
find
and
"Will
his
exhibiting
That
toward
his
it what
son
to
is for Cosmo
his
he
they
brother.
absolute
the
to
two
suspicions,
and
the
certainty that
find
laboratory;
found
in
Jacob
by Chapelain,
actually did
used
happy
his
son,
sent
of
appliances
life be
his
note
feeling of
that
wrote
materials
"
in
fetch
examination
the
physician
entirely forgotten
so
nothing
cerning
con-
his
except
alchemy.
one?"
said
the
king,
alchemists.
say,"
said
Lorenzo,
ing
look-
DE'
CATHERINE
Cosmo
it very
find
spirit
in order
which
seek
explain
to
motion
who
argument,
were
moving.'"'
are
he
had
that
and
triumphantly
glanced
light
if you
as
well-pleased
was
which
furnishes
is it not
you
that
thought
which
Ah!
while
even
The
your
doubt
can
you
torch
of the
possibilityof
the
power.
is the
"if
man,
existence
the
how
me
investigations.
king,
of that
in
your
annul
to
deny
the
examined
old
the
to
deny
to
believe
to
constitutes
for your
to
Charles
said
it necessary
undertaking,
you
and
carefully.
"Monsieur,"
you
459
little hand
child's
the
took
MEDICI
cried
thought
his
at
mistress.
"
Thought,"
of
several
their
has
replied
inward
an
is
color
nothing
do
to
with
produce
But
"
logical,"
are
is
alchemy
an
said
the
is
faculty
made
cerning
con-
which
forces
the
is
doctrines
transmitted
through
Chaldasa
and
Pythagoras,
one
Egypt,
of
the
the
and
which
different
living
creations
law
is
which
different
very
outcome
of
the
mysteries
brought
is the
of
in amazement.
science."
demi-gods
of transformations
the
king,
atheistical
Materialism
the
That
sight.
are
with
sire, which
Materialistic,
doctrine
and
that
Thought
lifetime
our
of
claims
seeing
dimensions
sense
matter.
to
their
of
ercise
ex-
it."
"You
"
in
even
the
the
life.
another
ceases
of
is the
"
faculty
the
discerning
result
Ruggieri,
as
sense,
and
objects
Lorenzo
its
of
to
the
of
Greece
mankind:
mathematics
To
phases.
compose
Indian
the
Isis
by
his
of
terialism,
ma-
each
of
terrestrial
DE'
CATHERINE
**Affe d'Iddio!
Pardieu!
how
"Gran
the
a
it do
mire,
Some
him!
Touchet
those
moments
from
she
after
this
the
the
for
queen
me!"
impressed
which
is in
of
out
king, during
mind
the
when
done
much
as
the
as
get himself
have
scene,
much
as
"
to
do
will
Much
spartojarsi,"
We
"
"
"
di
sta
"
!
infinocchiato
it is for him
I trust
Marie
lui
Cosmo.
days
him!
gull
said
"
good turn;
free
did
we
merces!
good may
le ahhiamo
como
461
MEDICI
of
one
set
sort
some
body by
cried:
Charles,
"
Cosmo
said
nothing
True,"
"
gleam;
said
"there
Those
discourse.
silk
they make."
This
of the
participants
that
fooled
his
the
that
attention
projection,
left the
the
the
elementary
the
Coconnas
one
of the
spiracy:
con-
artisans
had
he
trial
been
demonstrated
was
did
devote
not
had
Lorenzo
atom.
of
powder
stars, the
kingdom.
people
that
to
the
as
of the
time
that
in
which
and
astrologer
exclusively
and
was
mother's
his
Mole
believed
he
supple
animosity
Italians, for it
two
the
Notwithstanding
of
La
truth
as
as
at the
Cosmo
that
enterprise,
by
him
to
in the
are
the
Cosmo
toward
finding
of
Italians
suspicion explains
king manifested
falsehood
much
as
sudden
that
king, surprised by
the
but
Ruggieri,
all."
at
was
their
Lorenzo
understand
can
scene
Ruggieri.
on
this
subject,
confirmed
The
incredulity of
king
the
died
the
events
months
number
followed
which
prophecies
three
vast
made
by
later.
the
462
Comte
The
predicted,
and
the
latter
in
Marie
had
IV. 's
tried
conspiracy
of
France
and
Comte
The
l"me, lived
coins,
such
but
the
Louis
the
of
great pains
to
say,
The
to
of
until the
of the
record
that
the
to
He
coined
legends
do
chose,
blood
of the
reign
of Louis
in
died
the
on
he
as
History
he
throne
d'Angou-
XIV.
Medici
Concini.
the
Due
him
for the
Biron
the
on
was
Bourbon.
altered
he
lived
downfall
downfall
brother
become
allowed
of those
of the
time
reign of Louis
XIV.
whom
by
d'Auvergne,
the
at
estates, and
Ruggieri
saw
Comte
quis
Mar-
Balzac,
celebrated
House
the
Cosmo
Orleans,
more
and
the
see
his
on
money
of
d'Auvergne,
to
had
Ruggieri
the
de
the
to
expel
Retz,
Charles
place her
to
of
the
to
prognostications.
The
mistress,
IX.
de
friend
Governor
half-sister
daughters,
Henri
being
daughters.
two
Charles
Marechal
married
d'Entragues,
she
the
their
Touchet
MEDICI
followed
brother,
believer
Gondi
de
his
as
grave,
he
DE'
CATHERINE
Valois.
XIII.;
France,
has
and
been
at
is
atheist, that
an
materialist.
Marquise
d'Entragues
lived
more
than
eighty
who
caused
years.
The
so
famous
much
of Cosmo
no
age
less
which
lorme.
Ruggieri
Comte
de
excitement
and
than
the
and
Louis
That
hundred
and
XIV.,
famous
thirty
biographers assign
some
The
under
Lorenzo.
a
Saint-Germain,
count
anecdotes
the
have
must
reigns
of
the
alchemist
years
to
learned
concerning
was
the
pupil
was
old, the
Marion
from
Saint
Valois, in which
Dethe
tholomew
Barhe
DE'
CATHERINE
pleased
was
always
ascribe
to
telling
Saint-Germain
de
who
forth
Study
of
left
he
but
from
Comte
alchemists
the
cabalistic
derived
himself,
to
The
person.
science;
The
is
part
last
that
him.
this
in
the
was
behind
writings
first
the
understood
really
prominent
in
them
463
MEDICI
doctrine
no
set
mysterious
that
individual.
It
is
old
the
fact
strange
Comte
de
Only
back
us
carry
world's
the
de
fifty
to
history.
study
of
the
the
"
earliest
What
"
mysteries
are
of
November-December
1836.
I.
Francois
would
fifty
life?"
men
be
to
required
period
of
the
"
poleon.
Nato
the
for
generations
said
"
the
Ruggieri
known
Saint-Germain.
Paris,
Cosmo
from
lives
such
three
information,
this
and
history
of
lives
owe
Saint-Germain,
European
embrace
the
I
whom
to
man
that
Comte
THE
Bodard
Saint-James,
de
aroused
in
in
Paris
the
famous
his
to
the
force
self
Paris
all
talk
needed
which
before,
made
of
house
funeral
his
without
Vendome
as
The
oration.
intimate
now
is
laughingly
through
pass
allusion
gambling-hell
house
funeral.
his
could
shortly
illustrious
of
This
Ven-
had,
friend,
one
whim.
That
day
danger.
defunct
the
the
on
that
remark
the
Place
and
was
Place
Dange
leave.
to
more
on
the
to
make
to
woman's
mansion
superb
Bi^vre,
de
or
the
to-day
and
nothing
farmer-general
died,
epicurean
Monsieur
often
remark
made
it is
than
one;
compelled
been
then
purchased,
horrified
had
prominence
the
the
which
built
he
ornament
an
by
financier
time,
wife
his
social
bright
owned
Bodard
dome
into
that
bed,
her
gossip
other
any
and
easier
about
than
than
Navy,
the
more
About
of
much
was
one's
of
price
the
It
queen.
life,
Neuilly,
at
canopy
feathers,
of
caused
1786.
year
Folly
crown
and
of
mode
of
Treasurer
attention
more
luxurious
his
DREAMS
TWO
was
the
to
his
only
facing
one
the
Chancellerie.
To
was
after
complete
a
poor
the
man,
failure
Bodard's
he
of
in
history
failed
the
for
Prince
(467)
fourteen
de
few
words
millions
Guemenee.
"
he
just
The
DE'
CATHERINE
"You
he
**
is
the
ugly
as
from
said, with
he
caterpillar; but
service
that
laugh,
done
has
receive
can
woman
me
man."
As
as
important
most
she
mistaken,"
not
are
469
MEDICI
gazed
her
at
she
mischievously,
hastened
to
add:
He
"
has
resemble
I
shrugged
He's
*'
No,"
has
she
But
"
do
That
"
if he
I
in
been
"Why,
he
yes,
His
he
exhibited
who
are
fellow?
girl;
His
"What
face!"
he
surgeon;
he
writes
too.
retorted, with
other?"
the
other.'"
little
coxcomb,
to
looks
who
as
in
came
He's
as
Eminence
mild
as
is very
is it all about?"
to
sheep
other
or
introduce
him
the
provincial
people
lawsuit
and
as
kindly disposed
to
Saint-
selected
can
a
"
settlement
respect, the
who
she
interested, and
both
entrust
to
the
is
They
In that
enough
with
person
foolish
province
some
Saint- James.
family,"
good
very
cardinal
the
arbitrator.
no
is entrusted
in which
de
for
and
the
by
from
comes
Eminence
James
about
belongs
Artois;
Monsieur
pages'
you,
his
spruce
He
"
matter
me
drinking verjuice!"
had
oh!
made
physics."
mean
you
is the
he
"
promise
what
smug,
replied.
and
angrily.
"Whom
of
replied,
strong
smile.
horrible
I cried.
quack,"
is very
"
those
complexion
my
shoulders
my
pretty wit,
of
me
peasant."
"
He
marred
which
blotches
cured
completely
to
shy
to
be
that
as
him."
DE'
CATHERINE
470
Three
"
hundred
is
"Why,
he
MEDICI
francs."
thousand
advocate?"
an
exclaimed,
with
slight start.
"Yes,"
said.
she
Overwhelmed
Madame
admission,
All
the
tables
talk
to
one
M.
de
impure
the
man
on
to; I had
Laval,
humiliating
her
to
drowsy,
place
else
or
the
at
walking
toward
holding
the
his
rest
go
but
I retained
and
make
in the
my
hand
"What
He
second
do
winked
you
in
place,
consisted
to
rise
to
was
Calonne;
the
trick
because
on
that
of the
favorite;
Beaumarchais
monsieur?"
direction
Bo-
to
fashion.
want,
in the
then
fingers separated
two
of
speaking.
and
cutting remark
playing
in familiar
without
was
father
the
first impulse
My
seat:
my
contemplating
and
with
some
who
gesture, which
hand
fits of
When
statesmen.
head
own
place,
fire-
seemed
of those
minister,
when
the
Calonne
one
mystery
my
closed.
in
of
Beaumarchais,
the
to
myself,
de
an
surprised
side
over
mischievous
out
and
was
of
me,
first to
with
the
tyrannize
explained
pointed
and
M.
of
easy-chair
an
was
no
crowns
house
was
other
buried
attention
into
ever
the
was
the
at
do,
to
thousand
myself
on
he
which
I called
dard's
met
earth, it certainly
me,
nothing
two
controller-general.
meditation
He
lost
If there
fireplace.
the
I had
I had
I threw
this
Figaro
just
whom
opposite
saw
in
returned
full.
were
person.
near
Bodard
that
by
faro-table.
the
to
confusion
with
I said.
controller.
took
DE*
CATHERINE
"Don't
"
he's
when
lucky
him,"
wake
But
sleep
he
MEDICI
47I
whispered,
"we
too
are
asleep."
financial
another
means
scheme,"
rejoined.
"
divined
lips;
words
our
"
de
Monsieur
know
not
that
the
our
sleep
we
which
awakening
dramatist,
the
"
I have
in
You
of
his
is
to
have
and
little
too
said
tude,"
gratihave
to
me.
Beaumarchais,
millions
have
been
Waters."
the
revealed
but
Berlin.
which
stung
will
to
adjust
accounts."
many
Calonne
took
the
both
not
memory
possible,"
"
quick,
It
much
too
secrets
"That
of
affair
that
have
might
we
for
started
has
Mirabeau
that
retorted
the
of
movement
what.?"
drowned
one
had
you."
I do
"
be
not
said
Monseigneur,"
"For
"
the
please God
would
there
who
statesman,
see!"
will
thank
the
simply by
if it should
and
"
long while,
you
observed
Certainly,"
pretended
half-past
was
places
our
Bodard
and
his
the
whose
names
thirty
persons
arrived,
creatures
only
twelve
two
name,
whom
those
consented
when
the
be
I
to
of
ten
were
two
pretty
and
mentioned,
believe,
I found
ten
We
the
remained.
sup
with
women
farmerOf
Lavoisier.
was
in
salon
Even
us
only
us:
marchais,
Beau-
controller-general,
strangers,
not
ceased.
play
There
table.
wife,
may
whose
general
at
hear.
to
not
when
the
at
two
the
DE'
CATHERINE
472
she
that
thought
and
him,
with
I cannot
Calonne
The
she
was
quite
say
why.
two
drink
the
as
much
for
the
had
of
we
of
promise
Calonne
ladies
They
promised,
their
than
more
was
pour
with
the
cool
would
not
At
that
Rohan
any
magnificent
to
Count
attention
foam.
when
but
had
suppers
what
her
the
two
Monsieur
de
the
The
geon
sur-
attempted
to
said,
he
money-lender,
to
glasses
the
neighbor,
my
chance
some
introduced
given
the
replies
by
1
Cagliostro.
to
only
that
he
more.
by
moment,
do
conspiracy.
silvery
politeness of
drink
at
seconds,
two
filled
for
bumper
had
it gave
as
of
Sillery
victim;
easy
ply
significant glances,
its
Saint- James
de
the
with
and
bacchanalian
the
to
the
part
In
barrassed
em-
I would
was
anticipation.
our
part, and
an
the
plan.
my
he
that
that
on
in
most
once
whom
ourselves,
by
second
As
amusing
joined
Beaumarchais
to
lawyer.
approved
sion
occa-
farmer-general
understand
us
had
horribly dreary.
iCsculapius
to
amused
three
play
the
impertinences
which
men,
and
of
son
tish,
coquet-
all, Monsieur
if anyone
being
motioned
his
means
by
strangers
be
myself.
was
began
us.
with
it
to
After
her
please
to
inclined
who
feeding
by
one
other
and
power,
annoyed,
to
the
whom
supper
Those
debt
invited
Saint- James,
de
her
paid
was
be
to
Madame
perhaps
husband,
de
of
entreaty
urgent
MEDICI
was
mistress
to
my
or
the
the
dame
Ma-
other,
subject of
Cardinal
paying
no
of the
questions,
de
cial
spe-
house
I had
DE'
CATHERINE
watching
been
sallow
pinched,
the
Madame
heard
turned
nose,
made
Saint- James
de
pointed
times
ble
resem-
flushed
as
at
cheeks
most
and
up
him
his
whose
sieur
Mon-
with
disputing
he
Calonne.
de
But
"
was
the
curiosity
neighbor,
my
Suddenly
weasel.
of
time, which
same
473
unconquerable
face
feature
prominent
at
with
MEDICI
Queen
assure
monsieur,
you,
Cleopatra,"
she
saying
was
I have
that
with
seen
rious
impe-
an
air.
I believe
"
"
madame,"
you,
myself
have
interposed
spoken
bor.
neigh-
my
Catherine
to
de*
Medici."
Oho!"
"
The
exclaimed
little
which
had
provincial
that
science.
a
in
us
to
"
in
had
and
low
the
chais's
"
is
with
from
hitherto, and
always
surprised
tone,
cried
the
who
surgeon,
thanks
was
Beaumar-
to
flushed
man
how
I would
whom
have
must
pressed
spring,"
satirist.
the
although they
"
ical
phys-
utterance
modulated
talking!"
neighbor
observed
"And
of
we
efforts.
His
My
if
quality,
bell-like
hardly spoken
voice
vocabulary
satisfactory condition,
very
in
degree.
he
Why,
words
the
the
sudden
pleasantly
last
Calonne.
de
sonorous
from
term
That
who
man
said
indefinable
an
borrow
may
Monsieur
slightlywhen
spoken
were
was
the
not
assert
supped
late
he
hardly
queen?"
heard
above
night
words,
whisper.
queried Calonne.
positively
last
the
was
that
the
Catherine
person
de'
herself.
Medici
impossible
Such
to
the
chair
if he
as
dress
velvet
head
her
in
the
features
the
could
with
refrain
not
with
the
from
have
personage
with
interview.
was
famous
seated
of
all presence
witchcraft, about
But
that
all
perfectly
I
in
natural
still to
was
describe
But
I declare, in
am
of
no
old
comparison
the
all the
weak
of
to
desire
sincerity of
enough,
or
an
were
of
me
ask
tions.
ques-
meshes
of
doubted
myself.
the
of
my
should
strong
that
to
me
tion
hallucina-
my
how
know
not
there
which
to
the
of the
seemed
condition
His
to
name
at
Cagli-
magic
with
I do
the
I almost
undergo.
and
seemed
deprived
past
experience
in words
can
the
from
marvellous
velvet
Count
because
the
midnight,
king;
familiar.
listened, afraid
escaped
the
evocation
supper-table
mind.
When
the
The
of
that
surprise
confounded.
women
which
all
are
about
black
by
was
spectacle presented by
if she
as
pale complexion
guessed
whom
woman
wore
exhibiting my
of
the
one
his
length.
characteristic
you
marvellous,
not
saw
his
in
some
owned
the
rapidity
more
could
ostro
had
back
closely
the
the
which
The
Eminence.
me
like
portrait
covered
was
whom
and, finally,she
cap;
to
She
tips of
that
as
seem
pher,"
philoso-
the
at
swear
Medici
absolutely
wears
queen
de'
sister.
her
were
to
to
leaning
speak
to
able
am
Catherine
resembled
and
justly
as
resting
table
proposed
Nevertheless,
will
well
as
advocate,
the
fingers lightly on
MEDICI
prodigy
Christian
replied
"
DE'
CATHERINE
474
senses.
heart, that
be
found
enough,
to
DE'
CATHERINE
in the
believe
the
devil.
For
informed,
These
diction,
in
toward
all
of
dint
By
if
it seemed
as
especially
those
emotion
he
precise,
"
face
seemed
know,"
that
had
been
sphere,
but
me;
I
felt
of
But
to
soon
inward
the
and
cold
fire,whose
head
I laid my
as
tall
whether
"
the
and
itself invisible
made
which
leaned
not
am
upon
in
was
luminous
fastened
were
nothing
saw
my
before
figure standing
upon
the
but
her.
"
toward
me
the
ladies
with
sure
that
advocate;
it
that
Is it
face,
his
"
accord
one
made
interest.
tell is very
"
continued,
evoked
as
words,
the
think
of
concealed
painful fixity,
these
stranger,
Apparently
contain
he
eyes,
my
she
gesture
him.
instinctively that
for
Suddenly
exude
Catherine's
saw
with
queen
forehead,
ing
reflect-
us.
upon
not
"
to
I do
pillow,
At
his
agitated
reacted
followed
me.
of
which
pores
see
Our
bra.
candela-
the
the
could
we
life by
steadfastly at
gazing
turned
still.
in the
candles
the
all
very
of
of
intense
most
eyes
presence
flickeringlight of
the
our
sat
we
the
betrayed
the
So
and
scribed
de-
force
incredible
arouse
guests.
speaker,
the
alone
flame
the
to
fully
more
am
of
power
apparitions
the
with
nature
the
thaumaturgists."
other
uttered
of
were
curiosity
eyes
and
words,
and
magic
possible
as
Cardan
475
part, until
own
my
regard
by
of
mysteries
MEDICI
was
"
only
although
a
to
ought
dream,
am
what
go
on,"
tinued
con-
inclined
I still have
serious."
question
of
asked
religion.?"
to
Beaumarchais.
DE'
CATHERINE
have!
our
could
not
orders
find
will
Posterity
communications
to
essential
to
would
have
future
ages
How
often
Richelieu,
in my
as
that
did
the
Bossuet
sincere
it had
blood
flow
to
of
honor
tears,
more
kill
to
more
penful
ink
the
secretly promulgated
far-reaching
August,
was
Under
hardly
second
over
and
son,
the
you
on
the
Henri
was
whole
erect
de
universe.
to
mother
You
the
son
noble
more
Edict
of
Nantes,
struck,
did
money,
than
to
be
to
Saint
three
the
had
throne
on
August,
but
if that
the
25th of
it
1685,
second
Henri
de
had
cast
of Anne
me
was
heresy
son,
accuse
with
out
carry
death;
Valois's
under
teeming
statues
of
still
August
necessary
25th
Thirty
on
which
my
And
disease
more
able
was
failing
shed
be
the
V.,
it!
times
France,
since
pregnant;
that
the
medals
decree
execution
1572,
useless.
in
for
death!
blood, and
more
Sixtus
conceive
my
to
of
Letellier
of
me
ten
caused
you
prosperity
Bartholomews.
a
caused
revocation
which
blame
Bartholomew,
remained
than
of
to
distant
Providence.
minds
felt for
already
The
26, 1572.
daring
was
Saint
the
endured;
cost
after
regret
after
years
secretly
name
my
most
of
lovely image
fortune!
mis-
shadow
the
the
is
the
was
not
to
perspicacious
undertaking
what
in
of
which
France,
in
down
handed
been
August,
of
lack
imparting
action
there
remained
had
and
of
25th
from
of
unity
We
needed.
we
for the
us
coups d'Etat:
the
Huguenot
prevented
that
great
as
responsible
us
which
If, on
of
hold
undertaking
our
Montlucs
many
not
477
imperfectly obeyed.
were
as
MEDICI
Bourbon's
her
of
spawn
a
crime
of Austria!
478
Yet
and
he
I tried
1
succeeded,
whereas
I felt
she
sort
in
into
You
"he
been
have
rich
have
two
heads.
forsooth,
"
"
smiled
was
the
they
that
She
were
for
had
as
to
has
in
the
of
"
all
to
erations
gen'
quent
subsethan
me
my
sovereign,
cruelty, I,
the
impartial
most
Do
and
minds
imagine,
you
by feelings
rage
an
queen.
undertaken
accused
the
her
it."
'that
I, a
am
but
spirit,
three
ambition,
problem.
naught
to
unjust
one
swayed
was
of
hatred,
vengeance.?'
pityingly.
calm
and
Huguenots
the
had
repose."
crime, and
of
force
to
which
act
conscience
puzzling
I said
as
as
fancied
evil
invent
more
No
even
of
interposed,
even
me
blood
an
trying
not
an
of
over
Beaumarchais,
did
were.
my
And
I breathed
'
estants
Prot-
Catherine
search
said
desire.
upon
still
that
he
Germany
the
like
was
in
accused
am
beyond
who
she
stigmatize
contemporaries
am
and
of
was
bewildered,'
is
further,' she
defence.
that
applaud yourself
pens
and
She
certainly
brain
"'Say
fumes
victims.
that,"
condemn,
my
they
distinctly.
the
many
me
dreamed
My
and
conscience,
undertone;
'
reign
thrill creep
slowly
to
my
He
'*
my
in
inward
stature.
it seemed
"
the
of
how
knows
increased
way
found
generals,
breathing
was
Heaven
and
XIV.
statesmen,
thus,
spoke
that
thing:
same
side.'
their
*'
the
Louis
failed; but
powerful armies,
MEDICI
accomplish
to
unarmed,
on
DE'
CATHERINE
rotten
cold
as
reason
but
pitilessly,
orange
in
my
itself.
demned
con-
without
temper;
basket
of fruit.
DE'
MEDICI
I would
have
CATHERINE
of
Queen
As
in
Catholics
England,
the
same
In order
all in those
at
be
but
for
in
ably
God,
one
Luckily
You
and
I did
Cardinal
the
tear
for
would
But, madame,
"
pray
institutions
glorious
"
the
She
deep
of
which
and
to
shrewd
about
them
saw
If
the
of
the
Guises
powerful
in
begun
not
and
Rome
not
to
every
had
we
that
frankness,
the
cowardly
spies
ordering
boundless
giving
them
its
until
1573.'
horrible
why
"
not
resources
of
your
reformers
the
wise
reign of
Henri
IV.
so
peaceful?'
so
smiled
again, shrugged
wrinkles
bitter
of
my
made
aid
have
excuse
fessed
pro-
was
instead
in
political system
kept
the
which
the
employed
the
brother,
frenzy.
would
woman,
who
Bartholomew,
it with
League,
old
his
whom
to
me
claimed:
ex-
ticle!"
conven-
esteemed
for
was
hands;
Saint
done
The
an
'
their
the
about
slaughter,
have
from
have
was
of
the
If I felt aversion
children's
my
they drove
monks.
"
were
crown
brought
and
Lorraine,
soldier, both
and
day,
de
They
them.
it
Dreux,
those
hating
political leaders,
brutal
me.
of
know
State.
mistakenly
to
go
religion?
not
should
in the
of
battle
will
me
Reformed
any
and
accuse
life
any
there
Birague
the
we
tious.
sedi-
been
have
that
the
justificationimperish-
When
of
with
had
master
one
my
well,
the
greatly
faith,
loss
Very
they
essential
was
I carved
the
"
it
dealt
should
power
remark.
one
"
our
one
me,
announced
for
that
days,
if
way,
479
gave
irony.
to
her
her
shoulders,
pale face
an
and
sion
expres-
48o
*
"
Nations,'
she
that
is
struggles:
Henri
IV.
neither
He
or
To
elements
is
crime
bring good
and
But
it
work.
did
clergy
did
at
was
the
She
'
least
two-thirds
But,' she
of
niece
for her
Again
**
she
After
'
most
It
is
whom
do
you
face
to
His
in
scribed
in-
was
IV., and
the
at
the
that
vast
way,
the
nobilitysquandered
Sully
revenues.
abbeys.*
reflect.
to
'
belong
impossible
by
for the
the
sows
Henri
glance
owned
continued,
hostile
between
it
to
policy of
seemed
realize
you
calling to
are
that
it is
account
paused.
all, I could
good heart,'
the
and
his
sentence
of their
he
been
he
does
that
own,
no
Catholicism?'
"
believe
but
Pope
for thus
out
with-
Either
balance
clergy, which,
absolutely
himself.
two
face
covetous
not
paused,
the
death.
the
Huguenot,
**
cast
of
possessions
that
his
France
have
alone
of the
root
not
God
be
he
government
constantly
may
it caused
perhaps
Sully
evil
the
at
To
should
king,
mistakes:
Catholic
hold
to
But
foundations.
in
of revolution.
seed
"
in
reign.
allowed
nor
that
nothing
that
desperate
position of change
its
to
leave
with
that
them,
in
conventicle!
thought.
of
becoming
himself
after
rest
irreparable
two
France
no
need
'
secret
after
found
shaking
stole
the
MEDICI
Protestantism,
Catholic,
alone
said,
committed
abjured
be
to
DE'
CATHERINE
The
that
she
have
with
added,
superior
religion
important
l)een
men
counted
of
all that
Calvinist
gesture
of
your
for
age
aught
Europe
of
with
ence.
indiffer-
cannot
in that
ever
still
suit,
tried,
APPARITION
THE
do
"/
that
not
followed
my
before
been
had
me
pillow,
me."
he
know,''
saw
as
soon
Catherine's
as
laid
tall
the
whether
itself
made
evoked
but
"
continued,
face
invisible
and
head
upon
my
figure
standing
far-reaching
did
which
retarded
"
I shuddered.
"
'
and
What!
and
leading
the
sands
And
L?"
merely
the
queenly
her
"
'
leads
the
into
of
buried
and
distant
avoid
IX., by
more
ple
peo-
them
on
of Saint-Louis!
ancient
and
in the
face
once
inevitably
examining
of the
lands
an
she
said,
Europe
led
class
'
for
ruins.
Luther
people
to
Examination
is essential
after them
inquisitive philosophy,
greedy
to
spirit of
the
faith that
they dragged
structure,
the
raised
she
middle
everything.
Instead
of
art
more,
Church,'
Roman
who
the
soon
of the
attention
before
saw
by exhuming
But
past.
majestic
had
ment.
mo-
Druidesses
who
future
the
whom
queen
those
of
nothing for
said
which
;,with hammers,
31
Rome
to
leaving
name
throughout
doubt.
social
old
the
this, Louis
aroused
upon
to
beings,
pages
investigation
insist
Why!
the
and
longer
one
of the
Calvin
and
Yes,
upon
hundred-fold
earned
By directing the
abuses
the
seized
with
head,
human
information
is
which
that
yet
as
death, and
to
no
rather
unrolling
tinued,
con-
finish.
may
banners?
as
France
her
was
sacrificed
she
*
me,
world,
I failed!'
beat
but
you
interests
identical
from
But
It
at
causes
the
on
revolution,'
realized
new
of Egypt,
She
glance
one
I condemned
than
bursting
which
no
the
away
trivial
by
me!'
to
almost
struggle
me,
and
has
Luther
"
searching
listen
interests
it.
481
MEDICI
it from
strangle
to
progress
_you who
to
revolution
prevent
with
still in
DE'
not
I failed
as
CATHERINE
Science
and
armed
burst
482
DE'
CATHERINE
its false
bosom
reform
much
liberty of
have
within
it
armed
of
at
It involved
the
the
royalty,
of
classes
Europe
Catholics
the
monarchy,
without
The
in torrents.
avoid
cannot
finding no
the
which
My
event.
If my
is
blame
form
must
the
In the
be
laid
be
in
the
blood
shed
at
later
above
misfortune
execration
each
of
weight
few, fools
those
of
wound.
soars
the
Saint
the
a
explained by
upon
great bulk
was
impartially tried
be
were
peers
is held
name
to
which
to
It
of
drops
beneath
majority: everything
facts.
the
whom
succumbed
it has
unlucky
by
peers
of
only
misfortune,
one
beliefs.
interests
"
few
intelligence
middle
ancient
giants,
was
ligion
re-
between
clergy.
it is allowed
moment,
opportune
when
the
two
spare
of
fore
There-
death
material
the
between
to
the
XI.
of feudalism.
all the
laws, the
unfortunately,
that,
nation
the
nobles, and
the
quarter
Remember
of
and
Louis
by
up
the
was
compact.
to
war
represented
Bartholomew,
an
crown,
remains
form
to
struggle
annihilation
the
whose
cesses
suc-
powerfully
ruins
the
than
over
the
the
their
more
built
on
less
was
coalitions
The
duel
than
power
were
struggle
new
then
power.
of
in
so
indefinite
all
consequence
expense
nothing
of
death
the
not
was
the
as
Huguenots
monarchical
enormous
and
The
formidable
more
the
such
is the
the
by
issue
at
Church,
priesthood, even
the
and
ruin
the
myself.
obtained
brilliancy,from
question
which
man,
seen
against
The
heresy.
MEDICI
in
were
those
in
two
France,
minds
mediocre
succeeding
which
an
eration.
gen-
passed,
DE'
CATHERINE
reign did
to
armies,
I
who
in
was
of
Alva
was
by
his
and
I shall
Some
remain,
the
the
be
not
immolate
to
inclined
all
are
god
misfortunes
world.
the
of
Lastly,
tranquillity
gifts for
"
'
cost.?'
"
baths
'
which
May
I
the
comes
of blood
"
God
not
blood
You
will
"
was
flow
know,
the
It
victims.
preferred
has
itself.
hundred
You
knaves
deny
you
to
political liberty,
that
in my
forth
from
century,
of blood
taxes
its
on
well, only
are
less
without
will
tianity
Chrisit
comes
martyrs?
it not
destined
take
to
life.
new
in torrents.?
at
eyes.
it takes
it established
!'
day
some
or
itself,are
science
happy
be
tears
who
stowed
be-
forget
essence
you
selves
them-
sometimes
which
nation, aye,
wherein
ask
nations
cried, with
itself
from
of
great
generation,
you
link
two
will
two
the
visible
accuse
tears
Saint
the
the
mankind
destiny imposes
not
Truth
the
bling
gam-
Richelieu
upon
upon
early,
not
than
shed
to
sacrificed
opportunely
the
rather
was
obstinate
writers
that
fied
stupe-
was
those
have
Duke
not, I accept
or
me
executioner
first time
The
whether
connecting
of
appear
was
it were,
nations
name
man
IV.
too
day, paradoxical
the
admiral
to
as
chain
whether
will
Henri
criminal,
or
not
Philip II.
came
attributed
be
invisible
men.
XI.
mistakes,
generation.?
rake, the
Louis
Bartholomew
an
his
of bronze,
Virtuous
burden;
did
why
review
to
made
have
ultra-Catholicism,
late.
of
of
heart
principle.
too
But
advance
soldier
on
I may
woman.
give audiences,
to
mean
decrees.
sign
to
only
was
not
483
MEDICI
always
to
be
one
did
flow.?
of the
484
of
masons
So
long
men's
the
social
you
pass
as
heads,
"Blood!
edifice
be
the
up
blood!
MEDICI
begun
word
apostles.
instrument
applauded;
you
killed.'
be
in
rang
over
when
but
will
trowel, you
that
the
by
levelling
your
will
you
take
to
attempt
DE'
CATHERINE
like
ears
my
knell.
"
In your
would
have
judgment,
had
Catherine
"
mind
was
bathed
when
figure,
suddenly
inner
king
of
nor
of
will
queried
"God
is at
nation
that
had
there
assented
at
was
I awoke
the
moment
saying
function
the
those
apply
the
to
Italian.
sense
to
enabled
proportions
just
was
had
breath
which
discovered
common
it
to
neither
principles,
of atheists."
race
how
saved?"
whose
did?'
you
light
self which
that
Protestantism
'
if
as
soft voice
"And
as
that
victorious
worthy
reason
perspiration, weeping,
my
in
of
see
doctrines
in
to
supernatural
part of my
atrocious
said,
disappeared,
gigantic.
a
me
the
to
become
right
had
extinguished
my
the
then,'
the
monarchies
crumbling
be
Beaumarchais.
hand,
monsieur,"
was
my
neighbor's
reply.
"
In
case,"
that
incredible
the
him,
"
we
with
have
Monsieur
said
frivolitywhich
the
with
characteristic
was
of
of believing, in accordance
resource
Bossuet's
Calonne,
de
gospel,
that
we
God's
are
instruments."
As
soon
dream
and
as
consisted
the
the
in
ladies
an
had
interview
to
discovered
between
whisper.
that
the
I will
the
queen
spare
DE'
CATHERINE
repetition of
you
with
points
deathly bore!
reached
the
that
only
there
The
have
to
that
less
of
for
experienced
horror.
His
earthy
and
what
you
will
bluish
and
black
like
of
splashes
it
head
"
my
That
by
mud,
man
neighbor.
his
us.
his
because
of
features,
at
idea
of
canaille.
few
his
over
emitted
eyes
the
at
feeling
exact
an
scattered
were
and
call
face seemed
perhaps
really was,
his
spots
Beaumar-
arouse
indefinable
to
ceive
con-
Nothing
of
to
bonds
to
me
particularly
an
me
same
cried.
he
grand, presented
That
flame.
sufficed
complexion,
allow
the
by mysterious
more
and
to
and
voice
!"
looked
seemed
of fanaticism.
have
surgeon,
ignoble
One
At
in
candles
cavernous
de
solemnity
part, enabled
my
dreamed
Thereupon
once
the
and
neighbor.
of
touch
all
us
hollow,
I, too, have
fair
coloring.
neighbor would
chais's
"
flame
The
asleep.
listened; Monsieur
inexplicable effects
the
than
attached
who,
man
the
held
ladies
Beaumarchais,
his
was
magic
had
sentiment
to
is
finish?"
he
the
was
had
with
jesting
was
silence.
me
Bodard
who
ones
moment,
the
will
cate's
advo-
He
"
as:
speak,
to
Lavoisier,
half-tipsy surgeon,
Calonne
remarks
dear, when
my
Monsieur
peace.
were
such
stranger ceased
the
their
Pray,
the
they interspersed
But
"
tion
exclama-
by
ear.
my
When
phrases followed
the
which
narrative.
485
MEDICI
face,
ening
threat-
forbidding than
more
of the
snow
heaped
on
coiffurea frimas.
must
bury
many
patient,"
I said
to
486
"
I would
"
I hate
"
For
"
But
how
replied.
rejoined.
the
after
day
famous
as
as
to-morrow,"
plied
re-
called
seemed
happen
dreamed
have
to
to
the
to
"
say:
That
amusing."
be
likely to
me
attention
my
of
queen.?"
Beaumarchais.
emphasis
he
to
was
replied, with
I
"
laugh.
us
leg 1
whose
nation,"
made
which
patient
after
of
I dreamed
No,
"
an
attending
was
amputate
the
on
day
dream."
my
"And
did
find
you
leg.?" inquired
"
he
all!"
become
may
gesture which
to
you
asked
he
by
after
are,
Calonne
de
seems
Do
"
actor
with
fellow
him,"
to
stranger.
Monsieur
surgeon
we
Dieu!
mon
the
dog
my
despise him."
unjust
the
MEDICI
instinctively."
part,
my
Volange
trust
not
him
"Oh!
DE'
CATHERINE
the
Monsieur
amusing
the
patient's
your
surgeon.
is!"
he
in
Calonne.
de
Precisely," replied
"How
nation
cried
Comtesse
the
de
Genlis.
"
embarrassed
nowise
his
hands
to
someone
speak
saw
moving
the
man's
his
to
in
that
number
body,
beings which
were
others
into
myself
of
born, grew
mind.
to
ing
thrust-
find
"to
the
enjoyed
patient's
my
under
his
who
tiny beings
arguing.
in his
leg.
in
narrator,
pockets,
entering
I first found
marvellous
the
interruptions, and
breeches
of
power
When
the
by
into
extraordinary
body.
said
surprised enough,"
was
Some
His
were
lived
ideas
maturity,
skin,
and
in
were
died.
DE'
CATHERINE
They
of
ill,in good
were
had
them
fought
forth
live
realized
that
universe
and
body
me,
and
the
ocean
into
to
for
My
frightened
man,
and
I told
on,
were
already
eating
to
resist,
movement
about
do
to
you
Calonne,
de
of
his
malignant
the
bones.
well-being,
animal-
and
made
what
knife
my
but
organisms
He
understanding
is
stupid,"
He
"
No,"
rejoined Beaumarchais,
"
But,
messieurs,
**
those
that
learn
operation;
my
"
cried
knife
of
myriad
to
was
a
was
entered
side."
own
my
for his
my
cries
the
that
into
not
plunged
to
patient."
your
by
him
went
up
there
Monsieur
interrupt
to
in
"
said
and
saw
"
beasts
yourself
attempted
cute,
the
earth
word,
laugh, mesdames,
over
single uniform
I crushed
leg,
for
when
in the
patient. When
had, like
everywhere,
one
In
visible
illumined
about
marbles
the
personalities,"
No
"speak
"
You
"
given
"
from
suddenly
earth
was
species, making
by
gangrened
creatures.
are
beings scattered
in my
his
the
rushed
the
immensity
Magnificent spectacle!
universe
that
its
comprehended
Matter,
God.
world.
Nature
soul.
ideas
universes,
two
invisible;
and
and
animate
intellectual
were
the
each
they
Some
another.
the
there
sad, and
merry,
special physiognomy;
one
in
of
masses
health,
own
caressed
or
to
man,
its
487
MEDICI
the
Oh!
asleep."
said
my
Lavoisier.
dream
"
he
has
is drunk."
meaning,"
surgeon.
oh!"
cried
Bodard,
waking
up,
"
my
leg
is
DE'
CATHERINE
favor
to
take
to
stand,"
Monsieur
madame,"
gallantly,
command
Paris,
me
January
home?
for
is
he
unable
said.
she
"Gladly,
Marat
4^9
MEDICI
"I
to
1828.
Monsieur
replied
do
should
something
be
glad
more
de
if
you
difficult."
pierre,
Robeswould
NOTE
The
in his
collection
found
the
LE
C'est
Et
bon
bon
Di
dan
di
du
C'est
line
last
Qui
est
Qui
est
Aux
Et
Quatre
L'un
Et
etc.,
portoit
ji
bon,
autre
ses
Et
I'autre
son
tant
casque,
pistolets.
ses
bon,
avoit.
etc.,
I'autre
Et
avoit.
grand
son
Et
Qui
gentilshomm's
Et
manner.)
poele,
du
gentilskomm'
Quatre
comical
{Bis.)
enterre.
coins
bon,
in
g^iven
enterre.
et
quatre
Guise
de
due
et
mort
bon,
dan
probably
mort
Guise
bon,
bon
grand
was
(Bis.)
de
due
grand
du
GUISE
DE
DUG
chanson?
oulr
veut
also
referred
have
we
DU
CONVOI
Qui
(This
which
to
dissertation
de
Abbe
where
miscellany,
interesting
of
by
ballad, published
the
is
following
pistolets,
{Bis.)
epee,
etc..
'huguenots
(491)
tues.
(5".)
la
Place
is to
be
DE'
CATHERINE
492
Qui
d'hugu'nots
tant
le
Venoit
Et
Qui
le
Et
Et
les valets
Et
souliers
Et
des
beaux
It
seems
cires, {Bis.)
d'estame,
bas
bon, etc.,
de
culottes
Et
des
La
ceremonie
culottes
piau.
de
faite,
bon, etc.,
s'alla
coucher.
s'alla coucher:
Les
avec
uns
bon, etc.,
les autres
discovery
that
ridicule
the
air
{Bis.)
leurs femmes,
tout
seuls.
would
culpabilityof Theodore
by
piau. {Bis.)
Chacun
curious
lessen
crepes,
cires.
des
Et
to
grands
Et
Chacun
the
pied, {Bis.)
de
souliers
Et
extent
pied.
bon, etc.,
Et
This
(fl".)
les pages,
de
de
Avecque
Et
bon, etc.,
les valets
des
dolent
plus
le
Et
Et
dolent-
plus
venoient
des
{Bis.)
tues.
quatrieme,
Qui 6toit
Et
bon, etc.,
Hoit
Apres
MEDICI
the
was
horror
the
seem
to
establish
de
Beze, who
caused
by
principal merit
that
of
thus
to
certain
attempted
assassination.
this ditty.
DE*
CATHERINE
MEDICI
493
TRANSLATION
THE
OF
FUNERAL
listen
Who'll
'Tis of the
Bon
IVho
At
the
four
gentlemen
helmet
his
Bon
his
slew
Huguenots
there
then
galore.
galore.
Huguenots
slew
the
came
fourth,
bon, etc..
sorrowful of
him
all.
of
sorrowful
Behind
came
all ;
the
Bon
bon, etc..
And
then
the
And
then
shoes
footmen
the
long
Bon
And
sword,
trusty
bon, etc..
Bon
With
tall,
pistolsbore.
another
Most
pistols bore.
his
Another
Most
pall,
bon, etc..
Another
Which
the
four gentlemen.
his
Bon
Which
buried.
bon, etc.,
wore
And
buried.
and
of
corners
were
And
Guise
de
and
is dead
were
One
Due
is dead
Bon
There
song
great
now
There
to
GUISE
DE
bon, etc.,
now
Who
DUG
THE
footmen
crepes
on
pages,
all.
all.
their
bon, etc..
all
nicely waxed.
arms
494
DE'
CATHERINE
And
shoes
And
worsted
all
And
bon,
breeches
all
They
all
Some
with
Bon
And
made
the
Bon
others
waxed,
of
services
bon,
done,
were
their
bed.
to
off
went
all
skin.
etc.,
off
bon,
skin.
of
made
went
on,
etc.,
breeches
When
They
nicely
stockings
Bon
And
MEDICI
to
good
etc.,
alone.
bed
wives,
LIST
OF
ETCHINGS
VOLUME
XLVII
PAGB
SIEGE
AT
THE
IN
CATHERINE'S
AT
THE
AT
MME.
THE
47
OF
64
CHAMBER
CHATEAU
DE
Fronts.
CALAIS
OF
176
BLOIS
BELLEVILLE'S
408
480
APPARITION
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C.
de'
M.,
N.
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49;