A History of France: With Conversations at the End of Each Chapter, Band 2J. Murray, 1837 |
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affairs afterwards allies appeared arms Austria battle became Bourbon brother Buonaparté called cardinal Catherine character Charles Coligny command constable Montmorenci CONVERSATION ON CHAPTER count court crown daughter dauphin death defeated died dress duchess duke of Guise duke of Lorraine duke of Orleans duke of Savoy emperor enemies England English favour Ferdinand fleet France French army George head Henry Henry IV hope Hugonots Italy king of Navarre king's kingdom ladies Lavallette Lorraine Louis XIV Louis XVIII madame madame de Maintenon mamma March marriage married Mary Medicis ment minister mother Naples Napoleon never nobles palace Paris party peace person Philip pope possession prince of Condé princess prison Prussia queen reign restored retired retreat Richard Richelieu royal Savoy sent siege soon Spain Spanish succeeded thing throne tion took town treaty troops Turenne victory whole wife wounded young
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Seite 370 - Instantly he was cut down. A band of cruel ruffians and assassins, reeking with his blood, rushed into the chamber of the Queen, and pierced with a hundred strokes of bayonets and poniards the bed from whence this persecuted woman had but just time to fly almost naked, and, through ways unknown to the murderers, had escaped to seek refuge at the feet of a king and husband not secure of his own life for a moment.
Seite 173 - ... arbitrary measure here ; Else- could a law like that which I relate, Once have the sanction of our triple state, Some few, that I have known in days of old, Would run most dreadful risk of catching cold ; While you, my friend, whatever wind should blow Might traverse England safely to and fro, An honest man, close button'd to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.
Seite 376 - ... done to their majesties, the king, the queen, and the royal family, if they be not immediately placed in safety and set at liberty, they will inflict on those who shall deserve it the most exemplary and ever memorable avenging punishments, by giving up the city of Paris to military execution, and exposing it to total destruction ; and the rebels who shall be guilty of illegal resistance shall suffer the punishments which they shall have deserved.
Seite 232 - Our laundry is filled by the aged, the blind, the maimed, the halt, and infants. The infirmary is full of sick and wounded. We have torn up all our rags and linen clothing to dress their sores ; we have no more, and are now at our wits
Seite 441 - ... friends now. And besides that, your honour gived an order long ago, not to take any money from nobody, and we never did take none. And Mr. Leneve, that steered your honour and that there king, says he won't have no hand in it, and so does Andrew Young the proper coxen, and he hopes no offence. — So we all, one and all, begs not to take it at all, so no more from your honor's dutiful servants.
Seite 405 - His bed was not stirred for six months, and he had not strength to make it himself. For more than a year he had no change of shirt or stockings. He might indeed have washed himself, for he had a , pitcher of water, and might have kept himself cleaner than he did : but, overwhelmed by the ill treatment he had received, he had not the resolution to do so, and his illness began to deprive him of even the necessary strength. He passed his days without any occupation, and in the evening was allowed no...
Seite 507 - Her deep melancholy," he says of her in his Memoirs, " throws her frequently into fits of abstraction ; but she is always equally mild, amiable, and good. We pass the summer in a retired country house, where she seems to enjoy herself." Lavallette himself did all that could be done for her by care and affectionateness, and by devoting to her the life which she had saved. Mary. This is, indeed, a most sad ending of the story : but still I hope that poor madame Lavallette was able to know that her...
Seite 402 - At last they threatened the lives of both him and me, and my mother's maternal tenderness at length forced her to this sacrifice. My aunt and I dressed the child, for my poor mother had no longer strength for anything : nevertheless, when he was dressed, she took him and delivered him into the hands of the officers, bathing him with her tears, and foreseeing she should never see him again. The poor little fellow embraced us all tenderly, and was carried off in a flood of tears.
Seite 178 - ... nobility, to take advantage of the distractions of a new reign, and of a feeble minority, to establish their own power and independence. The due de Mayenne, on his death-bed, charged his son to remain firm in his principles of religion and loyalty, and only on that condition gave him his blessing. One of the first objects of Mary of Medicis, and her favourites, was to unite themselves as closely as possible with the court of Spain. In the year 1612 were announced two intended marriages, the one...