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CATHERINE
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MEDICI
AND
GAMBARA
author)
has
plenty
of
interest
of
more
as
might
induce
readers
to
regard
it
considerable
(ix)
his intense interest
private
and
public
morality
are
different
to the
places.
He
has
discussed
too
much;
he
has
brought
in
too
many
personages
part,
entitled,
not
La
Confidence,
but
Le
Secret
des
Ruggieri,
had
appeared
much
earlier
in
the
Chronique
de
Paris
during
the
winter
of
1836-37,
and
had
Giardini's
cookery
conceits.
Each
is
Gomedie in 1846.
Scoras
and
Serivia,
to
say
nothing
of
the
almost
Suman
Comedy,
was
bom
at
Caux,
in
Normandy.
long
been
amassed
by
the
great
French
Benedictines.
Louis
XVI.,
a
man
of
clear
mind,
himself
Polignac's
coup
d'Etatf
In
conse-
quence
of
a
caprice
of
Shakespeare's
where he took
the
two
defended
it
with
admirable
courage
and
per-
answered
why,
then,
are
social
truths
received
in
France
with
such
disfavor
was a
measure that
^you
will
ask
not
the
Due
day
from
the
genius
of
conservatism.
The
attacking
forces,
who
have
nothing
to
lose,
and
everything
to
win,
are
thoroughly
in
agreement;
whereas
their
wealthy
opponents
refuse
to
the
[two
parties
who
coveted
and
clung
to
the
Crown,
and
who
[thought
such
means
indispensable.
hope
of
circumventing
the
King.
But
this
indefatigable
cunning
of
the
Italian
and
the
woman
was
an
impartial
critic,
so
that
crown
devolves
is
the
real
and
legitimate
Lorenzo,
had
a
double
right
to
kill
Alessandro,
both
as
a
usurper
in
the
family
and
as
an
oppressor
of
the
city,
Some
historians
have
indeed
suppose^
light.
Hence
the
strange
Medici,
then
Cardinal,
Governor
of
Florence.
Leo
X.
was
Catherine's
grand-uncle,
and
this
Cardinal
Giulio,
Penna,
the
Moorish
slave's
boon
companion.
Court
of
France
had
secret
in-
as
he
was
at
liberty,
with
the
natural
trustfulness
of
an
honest
man,
he
was
of
him.
The
Pope
had
is
honest
in
politics,
and
These
whom
-3
days
represented,
in
consequence
of
the
high
value
of
gold.
innocence.
speech
ascribed
to
Catherine's
father:
A
figlia
d'inganno,
non
manca
mai
la
figliuolanza.
Prince's,
which
gave
rise
to
a
jest
Court,
who
of
the
King
of
France
during
the
of
two
men
in
his
pontifical
habit,
saving
only
the
tiara,
while
before
him
w:ent
•SeeBayie.
AiLFemef.
Due
d'Orleans,
the
King's
second
son,
and
Catherine
de'
Medici,
Duchess
of
Urbino,
being
married,
^potuer
was
the
priestly
functioa.
in-
stantaneously.
traordinary
in
our
day
of
universal
indiscretion,
when
every-
body,
and
even
Ministers,
talk
over
the
most
trivial
incidents
interest
in
the
Dauphin's
death,
because
Francis
I.
intended
his
son
to
form
an
alliance
which
confession
was
both
the
Duchess
and
Diane
de
Poitiers.
She,
who
queen
found
tempted
to
repeat
Parlements
suppressed
by
bis
grandfather.
Louis
XV.
had
been
clear-sighted;
the
Catherine's
wake,
were
compelled
to
exercise
every
faculty
of
wit,
policy,
and
courage
to
enable
red,
but
denoted
a
special
excellence
of
the
dye.
(See
Kabelaii.)
d'Amboise,
de
Chatillon,
de
Boulogne,
the
crypt
of
Saint-Denis
on
Catherine's
tomb,
which
she
was
the
result
of
the
good
advice
vims
which
religious
feeling
would
have
given
it.
Besides,
Diane
boldly
defied
the
Queen's
plans
refondre,
retoumer,
Sire,
vous
n'fetes
plus,
vous
n'fetes
plus
que
cire.
Chittles
was
the
Cardinal
de
Lorraine.
'—4
Women must decide.
animosity
between
her
the
pamphlets
published
against
Madame
de
Pompadour
and
Marie
Antoinette
they
royal
blood,
Frangois
de
Vendome,
son
of
Louis
things
in
no
way
out
cruel
necessity
of
her
gallantries
in
the
tomb.
Such
was
this
woman's
apprenticeship
to
the
exercise
of
royal
power.
on
the
river
side,
the
dealers
in
bric-d-brac?
season,
and
they
lasted
a
lifetime
or
more.
These
articles
were
bequeathed
to
their
children.
Indeed,
it was
the
quay,
now
called
the
Quai
aux
Fleurs,
river
side,
the
house
was
crowned
with
a
high-
rubbish,
which
the
residents
often
forgot
to
remove.
Halles
some
fifteen
years
since.
From
these
outposts
the
clerks,
appren-
tices,
and
sewing
girls
could
chat,
question,
and
answer
each
other,
and
allowed
to
call
themselves
Demoiselle
the
political
interests
of
the
citizens
and
the
Eoyal
family.
The
formidable
guilds
of
Paris
could
at
that
time
arm
a
hundred
thousand
men.
Their
resolutions
were
stoutly
upheld
by
their
serving-men,
foot
tailor
of an
April day,
most
famous
ministers,
and
one
of
the
most
came,
—5
Pelleterie,
and
was
the
places
middle
classes.
Let
us
poorer
nations
at
once
gave
their
adherence
to
a
religion
which
brought
the
property
of
the
Church
back
to
the
State,
which
suppressed
the
convents.
face
with
a
nation,
as
Louis
XVI.
was,
must
inevitably
succumb.
vulture's,
mistakes,
we
are
com-

we
must
sacri-
importance,
once
caught
out,
gives
a
the
by
to-morrow.
Young
man,
said
the
Prince,
I
meant
to
show
you
that
while
Chaudieu
preaches
and
the
gentleman
bears
arms,
the
prince
fights.
Thus,
in
so
fierce
a
game
every
stake
has.
its
value.
of
Bannier,
for
the
gates
are
well
guarded
he
was
proud
of
him.
you.'*
ladies
they
served.
His
prudence
was
as
great
as
to
the
outer
world,
at
home
he
Lecamus,
who
had
hidden
away
a
large
fortune,
would
the
reigning
expression
that
fully
showed
his
firm
and
resolute
temper.
from
here,
Christophe,
or
I
will
place
Court?
I
cannot
tell
you,
said
Christophe;
I
do
not
quit«
know
that
myself
yet
—6
nothing
of
you
for
neighbor.
the
have known
daring
of
his
class
under
the
Ligue.
Is
business
pretty
firm
in
spite
of
thought.
safe
from
surprise
and
high-handed
invasion.
Tliere
the
strongholds
of
the
north
would
not
have
needed
such
sums
for
their
fortifica-
tions,
which
alone
have
cost
as
much
money
as
all
the
splen-
Brittany
—
court-
preferred
the
chateau
of
Francis
I.
chateau,
im-
a
block
of
stone
almost
in
the
rough.
More
than
century
should
be
other
than
this.
The
splendid
raiment
that
had
formerly
been
those
of
Queen
Claude
de
France,
well
prison,
or,
according
to
popular
tradition,
as
oubliettes.
What
poet
would
not
feel
deep
regret
or
weep
for
France
as
he
wanders
now
through
the
hall
of
this
magnificent
chateau,
and
sees
suddenly
the
other.
-7
Due
de
Guise,
one
of
at
a
furious
had
risen.
In
spite
of
their
wealth
and
the
revenues
of
their
officers,
they
were
so
spared
and
great
families.
For
three
generations
there
was
a
prelate
and
a
warrior
Guises
knew
how
to
turn
to
account,
the
two
great
Princes
of
Lorraine
reigned
over
France,
and
had
:Ecouen
and
Paris.
The
last
the
Perchoir
gen-
tlemen
V*
A
Pope's
niece,
the
mother
of
four
Valois,
the
Queen
of
with
heresy.
days
you
terrace
great
Reforming
the
hearts
of
orders.
the
bag,
I
told
Braguelonne
tc
we
should
lay
everything
before
the
King,
and
the
Queen-mother,
who
knows
nothing,
said
the
Duke,
the
Cardinal,
who,
like
—8
ear
these
two
words,
which
became
M
for
the
staircase,
still
to
the
right
of
the
famous
staircase.
The
young
captain
made
his
way
to-
trade;
and of
m^r-
the
council-room,
d'Anjou
and
sanguinary
catastrophes.
' What
did
you
think
of
yesterday's
fete?
asked
Bour-
Queen-mother's
ladies.
theatre
to
be
constructed
State.
There
of
Valois
through
his
mother,
the
Guises
re-
does
well
to
choose
for
her
Chan-
be
held.
La
Dayelle
slipped
into
the
royal
chamber
after
scratching
sired
me
?
leave
this
pleasant
home.
What
do
you
mean
by
malignants,
my
sweetheart ?
Did
we
not
have
the
most
delightful
festival
last
evening
but
for
on
to
his
knee.
Yes,
this
is
very
pretty
play,
said
she,
withdrawing
her
your
fathers
is
at
stake,
your
Majesty
will
cried
the
Queen,
'^ut
why
do
yon
not
make
these
Guises
inform
you
of
what
is
going
my
uncles.
Hates
you?
on
your
guard
leave
this
pretty
chateau,
suppressing
his
wrath.
-9
usher
to
bring
up
the
Queen's
furrier.
When
Christophe
saw
this
official
coming
towards
him
from
one
end
of
the
room
to
the
other,
he
took
him,
from
his
dress,
to
be
as
large
almost
as
the
guardroom.
The
two
replied
the
Duke,
surprised.
However,
that
is
not
of
the
deep
window,
was
would
,not
have
understood
this
Queen
in
check;
but
Mary
Stuart,
so
fair,
so
crafty,
so
clever,
so
girlish,
and
yet
so
omniscient,
was
filling
Catherine
with
suppressed
watching
her
mother-in-law,
whom
she
regarded
as
an
intriguing
adven-
turess,
who,
having
been
humbled,
was
always
prepared
for
revenge.
The
face
of
the
elder
was
grave
and
gloomy,
a
little
cadaverous,
by
grew
constantly
from
seeing
the
predictions
of
those
who
prac-
tised
it
realized
with
the
greatest
exactitudCf
moment
I
am
studying
in
the
hope
of
rivaling
the
Medici
and
of
knowing
some
day
how
to
heal
the
wounds
of
the
country.
have
pity
on
us
I
See,
madame.
simplicity.
(Lomenie),
and
desire
him,
from
me,
to
pay
it.
Indeed,
madame,
with
soldiers.
A
sergeant
writes
to
his
sweetheart
on
the
spot
where
Catherine
gravely
considered
her
struggle
with
parties.
gathered
round
about
to
be
discussed.
looked anxious.
The Grand
the
Keeper
Gentlemen,
be
seated.
The
Cardinal
briefly
pointed
out
the
dangers
of
the
situa-
tion.
This
great
politician,
who
showed
astounding
skill
in
this
business,
broached
the
question
of
the
lieutenancy
traces of
about a
investiga-
tion
the
safeguard
of
The
irounor
Reformer
understood,
and
replied
bv
an
expression
which
conveyed,
Sacrifice
me,
as
they
have
sacrificed
meT
in
the
presence
of
a
great
catastrophe.
lO
the Chancellor
neighbor,
speaking
into
the
cor-
ridor.
I
am
Christophe
Lecamus.
At
this
moment,
certainly,
they
could
not
be
going
either
to
try
him
or
to
hang
him.
de Conde?
the
prepa-
boards,
which
they
tighten
I
was
to
carry
the
furs
to
the
two
Queens,
and
at
the
had
told
him.
**But
those
papers,
given
to
you
without
any
wrappiBr
or
antagonism
to
the
Guises?
I
did
adjoining
room.
On
seeing
this,
Christophe
and
his
wedges,
and
looked
alternately
at
the
sufferer
and
the
clerk.
on
Christophe's,
who,
excited
were
both
obliged
to
look
down.
Philippe
of
the
balanced
hammer
used
to
coin
money,
which
came
in
again
to
see
Christophe.
Christophe.
The
Princes had
the hands
of the
hearing
of
the
Prince's
ad-
vance,
not
come
up
till
smiling.
persons
present.
the
gentlemen,
your
friends,
over
which
the
Council
have
determined
to
make
the
greatest
display.
arriving
from
Paris,
brought
thither
by
the
uneasiness
pro-
who
had
been
Due
present.
Public
curiosity
was
being
stimulated,
by
every
means
in
condemned
by
name
and
with
these
exhortations,
they
began
to
sing
a
psalm
turned
into
French
verse
by
Clement
;
the
Cardinal
dr
Lorraine.
The
sight
makes
me
feel
sick,
said
the
young
King,
who
had
turned
pale
at
the
sight
of
all
this
bloodshed.
Pooh
Eebels
said
Catherine
de'
Medid.
d'Orleana.
de
Conde,
the
Duke
and
States
solely
to
secure
the
presence
of
the
sixteenth
the
King's
room,
the
to
understand
that.
The
utter
silence
that
reigned
in
the
room
might
have
the
Prince.
patron,
prisoner.
poor
furrier's
feeble
eyes
showed
in
any
kind
of
business,
replied
the
wily
Florentine.
To-morrow
will
no
doubt
be
a
decisive
day.
From
my
calculations,
to-morrow,
or
soon
after,
you
will
perhaps
see
your
son.
12
horror.
Your
little
Christophe
has
done
good
service
to
our
great
Queen
Catherine.
If
we
can
get
your
son
out
of
the
clutches
of
the
Cardinal,
you
will
see
him
Councillor
in
the
Parlement
broken
three
times
over
to
find
himself
in
the
good
graces
of
that
beloved
sov-
ereign
publicly,
to-morrow,
in
the
Assembly.
But
the
King?
right;
he
owes
his
place
to
him.
Still,
King.
And,
al-
though
he
has
a
leaning
towards
the
Eeformation,
he
will
do
nothing
but
his
duty.
A
plague
on
all
honest
men
cried
the
Florentine.
Am-
broise
boasted
this
evening
that
he
could
pull
at
Amboise.
Events
had
grown
Vignay,
desiring
the
Chan-
various
an-
tagonistic
interests,
attacked
by
a
common
foe,
was
silently
As he
was embark-
said
the
old
man,
shuddering.
is
what
sol-
diers
do
every
day
with
no
care
at
all.
But
do
you
know,
my
boy,
said
the
citizen,
greatly
dar-
ing,
that
if
you
save
the
King,
you
ruin
France?
Do
you
know
that
your
instrument
will
place
I will
this?
moment
by
the
King's
illness.
gency
was
watchinsr
the
Queen-mother's
looks
and
gestures,
for
she
understood
the
perils
of
her
position.
the
Guepins
are
malcontents,
he
added,
giving
the
people
of
Orleans
their
common
nickname,
and
if
Par6
can-
Marshal,
who
came
de Guise.
debate
without
wincing;
but
he
the B^arnais
prince gives ground
and
withdrew.
''How
coolly
that
audacious
trader's
daughter
can
speak
of
King
yet appeared.
courtyard.
the two
company.
jest
to
his
escape.
de
Guise
came
in,
he
explained
to
them
the
causes
of
the
King's
sufferings,
and
demonstrated
that
in
which
will
release
the
humors
through
that
passage.
the
young
Queen,
who
was
weeping
less
dangerous
than
the
cruel
process
recommended
by
Ambroise.
unmoved,
looking
out
of
window.
Conde,
the
Queen-mother,
and
the
Chancellor
are
all
opposed
to
the
operation/'
now
no
hope.
'TTou,
madame,
Come,
Mon-
sieur
le
Chancelier.
better.
glover.
On
hearing
the
voice,
a
man
rose
and
replied,
Pret
a
servir
( Eeady
to
serve,
or
sustenance.
Conde,
brother,
de
which
was
then
in
this
tournament
of
words.
Indeed,
that
is
exactly
what
hap-
pened-
cooper
at
Noyon,
in
Picardy,
Calvin's
birth-
question.
of
the
executions
ordered
by
Calvin
will
find.
;
finding
its
fulcrum
in
the
interests
of
man.
general.
He
misers,
men
whose
only
en-
dis-
one
of
the
strongest
wills
—14
who
seem
most
surly
cannot
live
without
some
semblance
of
affec-
tion.
Theodore
was
Calvin's
spoilt
child.
The
great
Reformer
aever
scolded
him,
overlooked
his
irregularities,
his
love
least
cried
Calvin.
England
will
keep
her
busy.
Two
his
master
was
gazing.
palaces
who
were
unchain
^'ng
the
full
ad-
idiot? What
in
a
caressing
tone,
taking
his
hands
and
kissing
them,
Jove
thunders,
but
he
can
Bmile.
crime
side
of
the
Throne,
or
to
set
them
against
each
These
difficulties
checked
Catherine,
whose
volume.
when the
man
him
in
this
strange
speech
recorded
by
certain
chroniclers:
What
I
can
by
a
priestling
like
you,
King
what
had
passed
between
Amyot
and
the
Queen-mother.
spoke
these
words
were
a
revelation
to
Catherine
of
necessary
to
counter-
with her
Queen.
Marshal
and
Duke,
or
something
of
the
kind
As
to
the
citi-
II.
on
a
boat
full
of
Huguenots
crossing
the
Seine,
though
—15
recorded
this
hideous
jest.
And,
indeed,
exchange jests.
Besme
not
to
miss
the
Admiral,
came
forward
to
meet
him,
the
captain,
he
added,
look-
said
the
Conn6table
roughly.
equal
rights.'*
poor
wretch
endured
torture,
has
already
had
him
passed,
by
high-handed
orders,
as
pleader
before
the
Parlenient,
and
lawyers
are
more
apt
to
—
broils,
for
the
favor
of
the
King
and
glance
an
unlimited
promiM
by
&n
almost
imperceptiUe
tear.
fine/'
he
had
said
the
day
before
to
express
to
you
his
regret
at
being
unable
to
do
anything
for
his
fellow-
Lallier
here
is
ready
to
pay
two
hundred
cause
of
Calvinism,
the
it
is
only
pain
1
was
selling
his
house
and
being
you
expected
them;
I
stole
out
of
the
Louvre.
him
up
rather
roughly,
and
leading
him
into
a
comer,
said:
Pardon
me,
madame,
said
Lecamus;
it
was
made
in
—16
de Guise's life.
Juign6,
Archbishop
of
Paris.
All
the
paintings
such edifices.
why
these
two
courtiers
were
perched
up
there,
it
wiU
be
necessary
to
relate
a
scene
which
Bourbon
Kings,
but
assumed
an
he
had
eaten
Like
a
prince
re-
Queen
Catherine's,
and
a
few
more
gentlemen,
among
whom
were
to
be
noted
girl
for
rea-
sons
affecting
her
own
prospects
of
dominion.
Marie
Marie
Touchet,
who
asked
for
nothing,
the
manor
of
Belleville,
an
estate
without
a
title,
her
double
grief,
her
demeanor
added
to
the
gloomy
hues
of
a
picture
to
M'hich
a
young
Queen
less
cruelly
always
remain
misunderstood;
and
by
giving
the
first
place
for
the
magnum
opus,
arrived
at
astonishing
results.
furnished funds
for the
second-sight,
and
one
of
the
extensive
association
of
indefatigable
inquirers
for
d'Anjou
was
King
of
Poland.
his
priyat«
the
great
a
reign,
that
the
d'Anjou,
when
he
went
to
govern
Poland,
robbed
her
of
the
17
government.
Though
the
Queen
might
have
attempted
to
counteract
her
son's
en-
was
obliged
to
interrupt
him,
exclaiming,
Do
not
say
that,
mon-
her
hand
this
conspiracy
of
the
Due
d'Alengon
and
la
Mole,
so
as
to
be
more
imposing
figure
than
archers
of
the
Guard
commanded
by
the
Comte
de
Solem.
This
circumstance,
added
to
the
mother's
sup-
lips
of
the
color
of
blood,
the
lips
of
a
con-
King
had
so
great
a
regard
that
he
had
saved
one
from
the
massacre
of
Saint-Bartholomew,
coldness
scowl
the
King's
paying
of his medi-
Villeroy
were
only
partl

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