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recently
Under
disorder of the
interest than
contribution to
of
inquiries
having
for
Death
—
by
dowry—
The
bargain
of the
the
Fifteen
galley
—His
tenderness
before
Her
Verneuil's
children
—Common
and
im-
—
tions of witchcraft—Violent hysteria her disease—
Failure
of
this
time
—Her
gaiety
de
amidst all the treasures
life
affected
by
for
to
an
entirely given over
Bianca Capello
this
woman,
and
too
impatient
his
children
in grain
and diamonds.
and sorrow
burgher
ful
Whether
they
were
chance
or
Thrice
lightning
injured
her
Finally, walking
one day
little
group,
nose.
She
almost father-
a
young
extreme
Paris,
the
which
was,
rank.
and
otherwise
surrounded
only
by
older,
rather
habit was only
and
of
festivity
long
unknown
to
it.
aunt and
tion
to
ment,
and
son of the
Antonio,
Virginio
noisseur
of
precious
painting,
architecture,
design of her
this period and still
finished, however,
the
and wholesome person
and
stubborn
Marie's marriage was not long to be delayed. Her
uncle
Ferdinand,
intent
upon
to
secure
his station
for him,
and seems
and
yet
uncertain
uneasy on
learning that
this question.
Spain was
lated
treasures
of
Florence
the Archduke
the
avail. Thereupon the King
peace must come first
was
had
that
she
should
course
believed
it,
he was even
said to have
subjects
of
Florentine
from
a
requests and
plied respectful
liberty
and
assumed
his
what passed
d'Estrees made the
marriage impossible. Ferdinand's
passed
thus,
the
Florentine's
indignation
over-
the
more.
The
envoy
rephed
that
Archduke. Secretly,
a
mistress
or
not
and
On
the
other
side,
the
ministers
no
Duke
of
Tuscany,
added,
Pau,
there
to
inspect
the
paternal
twenty-seventh year, the
Matthias, ~ a deformed and violent man, was
presented
to
her,
her
beauty
Due de Bellegarde. Thanks,
itself
Aldo-
acclamations
of
the
crowd.
The
celebration
thus
proceeded
bad
weather,
the
at supper, he there
was
by
proxy
in
Florence,
at
this,
as
at
a blue
them
at
refreshed
by
virtue
but with beautiful eyes and
complexion,
and
that
un-
marred
by
paint,
powder,
or
Henry
had
pleased her,
condition,
an
quantities at
surprised that the
she
her
a
liver, and
she
kept
the one or
and then,
mistrusting the
bed,
and
internal
suffocations,
from
which
I
suffered
terribly.
Her
prostration
and
where
cramoisy and
with
many
virtues,
by
private
in-
dividuals
in its honour
ease
the
will,
she
was
timid
and
retiring
—she
was
always
somewhat
timid
; Henry IV. showed
her.
favour
niece
was
but
her mind,
irre-
solution,
to
a feeble
the
present
case.
Mention
differed
to an
one
who
held
more
tenaciously
secret
the
to
give
audience
where
questions
of
dis-
cussed.
alone
was
to
labour
false the
functions that
hungered for
many
another,
in others,
this, and her imagination was
too limited to supply
the romantic
dreams of
public of
conviction. If,
moreover, the
ances
to
forty-five
and
fifty
years
old
dry
and
of a line
in
incantation,
serious
true
scion
of
the
chapel of
the Petit
Confraternity
prayers for her
Madeleine,
which
the wife
Saint's honour for
the Augustinian canons
restraints
of
divine
law.
Florentine
tradition,
to
one of her
standing
as
god-mother
and
to
France
French
am-
to aver
in missions
Lieutenant
propagation
and
twenty
livres
Thursday,
forty-two
doors
of
these
churches,
devotions
Dame
of
her
confinements,
the
Queen
and
Fleche, to
the end
that he
Saint Germain
from
Italy,
took
sufficient
interest
the H6tel
Ave
Maria,
the
Ursuhnes
of
Faubourg
Saint
Jacques,
their mistress,
9,
1601,
Marie
time,
turn-
ing
from
the
wretched
little
Rue
d'Autriche
carriage
than the
size of
the victim
and
the Hall
armchairs or
small sofas,
courtyard
a bal-
splendid
Canopy,
curtains,
this
apart-
in summer
with
ornaments
in
amounted
to
forty
thou-
sand
a
little
also were
Did all
short
 
nothing
but
always
gay,
entry,
and
who par-
took of
the sleeping
an ivory
her
at
it
herself,
mantles,
vests,
cimarres,
pour-
points,
dresses,
linen,
and
other
Milan,
embroidered
in
gold-flowered
green
satin,
or
fortable
and
out
fastening.
costume
was
the
shipments
of
the
Princes
of
Mantua
and
Tuscany.
of
dress of
arranged to her
Franijois
le
Prestre,
jeweller
of
Paris,
for
one
and she must not forget
to place in her pocket for
use
thousand
francs,
the
remainder
fifty
francs
watched
as was her habit at
Fontainebleau
also,
by
perfumes of Paris
large diamond, were
pair was known to reach
eighteen
lace
fine
the
especial
further approach, kneel upon the ground
and raise
of
than
that im-
records that
to take
Saint
Germain
de
Medicis,
suc-
of
valets went
thick cushions
upon Which
announced in
Marie de
Medicis attended
vespers at
Saint Victor,
word
to
hunting, also,
gentlemen. La ClieUe,
company
many
fond.
eat
my
whiles
there
come
not
on which
The cover
^
soups, a
course of
boiled meat
a
Madame
is
picked,
though
it
be
wicker-
covered
bottle
daily
set
or
a
year
a changing of the
spent her afternoons
occupa-
maintained
a
regular
menagerie
—monkeys,
This Bichette was undisputed
as a suitable
such fortunate
persons as
country
must
be
scoured
for
them
reading, nor
of the
lace.
But
her
with ten emeralds and
two
eighty francs.
most
famous
of the Court ballets,
com-
posite,
plane
on
occasion,
her-
self
Louvre
and
upon the
of
and the quay.
The river side
carriage
narrow
gate
colours
a
doublet
white stock-
melancholy
of
of the thing,
to
a
deformity
pleasant
entertainment
of
the
casting
Arsenal.
The
Arsenal
and
the picturesque
period
served as a
where seemed
death,
1610,
when
the
abominable
weather,
a table
to
play
at
dice.
In this manner he one day lost seven hundred crowns to
Monsieur
de
play was
tion of the
and sixty-
eight livres
while
was carried
placed
these
by
desire
was by no
reproach. The use of
of Neuilly
general
com-
some-
times
November
preference
Hither, then,
June
until
Marie
Antoinette.
Royal Palaces,
 
her
wardrobe
as
were
her
watching the carp-fishers,
she writes
exploring it as
if it were
and
with superlative
thou-
allowed him
services
to
the company.
Italian
Court
but no one
the
expenses
of
his
journey
actors.
accompany him, then because so-and-so asks
too
much
;
lastly,
the
season is too late and he fears the snow on Mont
Cenis.
the Salle des
pledges
from
the
pawnbrokers
  I promise to
Queen's
Ante-
chamber,
the ladies sat upon
place,
'
bass-viols,
or
wind-
in
fours
The Queen's most
1609—the
Louvre, and
Marie de
danced
everywhere
had
evicted
snatched
;
floor
Conti at
Saint Germain
miniature
he rose
diamonds
valued
believe his statement,
luck were
-
denomination.
eleven o'clock,
Cabinet to
deal with
with her,
and to
sentries
of
the
bodyguard
Treasurer
one of their
hold, while there
were here more
functionaries than places,
sweet
spect for
chose
the good sense
all
that
regarded
the
Queen's
to
keep
three
which found
The Baron, having
lated
by
his
mother,
or
to
called etre
table-linen, another of the
a
certain
the dwarfs, a couple of Italians, Margarita Zavizanca
and her brother Alberto. Merlin and Marin Nou^, porte-
manteaux
bishop,
Marie
de
who
distri-
buting
Majesty's
secretary
benefices
and
dignities.
former, Domi-
whatever
the Queen's
Mass at
Equerry's
duty
who was as much the main-
spring of this household as
is the corresponding official
lesser
scullions.
Rising
at
dawn,
so
 swept
and
carried
old. It
Majesty's
dwelling,
and
and
on
who
enter
nised. The First
the
the Comptroller General, and
the preceding quarter, and
the linen,
newly installed steward
was entrusted to
made a tour
else of the
suf-
ficed
demands
neither
price,
banquets,
came
the
room
of
which
rod
chamber,
for
here
charged
with
into
contact
 
—
of
the
Chamber
Chamber
to
should be
dispropor-
tionately
large,
—drew
a
salary
of
thing
unseemly
and
unworthy
the
Queen's
two
known
as
la
cuisine
the
for the
these
was
limited
to
France
called for no
easily
acquired.
of
a
who sub-
mitted them
Queen's
not
thin
of
the
called
bodyguards with
and
Around
offices,
two
assistants
and
salads
like description
were
Marie de Medicis, one hundred and seventy-five,
supplied
as
Honour,
with
their
not,
for
instance,
biUs of fare
those
served
at
table, the
example, con-
sisting of
shoulder
;
game. The
choice
dignitaries
three hundred
suffi-
cient
bread,
two
capons,
two
pound of candles,
by
his
living.
The
Queen's
 
appreciated
as
affording
double
—such
tradesmen
being
Treasurer
leather bags and
francs ten
Eustache,
who
and of
in
fixed
quantities
in winter, in
Waiting, the
and the
First Steward,
horses,
of
a
considera-
a year,
stables
virtue of
being
allotted
to
litter
was
always
drawn
by
an
amble
travel-
Ung
or
repast
care of a
as
Majesty's suite
stipulated price of one
per
month.
the
quarter
repaired
creating
disturbances
order
was
that
of these
Queen's pages sub-
Marie de Medicis
maintained a number
of Italian pages
woman
and
a
Florentine.
To
the
young
Princess's
red
carried
and
two
which
stacked
Christian
captives,
;
conve3dng
of
the
Due
Vecchia
in
1608,
mission.
solemn entry in
Guard, Monsieur
ear, and wrote
person.
his ends more surely
was
d'Attichy,
part
honorary
four or
five jurists
never parted with
in
favour
at
Court
; his good
and
like digni-
a
Treasurer
General
were
entrusted
the
salaries
out
cashier's office
La Chambre
if
they
tallied,
the
to raise objections
his
household
after it
for
her
personal
reprim
and.
Queen, these
tween
occasionally
sum-
moned
month
Secretaries in Ordinary
his rooms—doubtless
consort
1601,
Henry
IV.
presented
beard
early
he
wished.
whole days, without
concerning himself particularly
refreshing
slumber.
This
his
beard
and
hair
covered
them,
but
discoursed
a
whole
toe
trouble
think-
ing
that
the
me to forget
one
of
his
descendants.
He
waved
at
his
friends
finely
deferential
address
his
Cabinet.
Les Estrennes au roy et a la rayne, printed at
Paris
in
1606,
asserts
that,
conversation,
wise
of
words
act and speech,
upon the shoulder,
his
circle
very
with
their
King
gaiety,
vivacity,
sion.
in
his high spirits and
him to
among
reason for
answered
that
which are
not bom
for them-
they
bear
rule.
than
the
du
 
even moments
XIV.
Of
bleau,
tunity for
was without
astound
him,
Spaniard
though
nificence.
sixty noblemen, entered the
own lodging
—a
Prince
knew
how
to
don
the
conclusion of the reception, the King smilingly invited
the
forty
each one
from the grand
impressive
clothe himself in
was
not
precisely
for
could
in
an3rwise
inflammability
during
his
whole
life,
that
religion, and caused prayers
luminous,
was
him that,
prince of
in this state appeared
unable
any
longer
to
that
 passing
vows, and
might
her power, is
King's
ears,
and
arranged
a
chance
written
promise
of
marriage
from
it to
He
repeated
conviction
to
showered gifts upon
from
the
hesitating
reply
her that her
hateful
race
of
Medici
Annoyed
 
of Henry
undermined by
his violent
and fat
pride
letters
to
tears that I have
King
hurt
by
 
attentions to
her love
in a
nothing to
overmuch
baseless
insinuations
foundation,
Leonora
Galigai,
she
tainebleau,
ex-
planation
with
his
in
a
which
could
disdainful, so that
he was obliged
you
will
only
modating yourself
 
him, praising
felt neither
the counsels
ence to
passion,
new breach
every
 
must be
with
calm
her
self-control
and violent scenes,
she one day,
in Sully's presence,
she
had
been
struck
can do
repeating that
the minister
go : his
 
 
Medicis expressly
was obhged
queen-
du
Tillet,
Master
of
the
Court
of
Requests,
of affairs
Happily, little was known abroad of the
disputes of
showed her indignation
 
people, the
extol his
as he
of these
 This
alliance
has
under
strict
oath
of
secrecy.
 For
your
ear
and
none
other,
I
may
say
and
contentment of
mind in
think herself
had
to
or
My
feel-
ings
in his
As Henry
always
went
to
embrace
her
before
leaving
and
but
shall
 
ances
appre-
even the
to be deeply
up
his
mind
peace until he
Rue
cry
was
quieted
by
Before
the
Florentine
Medicis, who, on
per-
flung herself
her
back,
mechanically
repeating,
alcove
opposite,
with
the fifth
and sixth
of
Henry
IV.'
s
letters
which
could
sufficiently to advise with
them as to the despatches to be sent, and the necessary
measures to be taken.
able to
King's death, she was obliged
to be present at
renewing
her
own
sorrow
by
overwhelmed
with
grief,
unconcern,
years. This
Vendome
children
Verneuil's
chil-
dren
Ballets
and
comedies
not a word
reply
must have
courtier of that
but
Germain,
owing
to
the
crowded
streets
almost
as
Paris, than Marie
it, begging her
thin, she was considered
the
confidence
placed
in
her
by
the
they had
affectionate
letter,
which
does
Marie de M^dicis, more practical, wrote
:
 
thing
in
the
world
necessary to keep them
sadness, we
with
moderation
and
undoubtedly
held
dry-nurses,
doctor,
beloved
of
Saint
Germain,
so
modest,
peaceful,
and
monotonous.
Marie
de
have
every
to
you
he
is
what is said to
well that one can-
She
followed
traits,
we
neither
much influence
over him.
arrived
an attention.
 
knowledge that he would suffer at a fixed hour every
morning
for
the
transgressions
at-
tempted
to
Germain,
transferred to
men, a
governor and
future
position.
For
governor
was
fencing
almost a
de Medicis he
de
but I
beg you
reason
you
icy
coldness,
me
in
this
opinion.
One
own accession to the throne, the little King had been
whipped
by
the
Queen's
 
less
all
appearances,
the
have
to Heaven,
fell
upon
adoration,
a
public
daily
Archbishop of Vienne
in
a
hitherto little expansive,
occupy the
royal apart-
ments, of
;
child, born
after a
eldest
traordinary
 
the robust health
Germain to
consult
might recover,
resist
it.
fuU of black
 
understand the
cause of
to the fact
of other
who
which
took
abundance
And if she is
there
was
no
personage
chose
the
She
gave
a
super-
hundred thou-
Duchesse
de
the
small-
pox
agitated
her
child will soon be
pray
you,
all
the
care
and
assistance
bedchamber
at
was better,
rights and thoroughly
remain   When
out a
to
the
public.
that
the
that
you
that
are
about.
more
exempt
from
the
guiding
this
docile
occasionally occupy her
destined to
included
the
was always
having
arranged
alli-
daughter beyond the
legitimised all of
escaped
its
sting.
an
apartment
day,
on
the
Pont-Neuf,
face.
to him
ceremony
by
the
far
rally
seven being customary,
Medicis, or
ceremony
of
and escorted
a double line
by Saint
sister
being
thus
position,
and
a
bishop,
to
to
them.
regard for the
the Due
amounted
eldest
daughter
prepared.
and,
Mademoiselle
Sau-
pieces
out the light from the windows, I beg
you
to
send
twelve
or
The
 
company
of
given to-morrow, at one o'clock in the afternoon. Your
pleasure in the performance will countervail
any trouble
hall was
packed. According
Gaston
:
 
prettily
they protested
Marguerite's conduct
Their
take
up
without
looked
last
three
cried
caused general prayers to be said for his recovery. Every
manner
of its
became proverbial,
and preachers
time,
table, she
his
mercy
reward
with
interest
her
mercy
she reason
chorus
of
de Valois
bequeathed
write
to
ing
ship.
Marguerite
conducted
they
believe
their
is
unbearable,
the
Queen,
but
to
the end of her days did render to her all the
homage,
neglected
by
them
Saint Chamans
of the greatest indiscretion,
who took
well
as
princes,
whose
mother
she
would
upon them,
often
inviting
them
with
this
devotion
married the
Prince of
whose
 
lavishing sympathy
child
France
and mother of five children, and that she refused to submit
any
at
wrongly
those endless
ances
of
centre,
and
regarded
him
with
a
very
natural
dislike.
He
sent fruit from
thousand
crowns.
gently
as
possible,
you,
seems
ceived
the Italian
the
case
beggar's
retinue,
said
the
crowd.
In
will pay me
her in-
and
that he
been disgraced, that
house would permit
to
Florence.
The
public
deeply
a pen-
sion, which
named Livia,
By
this
marriage,
put
perish in misery.
some
Italian
relations.
Many
you
any
cause
for
it.
For
continiiing,
the
to their children,
give
or lessons
upon the
manner in
from
the
predicament,
and
woman
—Reason
Saying of
the
Ministry
—Richelieu's
doctors—
Exorcisms
and
strange
rituals
stibjects
Moreover,
the
wife
of
were
thus
limited
to
no
more
than
part,
made
good
the
balance
favourite
esteem
and
presence
of
Madame
foe,
but
in
of easy
cause or reason.
of the Duchesse
far
from
we
found
far as she
hotel in the Ruede
guest,
which
The duties
only fair to
say that this
teuil. No one was to
hear breath of
was
defending her son with
Guercheville bade her beware
subject of the Queen than any others there present,
none
of
that
of
her
then
Mademoiselle
Louise
Marguerite
de
and
more
cynicism,
entresol floor,
or
ing circle. Important letters
none
a poor,
of
;
the
Prince
built
being
Duchesse
but
whenever
the
Queen
found
herself
about
to
in the
was
be
called
played
the
Fronde
could
far
d'Orl^ans,
the miser-
house of
de
Joyeuse
later
the
young
Chatre, however,
service-
Verneuil,
and
had
even
against her before
that Henry
Fontainebleau,
whither
annual fair of Saint
of the
the
Apples, hares,
best to cultivate
blew.
was
later
Parlement
de
Rouen.
Moreover, she sent
Marillac to Rouen,
not only charging
name, was even
compel
the
First
to
much
Italian
influence
so well
clusion
ing
pen :
hair
that
of
a
Medusa,
pale
. . .
an elephant,
feet
of a lobster, a body
scraggy as an old cow's, and a mouth as narrow as that
of an
oven. Her
of
wrinkles.
con-
temporary
says,
while
a
letter
have access
to you.
of Mantua to
Duke, he
Cosimo
to the
occupied one of
the highest ministerial
posts in the
was
Secretary
a stock which
regina.
a
family.
His
career
at
the
if
report
inspired
Vinta
with
of
interest the Grand Duchess
afterwards to
for
inducing
&c., Giovannini's
report to
delle
almost to excess, being ardent, sharp, irritable, and
impulsive. Ordinarily,
tion, so that
not
the
detail
went
amiss
to
licensed,
Unused
heart. Perceiving his
expected.  He made love
woman im-
far. He went,
now, as far
 
such a
capacity, gave
very moment
when they
had counted
adventurers took
the
problem
incensed
against
her
which
was
indeed
fashion
that
Henriette
Leonora was able to
so
if
Madame
de
to
Mistress of the Robes,
not to give
her.
To this assertion of Leonora's want
of
nobility,
Vinta
loud in
inclinations came into play
eccentric
as in
will. Opinion
envoy, fuUy conversant with
Verneuil that, they
of Henriette
successively
purposed to
be her
time in pressing every
Her
antechamber
fine
tapestries,
and
silk,
the
chairs
with
panniers
ell
The
inventory
of
her
wardrobe
taken
at
 
which her
possessions were
collected. Her
This almost
gradual
rise
in
favour
con-
sistently,
entertaining
her
apartment
so
weU
Louvre,the
whom she
customs at
her
carriage,
and
velvet
cramoisy,
bound
with
gold
and
silver.
To
the
Queen
be alone
superstitious
old
woman,
on
this
instrmnent,
Having
country.
In
husband
Rue
d'Autriche,
gate
Concino,
apartment in the
to have within call. Over it
she
town-house she
with balks
seized from
two hundred
wreck
For her country estate, the Chateau de
Lesigny
Pecquigny.
on account
group of
and
well
after
the
arrest
of
the
Mare-
chale
d'Ancre.
Equally
involved
with
the
Marechale,
was
Louis
Dole,
astonish-
ing
political
fortunes
to
obtained
guitar
and
and then
five
hours
together,
influences.
house
household
and
about
the
said
house
himself
obliged
to
perform
jest with
was
from
youth
to
her.
Andre,
hear a
who
de-
clared
respect
ready
zeal,
seem
that long
directed,
nor
act
otherwise
power over the
Queen, Leonora, for
some reason, let
slip no opportunity
to its place in the public
eye. Alvarez was astonished
Queen
as
she.
credit, and that she was in a position to obtain
her every
Desdi-
woman
the royal
her
own.
and gifts,
said Mare-
 
owed their preferment
of this
en-
complaining
of Monsieur de
of her friends nor yet good ser-
vants of the Queen
judicious,
whose
hands
were
clean
and
post he was
of a
of
the
Parliament
of
Bordeaux.
that
candle
Louvre next
associates and
even-
ing
to
Jeannin,
pur-
men suffered for their
their
or
to
render
to
their
country
have received
leaving for
accompany
His
Majesty.
Fontainebleau,
the
em-
that it
take
from
you
your friends.
upon the
has
prayed
matter in
missed
the
consulted
Jeannin,
Queen, this
thousand
then
insisted
he sought imported
had herself
with the
the
name
in
admitted
by
the
Chamber
of
waited
order
to
reply
was
ratify
the
lease
as
commanded
the
Chamber
forthwith
to
notwithstanding. Leonora Galigai
afforded
by
this
story
need
be
first
and
especial
use
Medicis
thousand
crowns,
also, was
fully aware
Five Grand
diverse quarters.
said Marechale
receiving
corrupt practices
of every
sort. Naturally,
portions were surprising.
tion
possible
returns—
a
veritable
have received
the
and others
hundred
thousand
crowns.
indemnify
crowns
This
was
were
not
due
to
sums
their nature is not clear, and it does not seem
certain that they
were gifts. In
respect of Leonora's
pension of four
children,
in
staff
Abbe
de
Marmoutier
and
Archbishop
of
Tours.
But
her
methods
for
one
Antoine
Arnauld.
The
equerry
Desdiguiferes
two offices
of Comptroller
Salt and upon Grain.
Two hundred thousand livres
certain provinces, had
had profited
of the farm of
months
of the
 
had
she
bear
the said
Queen Mother,
woman
numerous
specified
at
the
pension
of
nine
thousand
crowns
promised
to
them
by
the
sovereign,
on
condition
that
where
it
might
be.
Her
denial
in
name
woman
whose
existence
was
passed
so
darkly
us with
her hands
left her.
suckle
air,
French doctors
cure
his
cast the
The wretched man
and her seven little
but
one,
extraordi-
was
taken from her, and she would rather have lost all her
goods
not
that she would
others.
pected to help. She invoked God
that
herself
for their
Conveying
relics
from
into Leonora's
between
two
lighted
;
Convent
of
and
Led by
'despite
Concini's
close
watch,
that his wife was subject to
 
des Spifames
the
high
essential
point.
Explain
pain,
that
and
in this place,
on
which
none, no matter
who it might
be. Charles Garcia,
he could
not recommend
his man in the person
of
future
this
was,
Avignon
to
the
'
in the
Montalto's
influence
abandon her
Montalto's
instiga-
tion.
The
public,
making
no
distinction
between
Jews
and
Sergeant of For
of
the
hotel
of the
why the Marechale
of
a
great
pin
a fragment
wax
public
opinion
she had
as
done,
and
even
withheld
fiUed
had taught
by
:
lacking in intellectual
to
magnificence
to
and
she
her
character
which
in
the style
produced a
art, at the
of
its
style
and
which
best
to
express
Of the
reared.
years later,
.hastily
an
almost
—
Rue Saint Honore,
knew her
asked
thirty
expenditure
upon
stones.
Marie
declined
to
hear
commanded
the account. It
the
first
pair
was
still
unpaid.
Jean
Subtil's
ingenuity
in
at
earrings.
Marie
acquisitions, wit-
ness another
consisting
of
two
a fine
rings are well
and the
other, bought
of Gilbert
livres,
enshrined
the
portraits
of
gift
thousand
crowns,
Melchior
livres,
but
another
—the
extra-
She
was
equally
well
furnished
on golden
chains pointed
livres.
Chesnon,
one
hundred
and
eighty
pestered to
sell
thousand
livres,
a
1614
Marie
a
1605,
was
to
her
crown
three
sold
her
 
agate vases
smith
was
Bearnese present of
finely
chiselled
statuette
stall every
favourite
workers,
enamels,
a
statuette
for
and
reliquaries,
he
hundred
silver
soldiers
this
nor
any
quantity
of
Marie,
for
over
list
of
her
purchases
and this
The
the prime
century,
and
par-
of the
Jean,
the
water,
Bievre. Later
of the
chateau of
built
by
converted it
into a
up
Gabrielle
d'Estrees.
death
bears
witness.
Gabrielle
once
dead,
in
edifice of
despite its dimensions, with the exception of a few royal
apartments, it
at least for
deep
moat
was
dug
Brosse,
the fifty or sixty
chapel
The
budget
been spent
out of his
was
replaced
ordinate
in
to
her
friends
to
she
and
even
her experiments
 
abdication
1615
that
Marie
arrive in a coach or on horseback, lunch, hunt, and
return
in
end
of
a year. The
here,
Conde,
opposite
the
Rue
Garancifere,
1610,
the
first
request
been
Ambassador
and
it
attendants
whenever
was necessary to
neighbourhood.
What
desire for
more room,
years of age,
foot of
Rue de
Tournon, and
the
remonstrance
continually
and
architect
follower,
and
a
Biterne,
Marie's invitation, examined
stone, Marie
a
like-
religious
piece
It is, however,
commissions
invariably
to
the
best
artists
Queen sought also for
greatest
day,
de
documents,
chanced
with
painter
to
the
Duchess
on
the
which four represented the
be
paid
to send
to our
Dauphin) is
hard
to
still
a new
them,
which they were
for the
Porbus
Queen-regent
of the children
splendidly
usually decorated
in the
same way,
them,
as
well
as
the necessary
in
her
other
and
gold
fringes
Francois
de
on
his
own
account,
the
been
for-
;
children,
she
wrote
to
or from
significant,
this
superintendent
smaller
were
ordered by Marie for presentation to convents. In
1611,
the
and seventy
figures, which they carved
Bernard
most
con-
stant
attracted the
 
offered
who was
article.
the
nephew
of
still
la Cite, on
declared her
ment
work
slowly, and she might never see the work completed if it
was entrusted
prepared for it
seated,
this
statue
should
John
of
Bologna
he
in the
of
Cosimo,
as
according
to
the
custom
of
up.
Then
John
of
Bologna
died
to
France
and
entrust
of him whom
the statue
inscription
and
Amiens
lacking
Franqueville
was
unable
to
execute
his
some
undertaken
by
another
artist.
his
and
There were
;
the
forty-three.
trusted
with
was
the
right
the
King,
a certain Fleming,
ness
 
distant
lands.
-Germain
posed
mandatory letters commanding
to hasten
was supplied to them
company
Thamary, at the same
The merchant,
of
Michael
Angelo
that he
various
acts
treasury
per-
sonally
responsible.
The
she
could
no right to
in-
:
of the
treasurers for amounts which
by
severity with
de
his
majesty
ember
days
and
fast
days
the
officials
Ages.
The
same
principles
were
year.
The
statement,
after
of each
copy (on parch-
This
he
excess of
and
to
request
and the procedure
definite
royal
ordinance
of
1585
value
made for all
both
for
ordinary
wear
hundred
queens the revenue of
:
hundred
and
crown
in living
continuing
alternately
to
rise
and
slightest change
and
indeed
for
example
a
of that which
my
affairs
ance
for
one
Florent d'Argouges,
It was apparently
itself.
Various
causes
part
of
the
by practising rigid
miserly.
make
love,
he was
a
he had to meet
and seven millions, ex-
I have
made more
of her
wife
And
that
of
greatest state,
France,
side  
On
the
contrary
Giovannini
chimed
in,
That
the
King
did not care
Indeed
appointed.
stiffness
eventually
with
him,
 
in
;
her with seven
he owed
princess
was
accustomed
honour,
money
be
raised
by
self-
attributing the
embarrassed finances
each
of
her
April
1597,
that
a
pected
sources
of
were
plentiful
course make
a commission.
pedients,
while
who
people.
in
league
of
policy,
of
any
unless
the
King
or
Sully
instructing
them
to
called
give
appeared to
a case that he
the
them.
labour
which
she
 
Then
she
tried
futile the
for raising
on these
was
the
creation
any
difficulty
in the number of
it
was
but
to
manage.
In
1604
the
councillors were
was intended to
Montceaux-en-Brie. Three years
to
M.
number
gave way to the
of
masters of
Chanceries, and
Princess were shattered in
of
he
his
give
competent
security.
In
this
way
Marie
de
and to
en-
rest
a
due
to
the
Queen.
Notaries,
process-servers
and
sergeants
pursued
pay-
were to pass into the hands
of
the
Queen.
The
district of
mainders.
In
1605
the
money
demesne lands
while
some
across
the
compelled to do so.
ports of Languedoc.
people,
miserable
the
Queen.
Fortunately
this vessel, on
de Buzanval,
turned out
plan,
advancing
greater success
her
the
longer
cared,
and
from
accomplished
bankers,
she
handed over
their crown
one these
been
officially
employed
to
place
the
crown
drawn
between
the
entered
on
money,
for herself, and not for the profit of the State.
On
who had organised a firm
of
money
lenders,
and
she
con-
fused
the
but had
stroke
pledges in
sanction
in
the
Queen's
livres,
Marie,
who
was
without
table
de
Monglat,
was de-
ordinary
interest
that
like an
annual penalty
the
Chamber
letter on the
mind
thousand four hundred and nineteen
livres
 
withdrawal
of three hundred
the loss,
fifty thousand
livres. It
pointed out that the
It therefore said
and
years the Treasurer
the
gave way
to
any
member
whatso-
the
same
households,
constant
of the
her
finances
were
without
from
en-
been the
;
giving
as
free
rein
to
command more
still
Account
of
1609
position in
France of
to
the
King,
IV. had
of
Henry
Auvergne
and Clermont, the barony of La Tour, the county of Forez,
the
Queen was
seignorial
of lands
of the Bourbonnais,
hundred hvres in all. Indeed, the apparent income was
in no sense realised
opinion of
these revenues
fifty thousand
livres. The
income from
of the
private capacity. For purchasing these lands, she relied
on the extraordinary sources
annual income
de
Matignon
was
It
 
domains,
ment.
She
maintained
for
payment
said Courson will propose
postponed
to
for its
would,
without
Easter and
the
Duke
of
ex-
change,
bearing
interest
the
merchants
of the
the
negotia-
the
yearly
close
Even
then
it
only
of the Queen-
two hundred
and eighty
tionate amounts
needed from the
general sum of the revenues of the kingdom. On the other
hand,
Saint-Jean-des-Deux-
Jumeaux
in
revenue,
but
this was all spent on the upkeep of the chateau of
Mont-
dues
in perpetuity an
thousand
ather disposal,
the Queen
revenue
had
been
increased
by
themselves an
excessive burden.
of
the
stable
Chataigneraie,
Lieutenant
de
Presle,
and
the
officers
de
at
doctor
Montalto
received
twelve thousand livres needed
renewal of
in 1612. No
smith-jewellers
Bachelier and
Mathieu Coulbes
have shown, such sums could
be diverted
purpose did the
of the due
it may
masterships
to exact
the
the
clergy
in
is not
was
the extent to
make the
present of
the
place.
It
was
in
vain
that
common
usage,
regulations
lets
his
indulged in these exactions,
prohibited
to
appropriate
a
the King
order
drawn
up
in
the
M.
de
Tresmes,
as to superior
opened
of
eighteen
sous
each,
of
M.
Phelippeaux
the
14,
the
Queen
accomplished
the
Account
Henry
IV.,
as
it
was
generally
out
how
these
details
enlighten
us
trace
which the
new King
expenditure
disregarded and the
by
the
million livres,
Princess,
who
Was she
the
receipt
of
some
the neighbourhood of
Ragusa, and ennobled
the Queen's
which
State, but
of her
own, and
at the rate
to his partner, Paul
trial of
September
16,
1617,
instructed
in great and
immediate need of
themselves
in
all
kinds,
which
would
wretched
Leonora
and
by accusing the
Marechale of the
hundred
thousand
livres
238,
240
18,
266,