Louis the Fourteenth, and the court of France in the seventeenth century . ave had no difficulty in finding some one who wouldhave lent it. * Notwithstanding, however, the assertion of Mademoi-selles informants, the news of the Kings flight had nosooner been circulated in Paris than it produced a ter-rible effect; and from six oclock in the morning thestreets were loud with shouts and tumult. Immediatelyall the individuals who were in any way attached tothe Court attempted to escape and rejoin the royalparty; while at the same moment the people wereclosing the city gates, and stretching chains
Louis the Fourteenth, and the court of France in the seventeenth century . ave had no difficulty in finding some one who wouldhave lent it. * Notwithstanding, however, the assertion of Mademoi-selles informants, the news of the Kings flight had nosooner been circulated in Paris than it produced a ter-rible effect; and from six oclock in the morning thestreets were loud with shouts and tumult. Immediatelyall the individuals who were in any way attached tothe Court attempted to escape and rejoin the royalparty; while at the same moment the people wereclosing the city gates, and stretching chains in everydirection, to intercept their flight. The Chancellormade good his retreat, disguised as a monk of ; Madame de Brienne as a Gray sister; Bri-enne and his brother as students, with their books un-der their arms; while their father, who attempted toforce a passage with his relative, the Abbe de lEscala-dieu, was compelled to fire his pistol in order to effecthis purpose; and the abbe was wounded with a hal-bert. * Mcmoires de Mademoiselle de CHAPTER II Tranquillity of the Coadjutor—Idle Rumours—Mob-Enthusiasm—Declaration of Louis XIV. to the Corporate Bodies—Inter-dict upon the Parliament—Attempt to Create a Famine inParis—Parliamentary Decree Against Mazarin—Contempt ofthe Court—Madame de Longueville at the Town-Hall—Disaf-fection of the Princes—Intrigues of Madame de Longueville—Perplexity of the Coadjutor—Arrival of the Prince de Contiand the Duke of Longueville at Paris—The Prince de Contiand the Parliament—M. dElbceuf and His Three Sons—ThePrinces Offer Their Services to the Parliament—Madame deLongueville and the Populace—Siege of the Bastille—A Dan-gerous Witticism—The Citizen-Court—Measures of the Princede Conde—Alarm at St. Germain—Intended Flight of Mazarin—Indignation of Conde*—The Hunchback—Fronde-Pasquin-ades—Royal Retorts—Political Scandal—The Duke of Beau-fort in the Capital—T
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