The intriguing duchess, Marie de Rohan, duchesse de Chevreuse . adlock. Annegritted her teeth and determined to starve her rebelliouspeople into submission. Most of the food supply of thecity was brought in from the suburbs and it was acomparatively easy matter to cut off supplies by guardingthe roads. Before long, the citizens felt the pinch ofhunger but de Retz kept their anger at boiling might die but they would never surrender. Heraised an army of twelve thousand men called theCorinthians, and prepared to keep the roads open. Matters were at tliis stage when Conde returnedvictor
The intriguing duchess, Marie de Rohan, duchesse de Chevreuse . adlock. Annegritted her teeth and determined to starve her rebelliouspeople into submission. Most of the food supply of thecity was brought in from the suburbs and it was acomparatively easy matter to cut off supplies by guardingthe roads. Before long, the citizens felt the pinch ofhunger but de Retz kept their anger at boiling might die but they would never surrender. Heraised an army of twelve thousand men called theCorinthians, and prepared to keep the roads open. Matters were at tliis stage when Conde returnedvictorious from the wars and took a hand. De Retz hadbeen angling for liis support but the favour shown byMazarin to the General and his family now bore rejected all the overtures of the popular party. My name is Louis de Bourbon, he said magnilo-quently, and I can do nothing to shake the went to St. Germains, assured Anne of his unshakableloyalty, and took command of the situation. With histroops he drew a cordon tight about Paris and system-. Cardinal Mazarin [Face page zi THE INTRIGUING DUCHESS 289 atically laid waste the market gardens that surroundedthe walls. The citizens watched the work of destructionand felt their admiration for the hero of Rocroi andLens oozing away. Mazarin rubbed his hands with glee at the acquisitionof Conde and thought that it was all over but the shout-ing. Then matters took a curious turn. When thepeople cried Down with Mazarin, they woke aresponsive chord in many an aristocratic heart. Nobleswho had been disappointed in their hopes of prefermentthought the canaille showed excellent judgment inyelling for the Ministers blood. The appearance ofConde further complicated matters. The young Dukewas supreme at St. Germains and in his ineffable conceittrod heavily on the sensitive toes of less favoured old rivalry between the two factions was still activeand enemies of the House of Conde turned naturallyto the side of the Fr
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