. An address to the good sense and candour of the people, in behalf of the dealers in corn: with some few observations on a late trial for regrating. one of France as the wife of the great King,and was, at her death, the mother of the then King—a cold-blooded, heartless creature who allowed her toperish thus in want and obscurity! Authorities :—LEstoile, Journal. Fontenay-Mareuil, M^ Morgues, Les deux faces de la vie et de la mori de Marie deMtdicis. Due de St. Simon, ParallHe des trois premiers Bourbons—a mine of historical wealth, though written by the aristocraticand scathing autho


. An address to the good sense and candour of the people, in behalf of the dealers in corn: with some few observations on a late trial for regrating. one of France as the wife of the great King,and was, at her death, the mother of the then King—a cold-blooded, heartless creature who allowed her toperish thus in want and obscurity! Authorities :—LEstoile, Journal. Fontenay-Mareuil, M^ Morgues, Les deux faces de la vie et de la mori de Marie deMtdicis. Due de St. Simon, ParallHe des trois premiers Bourbons—a mine of historical wealth, though written by the aristocraticand scathing author more than a hundred years after the first Bourboncame to the throne. Sully, (Economies Royales. Halphen,Letlres intfdites du rot Henri IV. Buonarroti, Descrizione dellefelicissime nozze di Madama Maria M<.dici. Richelieu, ;fmoires du Due de Bellegarde. La Serre. Loiseleur, LKvasiondune reine, 1873. Batifol, L.,La Vie intime dune Reine de , N. D. Recueil de Lettres de S. A, R. Catherine de Bourbon, soeurde Henri IV., Bibliothcque Natiouale (Unpublished). B. Zeller,Henri IV. ct Marie de M^dicis, etc., etc. 108. CHAPTER III SULLY AND THE DEATH OF GABRIELLE DESTREES TIIAXIMILIEN DE BETHUNE, Baron de Rosny,Due de Sully, Marshal of France and thefavourite Minister of Henri IV., was born on December13th, 1560, at Rosny. He was descended from anancient and honourable family which, by its connections,was second to none below royalty in France and, by itsantiquity, was the equal of the royal houses of Valoisand Bourbon. The name was distinguished as earlyas the Crusades, in which several of the de Bethunestook part, and, as time went on, alliances were formedwith the princes of France, the Emperors of Constanti-nople> the Counts of Flanders, the Dukes of Lorraine,the Kings of England, Scotland, Castille and Jerusalem,the house of Austria and the family of Courtenai—whichhad once possessed the throne of Byzantium—and thoseof de Montmoren


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