. 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. throw a falselight on all the circumstances connected with the lastmoments of Gabrielle. But if he had any purpose at all,it was to throw suspicion on the memory of Zamet(who died nineteen years after her and twenty beforethe Memoirs were published) ; the man who hadbeen much liked by Henri and was, consequently, asmuch an object of hatred to Sully as was the chief ofall favourites—the mistress and prospective futureQueen. But Sully never brooked
. 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. throw a falselight on all the circumstances connected with the lastmoments of Gabrielle. But if he had any purpose at all,it was to throw suspicion on the memory of Zamet(who died nineteen years after her and twenty beforethe Memoirs were published) ; the man who hadbeen much liked by Henri and was, consequently, asmuch an object of hatred to Sully as was the chief ofall favourites—the mistress and prospective futureQueen. But Sully never brooked or spared a rival inthe good graces of his master, and the thirty-nine yearswhich had elapsed since the woman went to her graveand the twenty which had passed since the man hadgone to his were powerless to heal his rancour. The letter is to be read by all who care to perusethe (Economies Royales, and it is, therefore, unneces-sary to do more than give a brief synopsis of it. Itpurports to be written by one La Varenne, who was aState official (not to be confused with Isaac de Varennes, a spy, who will be mentioned later), and was also a 132. dEstrkes ( de Heaufort). Sully and the Death of Gabrielle dEstrees confidential courier of Henri. It commences by nar-rating how he accompanied Gabrielle from Fontaine-bleau to Zamets house, where she was lodged. It nextadds that she w^as treated by the wealthy financier toa meal consisting of viands of the most recherche anddelicate nature, which he knew to be particularly to hertaste. Here begins the attack on the memory of theItalian which refutes itself. In the first place, Gabriellewas not lodged at Zamets house, but in the Deanery ofSt. Germain-lAuxerrois, and, in the second, as shehad come to Paris ostensibly pour faire ses Pdques itis most unlikeh- that, in the presence of her owtiattendants—officers of the garde de corps, and otherswhom Henri had sent in her train—to say nothing ofZamets household, she wou
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