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The Memoirs of the Duke of Sully, Prime-Minister to Henry the Great
The Memoirs of the Duke of Sully PrimeMinister to Henry the Great Author:Charlotte Lennox, Maximilien de Béthune Sully General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1856 Original Publisher: H.G. Bohn Subjects: France History / Europe / France Travel / Europe / France Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of t... more »his book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 1604.) say, that for a man who had some cause to wish to humble a rival, or at least to rejoice in his humiliation, I sympathised truly with Mm in his affliction. "While he read the papers, his majesty often looked at me, and pressed my hand several times. He did not give him time to read them out, but interrupting him at the name of L'Hote, "And where is this L'Hote, your clerk ?" said his majesty, with some emotion, " have you not caused him to be seized ?" " I believe, Sire," replied Villeroy, in great consternation, " that he is at my house, but he is not yet arrested." "How!" returned Henry, in a rage, " you believe he is in your house, and yet you have not ordered him to be seized! Pardieu! this is- great negligence indeed; how could you trifle thus when you knew his treachery ? This business must be attended to immediately ; go back with all possible haste, and seize hi™ yourself." Villeroy departed in the utmost grief and confusion, and I did not delay a moment my return to Paris, where I received the next day a letter from his majesty, who charged Descartes to tell me from him all that had passed. Since I find myself engaged to relate this affair, that I may avoid the reproach of having supported such accounts of it as have been given by the enemies of Villeroy, in what remains to be said, I shall follow the detail he himself gives of it, in the apology for hia conduct, which he thought it necessary to make public. After having recounted, in a manner advantageous for himself, all that had pass...« less