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Courtiers and Favourites of Royalty ^^jC (Courtiers and vurites oj Courtiers and Favourites of T^oyaltv r [Memoirs of the Court of France IVif// Contemporary and [Modem Illustrations Colleded front the French U^ational archives BY ^^ Léon Vallée LIBRARIAN AT THE BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE History of Henry ÎV Paris Société des bibliophiles New York OAerriU &• ^aker EDITION T>U "PETIT TRIANON Limited to One Tnousana Sets No—S15 CopyriijKt. 1903. by Merrill (f BaVer / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS A Scène in Henri's Court. Frontispiece. PAGE Margaret de Valois 8 Admiral Coligny ......... 18 ' AsSASSINATION . OF THE DuKB OF GuiSE . .68 Henry IV 98 Henry IV and Gabrielle d'Estrées 130 Duke of Sully . 184 Journey of Marie de Médicis ...... 202 Marriage of Marie de Médicis 220 Henry IV and la Belle Fosseuse 302 HISTORY OF HENRY THE GREAT THB TRANSLATOR TO THE READER Behold here a History compiled by one of the most able, and (let me testify thus much) one of the most moderate and impartial pens of Europe. It was fitted for the hand of a king ; and is the life of one whom his own actions will déclare to hâve better deserved the name of Great than that proud Macedo- nian who wept that he had no more worlds to conquer. For though he gained not such signal victories, nor overran so many countries, yet he was possessed of more virtues than the other of cities ; and virtue is the fairest mother of true greatness. But, Reader, I forestall thy delight in its reading: go on, therefore, but with délibération. p. J. u. HENRY THE GREAT We shall not hère attempt to summarise the history of Henry IV. : it is too familiar. We will content ourselves with recalling merely a few traits which depict the sov- ereign and the âge he hved in. Son of Antony of Bourbon and Jeanne dAlbret, the future King Henry IV., often designated by the titles of King of Navarre or The Béarnais, makes no commonplace entry into life. He is born while his mother, to beguile the pains of childbirth, sings a Béarnaise song ; for his grandfather does not wish his daughter delivered of a child snivelling and glum. For his first cradle Henry has a turtle-shell ; then, as soon as he can walk, he runs barefooted and bareheaded and roughly dressed on the mountain beside the castle of Coarraze, where he is reared like the meanest of the peas- ant lads, whose rude and wholesome existence he shares. His time is passed between physical exercises and the lessons of the scholar La Gaucherie, or those of the brave Sire de La Cose, whose doctrines are summed up in thèse " " words, Conquer with justice or die with glory ! The child already makes Plutarch his habituai reading ; and later, when he shall be a man, he will retain such a par- tiality for that author that in 1601 he will write to the " queen : Hurrah ! you could not hâve let me know any- thing that would hâve charmed Tne more than the news of iv HENRY THE GREAT the pleasure in reading which has taken hold of you. Plu- tarch always greets me with a fresh novelty ; to love him " is to love me, for he was the tutor of my youth ! This robust éducation is quite in harmony with the events of an âge when the very existence of the French Fatherland is menaced. At every point the national sod is thronged by the armies of the foreigner, who suborns civil war, waiting for the moment when he may annex the provinces. At last the horrors of the religions wars are unleashed on ail sides, for France at this time is the pitched field where Catholics and Huguenots décide their fratricidal quarrels. Henry is fifteen when his father is slain at the siège of Rouen. Jeanne d'Albret, whose spirit is steeped in viril- ity, arms her son at once, plunges in her turn into the civil war, and escorts him to La Rochelle, where with his cousin, the young Condé, she présents him to the Calvin- " " istic assembly : My friends," she says to them, hère are two orphans I confîde to you, and two chiefs I give to " you ! The sword his mother thus puts in his hand, the Béarnais returns to the scabbard only after thirty-one years of confiict, pursued without respite. Monsieur (Henry HI.'s brother, Francis of Anjou) dy- ing June lo, 1584, Henry, by virtue of the Salie law and though related only in the twenty-second degree, becomes heir-apparent to the throne of France. Henry IH. sends the Duke of Epernon to him ; the latter urges him press- ingly to abjure Protestantism, and tells him it is the sole means he can hâve of getting himself accepted by the country as King of France. Henry IV. resists, and con- tents himself with responding to his solicitations by the fine déclaration of Bergerac. HENRY THE GREAT v While the civil war is raging, Henry III. is assassinated, Henry IV. is proclaimed King of France ; but he bas to conquer bis own kingdom ! And under what conditions } He is without money, for the treasury is empty ; be bas no regular army ; the country bas no furtber resources ; agriculture is ruined ; the Lorraine princes, who bave seized a part of the sovereignty, are seeking to usurp the crown ; the nobility is attempting to render itself indé- pendant by engrossing the prérogatives of power ; the royal authority is scouted and derided ; the majority of Frenchmen repel the idea of being ruled by a heretic king ; fînally Philip IL, who has inherited the terrible might of Charles V., occupies a part of the country with bis troops ! To overcome thèse obstacles, enougb to affright the most habituated soûls, do you know what are the resources at the King of Navarre's disposai } He has bis personal courage, an iron constitution, an invincible will, a tireless activity, a thoroughly GalUc light-heartedness, groups of faithful Huguenots, a small fraction of the nobility, the moderate Catholics who bave the good sensé to prefer anything to civil war, the population of a few towns of the second rank, and that of certain country districts. Thèse are bis entire reliances. So look at bim ! He bus- bands neither bis toils nor bis life. In the fîght, he is always wbere the danger is greatest ; bis daring recoils before nothing. What matters to bim the military judg- ment of the erudite tactician Farnese, who at the battle of Aumale, after the siège of Rouen, beholds bim risking bimself in the fray Uke the commonest private, and cries " scornfully, I expected to see a gênerai : tbis is only an " officer of light cavalry ! The Béarnais feels tbat even fi HENRY THE GREAT after his accession he is still a party chieftaîn, and has to to set an example to his followers squander his own person ; and he heads the van because he has not those seasoned old troops to whom a gênerai contents himself with trans- mitting his orders on the battlefield. More than once it even happens to him not to be able to profit by his vie- tories, because he has not sufficient forces, and because he lacks money. After many years of war, he is still so poor " that he writes to Sully : I want to tell you the state I am reduced to, which is such that I am very near the enemy and hâve hardly a horse I can fight on, nor a whole har- ness I can put on its back ; my shirts are ail in rags ; my jerkins are out at elbows ; my dinner-pot is often wrong end up, and for two days I hâve been taking dinner and supper with this one and that one, as my sutlers say they hâve no further means of furnishing anything for my table because it is more than six months since they hâve had any money." Amid the bloodiest combats, Henry never forgets that there are Frenchmen in the ranks of the enemy ; and when victory has declared for him, he cries out to his men to spare the lives of the former, but give no quarter to the foreigners. When he besieges Paris, he could carry it by famine ; but the courage of the Parisians touches him, and he allows the bread to reach the city by which the be- sieged prolong their résistance till they receive reinforce- ments. Yet at last he enters the capital ; but it is by means of an act of dexterous politics, after his recantation, and having won over by a bribe Brissac, who gives up to him one of the gâtes of the city. When the war comes to an end, — that with the for- eigner by the peace of Vervins, that with the French by the HENRY THE GREAT vu celebrated Edict of Nantes, — Henry IV. undertakes his country's salvation by procuring for her the benefits of a profound peace, which endures ten years. In that space of time, short as it is, he restores calm to men's minds by according equal rights to both religions. He reorganises the finances, whose direction he confides to the minister Sully, who follows up dodgers, introduces regularity into the accounts, and reduces the taxes. With Olivier de Serres he uplifts agriculture, drains the marshes of the Saintonge, and sets out great plantations of mulberry trees. He founds manufactures of silk, linen, carpets, glass ; he encourages industry and commerce ; he bas the canal of Briare excavated ; he cares for the marine, as well as the colonial enterprises of P.
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