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Memoires of the affairs of France during the reign of the present king Lewis the XIV. Containing the most noted exploits of the now Prince of Condé, the late Mareschal de Turenne, and all the chief commanders in the French armies. Done out of French. Licensed May the 10th, 1675. Roger L'Estrange.
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this for the future to contain the Nobless and Citizens in their duty His Majesty being at Aix with much joy and tenderness received the Prince of Condé at his return from the Low-Countries Their Majesties continuing their Progress through Languedoc were received most magnificently at Thoulouse and then at Bourdeaux passing from thence to Bayonne and so to St. John Luz they arrived in the Isle of Pheasants where was appointed the Interview of the two Kings and the glorious reception of Maria-Theresa d'Austria Inheretrix presumptive to the Estates of his Catholick Majesty The Pomp and Consummation of these so great and splendid Nuptials was very advantageous to the two Crowns The Ceremonies performed their Majesties take the Road of Paris and arrive happily at the Bois de Vincennes where for some daies they rest till the Queens most magnifique entry at Paris the 26th of August And now happens that horrid Earthquake at the Pyrenean-Hills which swallowing the hot Bathes there and several other places caused extraordinary terrour to the Inhabitants of all that Voisinage The decease of the Duke of Orleans at Blois the 2d of February did much abate our publick Joy and Triumphs their Majesties and all the Court being sensible of so great a loss Anno 1661. To put the Treaty of Peace in Execution and to determine the limits of our King's Conquests the Sieurs Courtin Master of Requests Talon Intendant of Artois and Parmentier Substitute to the Attorney-General were commissioned to treat with the Commissioners of Spain Vilteingh Colins and Anglanzey They had laboured much in these particulars a long while first at St. Omers then at Arras and lastly they concluded happily at Metz where they limited the Extents of Flanders Artois Hainault and Luxembourg and having worthily acquitted themselves in their Employ parted the 25th of November 1662. The Cardinal Mazarin did not long enjoy that Peace which he had procured to all France having been almost ever since indisposed The Fire which in the beginning of February happened at the Louvre and consumed the Gallery of Pictures that look'd into the Garden obliged his Eminence to forsake his Bed and retire to his own Palace where his disease continuing he was advised to change the Air which he did to Vincennes but all this was not of force to prevent his death on the 9 of March following to the great regret of the King and all his Creatures But the following Marriages of the Duke of Orleans with the Princess of England and the Prince of Florence with Mademoiselle d'Orleans caused the loss of this great Minister to be almost forgotten The Sieur Fouquet too intent on the encrease of his own Fortune was arrested at Nants the 5th of September and conveyed to Vincennes and from thence to the Bastille He was the first cause of the erection of the Chamber of Justice which has been so advantageous to those people that deal in these affairs by the detection of the wasting of the King's Revenues which they have applied to their own private uses and to the great Purchases which they have made in the Kingdom The extraordinary profusion in the Conduct of this Minister obliged the King to take some pains in the reformation of his own Estate We may say that hereupon he effected two wonderous things and by which he surprized the Polititians The admirable order and Oeconomy which he establish'd in his own house and the Military Discipline in his Armies in all which particulars he raised the Grandeur and Dignity of the Offices and yet made as well the high as low Officers themselves exactly subject to his own Authority and Power who all remain at present in their perfect duty and dependance The other thing is his having made himself so absolute a Master of all the Citadels and Fortresses of his Dominions so that the Princes and Officers of the Crown the Governours of Provinces and of particular places who heretofore made themselves of too great value and consideration are now in a perfect obedience He suppressed the Office of Super-Intendant of the Finances and certain * Officiers de l'Espargue Officers in his Exchequer and establish'd a Council and Treasury Royal where nothing can be proposed nor one single Sol paid out of his Coffers unless it hath been there first resolved and ordered But that which is most admirable is that his Majesty does himself consider and weigh all things as well of great as small concern whether far off or near necessary or superfluous His Manufactures and Buildings at the Louvre Tuilleries and other Houses Royal have found a place in that vast Spirit amidst the Citadels and other important places of his Kingdom War and affairs of State have not absolutely banish'd from his minde Pleasure and Magnificence But having first heard the serious discourses of the Mareschal de Turenne and the Sieur Colbert he is pleased to confer with our Illustrious Artisans le Brun le Nore and all those excellent Spirits who have the very genius and perfection of their several Arts. It seems about this time Spain was minded to try whether his most Christian Majesty's new form of Government would be maintained with force and vigour To this purpose the Baron de Batteville past an affront on the Comte d'Estrade at the entry of the Swede's Embassador Extraordinary at London And the Spaniards being the stronger killed some French on the 10th of October After this perswading the King of England that their Master had always acknowledged him and assisted against Cromwel they endeavoured to draw him into the quarrel of his Catholick Majesty Hereupon our King complains at Madrid and Bruxelles and calls home his Commissioners who were labouring with those of Spain about settling the Limits of Flanders In fine France came off with honour in this action and the Marquiss de Fuentes Embassador extraordinary from Spain made our King reparation and assured him that his Master had given order to all his Embassadors and Ministers to abstain and strive no more with those of France in all such Ceremonies and publick actions where they both happen to assist This was performed in the presence of eight Embassadors and 22 Residents The Nativities of the Dauphin of France and Prince of Spain the first and ninth of November was a new Blessing to both Nations Oh what disputes shall these Illustrious Competitors hereafter manage to maintain the Grandeur and Glory of their Predecessors The King resolving a new promotion of Knights of both his Orders a general Chapter was held at Fontainbleau about the end of December Here to the admiration of all men the Duke of Longueville demanded precedency of him of Vendôme scïlt the next place after the first Princes of the Blood but in regard of those Declarations which Henry the great granted for the Duke of Vendôme the 15th of April 1610 Registred in the Parliament of Paris the 30th of the same the Duke of Longueville's pretensions were utterly defeated The
Mareschals de Turenne and la Ferté to whose care his Majesty had left his Army to continue the glorious progress of their successful undertakings Having then first taken Moncassel they invest Gravelines under the conduct of Monsieur the Mareschal de Bellefons which place after a stout defence by the Besieged who fought in despair was reduced to a Capitulation as when taken from us at such time as the Spaniards made use of our Civil Wars The Chevalier de Hautefeville Captain of the Regiment of Guards entred the 31 day of the siege with three Companies of the said Regiment and the Sieur Davignan was the next day left Governour till further order The Spaniards foreseeing they were about to lose all that they had in these parts did their utmost endeavours to secure what they could possibly but the discreet vigilancy of Monsieur the Mareschal de Turenne did always frustrate their designes They were not able to succour Oudenarde which surrendered immediately to the French valour they were glad to take covert in Armentiers and Tournay for fear of being engaged to Battle where without doubt they would have been beaten since in all our Encounters Fortune had seemed to forsake them and to confer her Victories on us The King designing to visit Lyons arrives at Dijon where receiving some discontents from his Parliament he interdicts them immediately and pursues his Journey to Lyons at which place he was received with incredible joy from all people And here it was that he received the complements of Madame Royale who came to visit him with the Princesses her Daughters Also his Royal Highness of Savoy presented himself with a very considerable Retinue extraordinary well furnish'd Two days after his said Highness parted again for Turin but with a most entire satisfaction at the sight of our excellent Prince The Deputies of the Estates of Languedoc and those of Provence had Audience but the Embassador of Savoy had a particular one as also the Envoy of the Duke of Mantua Since in the beginning of the year all things did seem to concur to render the Lawrels of our young Mars more resplendant all people began now to talk of Peace To that purpose a Cessation from acts of Hostility was publish'd on both sides to the end they might have the more liberty to treat of the future tranquillity and this daughter of Heaven which God alone gives to his people after he has Chastized 'em was equally desired by both parties Monsieur de Lyonne then is sent into Spain and the Sieur Pimentel arrived at Lyons during the King's abode there this appeared a good and hopeful beginning since both Nations began of themselves to re-assume their former Traffique so long discontinued Anno 1659. Hereupon the Cardinal Mazarin accompanied by the Duke of Crequy the Mareschals de Villeroy de Clerembaud the Grand Master of the Artillery the Sieur de Lyonne and a great number of other Lords takes the way of the Frontier where Dom Lewis d'Haro chief Minister of Spain would meet him of France to confer together for the perfecting so great a Work The Truce was already prolong'd to further order but before they begin the Conference it was agreed that Monsieur de Lyonne should have Commission to meet and complement the Minister of Spain and Dom Antonio Pimentel to perform the like civilities to him of France Monsieur de Lyonne had order to propose to the Spaniards a Marriage between their Infanta and the King of France and in regard their chief fear was that in default of Male-Children to succeed to that Crown that Kingdom might fall to the King of France their Queens being now with Childe caused that apprehension to vanish and rendered them the more attentive to this Alliance Notwithstanding proceedings were for a time broken by reason of a difficulty presented on the behalf of the Prince of Condé whom the King of Spain would have comprised in the Treaty Cardinal Mazarin therefore writ to the Pope to perswade that King to wave the Prince's Interest and not for that to defer so precious a benefit to both Nations The Spaniards during this year were in as bad a condition with the Portugals and that made them the more easily incline to wave this Article The Alliance which about this time France had contracted with England and the interview of Madam Royale and his most Christian Majesty had given them sufficient cause of jealousie They went therefore seriously to work to effect the Treaty and during the Winter the King being returned to Paris Pimentel follows him thither and renews the Propositions of Peace and Marriage to which Cardinal Mazarin and D. Lewis d'Haro conferred the finishing hand These two great Ministers being arrived in the Isle of Phesants upon the River Bidassoa with a most magnificent Train after many notable Interviews and Conferences from the one part and the other at last signe the Treaty of Peace and Contract of Marriage between the Infanta of Spain and the King of France Notwithstanding the Publication was not made immediately that being reserved to render the ensuing year more August and Famous the present concluding with all dispositions requisite to our future hopes of an eternal happiness and a lasting Tranquillity to both Kingdoms which not a year ago none dared to promise or expect The Peace then being proclaimed his Holiness and all the Potentates and Soveraigns of Europe express'd their publick joys and satisfaction in those many feux de joye which they commanded their people to make through all their Dominions Anno 1660. The Peace was Register'd in Parliament the 12th of February the Chancelier being present and with universal applause and acclamations In England General Monke was so happy this year as to contribute very much to the Restauration of his Majesty Charles the second the lawful and undoubted Heir and Successor to that Crown To put a compleat end to a War which had lasted 25 Campagnes the King resolves on a Progress thereby also to compose for ever the Factions in Provence and reduce to reason certain Pirates of Marseilles who becoming petty-Tyrants did much oppress that important City The Duke of Mercoeur entred the place Sword in Hand at the head of the King's Light-horse The prudence and moderation of this Prince secured the Town from Pillage and he observed so much order and circumspection in this affair that he soon reduced the place to great obedience After this the King himself was received there with Volleys of Cannon and the joyful cries of Vive le Roy. During this Journey he caused to be demolished the Citadel of Orenge which heretofore had been the cause of much mischief to the Catholicks of the three neighbouring Provinces and was still suspected and withal charged the Prince of Orenge that hereafter he keep a more strong and able Garrison To secure the Marsellois from all fears of their past miseries the King caused to be traced out the Platform of a Citadel and