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A80380	Intrigues of love: or, The amours and gallantries of the French court, during the reign of that amorous and warlike prince Henry IV. (Surnamed the Great.) Being a true and pleasant history. Newly made English from the French, By Sir Edwine Sadleyr Baronet; Histoire des amours du grand Alcandre. English	Conti, Louise-Marguerite de Lorraine, princesse de, 1574-1631.; Sadleir, Edwin, Sir, d. 1719.	1689 (1689)	Wing C5955C; ESTC R226033	33,622	115

Angoulesme Natural Son to Charles the Ninth King of France d'Antragues the afterwards Marchioness of Verneail both very Young and Handsome and of a good House and if not equalling the other in Beauty yet exceeding her in Gayety and so well supplying her absence that she at the least strook out all his Melancholly Reflections upon her death The Ministers of State now seeing the Ambitious Marchioness thus stopp'd and controwl'd by Fate in her pursuit after Majesty and the iminent danger that in this respect they was deliver'd from by her death was resolv'd to prevent the same danger from this new Beauty whose height of Spirit they knew not to be inferiour to the others and therefore expeditiously push'd on the King to Marriage and he that was at Rome to mediate for it with the Marchioness of Beaufort now mediates for it with the Princess of * The Princess of Florence was Marie d'Medicis Daughter to Francis d'Medicis great Duke of Tuscany and Jane Arch Dutchess of Austria by her Birth Queen of Hungary and Bohemia Florence To whom the Pope not only gave all his necessary consent but likewise the Queen Margaret all that Was desired from her insomuch that the business was soon concluded that so it anticipated both the Imagination of the King and knowledg of the Marchioness who was now big and conveigh'd in order to her lying down to one of the Houses of the King towards which he conducted her with very good hopes but geting some hurt by the way she prov'd Abortive and was very ill though through the assistance of the King and the concurrance of all imaginable Remedies she came again to her health It was at this time that she heard that the Match was agreed upon betwixt the King and the Princess of Florence upon which she so impetuously taunted at the Amorous Prince that he had much adoe to reduce her to a good humour And Bellgard whom she suspected to be the cause of all this for her not having given him that reception which he had formerly had with the Marchioness of Beaufort and would have had with her she is resolv'd to be reveng'd upon by the Prince of Joinville the afterwards Duke of Chevreus a Prince Handsome and Young and of a good Grace and one of her Admirers whom she causeth to attempt his Life one night at his entrance into the House of one Sebastien Zamet with whom the King then Supp'd there encountering him with his Sword. Bellgard was wounded and his Servants seeing it pursu'd the Prince of Joinville whom they had certainly kill'd had it not been for the interposing of Rambouillett a young Chevalier of a good House who was so much wounded in the Encounter that it was believ'd he would have dy'd So o'erflow'd the King with Choler at this Action that he would not only have punish'd the Prince but have permitted the other to dye on his Wounds Notwithstanding he was so well lookt to by stealth that he escap'd and the Dutchess of Guise Mother to the Prince and his Sister obteyn'd his reconciliation with the King tho both much offended at this action suspected that the Prince had no other cause to treat Belgard in this fashion but only for his love to the Marchioness of Vernucil thus all was soon appeas'd and a motion of War made upon the Duke of Savoy on the account of the Marquisate of Salusses which he had treacherously seiz'd upon and taken during the diversion of the last King at Blois For the King who by dint of Battle had recover'd all the rest of his Kingdom and instated himself in the hereditary seat of his Royal Ancestors could not bear that the Duke of Savoy in competition with him so petty a Prince should pretend to exclude him from a Country that was his own due and proper inheritance which he had often demanded and which the Duke of Savoy stood possess'd of by no other means but that of a most unneighbourly and unjust surprise and fraudulent usurpation And the Duke of Savoy was now come in order to some accommodation betwixt the King and himself thinking possibly to render his designs more effectual by being present in his own person But indeed his chief dependence was upon the intelligence he had with the deceased Dutchess in whose life-time he had assur'd the King of his intention to wait upon him and had so much ingag'd himself by both what he writ and what he said that there was now no room for a retreat At his coming there was nothing but feasting and gallantry in the Court and such as was argumentative of a general satisfaction he makes Presents to all the handsome and principal Ladies of the Court and it may be a little more than was for the benefit of some of them and now the Ladies as upon such occasions contesting for Precedency and the King not determining the point there occur'd a most pleasant Diversion both to the King and the Marchioness The Duke of Savoy return'd without doing any thing and the King resolved to make War upon him which as he goes to receive his Queen the Princess of Florence Maria d'Medicis that Country lying in his way he performed Which and which was soon being subdu'd the Pope intermediates for an Accommodation and the King receives his Queen whom he had before Espous'd by his deputed Proxy his Uncle having before sent to him his Procuration by Bellgard which much augmented the hatred of the Marchioness And thus his Majesty obtain'd his desire In the mean time the Marri'd Queen was come as far as Marseille to meet the King thither conducted by his Aunt the Dutchess of the House of the Vrsins and the Dutchess of Mantoue her Sister and Eleonor d'Medicis her Cousin German a Person much esteem'd in the Court of France and who had been much enamour'd of this Princess before she was Queen and there ●●ceiv'd by two Cardinals the Constable Chancellour and the Duke of Guise that was Governour of the Province By the Princesses Dowagers of Nemours and Guise and many other Ladies the Marchioness of Guercheville amongst the rest whom the King had lov'd and finding perhaps more Vertuous than he desir'd had promis'd to make Maid of Honour to his Queen keeping his Word with her after the end of ten Years it being so long since he first lov'd her The Queen was brought on with all sorts of Magnificence to the Town of Lyons where she was expected by the King and the Nuptial Ceremonies perform'd The two Daughters of the Constable the Dutchess of Vantadour and the Countess of Auvergne the afterwards Dutchess of Angoulesme being here both very Handsom●●nd the first belov'd of Eleonor d'Medicis who as before said was under the Repute of such a Gallant Man but his Love as volatile as he stay'd no longer with him than he at the Court. Though it is otherways with the Duke of Guise and Espernon betwixt whom the quarrel was so great

Madamoiselle d'Guise his Sister the Duke taking notice of his frequent Visits at his Lodgings resents it and began to examine the cause in so much that Madamoiselle d'-Guise who feared her Brother might make some Rumour of it abroad gives Advertisement of it to Bellgard who a little pausing upon it with himself had recourse to the Duke of Nevers for Advice The Duke informs him of the most proper Expedient that in his present Circumstances he could use which was That some distant Service might be allotted in order to his remove from the King to the Duke of Guise which he advises may be the Government of Province and engageth himself to employ his Interest towards the accomplishment of it if it should not be opposed by the Marchioness of Beaufort Bellgard therefore assured of his Friend speaketh of it to her taking occasion from the Affection she bore to this Prince to tell her it was now so publickly known that it was even come to the King's Ear to which it gave such offence that in her own Justification she ought at least to sollicite his remove to some distant Service which his Courage rendred him so capable of for the King and propos'd the Government of Province In short he manag'd his Business with so good a Conduct that the Duke of Guise was soon dispatch'd for Province But for what happen'd there I must refer you to the Historians The King's Sister infested with this Accident recurrs to another Object the Duke of Espernon a Man brave though in his Age and had acquir'd the Favour of the last King being by him preferr'd to great Honours and Dignities This lasted till her Marriage with the Duke of Barr to whom she was soon after actually married and conducted into his own Country The Marchioness of Beaufort remaining for this time the sole Mistress of the Court. Now the Duke of Bellgard fearing least his love to the Dutchess of Guise should occasion him to lose his first Mistress resolves to introduce a good Correspondency betwixt them and seeing he could do what he pleas'd with the Marchioness he perswades her since she was likely to be Queen it might advance him to a Station in which he might be more Serviceable to her if he could espouse Madamoiselle d'Guise However if she could not approve of the Marriage it self yet the pretext of it would be a plausible means to remove the King's Suspicion which he had already entertain'd and into which it was more than probable he might again relaspe and farther told her that the Suspicion of the King was a great stop to his Preferment and that whatsoever in appearance he might do yet she knew that his Heart was still with her In brief he knew so well how to Cajole her that she resolv'd to give Countenance to Madamoiselle d'Guise who Was glad to obtain a good Understanding with a Person of her Quality and so Engagingly deported her self that she indear'd the Marchioness to so extraordinary a Kindness for her that they not only dress'd every day alike but was as it were knit like Joynt-Twins inseperably together This blinded for a while the King and diverted the Suspicion that he began to have But one of his Vale d'Chambers having seen a Letter which Bellgard writ to the Marchioness which he had found one morning when she was ill upon her Twy-light where Arphure had left it not believing that any one should have to do so early in the Room he commanded him to have an Eye upon them Which doing and believing like a good Servant that his Master was espous'd to this Lady and imagining that he saw Bellgard one night entring in with her he gives advice immediately of it to the King who presently sends Praslin the afterwards Marshall of France one of the Captains of his Guard to Sacrifice him in the Chamber Praslin was much surpriz'd at this Command and the Love he had for them both made it very ungrateful but however he must go He takes with him such a number of the Guards as he thought fit that was walking in the Hall takes so far a way about and makes so much noise that he found no body at his entrance into the Room but Madam Beaufort alone to whom he delivers his Message Who seeing him so unwilling to surprize them promises never to forget so great a Kindness and the Dutchess of Guise that was also privy to this action conceiv'd so good an Opinion of him for it that she assisted him in his progress to those signal Preferments which he afterwards enjoy'd till his Death Madam d'Beaufort in the interim complains mightily of the Jealousies of the King at which the King seeming to be sensible of and relent her wrong promiseth her that it should be never the worse with her for it But ceases not a little to Reproach her with Bellgard's Letter which she swore she had not read and justifi'd her self which was not very difficult to do very well to the King. Though Bellgard himself found so ill a Treatment upon it that he was forc'd to absent himself from the Court and with no less a Condition than that he should never presume to return again till he was Marry'd and brought his Wife with him to the Court. The Duke of Nevers his supporting Friend was dead and Madam d Beaufort found it too ill taken when she spoke for him that his shortest and best course was to Obey what was Commanded though it was with the greatest Regret During this Voyage a * The Wife to the Constable of Montmorancy was Louise of Budos Vicount of Portes and of Catherine d'Clermont Wife of the Constable of Montmorancy's whom he had lately Marry'd came to the Court a Lady who by the Excellency or perhaps rather novelty of her Beauty attracted the Eyes and Hearts of the Men and by so doing the Envy of the Ladies though perhaps through the natural height of her Temper as well as of the exalted pre-eminency of her Place regardless of both she as much undervalu'd the hatred of the Ladies as the addresses of the Men. The King also himself was a little touch'd for which I suppose the Marchioness will not pardon him However it hinders him not from taking all the occasions of manifesting his Affection to this new Beauty Sacred and Inviolable is the Prerogative of Kings and Unlimited especially in that of Loving whom they please and the Marchioness must not oppose it Though Madam de Montmorancy suffers it more to excite Envy from the Ladies than for any Pleasure that she could take in it being not only lov'd but ador'd by the Marquess of Biron a Son of Mars who had acquir'd the greatest Reputation for Arms of any one of his time But oh Unhappy Fortune the admired Beauty doth no sooner as it were show her self to the World but she goes out of it again in one of her Child-beds yet leaving two such fair Copies of her Excellencies behind

her a * The Son brought into the World by her before her death was Henry Duke of Montmorancy the second of that Name Peer and Marshall of France and afterwards Beheaded at Thoulouse in October 1632. and her Daughter Charlotte Marguerete Montmorancy Wife to Henry of Bourbon first Prince of the Blood deceased 1646. who had Issue the Princes of Conde and Conty and the Dutchess of Longueville Son and a Daughter made the World some competent Amends for the loss of so incomparable a Person But these I shall speak more of elsewhere being desirous now to finish the History of the Marchioness of Beaufort Who during this interval had a * Madam d'Beaufort her Daughter was Catherine Henriette Legitimate of France Married 1619. to Charles of Lorrain Duke of Elbeuf of whom she had diverse Issue and the Son she had soon after upon the disanulling of her Marriage was Alexander Vendosme Grand Prior of France who afterwards dy'd Prisoner in the Castle of Vincennes Daughter and not long after a Son but the last of these after the nullifying of her Marriage Which so much elevated the Marchioness that she left no stone unturn'd to bring to pass her Marriage with the King. Who now more Amourous than ever upon the Birth of these two Sons gratifi'd her in all that she could desire removing one of the Greatest of his Council who endeavoured to thwart this design Knowing that he could obtain the Consent of his Queen and that there wanted nothing more but the Concurrence of the Pope to ratifie the dissolution of his former Marriage which was the only Obstacle of this To which purpose Hilery is dispatch'd to Rome the ablest Man of his Council and desiring nothing more than to Oblige both the King and his Mistress A little before this the King had made her Dutchess in which Dignity and Place she so well behav'd her self that though she could not be by all belov'd yet she was hated by none and growing Big again demean'd her self with so much Gravity Circumspection and so absolute a Chastity that she consorted only with the Vestals and in both Dress and Actions demonstrated so perfect a Modesty that the King remembred with regret that ever he had suspected her and was melted down into the most invincible resolution to make her his Wife At this time Bussy Lamet an old Courtier of no small Account and Esteem with the King both to Oblige the Marchioness and to Incite the King by his Example Marries a Mistress of his by whom he had had several Children which was of no small moment to the Marchioness for we are all not ill pleas'd with-parallel Instances to render them the less culpable when our Actions are otherwise not so justifiable in themselves Commands were now given to the Ambassadour at Rome to pursue the Dissolution of the Marriage and to solicite the Consent of the Queen which was rendred the more Urgent by the Marchioness because being with Child and near her production she was very unwilling that the Birth she went with should be Illegitimate Who to make publick profession of her Faith Celebrates her Easter at Paris Lodging in the Cloister of St. Germain L'Auxerrois On Holy Wednesday she was at Service at a Church in the end of the Town call'd the Tenebris which they perform'd very Harmoniously she went her self in a Litter attended by a Captain of the Guards but the Princesses in Coaches and least she might be either too much crowded or observ'd her Chapel was likewise cleared by the Captain of the Guards Where during the time of the Office she entertain'd her self and Madamoiselle d'Guise who was with her with Letters from Rome by which she was satisfi'd that her Desires should soon be accomplish'd and also from the King himself intimating him so impatient to see her Queen that he had remanded du Frosne one of his Secretaries of State a Person who because related to her in Marriage must needs be wholly devoted to her Interest to Rome to urge and press his Holiness to a permission of what he was so much resolved to do and in such Prayers as these was the time of Devotion spent But ended the Marchioness who had gave Madamoiselle d'Guise to Understand that she was going to Bed and had desir'd the diversion of her Company immediately betakes her self to her Litter and Madamoiselle d'Guise to her Coach causing her self to be set down at the Dutchesses Whom arriv'd she found not only undress'd but in great affliction with her Head and soon after she falls into a strong Convulsion yet out of which by strength of Remedies she was recover'd and upon this would have writ to the King had she not been reattack'd and prevented by a second Fit after which receiving a Letter from the King she attempted also to read it and was again retaken by a third so that in the end encreasing mightily upon her and overpowering the unequal strength of her Nature they put too certain a period to her Life On Wednesdey night this Illness first took her and on Friday deliver'd by the force of Medicine she Dy'd on Saturday in the Evening devoid of all Sense as far as any body could perceive The King who was now at one of his Houses was early enough advertis'd of this Sickness but imagining it to be only the result and disorder of Breeding was not much mov'd with it at the first But the Thirdday-Messenger bringing him News both of its Danger and Continuance he caus'd him to make towards Paris who coming within six leagues of it where he found all the Lords of his Court they gave him to understand by the sadness of their Countenances that his Mistress was dead who after he had read the too fatal certainty of it in their looks and gestures was mightily Troubled and required solitude dismissing all his Attendance excepting Bussy Lamet the Person before spoken of and the Duke of Retz who had the Character of being extream good Company the last of these giving him first a little time to vent his Passion told the King almost smiling that in his Opinion he was very happy and that weighing of his present Circumstances must needs induce him to believe it and that the Gods had favour'd him by her death The Royal concern was too great at first to be laid by such Expressions but the King a little reviving and calling to mind the Important Business he was about which was intimated by the Duke he confess'd what he had said to be true and lifting up his Eyes to Heaven not insensible both of this and all his other Mercies makes suitable Returns to that Beneficent Hand from which he had receiv'd them and so well contented himself that within the space of seaven weeks he became Enamour'd of Madam * Madam d'Antragues the afterwards Marchioness of Verneuil was Henriette of Balsac d'Antragues Sister to Charles of Vallois Earl of Auvergne afterwards Duke of

his new Mistress and it was very calm Weather with the Court the King also at this time Marryed Madamoiselle d'Guise to a Prince of the Blood Royal with whom the Queen gave what was neither beneath her own Quality to give or the others to receive The King seeing again the Marchioness of Vernueil had a great Inclination to her yet kept it so secretly that it was long before it came to the Queens knowledg but as soon as she knew it she was strangly troubled and absolutely forbid all such Persons any access to her that should at any time visit the Marchioness under the pain of being driven from her presence which the King took ill but yet was forc'd to bare with it a little after the King a never failing Gallant becomes Enamour'd of the Dutchess of Nevers a Princess of great Vertue that very much honour'd his person but had no great esteem for his passion This season hapned commodiously for the Kings designs for the King intending to Christen the young Prince's his Sons had invited the Dutchess of Mantoue to be Godmother to the Eldest This Princess was Sister to the Queen and her Husband a near Relation to the Duke of Neverrs insomuch that he obliged the Dutchess of Nevers to stay longer than usual at the Court to give oppertunity to the King to pursue his Amour the King seeking all occasions to speak to her whilst she on the other hand avoided it as much as possible waving it to the very utmost limits of a due respect in the end the Ceremonies being perform'd the Duke and Dutchess of Nevers without so much as bidding adieu retir'd themselves from the Court the latter resolving never again to return the Duke being soon after employ'd as Envoy to Rome went herself along with him thither and oblig'd the King to dispossess himself of a fancy that not only prov'd fruitless but very troublesome to him being not accustom'd to the difficulties he found in this Amour This Voyage endur'd above a Year and the Dutchess at her return came to do reverence to the Queen the King being then with her Upon which the King beholding her with a bended brow let her know aloud that he thought she was extreamly chang'd but the Dutchess taking no notice at all of it continu'd still to deport herself in the same manner and to spend the rest of her life in all the modesty that could become or was requisite in an excellent and vertuous Woman The King by this was again reconcil'd to the Marchioness d'Vernueil which the Queen so impatiently bore that notwithstanding all the endeavours of the Council to prevent them and to show how disagreeable they was to Majesty it fomented most extream differences betwixt them And now there happen'd a very surprising accident that made much noise and indeed was very strange the King and Queen going to a house of theirs near Paris on the other side the River Sein they was obliged to pass it in the * The Ferry spoken of in which the King and Queen pass'd the River Sien overturning was the cause of a Bridge being soon after built over that River Ferry the Coach with these two in it accompany'd only with the Princess de Conty and the Duke of Montpensier by some accident or other was overturn'd before it came to the Shore the King and Duke escaping very well leaping soon enough out of the Coach but the Ladies ran some hazard and drank a little more than they desir'd or rather the ambitious Element squench'd its thirst a little too much upon the Ladies Some few days after the King going to Visit the Marchioness of Vernueil she condoles him for the unhappy chance and tells him she was in great pain for him but if she had been present and had seen the King leaping safe out of the Coach she should have had the civility to have said let the Queen drink a saying it seems us'd upon the Ceremony of choosing King and Queen which she wittily made use of upon this occasion which when the Queen came to hear she flew out into so great and implacable a rage that she was fifteen days without changing so much as one word with the King so that Persons of great Figure and Quality was forc'd to interpose to qualifie her Resentments in the end the accord was made and there must be a Ball to attest it wherein the Queen resolv'd to give her self the pleasure of having a part But it is unhappily interrupted for the King insisting upon the reception of the Countess of Morett also into it and the Queen opposing and refusing it it made such a rupture betwixt them that it broke off the Ball This Countess of Morett is the Lady that I before said was quitted of her Husband Who was now lov'd by the Prince d'Joinville whom she did not ill entertain but the unhappiness is it comes to the Kings ear who immediately going to her upbraids her with Perfidiousness who having nothing else to say in her own vindication tells him that the Prince intended to marry her The King with this returns with all the speed that a Jealous Fury could supply and causes the Mother of this Prince to come before him to whom he Complains and threatens that the Prince who he said was too often guilty of such faults to be pardon'd should be rigorously punish'd Telling her that he expected on the pain of his severest displeasure that he should perform what he had promis'd to the Countess which was to marry her and that though he could suffer that his Mistresses should be espoused yet not that they should other ways be enjoy'd and that it was for the alone sake of the Mother her self that he Pardon'd the Son. The Princess being in a station she thought above such Treatments from the King answer'd with so much Indignation and rais'd the King into so high a Paroxisme that he sent his Guards immediately to seize him and all the favour that could be obtain'd for him by his Friends was that he should relinquish the Realm never to return to it again and he was not recall'd again till the death of the King. The Duke of Montpensier a little before these things was dead and the King whose unfix'd and wandering Apetite induc'd him still to the persuit of new Mistresses and to gratifie himself in all Varieties of his Inclination resolv'd to make Love to his Widdow wisely pensitating that it would more become his Quality to Love and be beloved of a Princess than such that was of a meaner Extraction and indeed no better than fair Imposters that did only banter and deceive him And resolv'd to serve himself upon this occasion of a Lord of his Court equip'd with all the possible Accomplishments of his Quality his Name was Count de Craimail making known this design to him He judg'd it a difficult thing to bring to effect but however promiseth the King to tell her the news The Neighbourhood of his House to that of the Dutchesses and the excellency of his Address was the reason of the King 's employing of him in this affair which he resolv'd to undertake if the Dutchess would hearken which yet he could not believe He acted so well in the business that he prevail'd with the Dutchess to come to the Court where the King soon discover'd the impregnableness of her Vertue and resolv'd no more to attempt it The Duke of Guise was now so much in Love with the Marchioness of Vernueil that he promiseth to Marry her and the Marchioness willing to make use of his Passion either to inflame the King that began to neglect her to a greater observance or to oblige the Duke irrevertibly to his Promise causes in the name of some other Persons reserving that due respect to their Quality not to do it in their own the Bains to be published betwixt them Which the King hearing of was greatly enrag'd with them both and especially with the Duke of Guise But his Relations knowing him to be innocent grew so clamorous upon the Marchioness as the only Author of this action on purpose to render him odious to the King that it went no farther the Duke only retiring to his Government till the rumour was a little ceas'd The Queen having again taken up her design of making the Ball before hinted amongst the Ladies that was engag'd in it the incomparable Madam of Montmorency was one a Lady so young that she had but just as it were left to be Child and so Beautiful that she was miraculous and in her actions so agreeable that she was a Marvail throughout insomuch that the King seeing her dance with a Dart in her Hand representing one of the Nymphs of Diana found his Heart so throughly pierced with it that the wound accompany'd him to his Grave It would fill a Volume should I recount all the Accidents of this Amour from which at last the Royal Lover ravish'd by Death left such Subjects behind him as could not so properly be said to Love as Adore him FINIS