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A51200	The characters or pourtraicts of the present court of France wherein is described the king, the princes, the generals and the principal ministers of state &c. / written originally in French ; made English by J.B., Gent.; Divers portraits. English	Montpensier, Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans, duchesse de, 1627-1693.; Bulteel, John, fl. 1683.	1668 (1668)	Wing M2507; ESTC R18747	32,064	144

inclinations a little and reform his expences to the just measure of Decency and the quality of his Illustrious Birth THE Character or Pourtraict OF THE Prince of CONTY HE is mild good natur'd and accomplished in all excellent Qualities He is very Learned in all the Sciences and hath been admired in the most celebrated Academy for his great Wit and capacity in the knowledge of the highest points of Theology but besides his Titles and excellent Qualities he is Master of a very great stock of Bounty and Vertue His life is a fit Exemplar for the best Courts and makes good the possibility of being a very great Lord and a very honest man His Lady is a most vertuous Princess who agrees admirably well with him in his Zeal and Piety and had the Cardinal brought no other benefit to France but the bestowing of so rare a person on us who is so Noble and Charitable to the World he would deserve our eternal thanks and praises since by her means Millions of our lives have been preserved during the Famine besides the many Souls she hath saved by her frequent Prayers and eminent Examples insomuch as this Prince and Princess are the true patterns of Piety amidst the Pomp and Bravery of this Age. I shall not mention the Beauty of this Woman for though she be of an excelling Shape yet that is the least of her perfections she being infinitely good and wise charitable and discreet and in a word a complete Model of Christian Perfection There is a worthy Branch of the Noble Stock who is called Monsieur le Comte who is as yet too young to shew the World the advantages he is like to derive from such a worthy Birth All that is yet observed i● his ravishing prettiness and such a Physiognomy as promises he will hereafter keep up the Fame and Reputation of his Illustrious Parents THE Character or Pourtraict Of Mademoiselle de Montpensier MAdemoiselle de Montpensier the elder is of the house Bourbon both by Father and Mother Gaston the Son of France yonger brother to Lewis the XIII was her Father and Mary de Montpensier his first wife derived her Birth from Henry Duke of Montpensier and that Henry from a third Son of the house of Bourbon whose direct line failed at the death of the Constable revived again in Charles the Second Son of that Family the third Son having begotten the Prince de la Roche Suryon and the Duke of Montpensier from whom Mary the Mother of Mademoiselle was descended The Princess being of the blood of Kings and Princes is haughty daring and of a more then feminine courage It may be truely said she is an Amazon and fitter to manage the Sword then a Distaff which she made apparent at the business of St. Anthonies where the Princes fortunes being desperate and her Father not daring to appear to save the Prince of Conde's party who were at the brink of destruction She went to the Town-hall and took the Provost of the Merchants and the Governor of Paris by the Beards using great threats to oblige them to arm and raise the Citizens for the defence of the Prince from whence she went to her Father his Royal Highness in his Palace whom she in a manner constrained to go with her to the Bastille that so his presence might support the staggering forces and all that rising of the Citizens an enterprize too rugged and daring for that foster Sex especially against a Royal Army and in presence of their Majesties was an action hardly to be excused but upon the consideration of the rashness of a woman the Kings minority and the general aversion at that time against Cardinal Mazarine For she commanded them to fire their Cannon upon the Kings Army and facilitated the Princes retreat opening the City-Gates to him which saved both him and his whole party from evident ruine She is passionate resolute and active free in discourse and endures not to be contradicted in her opinions She never cared for the Kings nor her Fathers Minsters because that obliged her to some condescention towards them She had formerly some thoughts of marrying the Arch-Duke Leopold of Austria without the Kings consent which obliged his Majesty to have a Guard attending her and to secure all the passages into Flanders lest she should throw her self into his Arms who then made War against France It is said she otherwhile refused the King of Englands courtship during his misfortunes which is a fault of youth not to be repaired I hold it somewhat difficult to believe that her great heart could submit it self to any mans commands how potent and noble soever he might be She is the richest Princess in Europe for she enjoys above eight hundred thousand Livres revenue in Lands yearly She is of a very tall and handsome proportion of a Masculine aspect a confident and free garb and pace a majestick presence and yet a pleasing and graceful conversation Her humour is somewhat impatient sprightly and forward to undertake whatever she designs and being a stranger to any kind of dissimulation speaking her minde freely without disguise not caring who listens It is thought they apprehended at Court that she would express some discontent by reason of the Marriage of her younger Sisters before her who were by another Mother or else upon some resentment written or spoken she was commanded to withdraw her self from the Court to her own Estate where she remains in a great deal of freedom and liberty and not without much hopes of being suddenly recalled to Court where some advantagious propositions are on foot for a fit match for her but with what Monarch is not so well known THE Character or Pourtraict Of the House of Vendosme THe Duke of Vendosme named Caesar of Bourbon is the natural Son of Henry the IV and the Marchioness of Estree called the beauteous Gabriele The excessive tenderness which the King his Father had for this Lady and for this Son had almost caused his legitimation by a Marriage which the King had given his promise for in favour of that Mistress which promise in writing Monsieur de Rosny tore in pieces in her presence as Monsieur de Sully mentions in his Memoires He does very much resemble that great Prince his Father is well shaped and of a good meen He is something jovial and hath wit enough but above these he is really good natured mild and extraordinary affable He was a long while absent from Court with his Family in the late Kings days but since this Mans Reign he returned again with all the honour due to his birth and quality nay his Majesty conferred the office of high Admiral upon him which is one of the highest in the Kingdom and hath bestowed the reversion upon Monsieur de Beaufort the youngest of his Sons insomuch that he is now higher at Court then ever his age and experience making him capable of that great imployment which he executes with

quoted Monsieur de Liancourt for his Author the King having sent for Monsieur de Liancourt to know the truth he flatly denied that he had mentioned any such thing to Monsieur de Gondy This affront of giving him the lye should have succeeded to a Duel but resigning his resentment and satisfaction to God in favour of his friend he resolved to quit the Court and indeed the World and retire himself to those Fathers of the Oratory His Son at that time Abbot of St. Berigre was elected Coadjutor to the Arch-Bishop of Paris his Uncle During the Troubles he made himself famous under that quality having raised a Regiment for the Parisians which at Court was in a scoffing way called the Corinthian Band from his being entituled to that Arch-Bishoprick of Corinth In partibus insidelium He obliged the Court to make him a Cardinal even against their Wills for the Cardinal Mazarine being otherwise unable to break that Party called Les Frondeurs whereof he was Chief resolved to frustrate him of the Cardinals Cap and deluded him and therefore upon their dissolving that League framed against him he had the grant of the Kings nomination of him for a Cardinalship but another Express was immediately dispatched after his Messenger to oppose his Promotion at Rome which he somewhat doubted of and having given his Kinsman the Bailly Gondy Secretary of State to the Great Duke of Florence notice of it he set all his Friends and all the Engines imaginable on work to advance his Family by this means and having at the same time caused Mazarines Messenger to be way-laid in his passage he was stopp'd while they carried on their design at Rome where they obliged the Pope to call an extraordinary Assembly to expedite the business So that having eluded the Cardinals crafty design by this handsome subtilty he grew very much fuspected at Court where they believed him capable of great undertakings Cardinal Mazarine became both jealous and afraid of him and therefore to ensnare him he was flattered with the hopes of being made a Minister of State to which the Queen-Mother seemed to encline This extraordinary favour having swell'd his thoughts he imagined he might attain it and went to Court accompanied with his Guards attending the Queen with great exactness In the end staying there one day at Dinner-time the Queen bid him go to dinner himself but he waiting till the Queens Fruit was served in and then taking his leave with great respect and having had some good words from her Majesty he was seized on upon the Stair by a Captain of the Guards who commanded him in the Kings name to go into a Room where they had a Dinner provided for him after which he was carried to Vincennes and there transported to Nants Castle being committed to the Custody of the Marshal de Milleray He made his escape from that Prison and riding post to save himself fell and put his Arm out of joynt There were some sent after him but having caused some of his Gentlemen to continue riding in the ordinary Road he deceived those that pursued him and kept himself concealed in a Barn which he afterwards forsook and travelled in By-ways He went out of the Kingdom the neerest way and retired himself in St. Sebastians Port which is under the Spaniards Dominion The Governour having heard of his arrival sent notice to the King his Master and according to Order came and visited the Cardinal de Retz and offered him 7000 Pistols The Cardinal refused them telling him he would receive money from none but the King his own Master and all he craved of the King of Spain was a free passage and security against his Enemies which he hoped for The Governour replyed That the King of Spain was able enough to make such presents and did not pretend thereby to gain a person of his quality to side with him but he intreated him not to refuse that liberality The Cardinal being fully resolved not to accept of any thing though he were in the extremest necessity The Governour returned next day with 2000 onely and told him That the King of Spain knew he was in want of some money and therefore he would take it very kindly if he accepted but of that small sum Whereupon the Cardinal being unwilling to shew too much obstinacy took 500 to serve him only for defraying his charges into Toscany whither he designed to go and returning his thanks to the King by the Governour he prosecuted his journey the very next day He arrived at Florence where he was very cordially received and treated with all imaginable magnificence amongst other rarities which were shewed him at the Great Dukes Palace he stood a while to gaze on the Picture of John de Medicis a Cardinal and General of an Army in a negligent habit as it was said he was wont to go whereupon he said Those Gentlemen our Ancestors were not so Ceremonious as we are now adays and yet I believe they were no less honest and considerable then we are now But though he had boasted then that in despite of Cardinal Mazarine he should die Arch-Bishop of Paris yet he hath shewed a great deal of moderation in his surrender of it into the hands of his Majesty who made it known that such was his Royal pleasure He is without doubt very generous magnificent and full of honour and vertue learned wise and very capable of being a Minister of State were he called to it THE Character or Pourtraict of Cardinal Baberino Called the Cardinal Antonio HE is Nephew of Vrban the VIII and the youngest Son of his Family He is great Chamberlain of the holy Church Chair and in his Name are all affairs dispatched after the death of the Pope and during the Election in whose life-time he keeps his Holinesses Ring He is great Almoner of France Archbishop of Rheims first Duke and Pair of France Abbot of S. Denis He was born Commander of the Kings Orders and hath the right of Information touching the lives and behaviours of the Knights of the Order and receives the profession of their faith This Office is Solstitium Honorum in France the Zenith of all Honours which was created by Francis the first in favour of Cardinal Antonio Menden He administers the Oath of Fidelity to the King and takes it of all the other Ecclesiasticks according to the Court of Bishops and Archbishops of France Grand Priors of Aquitaine Auvergne Champagne and other considerable Abbies He delivers the prisoners from their bondage upon solemn Festivals or days of Coronation and the like extraordinary occasions He disposes of the whole stock of the Kings Alms and exercises all these Functions without any dependence upon others as superiour which power he can communicate to whomsoever he pleaseth He is milde peaceable and humble loves the French way of living and hath otherwhile governed the affairs of the Church during the life of his Uncle It is reported of him

stand to their Sentence and come in at their Summons to answer for themselves I remember an Example during the last troubles in the person of Monsieur the Prince they had given him some cause to apprehend he might be again confined though but newly out of Prison which occasioned his retreat to S. Maur. The Parliament deputed two Counsellors to go to this Prince and invite him to come and shew the Reasons for his retiremens to the Parliament He comes accompanied with his Royal Highness the Prince of Conty the Princes of Nemours Guise and other Lords that assembled themselves There the first President addressing his Speech to the Prince boldly reprov'd him for withdrawing himself tumultuously from Paris and told him That he would make him responsable for all the disorders that should happen those actions of his being but like the Alarms to a Civil War during the Kings Minority it being well known at Court that he kept Secret Intelligence with the Kings Enemies and caused several places to be fortified amongst which Bellegarde was one To which the Prince replied with as much heat That if any disorders did happen in the Kingdom themselves would be the only causers of it to which they had already given birth That for his part he detested the designe of any such disturbance in his Soul and for the correspondence they mentioned he held with the Enemy it was false nor could they produce the least Witness against him there being as little verity also in what they alledged touching Bellegarde which they particularly objected concerning which he vow'd and protested both to his Royal Highness and the Court that there had not been one shovel full of Earth removed to any such intent Upon which the first President with as much confidence as he began resumed his Speech and told him That indeed his words were good and plausible but yet many times mens words and intentions look contrary ways as his were suspected to do and then proceeded to reprove him in these terms It is very laudable to see the Prince of Conde keep within his Palace in the Fauxburgh Saint Germaines and not vouchsafe to go over the new Bridge to wait upon the King his Lord and Master This looks like an intrenching and barricading ones self on the other side of the River against the Louvre and what will strangers say Sir when they hear of such proceedings of the Prince of Conde towards the King The Prince replied again as smartly as at the beginning That his Royal Highness had given him caution not to do it and would not undertake for the security of his person the Cardinal Mazarine ruling still in the hearts of the Court where his Enemies were yet the strongest party and threatned him with a second imprisonment But that he still must attribute all the disorders and disturbances that might happen to their negligence unless they would acquaint the King and Queen with his just Reasons and most humble Remonstrances This contest betwixt the Presidents and the Dukes and Pairs of France for Precedency hath been of late started up more then ever upon some accidents hapning in a general Procession One of these last Holydays the President de Mesmes Footmen being the more numerous took place of the Duke of Brisac's upon which there ensued a great quarrel and debate but the Duke 's were in fine constrained to yield to the number and strength of the others upon which the Duke 's preferred their complaints with a great deal of heat having demanded for Justice against them each of them made their own defence and the Duke's have newly produced their Manifesto and presented it to the King to have a decision of it It is said that his Majesty goes in person the next week to the Parliament for this end and to give order to the Chancellour to collect first the Votes of the Dukes and Pairs before those of the Presidents But others that are very clear-sighted do believe that the business will be thus accommodated That the Presidents shall have precedency in the Parliament but shall any where else give it to all Dukes and Pairs especially at Extraordinary Ceremonies and Triumphant Showes where the Sword seems to claim a Right above the long Robe Of this we expect the Issue THE Character or Pourtraict Of the QUEEN-MOTHER ANna Maria Mauritia of Austria Daughter of Philip the III. King of Spain was married to Lewis the XIII King of France and Navarre The Marshall d' Ancre made up this match and carried the King to Bourdeaux to that end whilest an Army lay amusing the Princes of the League in Champagne She was married many years before she had any children but at length she brought forth this King and Monsieur only having never had any Daughters or other Children then these two After the death of Lewis the XIII she was declared Queen Regent and made use of the counsel and administration of Cardinal Mazarine during the time of her Regency and the Kings minority The beginning of his Ministery was both peaceable and happy enough for to gain the amity and good will of the great ones he shewed the Kings favours upon them with an open hand indifferently being contented to engage them to be of his party that they should share with him in his Masters Grace and Authority He endeavoured likewise at first to strengthen himself with some considerable Alliance and to this purpose he sent for some of his Nephews and Nieces and other Relations whom he caused to be bred up at Court after the French Mode and Air upon the hopes of future Grandeur But we shall mention this Minister in a Chapter apart which shall describe both his Person and Conduct The Queen-Mother is a good and vertuous Princess of a pacifique spirit and an exemplary Piety She wants neither for resolution nor conduct in great affairs nor for good will towards the publick Interest Her great courage was apparent during the troubles of her Regency when she resolved to make use of her power against Paris and asked the Prince upon his return from the battail Will you suffer them to affront the Regal Authority meaning the business of the Barricadoes when they would absolutely have Monsieur Broussel released leased upon their popular insurrection This violence concerns you continued she To whom the Prince replied Madam behold this Sword of mine is ever at his Majesties service which you may absolutely command She shewed also a great deal of resolution in her enterprize upon the Princes whom she caused to be seized on by her Captain of the Guards but her undaunted spirit appeared most eminently after the Cardinals absence when she took the Helme of the State into her own hands and steering all affairs during that hideous tempest causing the King to be declared in his Majority after she had driven the Prince into Guyenne and confined the Cardinal de Retz who had been flattered with the hopes of being chief Minister In

that when the War hapned to be made upon the Duke of Parma having no great skill in the Military Art he studied a whole night to frame an equivocal Letter when he was to send his Orders to the Generals that so in case things succeeded wel he might reap the glory of the Enterprise and if Fortune were averse there might be room enough left to excuse himself by pretending they had not comprehended his meaning in their attempts THE Character or Pourtraict OF The Chancellour MOnsieur Seguier issued from a family of the Robe hath had some of his ancestors officiating in the greatest State-employments Such men are usually made to pass thorow those lower employments of the Long Robe first and are afterwards according to their abilities called up to the Soveraign degree of Chancellour of France which is the chief of all Judicature He is prudent and judicious and is accounted the most learned person in the Kingdom He declares his Majesties minde when he lists in Parliament who having in few words expressed himself to take off the trouble of a long Harangue tells them My Chancellour shall inform of what I have more to say He sits at the Kings feet on a black Velvet Cushion presiding in the Great Council in his Majesties absence which Office he holds for his whole life The Seals may be sometimes indeed taken from him and committed to such a Keeper as the King shall make choice of to seal Orders that are passed Though he perfectly submitted himself to the Kings will in all things yet was the Seal given from him to the first President Monsieur Molet during the troubles of Paris he being pursued by the rascally people to the Hostel de Luynes whither he was forced to retreat and in much danger even there of being forced out had not the Marshal de la Milleray come and rescued him by force of arms The fear and jealousie he had of Monsieur Fouquet at Fountainbleau made him follow the King every where and he shewed himself as able and active as any young man in the Journey to Britany because he had heard as it is reported that the King should say to Monsieur Fouquet who importuned him to take the Seals from him seeing his very great age disabled him in the execution of that Office Do not trouble your self assoon as I return from Britany I assure you the Seals shall be in your house which was true indeed all things being sealed there Monsieur Fouquet making a favourable though not a right construction of that promise was satisfied therewith and the Chancellor had a great apprehension endeavouring by his close attendance to make it appear to his Majestic that he had yet vigour enough left him to acquit himself of that trust This is one of the causes of the enmity betwixt him and Monsieur Fouquet He cherishes his wealth above all the things in the world and is sparing for nothing that may contribute to prolong his days making frequent use of Cordials and excellent nourishment which have been so effectual that he is in a perfect condition of health at the age of Fourscore years He hath always a Guard with him when he goes abroad which is rather for a mark of his dignity then for fear of any hurt or danger He presides in the Court of Justice but Monsieur Fouquet hath put in many Heads of Recusation against him by no means accepting or owning him for his Judge He is prodigiously rich and very oeconomical and having no male-issue his Succession is devolved to his daughters husbands the chief whereof is the Marquis de Coaslin THE Character or Pourtraict Of Monsieur Colbert HE is the son of an eminent Citizen of Rheims but those who are very well vers'd in Genealogies affirm that he is descended from one of the most Illustrious Families of Scotland He was first under Monsieur Tellier the Secretary of State and when the Cardinal was exiled from the Court and retired into Germany having enquired of Monsieur Tellier for some person whom he might conside in to intrust with some Jewels of a very great value and certain sums of money Monsieur Tellier named Monsieur Colbert to him as a very honest confiding man whose fidelity he was well acquainted with who having a house at Rheims just upon the Road betwixt Paris and Cologne the Cardinal left in his keeping the most considerable treasure he had which he laid up for his last reserve and found this the most convenient place that could be to dispose of it as occasion might require His Eminence lodged two nights at his house and appointed him to receive and convey all his Letters of Correspondence which he either d●spatched to or received from the Court which Commerce he was the fitter to drive being then not generally known of which he acquitted himself with so much exactness integrity and success that he deserved to be intrusted with matters of more importance and indeed from that time he grew much in favour with the Cardinal who being recalled into France and happily resetled at Court desired to have him from Monsieur Tellier and made him Intendant of his house which he governed till his death to the great liking of that grand Minister insomuch as the Cardinal upon his death-bed and in his Will and Testament whereof he was Executor recommended him particularly to the King intreating his Majestie to make use of him as a person of a tried Ability and Faith The King hath found him such a one indeed according to his own desire and the fittest man in the whole Nation to manage his Treasury and therefore having set aside Monsieur Fouquet he gave the whole Administration and Management of it to this person whom he hath likewise honoured with the Office of Chief Surveyor of his Buildings and Royal Houses and which is more does not seldom communicate the weightiest affairs of State unto him He is indeclinably devoted to the will and service of his Master A person he is without any thing of vain-glory or boasting moderate in expences who willingly sacrifices all his pleasures and divertisements to the interest of his Country and affairs of importance He is active and vigilant constant and inviolable in any thing of his duty avoiding all making of Parties and Cabals not treating with any body without the Kings knowledge or an express Order from his Majestic He seems not to thirst after much riches for himself but is hugely diligent and active in heaping up Treasure for his Master and preserving the Revenues of the Crown and being well versed in ordering those things he gives the King his best advice to redeem that part of his Demesnes which hath been long engaged thereby filling his Coffers and increasing his daily Income By these prudent means he hath already received many Millions which were concealed detained and unjustly converted to other uses by such as formerly had the management of the Treasury not fearing the