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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

of Longueville THe Count De St. Paul ought to have been ranged before the Duke of Guise but because of the Kings Declaration in favor of the House of Lorrain that they shall go next to the Princes of the Blood of France I observe that Method though it be yet but in Idea and against which this Prince hath made his Protestation which for my part I shall not interest my self in but leave it wholly to his Majesties decision And truly his Family although descended from John Count de Dunois a natural Son of the Duke of Orleans hath been declared capable of succeeding to the Crown having assisted the Pucelle of Orleans more then any one in regaining the Kingdome from the English who had usurped it in the time of Charles the VII He is the Son of Henry of Orleans lately deceased who hath left him Heir of much Wealth and more Vertues he being a Prince of the greatest hopes in the World He is a very graceful Person of much Wit Courage and Learning a great lover of Arts and Sciences Vertuous and in sine one that promises to be nothing less then his great Ancestor who rendred this Kingdom such eminent and extraordinary services But he is yet only learning his Exercises which he begins to perform with that dexterity that the world admires him His eldest Brother is become a Jesuite and hath left him sole Heir of the richest Family amongst the Princes THE Character or Pourtraict OF THE New House of Soissons HE who at present bears the Title of the Count of Soissons is the youngest Son of the decased Prince Thomas of Savoy and the Princess of Carignan Daughter of the true House of Soissons He is well shap'd mild and civil and is as it were the eldest of the Family his eldest Brother being both deaf and dumb He married one of Cardinal Mazarines Nieces by which means he got very much in favor He enjoys the Command of Colonel of the Swissers which is one of the handsomest imployments about the Court. Besides this he is Governour of Champagne and Brie and in a word is one of the best setled Princes in the whole Kingdom He was in disgrace some years since for attempting to draw his Sword upon the Duke of Novailles in behalf of his Wife who contended with the Dukes Lady about the Priviledge of giving the Queen her Napkin but he is now restored again and more then ever respected by his Majesty THE Character or Pourtraict Of the House of Courtenay THis Family though very illustrious and indeed descended from the Kings of France is very low at present and unless the King out of his meet bounty be pleased to raise them again they must be contented to remain as they are the Relicks of a Princely House with onely the bare title of Nobility There are yet extant of this Family a Father and Son called Princes of Courtenay and a Knight of Malta a younger Sprigg of them Nothing is more true then that they were of the Royal stock having lost their right of Succession by their own default and negligence having mis-allied themselves and changed their Coat of the Arms of France which they should ever have preserved as an infallible mark of their Original Thus have they deprived themselves voluntarily of a great advantage and according to Law Volenti non sit Injuria They remain still in obscurity though they have many times endeavoured to raise themselves again and restore their Family to its wonted quality and splendour There are other Lords who take upon them the title of Princes as the Princes of Bouillon or Sedan De la Rochefaucalt De Marsillac De Tarante amongst whom the most considerable for his great exploits is the Marshal Turenne younger Son of the Family of Bouillon He is a person of great conduct and admirable judgement prudent in the midst of Battles and fearless in dangers and perils and though he hath not always had the success he deserved yet in the opinion of brave Warriours he is esteemed one of the greatest Captains this Age affords He was ever most fortunate when he commanded for the King as may be observed by the taking of Stenay his relieving of Arras and the gaining of the most important places in Flanders before the conclusion of the last peace On the contrary at the Battle of Rhetel he lost a great number of men and had like to have been taken Prisoner himself He married the Daughter of the deceased Marshal de la Force by whom he hath no Issue He hath no defect but that of his Religion founded upon a false Maxime That a man ought to dye in that Religion he was born in which ought not to be maintained but in the true Church He is a man of Faith and of his word in respect of the world and glories in this that he never failed of his promise to any one which begets a great deal of credit and assurance towards him There is likewise the Marshal Gramond Soveraign of Bidache who is one of the ablest Counsellours about the Court and one that wants not for any courage at a time of need He obeys Authority and Command as it were blindfold and is accused for giving Battle at Honincourt against all appearance of success but when this rashness was objected against him he answered That he had a written Order from the Cardinal Richelieu who then had the sole command and this was when the King was at Perpignan and the Cardinal as it were in disgrace who to re-establish himself in his former power and get an opportunity to revenge himself of those Enemies that had brought him to that condition by the means of his Royal Highness and monsieur de St. Mare he designed to give the King this considerable Chocque being then at a great distance from Paris and the Frontiers of Flanders which succeeded just as he designed it for the King being surprized at this sudden blow and imagining all was lost said aloud Alas then shall I not return to Paris for they had apprehensions for that great City destitute of any Forces and too far from any relief against a victorious Army But Monsieur de Noyers taking his time replyed Sir there is none but the Cardinal that can ward this fatal blow Whereupon the King immediately sent for him and restored all power and commands to him enjoyning him to provide for the safety of the Nation and take a just revenge of his opposers who were immediately seized and Monsieur de St. Mare and Monsieur de Thou executed at Lyons a while after as guilty of Treason against his Majesty in the person of his chief Minister of State THE Character or Pourtraict OF THE Cardinal de Retz THis Cardinal is the Son of the General of the Gallies by name Father Gondy Priest of the Oratory And the reason which moved him to take a Religious Habit was this having informed the King of somewhat he

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

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