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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

ill will of any to do his Master service relying wholly upon the justice and power of a Monarch able to protect him against all his adversaries It is reported that he hath assured his Majestie that in three years time he will redeem and clear all his Demesnes which when accomplished will make him the richest Potentate of Christendom which he is indeed already in the reputation of all stranger-Nations THE Character or Pourtraict OF Monsieur Tellier HE is descended of a Family of the Long Robe and raised himself to the height he is now at as much by his own diligence and conduct as by the favour of the Cardinal Richelieu who made him chief Master of Requests He is of a friendly discreet and prudent temper and one that understands Military affairs better then any man in the Kingdom I mean as to the manner how to keep up and maintain an Army what the charge will amount to according to the numbers raised and the like which knowledge he hath acquired by a very long experience He hath maintained himself unblameable in his Office and was but feignedly disgraced or set aside during the Intestine Troubles For the Prince complaining that the Cardinal though banished still ruled at Court by means of his Creatures amongst whom Monsieur Tellier Monsieur de Lionne were counted the principal the Queen to take away all cause of jealousie caused them to be sent out of Paris and promised to admit no more of them to her Council which Order within a month was again reversed and the policie of this Court-turn apparent He is a person nothing tainted with the vanities of the times having no ambitious thoughts but performing his duty meerly out of a principle of honour and honesty not minding either concurrences nor enmities not aiming at higher preferments or greater profits being already in a condition indeed so good in these respects that there is little left him to wish for He hath a son the Marquis de Louvais very much in favour with the King to whom his Majestie has granted the reversion of his Fathers Office of Secretary of State for Military affairs THE Character or Pourtraict Of Monsieur de Lionne HE is of a Noble Family and was formerly chief Secretary to the Queen-mother and when she was Regent he was employed in State-affairs and the Cardinal a while before his death recommended him to his Majestie in particular as a man fit for the employments he holds He is one of the most prudent men in Europe one that hath the most flegme and reservedness of temper as the Italians themselves confessed when he was amongst them they endeavoured by all the ways imaginable to make him discover himself but with all their subtilty they could not make themselves Masters of the least of his secrets The Great Duke and the whole House of Medices treated him to that very end and laid all the plots snares they could but all their diligence and cunning could not entice him to utter one sillable but what was meerly indifferent He went since joynt Ambassadour with the Marshal de Gramont into Germany at the Election of the Emperour and we may truly say that the two subtillest and wisest Politicians of France did then share together in that Illustrious Negotiation He is a person of much honesty and conscience and one that will not make use of any one that is not good and vertuous though it were his misfortune a while since to have a person in his Family who was a Traytor both to him the King and the State but this was a fellow taken in by his other servants not of his chusing and having found that his Secrets were divulged to Forraign Ambassadours by his infidelity he caused him to be chastised according to his deserts having made him confess that he had never spoken so much as one word to him He is a lover of Vertue and Arts is milde affable of a good presence and exactly faithful in the Kings concerns and though he be Secretary of State for all Forraign affairs which he understands incomparably well yet in the Cardinals Will he is preferred before all others to inform the King of all the concerns of Lorraine and whatever is to be transacted with the Duke Charles who is one of the subtillest and wary Princes of this Age of whom the Duke said that he was a fit man to be treated with but it must be onely for three days Which words he taking hold of did indeed finish his Negotiation within that space of time as is apparent by the Treaty mutually Signed to by each of them THE Character or Pourtraict OF Monsieur Foucquet HE is the son of a Citizen and pretends the original of his Family is Noble He rose to his Fortune by his Brother the Abbot Foucquet's means who was much in favor with Cardinal Mazarine He borrowed a sum of money to buy the Office of Attorney-General and in that quality did the Cardinal many good Offices in the Parliament and the Government of Paris He was very exact in prosecuting any that wrote against that Minister Yet all these Services could not exempt him from being suspected which obliged him to draw up that Project found amongst his rifled Papers to defend himself in case he were attaqu'd The Cardinals favour procured him the employment of Superintendant which he managed alone after the decease of Monsieur Servien who during a time shared it with him He hath a vast and lofty spirit and was the profusest and most magnificent man in the Kingdom His ambitious minde made him chuse this Motto for his Devise Quo non ascendam Whither shall I not climb And it is believed his thoughts aspired at being Chief Minister but the King by no means enduring to have any Subject raise himself to that Authority in his Reign reserving that power most justly for himself caused him to be arrested some years since in his journey to Brittany and sent him to Vincennes and from thence to the Bastille He was liberal with profusion being accused of having squandred away infinite sums of money upon his Pleasures and Mistresses He is likewise accused of allowing several large Pensions to the Grandees at Court to be his creatures it being his Opinion and Maxime that no mans Faith could be of proof against Fifty thousand Crowns His Buildings do also shew his excessive Prodigality together with the Furniture Conches Attendance Rarities and unparallel'd Banquets as for example the Collation he gave his Majestie at Veau de Vicomte where he expended Fourty thousand Crowns by all computation He bestowed great Largesses likewise upon the Jesuites viz. a Library a Thousand livres of annual Rent to maintain it and Fourscore thousand livres for a Building within their Colledge THE Character or Pourtraict Of The First President of PARLIAMENT MOnsieur de la Mignon issued from a Family of the Long Robe enjoys this considerable Office which is onely attained unto by

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