[359] L’Etoile, vol. iii. pp. 414, 415.

[360] Memoires, p. 57.

[361] Saint-Edme, vol. ii. p. 238.

[362] Saint-Edme, vol. ii. pp. 239, 240.  L’Etoile, vol. iii. p. 360. Amours du Grand Alcandre, p. 49.

[363] Bassompierre, Mem. p. 51.

[364] Antoine de Bourbon, Comte de Moret, the son of Henri IV and Madame de Moret, was legitimated in 1608, and was killed during the subsequent reign at the battle of Castelnaudary, while serving under the Duc de Montmorency.

[365] Damin de Montluc, Seigneur de Balagny, son of Jean, Prince de Cambray, and of Renee de Clermont de Bussy d’Amboise.  He was one of the most confidential friends of the King.

[366] Saint-Edme, vol. ii. pp. 241, 242.

[367] Charlotte, daughter of Francois des Essarts, Seigneur de Sautour, Equerry of the King’s Stable, and of his second wife, Charlotte de Harlay de Chanvallon.

[368] The Comte Christophe de Beaumont-Harlay, Governor of Orleans.  He died in 1615.

[369] Louis de Lorraine, Cardinal de Guise, son of Henri, Due de Guise, who was killed at the States of Blois.  He obtained a dispensation from the Pope to effect his marriage with Mademoiselle des Essarts.  He was a warlike prelate; and his death, which took place at Saintes in 1621, was caused by the extreme fatigue that he underwent during the campaign of Guienne, and at the siege of Saint-Jean-d’Angely, whither he accompanied Louis XIII.

[370] Bassompierre, Mem. p. 50.

[371] Charles, Cardinal de Lorraine, Bishop of Metz and Strasbourg, and Abbot of St. Victor-les-Paris.  The Cardinal de Givry succeeded him in the see of Metz, having the Marquis de Verneuil as his coadjutor, and Leopold of Austria replaced him as Bishop of Strasbourg, having been elected to that dignity by the chapter; while the Protestants named George, Margrave of Brandenburg, administrator to that see, which caused great dissension between the two concurrents, until a conciliation was effected through the good offices of Duke Frederic of Wuertemberg, who induced them to enter into a truce for fifteen years, during which period they divided between them the revenues of the benefice, Leopold of Austria retaining the title of bishop.

[372] Mercure Francais, 1607, P-228.  L’Etoile, vol. iii. pp. 437, 438.

[373] Memoires, vol. vii. p. 7.  L’Etoile, vol. iii. pp. 417, 418.

[374] Bassompierre, Mem. p. 51.

[375] Marie de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Montpensier, who, after the decease of the Duc d’Orleans, married (in 1626) Gaston Jean Baptiste de France.

[376] Bassompierre, Mem. p. 51.

[377] Sully, Mem. vol. vii. p. 8.

[378] Sully, Mem. vol. vii. pp. 8, 9.

[379] Mercure Francais, 1608, p. 231.  L’Etoile, vol. iii. pp. 444, 445.

[380] Sully, Mem. vol. vii. pp. 25-28.