“Dix jours ne pouvant se distraire
        Au plaisir de la regarder,
      Il a, par un effort contraire,
        Essaye de la retarder.”

A specimen of his godship’s gallantry, with which the young sovereign would, in all probability, most willingly have dispensed.

[102] L’Etoile, vol. ii. p. 537.

[103] Valadier, year 1600.

[104] M. de Sillery.

[105] Henri I. de Montmorency, duke, peer, marshal, and Constable of France, Governor of Languedoc, etc., was the second son of the celebrated Anne de Montmorency.  He rendered himself famous, during the lifetime of his father, under the name of the Seigneur de Damville, and made prisoner the Prince de Conde at the battle of Dreux in 1562.  Having subsequently incurred the displeasure of Catherine de Medicis, he retired to the Court of the Duke of Savoy, and became the leader of the malcontents in Languedoc during the reign of Henri III.  Henri IV restored him to all his honours, and made him Constable of France, and a knight of the Order of the Holy Ghost, in 1593.  He died at an advanced age, in the town of Agde, in 1614.

[106] Charles Amedee de Savoie, Duc de Nemours, was the son of Jacques de Savoie and of Anne d’Este, whose first husband was the Duc de Guise.  This lady made herself very conspicuous during the League.  Charles Amedee married Elisabeth, the sister of Cesar de Vendome, Duc de Beaufort, and during the Fronde attached himself to the party of the princes; but having quarrelled with his brother-in-law, he was killed by him in a duel, in the year 1652.

[107] Anne de Levis, Duc de Ventadour, was the representative of one of the most ancient and illustrious families of France, which derived its name from the estate of Levis, near Chevreuse, where his ancestor, Guy de Levis, a famous general, founded in the year 1190 the abbey of La Roche.

[108] Valadier, year 1600.

[109] Guillaume du Vair, ultimately Bishop of Lisieux, and Keeper of the Seals, was the son of Jean du Vair, knight, and attorney-general of Catherine de Medicis and Henri de France, Duc d’Anjou.  He was born at Paris on the 8th of March 1556, and was successively councillor of parliament, master of requests, first president of the Parliament of Provence, and finally (in 1616) keeper of the seals.  He subsequently embraced the ecclesiastical profession, and was elevated to the see of Lisieux in 1618.  He was a man of consummate talent; and his works, which were published in folio in Paris, in 1641, are still highly esteemed.  Guillaume du Vair died at Tonnoins, in Agenois, in 1621, at the age of sixty-six years.

[110] Chronologie Septennaire, p. 184.

[111] Francois Suares, a celebrated scholar and theologian, was born at Granada in 1548, and in 1564 became a Jesuit.  He taught theology, with great success, at Alcala, Salamanca, Rome, and Coimbra; and died at Lisbon in 1617.  His collected works were published in twenty-three folio volumes, and are principally treatises on theology and morals.  His treatise on the laws was reprinted in England.