[296] Richelieu, Hist. de la Mere et du Fils, vol. i. pp. 202-204.

[297] Siri, Mem.  Rec. vol. iv. p. 63.

[298] Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 643.

[299] Rohan, Mem. book i.

[300] Bassompierre, Mem. p. 126.  Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 653.

[301] Richelieu, Hist, de la Mere et du Fils, vol. i. p. 200.

[302] Deageant, Mem. pp. 65, 66.

[303] The dower of the widowed Queens of France was twelve hundred thousand annual livres.

[304] Mezeray, vol. xi. pp. 140, 141.  Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 655, 656.  Sismondi, vol. xxii. p. 403.

[305] Jean Goujon, a celebrated architect and sculptor, who was surnamed the Correggio of sculpture from the grace and beauty of his productions.  The finest of his statues was the Hunting Diana, which long formed one of the treasures of Malmaison.  The Fountain of the Innocents, the bas-reliefs of the Hotel de Carnavalet, and those of the Louvre were alike the monuments of his genius.  He was occupied in completing the latter when he was killed by the ball of a carbine during the massacre of St. Bartholomew.

[306] Richelieu, Unpublished MSS.

[307] Sismondi, vol. xxii. pp. 398-404.  Bassompierre, Mem. pp. 126, 127.  Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 653-659.  Mezeray, vol. xi. pp. 137-142.  Brienne, Mem. vol. i. pp. 327-329.

[308] Rohan, Mem. book i.  Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 659.

[309] Bassompierre, Mem. p. 128.

[310] Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 666. Relation de la mort du Marechal d’Ancre.  Mezeray, vol. xi. pp. 142, 143.  Dreux du Radier, vol. vi. pp. 123, 124.  Brienne, Mem. vol. i. p. 333.

[311] Sismondi, vol. xxii. pp. 407, 408.  Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 667-672.  Richelieu, Hist, de la Mere et du Fils, vol. i. pp. 223-230.

[312] This incapacity to hold office under the French Government was, moreover, on this occasion, declared thenceforward to extend to all individuals who were natives of other countries; and an attempt was made thirty years subsequently to render it applicable to Cardinal Mazarin.

[313] Bernard, book iii.

[314] Sismondi, vol. xxii. pp. 410, 411.  Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 674, 675.

[315] Marie de Rohan-Montbazon was the daughter of Hercule de Rohan, Due de Montbazon, and of his first wife, Madeleine de Lenoncourt.  After the death of the Connetable de Luynes she married Claude de Lorraine, Due de Chevreuse, and became celebrated towards the close of the reign of Louis XIII, and during the minority of his successor, for her wit, her beauty, her profligacy, and her political intrigues.  She died at a very advanced age in the year 1679.

[316] Brienne, Mm. vol. i. p. 333.

[317] Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 675.  Sismondi, vol. xxii. pp. 430, 431.

[318] D’Hericourt, vol. i. p. 529.

[319] Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 678.