This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...a midnight audience at St. Denis, that the ambassador might deliver a message from queen Elizabeth, who warmly interested herself in the welfare of king Antoine, and his noble consort. It was entirely owing to the entreaties of Conde that Antoine even now consented to admit Elizabeth's ambassador.. So entirely had he ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...a midnight audience at St. Denis, that the ambassador might deliver a message from queen Elizabeth, who warmly interested herself in the welfare of king Antoine, and his noble consort. It was entirely owing to the entreaties of Conde that Antoine even now consented to admit Elizabeth's ambassador.. So entirely had he become impressed with a 1 La Planche, Hist, de l'Etat de France, &c, p, 20. De Thou. Commentaires de l'estat de la religion et republique, par le president la Place. conviction of the charmed fortunes of the Guises, that it even irritated him to hear their downfal projected. The message sent to Antoine by queen Elizabeth, stated in general terms "the esteem which her Britannic majesty felt for his virtues.; her wish to form an alliance with him for the honour of God; and her trust that by yielding mutual assistance to each other, they might prevent their enemies from injuring the cause of God, and of true religion." With ludicrous promptness, king Antoine replied, "that he should be happy to accept so illustrious an ally in so sacred a cause; but that for greater security, he would correspond directly on the matter with the queen herself."1 The intrigues of the Bourbon princes, meantime, escaped not the watchful eyes of the cardinal de Lorraine. Antoine was still sojourning at St. Denis, when a missive reached him, containing a peremptory summons to follow the king to Rheims, where his majesty was about to proceed for his coronation. All the princes were commanded to attend the august ceremony,3 and required to submit to the position and precedence allotted to them. The cardinal de Lorraine thought his triumph over the princes incomplete, until their humiliation was participated in by the queen of Navarre. Catherine, the...
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