Within a few days only after the decease of Louis XIII. that same Parliament which had enrolled his will reformed it. The Queen-Regent was freed from every fetter and restriction, and invested with almost absolute sovereignty; the ban was removed from the proscribed couple so solemnly denounced, Châteauneuf’s prison doors were thrown open, and Madame de Chevreuse quitted Brussels triumphantly, with a cortége of twenty carriages, filled with lords and ladies of the highest rank in that Court, to return once more to France and to the side of her royal friend and mistress.
FOOTNOTES:
[8] This nobleman died at Rome in December, 1867, at the age of sixty-five, having gone thither to aid the Pope against the Garibaldians.
[9] Tallement des Réaux.
[10] Mdme. de Motteville.
[11] Mémoires, Petitot’s Collection, 2nd series, vol. li. p. 339.
[12] Archives des Affaires Étrangères; France, tom. CI.
[13] Archives des Affaires Étrangères; France, tom. cii. Inedited Memoir of Richelieu.
[14] Archives des Affaires Étrangères, France, tom. CI.