LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
On the Road to Calais (see p. 4) [Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
The Fortune-Teller, after Arnoult [36]
A French Coquette at her Toilet-Table [66]
The Duchess of Portsmouth as a Leader of Fashion [70]
"L'Anglais," Popular Representation of an Englishman, c. 1670, after Bonnart [74]
A Scheme of the Persecution [100]
Jean Claude, the Huguenot Divine [120]
Louis XIV. destroys Heretical Books [140]
"Nouvelles ordinaires de Londres," Number I [156]
At Versailles, after Bonnart [164]
The French Tailor, after Arnoult [168]
Pierre Bayle, Refugee and Man of Letters [204]
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay, Secretary of State, 1690, after Mignard [222]
ANGLO-FRENCH ENTENTE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER I
From Paris to London under the Merry Monarch
"The French," wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "are the most travelled people. The English nobility travel, the French nobility do not; the French people travel, the English people do not." Strange as the fact appears, our forefathers in the seventeenth century, even as in the eighteenth, wandered over England as well as Spain or Italy, but they drew up their wills before setting out.
The nobility travelled little; only a royal injunction would cause a gentleman to forsake Versailles; the ambassadors left with reluctance. But there followed a suite of attachés, secretaries, and valets. One day, Secretary Hughes de Lionne had a mind to send his son to London. The young marquis was entrusted to the charge of three grave ambassadors; good advice therefore he did not lack, and we must believe his journey was not altogether distasteful as he was seen to weep when the day came for him to return.[1]