[142] Letter of Pisani to Villeroy, 5 March, 1598, cited by the Duc d’Aumale.
[143] The Abbey of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, situated a little beyond the Bois de Vincennes, had been secularized in 1533, and afterwards sold to Catherine de’ Medici, from whose executors the Dowager-Princesse de Condé had recently purchased it. It afterwards became one of the favourite country-seats of the Condés.
[144] Cardinal Bentiviglio, “Relazioni.”
[145] By his second wife, Louise de Budos, a woman of middling birth, but of such extraordinary beauty that some persons attributed it to supernatural agency.
[146] “Relazioni.”
[147] Maréchal de Bassompierre, “Mémoires.”
[148] The Dowager-Princesse de Condé was, through her mother, a niece of the Constable.
[149] L’Estoile.
[150] “Mon ami—M. le Prince (Condé) est icy qui faict le diable; vous seriez en colère et auriez honte des choses qu’il dit de moi; enfin, la patience m’échappera et je me resous de bien parler à lui” (Henri IV. to Sully, 9 June, 1609).
[151] André Chénier, “les Poésies de Malherbe.”