[ [369]"Une sainte et la mère des pauvres."—Mme de Motteville.
[ [370]Quoted by Mme. de Motteville with reference to this occasion.
[ [371]The Chaillot tradition, which is found in the MS. Histoire chronologique de tout l'ordre de la Visitation, 1693 (Bib. Mazarine, MS. 2436), and in La Vie de la très haute et très puissante Princesse Henrietta Marie de France, reine de la Grande Bretagne, of Cotolendi, who derived much of his information from the Chaillot nuns, places the scene of Henrietta's reception of the news of her husband's death in the Carmelite convent, and Cotolendi represents the King's letter as delivered on that occasion; but, Father Cyprien, in his account, says that the Queen was at the Louvre when she heard of her husband's fate, and though he is not always accurate, it seems probable that the scene of such an event would remain in his mind. Moreover, Madame de Motteville says no word of the Carmelite convent in this connection. It seems likely that the nuns of Chaillot confused the Queen's account of the reception of the news of her husband's death with that of his last letter. The above account has been written on this hypothesis; the letter which Cotolendi quotes was no doubt preserved with other memorials of the Queen among the Chaillot archives.
[ [372]John Ward: Diary, 1648-79 (1839), p. 161.
[ [373]"Exhortation de la Pucelle d'Orléans à tous les princes de la terre de faire une Paix générale tous ensemble pour venger la mort du roy d'Angleterre par une guerre toute particulière. A Paris. MDCXLIX."
[ [374]Fonds Français MS., 12,159. Remonstrances aux Parlementaires de la mort ignominieuse de leur roy dédiées a la Reyne d'Angleterre.
[ [375]The same argument is developed in a curious tract, which shows the rather cool attitude of some of the English Catholics to Charles, entitled, Nuntius a Mortuis, hoc est, stupendum ... ac tremendum colloquium inter Manes Henrici VIII et Caroli I Angliae Regum (1649).
[ [376]MS. Français, 12,159.
[ [377]Henrietta, even before the lesson of her husband's death, urged the Queen-Regent to show moderation. She prevailed upon her to receive the members of the rebellious Parliament on the day of Barricades.
[ [378]"Vous diriés que Dieu veut humilier les Roys et les princes. Il a commencé par nous en Engleterre; je le prie que la France ne nous suive pas, les affairs ysy alant tout le mesme chemin que les nostres."—Lettres de Henriette Marie à sa sœur Christine, p. 100.