Meantime the people cried:
"Long live the King!"
"Sire," said one of the Court lords, "see how all your people rejoices to see you."
Henry, shaking his head:
"What a people it is. If my greatest enemy were here where I am and it saw him pass, it would do for him as much as for me and would shout still louder."
A Leaguer, seeing the King huddled at the back of his carriage, said:
"There he is already at the cart's tail."
Does it not seem to you as though that Leaguer were speaking of Louis XVI. going from the Temple to the scaffold?
On Friday the 14th of May 1610, returning from the Feuillants with Bassompierre and the Duc de Guise, the King said to them: