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A34770	The memoirs of the Count de Rochefort containing an account of what past most memorable, under the ministry of Cardinal Richelieu and Cardinal Mazarin, with many particular passages of the reign of Lewis the Great / made English from the French.; Mémoires de Mr. L. C. D. R. English	Courtilz de Sandras, Gatien, 1644-1712.; Rochefort, Charles-César, comte de.	1696 (1696)	Wing C6600; ESTC R20997	329,891	458

his interest to effect he promis'd to speak to my Mother-in-law about it and two days after he came home he sent me word that they would give their consents to what I propos'd provided I would do it without their disbursing any Money I admir'd or rather pity'd the sordid stupidity of these people who having no more Children as one might say should venture the loss of such an opportunity to advance their Daughter rather than part with about twenty thousand Franks purely from Covetuousness to say no worse of it for they wanted no Money the Cardinal having for my sake to pacifie my Mother-in-law for the death of my two Brothers permitted her to sell the Commission of the eldest which he had not dispos'd of thinking I had another Brother to whom he would have given it by which she got a good sum of Money and more than would have paid the Portion for my Sister However a little after I receiv'd another Letter which explain'd the former in which they told me that since I thought this so good a Match they desir'd me that I would not let it slip for want of a little of my assistance that I was in a condition able to do it and it would be but a small matter to me and for which my Sister would be eternally oblig'd to me I was damnably vext at this and so I gave them to understand and my passion appear'd so in my countenance that notwithstanding all the care I took to conceal it the Cardinal easily discover'd it and askt me what the reason of it was but fearing he should think it was only an artifice of mine to draw more Money from him I beg'd him to excuse me telling him 't was nothing but some of my private affairs not worth disturbing his Eminence with he was not satisfy'd with these reasons but thinking I equivocated with him he told me that he would have me tell him positively the business I defended my self still with the same pretence but the more he saw me unwilling to discover my self the more he prest me so I was forc't to tell him but at the same time told him my fears lest he should think I had a design upon him I thought said he presently 't was some business of vast consequence and is this all the matter Go continu'd he I give this also for your sake ●ut upon condition that you shan't call them your Children any more for methinks they are mine rather confidering what they cost me every day I could with all my soul have run into the fire for him if there had been occasion I had such a fence of his bounty and many favours to me but it being my misfortune to be only a poor useless fellow I contented my self to express my passion by my zeal for his service Thus my Sister was marry'd at last to the person that I had propos'd and liv'd several years with the greatest happiness in the world only that it pleas'd God she had no Children but about six years after her Husband was taken with a fit of Devotion and she who made it a pleasure to her to suit herself to his temper liv'd with him so piously that she became an example to the whole Province of Brettagne but both of them growing zealous to excess he turns Priest and she became a Vo●ary and while he was a kind of a Missionary in his own Country she retir'd into a Convent near Meulan to which she had been a Benefactrice A few days after the Cardinal had done this last favour for me he was seiz'd with so deep a melancholy that one could not know him almost to be the same person I could not forbear expressing to him my trouble for the condition I saw him in and the satisfaction which it would be to me to be instrumental to his recovery he spoke slightingly of it but yet I could perceive plainly enough there was something more than ordinary in it notwithstanding all the pains he took to conceal it from me for I had study'd his humour so well in that long time I had the honour to have belong'd to him that I knew his temper as perfectly as if I had been himself however after such an answer 't was my Duty to be silent tho I was sensibly afflicted to see that his discontent rather encreast every day To pass away these troublesom hours which held for two months at least I us'd to go to Luxemburgh to divert my self with a Lady who very well deserv'd my acquaintance and that I might not bring any scandal upon her I always left my men at the Market Gate and went alone on foot to her House One night as I came back to my Servants I saw a man go out at the Gate who I presently remember'd to have seen at Bruffels being a person whom I knew was employ'd in Intreigues of State the unseasonable hour of the night for 't was past two a clock made me imagine that a man of his character would not be so late abroad for nothing I presently acquainted the Cardinal who told me I was mightily to blame I did not follow him I told him I had a good mind to have done it but that he perceiv'd I knew him and I was loth to increase his suspicion he told me I had done well and pausing a while he askt me what manner of man he was enquiring of his age his statute his complexion and the like I gave him the best description of him I could and he immediately gave orders to all the Posts Carriers and Coaches to take notice if any such like man offer'd to go out of Town and laid men upon all the Roads if possible to apprehend him if he travell'd any other way I guest by all this that this very man was the cause of the Cardinals disturbance and seeing he intended to place a Centinel near Luxembourg I told him there was no body could be so proper for that Post as my self for that I knew him and he should not escape me he told me that was true but on the other hand he might know me too and so might mistrust something and avoid me to remove this objection and the thoughts of employing any other person I told him no body could know him so well by the bare description I had given of him as I could do with my own Eyes and therefore any other might suffer him to pass and not know him whereas in a disguise I had in my head I would defy him to know me let him be as cunning as he would he askt how I had contriv'd to disguise my self I told him I would dress my self up like a Beggar-man and laying my self down in the street like a poor Cripple I should have the advantage of looking every one that came by in the face he lik'd my project very well and would needs have a view of me in my Robes so I bought very privately a pair of old

Cardinal de Rets the Duke de Rohan and to Chavigny They all in a surprize come to the Duke of Orleans and ask him what in the Name of God he design'd to do to sign such an Agreement telling him that all the advantage was on the Prince de Conde's side who had not only been addrest to to negotiate with but to whom here were the greatest Concessions made That he was already possest of Offices enough in the Kingdom without suffering him thus to ingross all That his Ambition was insatiate tho he endeavour'd to palliate it That the care he took of the Inter●st of his Creatures p●oceeded not out of any good Nature he had to oblige them but out of the Necessity which he foresaw he might one day or other have of their Service That he himself was concern'd more than any one to hinder this increase of the Prince de Conde's power for after himself he was next Heir to the Crown That if he took not some speedy course to suppress his greatness 't wou'd be soon too late In short That they pray'd him to consider that on the concluding or breaking off of this Treaty depended the Prosperity of the State the Safety of his own Person and of the whole Nation But it was in other Terms that they spoke of this Treaty to the Dutchess of Orleans They represented to her that the design of the Prince of Conde was to possess himself of the Crown that in the Reputation he was with the People for his Victories his Usurpation would be less odious if not altogether agreeable that after which her Husband would certainly be confin'd to a Cloister if he were not kept a Prisoner all his Life in some other place that for her self she was not to expect a better fare than to live all her days in a Convent and it would hardly escape 'em but they would dispute the legitimacy of her Children because her Marriage had never been approv'd of but by force That the only remedy she had to prevent all these misfortunes was to break off the Treaty while they on their part did all that lay in their power to disengage the Duke her Husband from a person he had so much reason to suspect That she was particularly concern'd to take this care of him because he lov'd her tenderly of which he had given her sufficient proofs That they would not pretend to give her Instructions but if they might urge it without violating their respect to her they would then say that she ought to employ all her Charms to accomplish this design That the Bed was the most proper place to set upon one of her Husbands disposition that they had nothing more to say but to with her to make use of it as they were sensible she could do with success On this occasion these arguments wrought but too effectually on both of them They were hardly ever in private together that they had any other discourse and the Dutchess perceiving her Husband inclinable to receive all the imp●essions with which she had been prepossest pusht on the affair to that extremity that the Treaty was broke off without so much as any tolerable reason given by the Duke of Orleans The Prince of Conde than saw his Error in not following the Cardinals advice but since 't was now too late for any remedy he resolv'd on other measures and rais'd new Troops to begin a second Civil War The Cardinal having a mind to dispossess him of Montrond caus'd some Troops to march that way every one being in great expectation of what would be the event between the two Parties They were not long without Skirmishes and a Collonel of the Prince of Conde's Troops call'd Concressant being taken Prisoner by the Count de Bougi who Commanded in Bourges they were in a dispute how to treat him whether as a Rebel or as a Prisoner of War The Dutchess of Longueville who was in Montrond fearing lest they should use him as the latter writ to the Count de Bougi about it and having receiv'd an answer as civil as could be desir'd it was a very great encouragement to the Officers of both sides to expose themselves who before were in no small apprehensions on that account However this was no law to the Cardinal for he order'd another Officer that was taken to be hang'd but the Prince serving some of his in the same manner he forbore to use any more such Severity The Duke of Orleans for all the jealousy he had entertain'd of the Prince did not yet separate from his Interests to which he was retain'd by many considerations he had rais'd some Troops as well as he and gave them to the Command of the Duke de Beaufort I serv●d him in the quality of Aide de Camp all the Campaign and so constantly attended him that no body can be better acquainted with all that happen'd to him than my self He had been so persecuted by the new Minister that the Parisians lookt on him as irreconcileable and this resemblance of his Sentiments with their own join'd with some popular ways which he had made him so agreeable to them that they seem'd not content to love him but something more even to adore him The Fish-Wives above all were those that made the most shew of their kindness for him These every day were making him Presents and upon all occasions were the first to run to get a sight of him in publick Upon this he was call'd in derision the King of the Mobb But all their kindness was nothing to that of one of those honest Women I am going to tell you of she comes to him one morning and brings with her a young Girl of about Seventeen or Eighteen a sweet pretty Creature and told him that having no more Children in the World she should think her self the happiest body that could be if his Grace would do her Daughter the honour not only to lye with her but to get her with Child The Duke de Beaufort was not like his Father who was thought to be a greater lover of Men than of Women So he told her very pleasantly that he was mighty glad to oblige her and would engage for the one tho he could not be certain of the other yet he would do his best to gratify her in that too and at the same time to shew her that he design'd to be as good as his word he took and led her Daughter into his Chamber where after he had lain with her he sent them both home very well pleas'd with their Entertainment This Prince had a Sister married to the Duke de Nemours a Person of a thousand good Qualities with never a bad one The Prince of Conde having occasions that call'd him into the Province of Guienne which had declar'd in his Favour gave the Duke de Nemours the Command of his Troops with orders to act in Concert with those of the Duke de Beaufort If the