The Seventeenth Century in France by Jacques Boulenger

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Excerpt from The Seventeenth Century As the noise increased in the most extraordinary way, Marie herself tells us later, I sent Mme. De Montpensier to Accession of find out what it meant, and I began to fear some louis xiu accident had befallen my son, and that he was dead. My alarm increased when I saw Mme. De Montpensier suddenly close the door and turn round to me, her face blanched with terror - for she had seen the King lying dead. And to all my agonized questions as to my son's fate show more she would give no satisfactory reply, but contented herself with telling me Your son is not dead.' I determined to see what was causing all this confusion for myself I Opened the door of my cabinet, and just as I was coming out of my room I beheld, besides the persons already there, over two hundred naked swords coming in, and M. De Praslin, one of the four Captains of the Guard, turned to me and cried Oh, Madame We are lost ' And just at that moment I saw the King laid upon his bed. She adds that she very nearly fainted. It is possible: but the murder of her husband made her mistress of his kingdom, and that fact, apparently, prevented her from fainting out right. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. show less