Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois — Volume 2 [Court memoir series]

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Title: The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Volume II.
Author: Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre
Release Date: September 27, 2006 [EBook #3839]
Language: English
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MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE
MEMOIRS OF MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
MEMOIRS OF MARGUERITE DE VALOIS QUEEN OF NAVARRE
Written by Herself
Being Historic Memoirs of the Courts of France and Navarre
BOOK II.
LETTER XIII.
The League.—War Declared against the Huguenots.—Queen Marguerite Sets out for Spa.
At length my brother returned to Court, accompanied by all the Catholic nobility who had followed his fortunes. The King
received him very graciously, and showed, by his reception of him, how much he was pleased at his return. Bussi, who
returned with my brother, met likewise with a gracious reception. Le Guast was now no more, having died under the
operation of a particular regimen ordered for him by his physician. He had given himself up to every kind of debauchery;
and his death seemed the judgment of the Almighty on one whose body had long been perishing, and whose ...