When she had subsequently become the wife of the Duc de Deux-Ponts, Henry IV was so enamoured of her as to make dishonourable proposals, to which she replied by the memorable answer: "I am too poor, Sire, to be your wife, and too well-born to become your mistress." [42] Diane de Luxembourg, who, in 1600-1, gave her hand to Louis de Ploesqueler, Comte de Kerman, in Brittany.
[43] Mademoiselle de Guemenee was the daughter of Louis de Rohan, Prince de Guemenee, first Duc de Montbazon.
[44] Sully, _Mem_.

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162-174.
[45] Denys de Marquemont, Archbishop of Lyons, and subsequently cardinal (1626).

He did not, however, long enjoy this dignity, to obtain which he had exerted all his energies, as he died at the close of the same year.
He was a truckling politician, and an ambitious priest.
[46] Arnaud d'Ossat was born in 1536 at Cassagnaberre, a small village of Armagnac, near Auch.

His parents lived in great indigence during his infancy, and at nine years of age he became an orphan, totally destitute.