CHAPTER X.
1617 The Comte de la Pena--Anne of Austria and the orphan--Popular atrocities--The wages of crime--Submission of the Duc de Mayenne--Suspension of hostilities--The great nobles return to the capital--Louis refuses to be reconciled with his mother--Insolence of De Vitry--Generosity of the Duc de Rohan--Marie de Medicis resolves to retire from the Court--Richelieu offers to share her exile--He becomes the secret emissary of De Luynes--Gratitude of the deluded Queen--A parting interview--Marie de Medicis proceeds to Blois--Destitution of the Marechale d'Ancre--Her despair--Royal recreations--A fatal parallel--Madame de Conde requests permission to share the captivity of her husband--Trial of Madame d'Ancre--Her execution--Cupidity of De Luynes--Justice of the Grand Duke of Tuscany--Death of the President de Thou--Marriage of De Luynes with Mademoiselle de Montbazon--De Luynes is created duke and peer--Death of M.de Villeroy--Recall of the old ministers--Policy of De Luynes--His suspiciousness--His ambition--De Luynes lodges his brothers in the Louvre--The sign of "the Three Kings"-- Louis resolves to re-establish the Roman Catholic religion in Bearn, and to annex that principality to the Crown of France--Meeting of the _Notables_ at Rouen--The French march to the support of the Duke of Savoy.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES OF THE SECOND VOLUME Comte d'Anquien Princess-Dowager of Conde Duchesse de Mercoeur Marquise de Guercheville Due de Lesdiguieres Comtesse de Fervaques Comtesse du Fargis Ravaillac Duchesse de Sully Marechal de Brissac Cardinal Bentivoglio M.de Souvre Stefano Galigai M.de Thou M.Arnaud Pere Cotton Henri II, Duc de Longueville Duque de Feria Marechal de la Chatre Duc d'Elboeuf M.de Chateauvieux Marquis de Chateauneuf Marquis de Rambouillet Cardinal de Gonzaga M.de Breves M.de Brosse Comte de Buquoy Don Rodrigo Calderon Chevalier de Guise Duc de Luxembourg-Piney Cardinal de Gondy Cosmo, Grand Duke of Tuscany Duc de la Rochefoucauld Duc de Retz Bishop of Saintes M.de Verdun M.de Servin Comte de Brienne Baron du Pont-Saint-Pierre M.Miron M.Le Fevre M.de Rivault Comte de Laval Cardinal de Richelieu M.Le Jay Comte de Saint-Pol Duque d'Usseda M.Mangot M.de Puisieux M.Barbin Madame de Motteville Marquis de Themines M.de Saint-Geran.
M.Deageant Marechal de Schomberg Marechal d'Ornano Marquis de Bressieux M.de Rouvray Comte de Fiesque Jean Goujon Mlle.

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LOUIS XIII, KING OF FRANCE Engraved by Freeman from the Original by Lestang in the Versailles Gallery.
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