30/59 The young couple resigned themselves without any difficulty to this exile, and retired to Villers-Cotterets." [_Histoire de Marie Stuart,_ by Jules Gauthier, t.i. p. 36.] Whilst preparations were being made at Paris for the rejoicings in honor of the union of the two royal children, war broke out in Picardy and Flanders. had landed there with an army of forty-seven thousand men, of whom seven thousand were English. |