"Where have you left the king ?" asked the Duke of Longueville.

"At Pontoise, my lord; but he is by this time far advanced, and is to sleep to-night at Magny." "Where do you mean to quarter him here ?" asked the duke.

"In the house where you are, my lord." "It is right that I yield him place," said the duke, and the very same evening took the road back to the district of Caux.

It was under this aspect of public feeling that an embassy from the king and a pacific mission from Rome came, without any success, to Rangers, and that on the 4th of July, 1619, a fresh civil war between the king and the partisans of the queen-mother was declared.
It was short and not very bloody, though pretty vigorously contested.
The two armies met at Ponts de Ce; they had not, either of them, any orders or any desire to fight; and pacific negotiations were opened at La Fleche.

The queen-mother declared that she had made up her mind to live henceforth at her son's court, and that all she desired was to leave honorably the party with which she was engaged.