"I am of opinion that the Duke of La Valette be removed to be tried before the Parliament." "I will not have that; it is no opinion." "Sir, removal is a legitimate opinion." "Your opinion on the case!" rejoined the king, who was beginning to be angry; "if not, I know what I must do." President Bellievre was even bolder.

"It is a strange thing," said he to Louis XIII.'s face, to see a king giving his vote at the criminal trial of one of his subjects; hitherto kings have reserved to themselves the rights of grace, and have removed to their officers' province the sentencing of culprits.

Could your Majesty bear to see in the dock a nobleman, who might leave your presence only for the scaffold?
It is incompatible with kingly majesty." "Your opinion on the case!" bade the king.

"Sir, I have no other opinion." The Duke of La Valette had taken refuge in England: he was condemned and executed in effigy.

The attorney-general, Matthew Mold, "did not consider it his business to carry out an execution of that sort: "and recourse was obliged to be had to the lieutenant-governor of convicts at the Chatelet of Paris.
The cup had overflowed, and the cardinal resolved to put an end to an opposition which was the more irritating inasmuch as it was sometimes legitimate.