Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Volume 2

Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France · 1615

The League.--War Declared against the Huguenots.--Queen Marguerite Sets out for Spa. At length my brother returned to Court, accompanied by all the Catholic nobility who had followed his fortunes. The King received him very graciously, and showed, by his reception of him, how much he was pleased at his return. Bussi, who returned with my brother, met likewise with a gracious reception. Le Guast was now no more, having died under the operation of a particular regimen ordered for him by his physician. He had given himself up to every kind of debauchery; and his death seemed the judgment of the Almighty on one whose body had long been perishing, and whose soul had been made over to the pri…

Read free — original

Or read it translated: 日本語 · 中文 · हिन्दी · Español · العربية · Français · বাংলা · Português · Русский · Bahasa Indonesia · اردو · Deutsch · Kiswahili · 한국어

Lindy Books — 63,242 public-domain books that survived, free forever. No ads, no accounts, no tracking. Browse the library