 | George Payne Rainsford James - 1836 - 222 pages
...refractory parliament. The deliberations which preceded this step, and the execution of the queen's evasion itself, were conducted with the greatest secrecy;...days would be enough to reduce the town by famine. • This appears from a letter of the regent, addressed to the Prevot des Marchands, &c. and dated... | |
 | William Henley Jervis - France - 1881 - 818 pages
...Duke of Orleans, and the rest of the royal family, retired secretly from Paris to St. Germains ; and a lettre de cachet was sent to the Parliament, commanding it to transfer its sittings to Montargis. This step threw Paris again into a state of tumult ; the Parliament... | |
 | William Henley Jervis - 1882 - 762 pages
...Duke of Orleans, and the rest of the royal family, retired secretly from Paris to St. Germains ; and a lettre de cachet was sent to the Parliament, commanding it to transfer its sittings to Montargis. This step threw Paris again into a state of tumult ; the Parliament... | |
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January 5th, 1649. itself, were conducted with the greatest secrecy ; so that while the turbulent Parisians fancied the court fully occupied with the festivities of Christmas, Mazarin, the prince de Conde, who was now more friendly to the regent, the... 