Discourses on Davila.
NO. XXIII. — COKTIKtiB.
Uti Unique regem, fua multitudo conialutavcraf.
THE regent ancl the Cohllable, matters of the
person and authority of the King, held the
balance in the middle. The Conitable was in
deed much opposed to Calvinism, and attached
to the Catholic religion ; his af
fection for his nephews, and the love of peace,
induced liini to consent to make use of manage
ment in matters of religion, until the Kingfhould
arrive afhis majority. But to corroborate more
and more;, the authority of the young monarch,
though a minor, those who held the reins of go
vernment thought proper to conducft him to
Reims, where they prelerve with veneration, ths
Phial which a pigeon brought down f> oni heaven,full
of holy id, with which Clovis was anointed and con
secrated.
During the ceremony of consecration, there
arose a new contest concerning precedency, be
tween the Princes of the blood and the Duke of
Cttije. The former j>retende4 that it was due to
their birth. The Duke on his llde demanded it,
as firft peer ofFrance. The council'pf State de
cided it in favor of the Duke of Guise, because the
presence of the peers ofFrance, who are twelve
in number, fixeccleflaftical and fix laical, was
ceflary in this ceremony ; whereas, the Princes
of the blood, who have 110 function to discharge
in it, may dispense with their attendance. This
light fpaik served to inkindle and embitter more
and more, the spirits of all parties. The Admi
ral and Prince of Conde had set every machine in
motion todraw in the Conftableto theirintereft :
They were powerfully seconded by the Marshal
of Montmorenci, his eldest son, who was Itricftly
connected with them. The Constable, always
firm in his resolutions, could not determine to
dishonor his old age, by placing himfelf at the
head of a party, nor by leagueing himfelf with
those whom he thought new enemies of religion.
The Admiral, always fruitful in resources and
expedients, imagined one at this time, calculated
ta bring the Conitable into their views, by ways
more indirect. There was then held at Pontoife,
an aflembly of some deputies of the Provinces, to
deliberate upon the means of acquitting the iin
menfe debts, which the crown had contra>fled in
the last wars. The Marihal of Montmorenci pre
fitled in it. There were also some friends of the
Admiral. He made use of them, to bring upon
the carpet, whatever he thought proper. The
Coiigtiies and the Prince of Condi, there demanded,
by the organ of their confidents, that tlieyfhould
oblige all those who had received benefits orgra
tifications, from the Kings Francis Ift and Henry
lid, to report them to the royal treasury, pre
tending, that a calculation being made, without
inipofing new burthens, they might, extinguish
the greatelt part of the debt, which both within
and without the kingdom, cruflied the state and
individuals.
Those who liacl received the greatest benefac
tions from the late Kings, were tlie Guises, Diana
of Valentijiois, the Marshal Saint Andre, and the
Constable. They were desirous indeed of hum
bling the former : but as to the latter, they meant
only to inspire him with fears and jealouiies, and
to force him to join the party of the Piinces;
that he might not expose liiinfelf to lose the fruit
offo many years of services and toils. The ani
rnofity of faction was so lively, that the Colignics
were not afraid to excite in their uncle those cha
grins, and inquietusles. But this ltep had the
ordinary fortune of deligns too subtle and too re
fined. It produced an efFect directly contrary to
that which was intended. The proposition a
mounted to nothing less, than to take away from
the Constable and the Guises, the greatest part of
their property. Diana, of Valentinois, with
whom boih parties had formed alliances, began
to fecondthe Constable, concerningthis research,
which interested them equally. She concerted
her plan with art, or a kind of prudence, which
is not uncommon in women of her character ; her
aversion for the Queen, and her fears of loftng
all the gains of her trade, made her think that
the true means of her fafety,would be to allure the
Constable into the party of the Catholic religion,
and a closer connection with the Guises. She
launched out into inve<ftives against the Admiral
and the Prince of Conde, whom ihe considered as
the authors of the proposition made at the afiem
bly atPontoife ; Ihe deplored the miferiesof the
state, whose government, in the hands of a child
and a foreign woman, was the instrument of per
nicious councils, to foment the ambition andgra
tify the paflions of certain individuals, to whom
were facrificed the fafety and tranquility of the
kingdom ; into which they introduced, without
lhame, Heresies condemned by the Church, and
against which the late Kings, with just severity,
had employed fire and sword. She added, with
the fame-vivacity, and sincerity, that all France
was aftoniflied and enraged, to fee, that a Mailt
morenci, whose house had been the firft of the
whole nation to embrace Christianity ; that a
man, who for so long a time had filled the firft
office in tlie state, ihonld atprefent allow hu.ifelf
to be faf'cinated by the artifices of a wo;man ,
that, a slave to her caprices, and to the ""P.
information of the King of Navarre, fie co,lfe " e
ed to ali their enterpnzes again!* religion,
reinonftrated to the Con (table, that laving
arms and the power in his hands, he was
penfibly obliged to oppose the dd g
of governm enr, and to watch Itill, as he
so many times before, over the confervanon ofa
tottering throne, and a religion wholly forfaken.
She recalled to his recollection thaf ancient con
dud; which had procured him so much glory, in
oppolino- the aggrandizement of grangers, biie
flared him that he would not fufFer two women,
one all Italian, the other of Navarre, to ruin t »e
principal foundations of the French Monarchy,
that is to fay, religion and piety ; to remember
that the regent was the fame Catharine, whole
conduct he had always censured, and whose cha
racter he detested ; that the Hugonots werethofe
fame feftaries, whom he h'ad so eagerly perfect
ed under Henry lid j that neither the persons
nor the nature of things were changed ;
whole world would believe, that enfeebled by
age, he let himfelf be guided, either by the ambi
tion or caprice of others, since he appeared so
different from what he had been. Such was the
language of Diana, and who so propel" as an har
lot, tp prostitute religion to the purposes of am
"■bition, avarice, and faction. The only wonder
is, that these discourses of the Dutchefs, which
ftie took care frequently to repeat, began to make
an impreflion on the Constable. Sometimes an
indignation against his nephews, sometimes the
apprehensions oflofing his fortune,and sometimes
his hatred against Calvinism, so disposed him to
listen to the Dutchefs, that at length her insinu
ations, together with those of Magdalen of Savoy,
his wife, succeeded to detach him from the party
of the Queen. This Magdalen saw with vexation
the unbounded favors granted to the Goligiiiss,
which ihe wished might he confered on her bro
ther Honore, of Savoy, Marquis of Villars. Thus
her jealonfy negletfied nothing to serve the latter,
and to hurt the nephews of her husband. Diana
also, engaged the Marfhaldc Saint Andre to second
her in this negotiation. The fear of losing his
fortune, the violent hatred which he conceived
against the Colignies, and the plausible pretext of
prefervingtlie Catholic faith, urged him to em
ploy his influence with the Constable in favor of
the Crutfcs ; who, as soon as they were informed
of it, omitted neither artifices, fubmiflions nor in
trigues, to compleat the conquest ; hoping by this
means to re-establish their power, or at least to
recover a great part of it. The Marshal of Mont
morenci was theonly one who could croft this ne
gotiation. But Diana, his wife, having fallen
sick at Chantilly, he was obliged to leave his fa
ther, to attend her. The Guift.<, difembarrafled
of this obftaclt, put tbe last hand to their agree
ment with the Constable, for the preservation of
the Catholic religion and the mutual defence of
their fortunes. (To be continued.)
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