A strange adventure--Bassompierre sent as Ambassador Extraordinary to Lorraine to represent Henri IV at the marriage of the Duke of Bar and Margherita di Gonzaga--He returns to Paris and orders a gorgeous suit, which is to cost fourteen thousand crowns, for the baptism of the Dauphin and Madame Élisabeth, though he has only seven hundred in his purse--He wins enough at play to pay for it--Charles III of Lorraine writes to request his presence at the Estates of Lorraine--Henri IV refuses him permission to leave France, but he sets out notwithstanding this--He is arrested by the King’s orders at Meaux, but set at liberty on his promising to return to Court--He is allowed to leave for Lorraine a few days later--Affair of the Prince de Joinville and Madame de Moret. About the middle of June of that year, Henri IV despatched Bassompierre as Ambassador Extraordinary to Lorraine, to represent him at the marriage of the Duke of Bar (whose first wife, Catherine de Bourbon, had died in 1604) to Margherita di Gonzaga, daughter of Vincenzo I, Duke of Mantua, and Eleanor de’ Medici, sister of the Queen; and, at the same time to request the Duchess of Mantua to become godmother to the dauphin, and the Duke of Lorraine godfather to Madame Élisabeth, eldest daughter of the King. Bassompierre accordingly left Fontainebleau for Paris, where he met with another love-adventure, which delayed his departure for Lorraine for several days, and which we shall allow him to relate himself, since--to borrow his own words--“though it was not of great consequence, it was, nevertheless, extravagant”: