Charles’s high-handed action was, as might have been expected, deeply resented by the Court of France. “The King of England,” says Bassompierre, “sent the millord Carleton to make the King and the Queen-Mother agree to what he had done. He was very badly received.” Louis XIII told Carleton that his sister had been treated cruelly, and that he proposed to send an Ambassador of his own to England, in the person of the Maréchal de Bassompierre, to investigate the affair. When he had received his report, he would decide what action he would take in the matter; and from this resolution Carleton was unable to move him. On August 24 the Court left Nantes to return to Paris. Shortly after its arrival in the capital, Charles sent Walter Montague to France to offer his felicitations to the Royal family on the marriage of _Monsieur_. Louis XIII, however, refused to receive him, and sent orders to him “to make the best of his way back,” and, at the same time, pressed Bassompierre to set out for England with as little delay as possible. CHAPTER XXXIV Bassompierre arrives in England--His journey to London--He is visited secretly by the Duke of Buckingham--He visits the duke in the same manner at York House--Charles I commands him to send Père de Sancy back to France--Singular history of this ecclesiastic--Refusal of Bassompierre--His first audience of Charles I and Henrietta Maria at Hampton Court--Firmness of Bassompierre on the question of Père de Sancy--He visits the Queen at Somerset House--His private audience of the King--He reproves the presumption of Buckingham--Admirable qualities displayed by Bassompierre in the difficult situation in which he is placed--He succeeds in effecting a reconciliation between the King and Queen--His able and eloquent speech before the Council--An agreement on the question of the Queen’s French attendants is finally arrived at--Lord Mayor’s Day three centuries ago--Bassompierre reconciles the Queen with Buckingham--Stormy scene between Charles I and Henrietta Maria at Whitehall--Bassompierre speaks his mind to the Queen--Intrigues of Père de Sancy--Peace is re-established--Magnificent fête at York House--Departure of Bassompierre from London--He is detained at Dover by bad weather--England and France on the verge of war--Buckingham decides to proceed to France on a special mission and proposes to accompany Bassompierre--Embarrassment of the latter--He visits the duke at Canterbury and persuades him to defer his visit--A disastrous Channel passage--Return of Bassompierre to Paris--Refusal of the Court of France to receive Buckingham--An English historian’s appreciation of Bassompierre.