[131] _Monsieur_ had returned to France at the beginning of February, 1630, after the King had granted him the duchy of Valois, as an addition to his appanage, the lieutenancy-general in the Orléanais, and a large sum of money. [132] Henri Auguste de Loménie, Seigneur de la Ville-aux-Clercs, Secretary of State. [133] Charles Guillemeau, physician-in-ordinary to the King. [134] With the Queen-Mother. [135] For Versailles. [136] See p. 402 _supra_. [137] Jean d’Armaignac, one of the King’s _valets de chambre_. [138] “On the morrow, the Maréchal de Bassompierre, who had come to Senlis to meet the King, was arrested in the morning by de Launay, lieutenant of the Gardes du Corps, and brought by the Musketeers and the Light Horse of the King to the Bastille. He was very much regretted in Paris on account of his open-heartedness and good-nature. He was the least distressed by it of all, and took his misfortune as a jest. He was imprisoned, not so much for what he had done as for what he might do.”--Copy of a journal of the Court in the Godefroy collection, cited by the Marquis de Chantérac. _Mémoires du Maréchal de Bassompierre_ (Édition Société de l’Histoire de France). [139] Charles Le Clerc, Seigneur du Tremblay, younger brother of Père Joseph. [140] Montmorency met his death with calm resignation and Christian fortitude, and, after hearing his sentence, begged that the time of his execution might be hastened by two hours, in order that he might die at the same hour as his Saviour. As a proof that he died with no feeling of resentment against Richelieu, he bequeathed to the Cardinal a painting of the martyrdom of St. Sebastian, one of the finest pictures in his possession. [141] Madame de Motteville, _Mémoires_. [142] _Ibid._ [143] Nicole Henriette de Bassompierre. [144] Anne Mangot, Seigneur de Villarceaux. He was Intendant of justice and Finance in the Three Bishoprics. [145] Not long after this, the Cardinal asked Bassompierre for the loan of the house with the magnificence of which he had taunted him. It is needless to say that the request was granted, though the marshal was obliged to turn out the Duchesse de Nemours, to whom he had lent it. [146] In the summer of 1636, an army of Spaniards and Netherlanders invaded Picardy, crossed the Somme, took Corbie and threatened Paris, in which for a time the greatest alarm prevailed. [147] The Comte de Cramail had been arrested and brought to the Bastille in 1638. He had been so ill-advised as to speak against the Cardinal in the presence of the King. [148] Marie Criton d’Estourmel, dame de Gravelle. Tallemant des Réaux asserts that she had, while in the Bastille, where she remained several years, an amourette with Bassompierre. [149] Son of Saint-Luc and the marshal’s sister, Henriette de Bassompierre. [150] The Governor of the Bastille was allowed thirty-six livres a day for the maintenance of a marshal of France.