write that "from the Queen of England we must hope nothing except propositions hurtful to religion, since she is entirely in the hands of Jermyn, Digby, and other heretics."[366] * * * * * "He perished for lack of knowing the truth," said Henrietta once of her husband, with a flash of insight not often given to her. That which was true of Charles was true of her also; she was her father's daughter, and she desired to know the truth, and she was accustomed to say that the chief need of princes was faithful counsellors who would declare it to them; but to such knowledge she could not reach. Her schemes, with all their ingenuity, failed one after another because she was unable to grasp the conditions in which she worked, or to read the motives and characters of the people with whom she had to deal. She lived in a world of unreality built up of the love which she bore to her husband, which made her as unable to understand that the restoration of Charles Stuart to the throne he had lost was not the main object of the diplomacy of Europe, as she was to appreciate the fact that such negotiations as those which she, the Queen of a Protestant country, carried on with the Pope and the Catholics of Europe were more fatal to him than the swords or the malice of his enemies. [Footnote 308: Loret: _La Muse Historique_ (1859), t. II, p. 393.] [Footnote 309: One of them was René Chartier, an elderly man, who had attended several members of the royal family; he was the translator of Galen and Hippocrates. G. Patin: _Lettres._] [Footnote 310: Green: _Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria_, p. 253.] [Footnote 311: Birchley: _Christian Moderator_ (1652), p. 20.] [Footnote 312: In 1642 the Queen accepted the dedication of _The Flaming Heart, or the Life of the Glorious S. Teresa_, published at Antwerp; it is a translation of the saint's autobiography.] [Footnote 313: A. à Wood: _Fasti Oxonienses_ (1691), II, p. 688.] [Footnote 314: See Appendix VII.] [Footnote 315: Green: _Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria_, p. 264.] [Footnote 316: Sabran Negotiations, Add. MS., 5460.] [Footnote 317: This letter is found _in extenso_. MS. Dupuy, 642.] [Footnote 318: The Earl of Bristol and George, Lord Digby.] [Footnote 319: The relations between Henrietta and Goring, on the one hand, and the discontented French on the other, are mentioned in the _Carnets de Mazarin_, published in V. Cousin: _Mme de Chevreuse._] [Footnote 320: Mazarin, in a letter of 1651, speaks of "plus de trois mille livres prestées à la reyne d'Angleterre des occasions où elle étoit reduite en grandes necessitez."--Chéruel: _Lettres de Mazarin_, IV, p. 221.]