[201] Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 439, 440. Mézeray, vol. xi. pp. 98, 99. D'Estrées, _Mém_. p. 408. [202] Nicolas Le Jay, Baron de Tilly, etc., Keeper of the Seals, and First President of the Parliament of Paris. He rendered important services both to Henri IV and Louis XIII, and acquired great celebrity as a learned scholar and an upright minister. He died in 1640. [203] Richelieu, _Mém_. book vi. pp. 268-272. [204] Matthieu, _Hist, des Derniers Troubles_, p. 550. [205] Fontenay-Mareuil, _Mém_. pp. 290-298. [206] Henri, Duc de la Ferté de Sénectère, Comte de Saint-Pol et de Châteauneuf, Vicomte de Lestrange et de Cheylard, Baron de Boulogne et de Privas, Seigneur de Saint-Marsal, de Ligny, de Dangu, de Précy, etc. [207] Sismondi, vol. xxii. p. 348. [208] Mézeray, vol. xi. pp. 101, 102. Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 464. [209] The Duque d'Usseda was the son of the Duque de Lerma. [210] Sismondi, vol. xxii. p. 351. [211] Sismondi, vol. xxii. pp. 352-354. [212] _Mercure Français,_ 1615. De Rohan, _Mém_. book i. Mézeray, vol. xi. pp. 105, 106. [213] Le Vassor, vol. i. pp. 498, 499. _Vie du Duc d'Epernon_, book vii. _Mercure Français_, 1616. Bassompierre, _Mém_. p. 110. [214] Mademoiselle d'Entragues, who had endeavoured to compel Bassompierre to fulfil the promise of marriage which he had made to her. [215] The colonel-generalship of the Swiss Guards. [216] The Princesse de Conti, whom he privately married. [217] The Cardinal de Richelieu, who was exasperated at his marriage, and through whose agency Bassompierre incurred his subsequent disgrace and long imprisonment in the Bastille. [218] Rambure, MS. _Mém_. vol. vi. pp. 380-386. [219] Conference of Loudun at the close of the _Mém_. of Philippeau de Pontchartrain, vol. vii. p, 315. [220] Richelieu, _Mém_. vol. vii. p. 287. Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 450. [221] Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 509. Richelieu, _Mém_. book vii. p. 288. Pontchartrain, _Conférence de Loudun,_ p. 406. Rohan, _Mém_. p. 134. D'Estrées, _Mém_. p. 411. [222] Richelieu, _Hist. de la Mère et du Fils_, vol. ii. p. 14. [223] Sismondi, vol. xxii. p. 361. [224] Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 514. [225] D'Estrées, _Mém_. p. 411. [226] Sismondi, vol. xxii. p. 363. [227] Claude Mangot, President of the Parliament of Bordeaux, and Assistant-Secretary of State. [228] Pierre Brulart, Seigneur de Puisieux, son of Nicolas Brulart, Seigneur de Sillery et de Puisieux en Champagne, Chancellor of France, was Secretary of State. In 1622 he took Montpellier, and died in 1640. [229] M. Barbin was Comptroller of the Household of the Queen-mother. "A man of little consequence," says Philippeau de Pontchartrain; "but upright, and well versed in business." [230] Rohan, _Mém_. book i. _Mém. de la Régence de Marie de Medicis_.