[26] Madame de Sully, the second wife of the Duke, was Rachel de Gochefilet, the daughter of Jacques, Seigneur de Vaucelas, and of Marie d'Arbalète. She was first married to François Hurault, Sieur de Châteaupers et du Marais, who died in 1590. She survived the Duc de Sully, and died in 1659, at the age of ninety-three years. The arrogance of this lady was so notorious that it became the subject of one of those biting epigrams for which Henri IV had rendered himself famous; for it is on record that upon an occasion when he was a guest at the table of the finance minister, he drank her health, accompanied by the following impromptu:-- "Je bois à _toi_, Sully; Mais j'ai failli; Je devois dire à _vous_, adorable Duchesse, Pour boire à vos appas Faut mettre chapeau bas." _Dictionnaire des Hommes Illustres_. [27] Bassompierre, _Mém_. p. 72. [28] Richelieu, _Hist. de la Mère et du Fils_, vol. i. p. 55. [29] Extracted from the Parliamentary Registers in the Memoirs of Phelipeaux de Pontchartrain, Secretary of the Orders of Marie de Medicis. [30] L'Etoile, vol. iv. p. 49. [31] _Mém. pour l'Hist. de France_, vol. ii. p. 359. [32] _Mercure Français_, 1611, p. 17. [33] Richelieu, _Hist. de la Mère et du Fils_, vol. i. p. 56. [34] Charles de Cossé, Comte de Brissac, Governor of Paris, in the year 1594 delivered up that city to Henri IV, by whom he was on that occasion raised to the dignity of Marshal of France. In 1626 Louis XIII erected his estate into a duchy-peerage, and in the following year he died Duc de Brissac. [35] Urbain de Laval, Marquis de Bois-Dauphin, was one of the four Marshals of France created by the Duc de Mayenne whose rank was subsequently confirmed by Henri IV. He was one of the original chiefs of the League. [36] Matthieu, _Hist. des Derniers Troubles_, 1610, pp. 446-453. [37] Bassompierre, _Mém._ p. 72. [38] Sully, _Mém._ vol. viii. p. 30. [39] Bassompierre, _Mém._ p. 72. [40] Richelieu, _Hist. de la Mère et du Fils_, vol. i. pp. 57-59. [41] Richelieu, _Hist. de la Mère et du Fils_, vol. i. pp. 83, 84. [42] L'Etoile, vol. iv. p. 155. [43] _Mercure Français_, 1610, vol. i. p. 492. [44] Matthieu, _Hist. des Derniers Troubles_, book iii. p. 454. [45] _Mém. de Henri, Duc de Rohan_, edit. Petitot. [46] The Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio, born in 1579, was descended from an illustrious Bolognese family, who had formerly been the sovereigns of that state, and had produced alike great warriors, renowned poets, and celebrated prelates. He was himself a distinguished diplomatist and an able writer. Literature is indebted to his pen for the _History of the Civil Wars of Flanders_, sundry _Memoirs_, and a _Narrative of Flanders_. He died in 1644. [47] _Mém. de la Régence de Marie de Medicis_, pp. 5-14. D'Estrées, _Mém_., édition Michaud, pp. 375, 376. [48] _Hist. de la Vie du Duc d'Epernon_, pp. 248, 249.