[189] Gaston d'Orléans, _Mém_. p. 148. [190] Le Clerc, vol. ii. pp. 86, 87. Le Vassor, vol. vii. pp. 249, 250. [191] Mézeray, vol. xi. p. 418. [192] Le Vassor, vol. vii. pp. 442-445. Le Clerc, vol. ii. pp. 92-94. Mézeray, vol. xi. pp. 422, 423. [193] _Extrait des Registres du Parlement de Bourgogne_, Année 1633. MSS. de la Bibliothèque Royale. [194] Pierre Séguier, a nephew of Pierre Séguier (the president _à mortier_ of the Parliament of Paris), born in 1588, made Keeper of the Seals in 1633, and died in 1672. [By a clerical oversight in the first edition this honour was conferred upon his uncle fifty-three years after his death!] [195] Mézeray, vol. xi. pp. 423-425. [196] Gaston d'Orléans, _Mém_. pp. 149-152. [197] Siri, _Mém. Rec_. vol. vii. pp. 685-687. Le Vassor, vol. vii. pp. 1-4. [198] Le Vassor, vol. vii. pp. 6-9. Mézeray, vol. xi. pp. 428, 429. Le Clerc, vol. ii. pp. 122, 123. [199] Capefigue, vol. v. pp. 223, 224. [200] Le Clerc, vol. ii. pp. 123, 124. [201] Le Vassor, vol. vii. book xxxv. pp. 248-251. [202] Francisco de Moncade, Marqués d'Ayetona, Condé d'Osuna, was born at Valencia in 1586; he was successively Councillor of State, Governor of the Low Countries, and generalissimo of the Spanish armies. He died in 1635. [203] Sismondi, vol. xxiii. p. 240. CHAPTER XI 1634 Increasing trials of the exiled Queen--Her property is seized on the frontier--She determines to conciliate the Cardinal--Richelieu remains implacable--Far-reaching ambition of the minister--Weakness of Louis XIII--Insidious arguments of Richelieu--Marie de Medicis is again urged to abandon her adherents--Cowardly policy of Monsieur--He signs a treaty with Spain--The Queen-mother refuses to join in the conspiracy--Puylaurens induces Monsieur to accept the proffered terms of Richelieu--He escapes secretly from Brussels---Gaston pledges himself to the King to "love the Cardinal"--Gaston again refuses to repudiate his wife--Puylaurens obtains the hand of a relative of the minister and becomes Duc de Puylaurens--Monsieur retires to Blois. The early months of the year 1634 were passed by Marie de Medicis in perpetual mortification and anxiety. The passport which she had obtained for the free transport of such articles of necessity as she might deem it expedient to procure from France was disregarded, and her packages were subjected to a rigorous examination on the frontier; an insult of which she complained bitterly to Louis, declaring that if the Cardinal sought by such means to reduce her to a more pitiable condition than that in which she had already found herself, and thus to bend her to his will, the attempt would prove fruitless; as no amount of indignity should induce her to humble herself before him.