prophecies must prove correct and will be
quoted as miracles, while all the false ones will be studiously
forgotten."

The young nobles received the rebuke in silence; but the inexplicable
accident which had just occurred was sufficient in so superstitious an
age to arouse the liveliest forebodings in the minds of those by whom it
was witnessed.[430]

FOOTNOTES:

[391] Mademoiselle de Montmorency was the daughter of Henri, first of
the name, Duc de Montmorency, Marshal and Constable of France,
celebrated in the history of the civil wars under the name of Damville,
who died on the 2nd of April 1614, and of Louise de Budos, his second
wife, who had, on her appearance at Court, attracted the attention of
the King. This lady, who became the wife of the Connetable in 1593, died
in 1598. Charlotte Marguerite was born in 1594, and was consequently but
fifteen years of age when she entered the household of the Queen.

[392] Bentivoglio, _Della Fuga del Principe di Conde_.

[393] Bassompierre, _Mem_. p. 53.

[394] Bassompierre, _Mem_. p. 55.

[395] Hector de Pardaillan, Seigneur de Montespan, who died in 1611, at
the advanced age of eighty years. He was the father of Antoine-Arnauld
de Pardaillan, first Marquis d'Antin, grandfather of Roger-Hector,
Marquis d'Antin, great-grandfather of Louis-Henri, Marquis de Montespan,
the husband of Franchise Athenais de Rochechouart-Mortemart, the
celebrated favourite of Louis XIV.

[396] _Memoires_, p. 55.

[397] Mezeray, vol. x. p. 369.

[398] _Memoires_, p. 56.

[399] Mezeray, vol. x. p. 365.

[400] _Memoires_, p. 58.

[401] Sully, _Mem_. vol. vii. p. 189.

[402] Sully, _Mem_. vol. vii. pp. 191, 192.

[403] Mezeray, vol. x. pp. 370, 371.

[404] Montfaucon, vol. v. p. 425.

[405] Daniel, vol. vii. p. 498.

[406] Dreux du Radier, vol. vii. pp. 115, 116.

[407] Alexandre, Comte d'Elbene, celebrated for his military talent and
prowess under Henri III and Henri IV.

[408] _Memoires_, p. 67.

[409] Francois Annibal d'Estrees, Marquis de Coeuvres, subsequently
duke, peer, and Marshal of France, was the son of Jean d'Estrees, Grand
Master of Artillery, and the representative of an ancient and
illustrious family. He was born in 1563, originally entered the Church,
and became Bishop of Laon, to which see he was promoted by Henri IV
himself. He, however, some time afterwards, abandoned the ecclesiastical
profession and embraced that of arms. In this new career he soon
d