inding himself not 'to make any man work save for good wages and of his
own good will,' not to requisitionise bread or wine but for money paid,
not to seize any man's horses, and not 'to compel any man to seize and
hale another man to prison except in cases of crime or of invasion.'
When the great Duke of Guise rebuilt the chateau of brick in the
sixteenth century, he put down most of the outer fortifications. Without
these the chateau is as much a part of the town of Eu as Buckingham
Palace is of St. James's Park. Catherine of Cleves, the widow of the
great Duke of Guise, lived at Eu through her long widowhood in the
friendliest relations with the good people of the town, while the
architects were erecting for herself and her murdered husband, 'the
nonpareil of the world,' as she called him (notwithstanding his
admiration of Mme. de Noirmoutiers), the beautiful monuments which still
adorn the collegiate church. Her daughter, the lovely and lively
Princesse de Conti, gathered a gay and gallant company of friends about
her, and lived an open-air life of hunting, promenades, and after-dinner
'games of wit,' upon the terraces, as unconcernedly at the end of the
sixteenth century, I was about to say, as such a life could be lived
here now. But I have to remember that at the end of the eighteenth
century, and under the illumination of the 'ideas of 1789,' the tomb of
this Princess in the chapel of Ste-Catherine was broken into, and her
bones flung about on the floor of the mortuary vault, while at the end
of this nineteenth century the legitimate owners of the chateau which
has replaced the home of Louise de Lorraine et de Conti have been driven
into exile for no other crime but that of their birth by a Government
which professes to be a Government of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity.

In the middle of the seventeenth century the Chateau d'Eu, with the
whole domain, was sold on behalf of the Duc de Joyeuse et d'Angouleme,
the ruined heir of the Guises, to 'La Grande Mademoiselle,' the restless
and ambitious daughter of Gaston d'Orleans, brother of Louis XIV. Her
relations with the people of Eu were more than cordial. History concerns
itself with her as the Bellona of the Fronde, and Court chronicles as
the wife of that eminent scamp Lauzun. But at Eu she was the Providence
of the poor and the helpless. She founded hospitals and charities of all
sorts. The endowments of most of these were calmly confiscated during
the Revolut