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本帖最后由 qu6925 于 2009-6-20 21:36 编辑
one of the surviving
mignons, Paul de Caussade, Comte de Saint-Mesgrin,
began to pay assiduous court to the Duchesse de Guise,
and presently it was whispered that the duchess regarded
him with no common favour.
This Saint-Mesgrin wielded a dangerous blade. In a
duel, he would very probably kill the duke ; if, on the
other hand, the duke were to kill him, he would lose,
by this first duel, the prestige of his rank, and have all
the swashbucklers in France on his hands. Guise, how-
ever, appeared to be deaf to the scandal, notwithstanding
that Saint-Mesgrin, growing bolder, had begun to boast,
truly or untruly — most probably the latter — of his bonne
fortune. His brothers, Mayenne and the Cardinal de
Guise,' became angry and uneasy, but, not caring to
approach the duke themselves on the matter, commis-
sioned an intimate friend of his, Bassompierre, to
enlighten him.
hortly afterwards L'Estoile reports that " on
July 21, Saint-Mesgrin, young gentleman of Bordeaux,
handsome, rich, and elegant, one of the mignons, leaving
the Chateau du Louvre, where the King was, at eleven
o'clock in the evening, and being in the Rue du Louvre,
near the Rue Saint-Honore, was attacked by pistol-shots
and blows from sword and dagger by twenty or thirty
unknown men, who left him for dead in the street, in
such wise that he expired the next day." Among the
assassins, the watch, who had endeavoured, though too
late, to intervene in the affray, thought they distinguished
the Due de Mayenne. This brother of Guise wore a
square-cut beard, instead of the pointed one which was
the fashion of the time, and was also recognisable by
a stocky hand, which is said to have been " round as a
leg of mutton." |
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