Remonstrance of the Prince of Condé

very affectionately, being assured that God will show us His face of mercy when He raises up in France good and equitable Judges, who will condemn and have punished by good right those who have unjustly condemned others, executing upon your persons the sentence that you have pronounced against the innocents.

All these things, therefore, being balanced with a just weight, will make it known to all those who bring to this cause a judgment free from all personal passion, that although nothing was put forward to defend the said Lord Prince and those of his suite against the intolerable injustice and the indignity that has been done to them by this judgment, their innocence is so apparent that it can speak for itself and deny the false and impudent calumnies of their Judge-enemies.

Now, I leave it to be imagined what a just pain this is for the said Lord Prince, after having obeyed faithfully what he was commanded for the guardianship of the King and the Queen, and after having done a thing worthy of the position he holds in this Kingdom, suitable for a very faithful and very affectionate servant of the King, and necessary for the good and utility of the whole Kingdom, that his merit is repaid with such great ingratitude, that the duty he has rendered to the King is turned into a crime, and that his obedience is called rebellion. That, certainly, is for him with good right not only grievous, but also entirely unbearable.

And although this vile stain that one has wished