Of the Interest of Princes

DUKE OF ROHAN.

his wealth: this is for this Prince a powerful goad to make him act. The principal means used to remove him from affairs was to make the Queen fear his austere temperament, which would thwart her in her liberalities, and that, having need of the Pope's authority to strengthen her own, she could not maintain a Réformé Protestant in the direction of the State. These were powerful reasons for a foreign Princess, little instructed in affairs, jealous of her authority, and distrustful of everyone. But experience has shown that it was the ruin of the State. For the Great men have elevated themselves, to the diminution of Royal authority, the treasuries have been exhausted, and the arsenals have been dispersed. And the comparison of the miserable state of France with the flourishing one in which the Duke of Sully left it shows how much his removal from affairs has been prejudicial to the State.

The Marshal of Bouillon, of great courage and great understanding, capable of procuring for a State great goods and great evils, who had been kept in check by the late King who