Of the Interest of Princes

MEMOIRES OF THE

Court, shows them to Villeroy Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy, a high-ranking French official, and even to the Ambassadors of England and Holland, to whom he testifies a great vigor: then he makes a trip to Sedan in order to give those of the Court more leisure to fear the outcome of the said assembly, and to seek remedies to render it useless.

What succeeded as he desired: for upon his return he treated it in depth with Villeroy, and having made his condition of three hundred thousand escus gold coins for himself, or to distribute, and of one thousand in increase on the small Estate, which were still given to various individuals by his advice, he promises to make all the resolutions of the said assembly change, and to make them succeed to the satisfaction of the Queen: Which he showed openly. For in seeing the aforementioned Ambassadors, and particularly Arsens François van Aerssen, Dutch diplomat, he held a discourse with him regarding the affairs of the reformed i.e., the Huguenots quite contrary to that which he had made before going to Sedan: Namely that during the minority of the King, it was better to endure than to think of improving one's condition, in order to acquire his good graces; and