Secret Memoirs of the Court of Louis Xiv And of the Regency
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Pont Calec, Mont Louis, Talhoriet, and Couedic. II l62 HISTORICAL FRAGMENTS would not go. When he was asked why, he said it had been predicted that he should die by sea (de la mer). Just before he was executed he asked the headsman what his name was. *' l\Iy name is Sea (La Mer), " replied the man. " Then, " said the nobleman, " I am undone.^ " All Paris has been mourning at the cursed decree which Law has persuaded my son to make. I have received anonymous letters, stating that I have nothing ...to fear on my own account, but that my son shall be pursued with fire and sword ; that the plan is laid and the affair determined on. From another quarter I have learnt that knives are sharpening for my son's assassina- tion. The most dreadful news is daily reaching me. Nothing could appease the discontent until the Par- liament having assembled, two of its members were deputed to wait upon my son, who received them graciously, and following their advice annulled the decree, and so restored things to their former condition.
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