The Court And Reign of Francis the First, King of France 1
The Court And Reign of Francis the First, King of France 1
Pardoe, Miss (Julia), 1806-1862
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Un- fortunately, his universal popularity, and his great wealth, which enabled him to maintain a magnificent style of living, offended the vanity and aroused the jealousy of Lautrec, who could not brook to see himself eclipsed upon the very theatre of his triumph, and who, finding himself powerless to injure the brave old man at his own hearth, could invent no other method of gratifying his selfish mklice than that of representing him in his letters to the Court as a dangerous and intriguing in...dividual, who, pro- fiting by his knowledge of the internal economy and resources of the French nation, had placed himself at the head of a faction hostile to the authority of Francis, which, should it be permitted to mature its plans, might endanger the tenure of the Milanese. Urged on the one hand by the wishes of the Pope to recall Lautrec from his government, and apprehensive on the other that, should his report of the defalcation of Trivulzio prove correct, he should be favouring the views of the disaffected portion of the duchy by removing the man who had detected their intrigue, Francis wavered.
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