The Life of Louis, Prince of Condé: Surnamed the Great 1-2
The Life of Louis, Prince of Condé: Surnamed the Great 1-2
Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope
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ii., p. 260. t Memoirs, vol. ii., p. 231. LIFE OF CONDE. [chaf. ▼«. was not forthwith named a Marechal de Camp, which would have made all the others equally discontented ; and it was necessary to disturb the Princess from her devotions, which she was per- forming in the church of St. Andre, in order to compose these dif- ferences.* But the reason which, above all, weighed with the Bordelais in their endeavors for ending the siege, was the desire to leave the town and go to their vintage. Withou...t succors or without a peace before the 1st of October, the grapes would be spoiled, and the landlords be ruined. Thus determined upon the same end, though with different motives. Cardinal Mazarin and the Parliament of Bordeaux accepted the mediation of the Deputies from the Parliament of Paris and of the Marquis du Coudray ; and a truce of ten days was concluded immediately, in order to make another attempt at negotiation. During this time almost everybody, out of curiosity, passed from one camp to the other, and the bourgeois went in such crowds to visit the trenches and batteries of the besiegers that it became necessary to forbid them by a decree from passing the barriers on pain of death.
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