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was at Diepa/ a little more than a day's distance from
Paris. He came immediately, and having put in opera-
tion a longer method of fortification, I withdrew from
that undertaking: and if the Emperor had pressed
forward he would have captured Paris with great ease.
It was indeed said that in the agreement made sub-
sequently, Madama di Tampes, who interfered more than
any one else, betrayed the King." Nothing further
occurs to me to say upon this point, because it is not
part of my present object. I set myself with close ap-
plication to the putting together of my bronze doorway,
and to finishing that large vase and two other moderate-
sized ones made of my own silver. After these troubles
the excellent King came to take some rest in Paris.
This accursed woman (Madame d'Estampes) having
been born as if for the destruction of the universe, it
seemed to me that I might consider myself of some
MV, and CARLO PROMis in Section XIX of the AfzAVAwa V
V<??*z'<3 z'AWzzzz. GAETANO MlLANESI published some of his letters
in Vol. Ill of his A<?czzzzz^zz/zV^ A W -svw.sv, Siena,
1856.
Dieppe, forty-four leagues from Paris.
^ According to ANQUETIL (<9^5. rz'A, Vol. IV, pp. 370-412) it was
Madame d'Estampes who, out of enmity against Diane de Poitiers,
arranged that the bridge at Epernay should not be cut in time.
Thus the Imperial troops were able to advance on Paris, and
Francis was compelled to accept conditions of peace. By these
conditions Francis consented to the marriage of his second son,
Francois d'Orldans, with a niece of the Emperor; a principality
being found for them either in the Milanese or the Low Countries,
over which, however, the King was to renounce all claim. These
terms greatly annoyed the Dauphin, and resulted in injury to the
French nation, since, by the death of the said Franpois d'Orleans
before completing the marriage, France acquired no compensation
from the Emperor for that ill-considered renunciation.
was at Diepa/ a little more than a day's distance from
Paris. He came immediately, and having put in opera-
tion a longer method of fortification, I withdrew from
that undertaking: and if the Emperor had pressed
forward he would have captured Paris with great ease.
It was indeed said that in the agreement made sub-
sequently, Madama di Tampes, who interfered more than
any one else, betrayed the King." Nothing further
occurs to me to say upon this point, because it is not
part of my present object. I set myself with close ap-
plication to the putting together of my bronze doorway,
and to finishing that large vase and two other moderate-
sized ones made of my own silver. After these troubles
the excellent King came to take some rest in Paris.
This accursed woman (Madame d'Estampes) having
been born as if for the destruction of the universe, it
seemed to me that I might consider myself of some
MV, and CARLO PROMis in Section XIX of the AfzAVAwa V
V<??*z'<3 z'AWzzzz. GAETANO MlLANESI published some of his letters
in Vol. Ill of his A<?czzzzz^zz/zV^ A W -svw.sv, Siena,
1856.
Dieppe, forty-four leagues from Paris.
^ According to ANQUETIL (<9^5. rz'A, Vol. IV, pp. 370-412) it was
Madame d'Estampes who, out of enmity against Diane de Poitiers,
arranged that the bridge at Epernay should not be cut in time.
Thus the Imperial troops were able to advance on Paris, and
Francis was compelled to accept conditions of peace. By these
conditions Francis consented to the marriage of his second son,
Francois d'Orldans, with a niece of the Emperor; a principality
being found for them either in the Milanese or the Low Countries,
over which, however, the King was to renounce all claim. These
terms greatly annoyed the Dauphin, and resulted in injury to the
French nation, since, by the death of the said Franpois d'Orleans
before completing the marriage, France acquired no compensation
from the Emperor for that ill-considered renunciation.