Any one who happened at that moment to contemplate8 that red simar--the gorgeous robe of office--and the rich lace, or who gazed on that pale brow, bent9 in anxious meditation10, might, in the solitude11 of that apartment, combined with the silence of the ante-chambers and the measured paces of the guards upon the landing-place, have fancied that the shade of Cardinal Richelieu lingered still in his accustomed haunt.
It was, alas12! the ghost of former greatness. France enfeebled, the authority of her sovereign contemned13, her nobles returning to their former turbulence14 and insolence15, her enemies within her frontiers--all proved the great Richelieu no longer in existence.
In truth, that the red simar which occupied the wonted place was his no longer, was still more strikingly obvious from the isolation16 which seemed, as we have observed, more appropriate to a phantom17 than a living creature--from the corridors deserted18 by courtiers, and courts crowded with guards--from that spirit of bitter ridicule19, which, arising from the streets below, penetrated20 through the very casements21 of the room, which resounded22 with the murmurs24 of a whole city leagued against the minister; as well as from the distant and incessant25 sounds of guns firing--let off, happily, without other end or aim, except to show to the guards, the Swiss troops and the military who surrounded the Palais Royal, that the people were possessed26 of arms.
The shade of Richelieu was Mazarin. Now Mazarin was alone and defenceless, as he well knew.
“Foreigner!” he ejaculated, “Italian! that is their mean yet mighty27 byword of reproach--the watchword with which they assassinated28, hanged, and made away with Concini; and if I gave them their way they would assassinate29, hang, and make away with me in the same manner, although they have nothing to complain of except a tax or two now and then. Idiots! ignorant of their real enemies, they do not perceive that it is not the Italian who speaks French badly, but those who can say fine things to them in the purest Parisian accent, who are their real foes30.
“Yes, yes,” Mazarin continued, whilst his wonted smile, full of subtlety31, lent a strange expression to his pale lips; “yes, these noises prove to me, indeed, that the destiny of favorites is precarious32; but ye shall know I am no ordinary favorite. No! The Earl of Essex, ‘tis true, wore a splendid ring, set with diamonds, given him by his royal mistress, whilst I--I have nothing but a simple circlet of gold, with a cipher34 on it and a date; but that ring has been blessed in the chapel35 of the Palais Royal, * so they will never ruin me, as they long to do, and whilst they shout, ‘Down with Mazarin!’ I, unknown, and unperceived by them, incite36 them to cry out, ‘Long live the Duke de Beaufort’ one day; another, ‘Long live the Prince de Conde;’ and again, ‘Long live the parliament!’” And at this word the smile on the cardinal’s lips assumed an expression of hatred37, of which his mild countenance38 seemed incapable39. “The parliament! We shall soon see how to dispose,” he continued, “of the parliament! Both Orleans and Montargis are ours. It will be a work of time, but those who have begun by crying out: Down with Mazarin! will finish by shouting out, Down with all the people I have mentioned, each in his turn.
* It is said that Mazarin, who, though a cardinal, had not
“Richelieu, whom they hated during his lifetime and whom they now praise after his death, was even less popular than I am. Often he was driven away, oftener still had he a dread42 of being sent away. The queen will never banish43 me, and even were I obliged to yield to the populace she would yield with me; if I fly, she will fly; and then we shall see how the rebels will get on without either king or queen.
“Oh, were I not a foreigner! were I but a Frenchman! were I but of gentle birth!”
The position of the cardinal was indeed critical, and recent events had added to his difficulties. Discontent had long pervaded44 the lower ranks of society in France. Crushed and impoverished45 by taxation--imposed by Mazarin, whose avarice46 impelled47 him to grind them down to the very dust--the people, as the Advocate-General Talon48 described it, had nothing left to them except their souls; and as those could not be sold by auction49, they began to murmur23. Patience had in vain been recommended to them by reports of brilliant victories gained by France; laurels50, however, were not meat and drink, and the people had for some time been in a state of discontent.
Had this been all, it might not, perhaps, have greatly signified; for when the lower classes alone complained, the court of France, separated as it was from the poor by the intervening classes of the gentry51 and the bourgeoisie, seldom listened to their voice; but unluckily, Mazarin had had the imprudence to attack the magistrates52 and had sold no less than twelve appointments in the Court of Requests, at a high price; and as the officers of that court paid very dearly for their places, and as the addition of twelve new colleagues would necessarily lower the value of each place, the old functionaries53 formed a union amongst themselves, and, enraged54, swore on the Bible not to allow of this addition to their number, but to resist all the persecutions which might ensue; and should any one of them chance to forfeit55 his post by this resistance, to combine to indemnify him for his loss.
Now the following occurrences had taken place between the two contending parties.
On the seventh of January between seven and eight hundred tradesmen had assembled in Paris to discuss a new tax which was to be levied56 on house property. They deputed ten of their number to wait upon the Duke of Orleans, who, according to his custom, affected57 popularity. The duke received them and they informed him that they were resolved not to pay this tax, even if they were obliged to defend themselves against its collectors by force of arms. They were listened to with great politeness by the duke, who held out hopes of easier measures, promised to speak in their behalf to the queen, and dismissed them with the ordinary expression of royalty58, “We will see what we can do.”
Two days afterward59 these same magistrates appeared before the cardinal and their spokesman addressed Mazarin with so much fearlessness and determination that the minister was astounded61 and sent the deputation away with the same answer as it had received from the Duke of Orleans--that he would see what could be done; and in accordance with that intention a council of state was assembled and the superintendent62 of finance was summoned.
This man, named Emery, was the object of popular detestation, in the first place because he was superintendent of finance, and every superintendent of finance deserved to be hated; in the second place, because he rather deserved the odium which he had incurred63.
He was the son of a banker at Lyons named Particelli, who, after becoming a bankrupt, chose to change his name to Emery; and Cardinal Richelieu having discovered in him great financial aptitude64, had introduced him with a strong recommendation to Louis XIII. under his assumed name, in order that he might be appointed to the post he subsequently held.
“You surprise me!” exclaimed the monarch65. “I am rejoiced to hear you speak of Monsieur d’Emery as calculated for a post which requires a man of probity66. I was really afraid that you were going to force that villain67 Particelli upon me.”
“Sire,” replied Richelieu, “rest assured that Particelli, the man to whom your majesty68 refers, has been hanged.”
“Ah; so much the better!” exclaimed the king. “It is not for nothing that I am styled Louis the Just,” and he signed Emery’s appointment.
This was the same Emery who became eventually superintendent of finance.
He was sent for by the ministers and he came before them pale and trembling, declaring that his son had very nearly been assassinated the day before, near the palace. The mob had insulted him on account of the ostentatious luxury of his wife, whose house was hung with red velvet69 edged with gold fringe. This lady was the daughter of Nicholas de Camus, who arrived in Paris with twenty francs in his pocket, became secretary of state, and accumulated wealth enough to divide nine millions of francs among his children and to keep an income of forty thousand for himself.
The fact was that Emery’s son had run a great chance of being suffocated70, one of the rioters having proposed to squeeze him until he gave up all the gold he had swallowed. Nothing, therefore, was settled that day, as Emery’s head was not steady enough for business after such an occurrence.
On the next day Mathieu Mole71, the chief president, whose courage at this crisis, says the Cardinal de Retz, was equal to that of the Duc de Beaufort and the Prince de Conde--in other words, of the two men who were considered the bravest in France--had been attacked in his turn. The people threatened to hold him responsible for the evils that hung over them. But the chief president had replied with his habitual72 coolness, without betraying either disturbance73 or surprise, that should the agitators74 refuse obedience75 to the king’s wishes he would have gallows76 erected77 in the public squares and proceed at once to hang the most active among them. To which the others had responded that they would be glad to see the gallows erected; they would serve for the hanging of those detestable judges who purchased favor at court at the price of the people’s misery78.
Nor was this all. On the eleventh the queen in going to mass at Notre Dame79, as she always did on Saturdays, was followed by more than two hundred women demanding justice. These poor creatures had no bad intentions. They wished only to be allowed to fall on their knees before their sovereign, and that they might move her to compassion80; but they were prevented by the royal guard and the queen proceeded on her way, haughtily81 disdainful of their entreaties82.
One day--it was the morning of the day my story begins--the king, Louis XIV., then ten years of age, went in state, under pretext84 of returning thanks for his recovery from the small-pox, to Notre Dame. He took the opportunity of calling out his guard, the Swiss troops and the musketeers, and he had planted them round the Palais Royal, on the quays85, and on the Pont Neuf. After mass the young monarch drove to the Parliament House, where, upon the throne, he hastily confirmed not only such edicts as he had already passed, but issued new ones, each one, according to Cardinal de Retz, more ruinous than the others--a proceeding86 which drew forth87 a strong remonstrance88 from the chief president, Mole--whilst President Blancmesnil and Councillor Broussel raised their voices in indignation against fresh taxes.
The king returned amidst the silence of a vast multitude to the Palais Royal. All minds were uneasy, most were foreboding, many of the people used threatening language.
At first, indeed, they were doubtful whether the king’s visit to the parliament had been in order to lighten or increase their burdens; but scarcely was it known that the taxes were to be still further increased, when cries of “Down with Mazarin!” “Long live Broussel!” “Long live Blancmesnil!” resounded through the city. For the people had learned that Broussel and Blancmesnil had made speeches in their behalf, and, although the eloquence89 of these deputies had been without avail, it had none the less won for them the people’s good-will. All attempts to disperse90 the groups collected in the streets, or silence their exclamations91, were in vain. Orders had just been given to the royal guards and the Swiss guards, not only to stand firm, but to send out patrols to the streets of Saint Denis and Saint Martin, where the people thronged92 and where they were the most vociferous93, when the mayor of Paris was announced at the Palais Royal.
He was shown in directly; he came to say that if these offensive precautions were not discontinued, in two hours Paris would be under arms.
Deliberations were being held when a lieutenant94 in the guards, named Comminges, made his appearance, with his clothes all torn, his face streaming with blood. The queen on seeing him uttered a cry of surprise and asked him what was going on.
As the mayor had foreseen, the sight of the guards had exasperated95 the mob. The tocsin was sounded. Comminges had arrested one of the ringleaders and had ordered him to be hanged near the cross of Du Trahoir; but in attempting to execute this command the soldiery were attacked in the market-place with stones and halberds; the delinquent96 had escaped to the Rue33 des Lombards and rushed into a house. They broke open the doors and searched the dwelling97, but in vain. Comminges, wounded by a stone which had struck him on the forehead, had left a picket98 in the street and returned to the Palais Royal, followed by a menacing crowd, to tell his story.
This account confirmed that of the mayor. The authorities were not in a condition to cope with serious revolt. Mazarin endeavored to circulate among the people a report that troops had only been stationed on the quays and on the Pont Neuf, on account of the ceremonial of the day, and that they would soon withdraw. In fact, about four o’clock they were all concentrated about the Palais Royal, the courts and ground floors of which were filled with musketeers and Swiss guards, and there awaited the outcome of all this disturbance.
Such was the state of affairs at the very moment we introduced our readers to the study of Cardinal Mazarin--once that of Cardinal Richelieu. We have seen in what state of mind he listened to the murmurs from below, which even reached him in his seclusion99, and to the guns, the firing of which resounded through that room. All at once he raised his head; his brow slightly contracted like that of a man who has formed a resolution; he fixed100 his eyes upon an enormous clock that was about to strike ten, and taking up a whistle of silver gilt that stood upon the table near him, he shrilled101 it twice.
A door hidden in the tapestry102 opened noiselessly and a man in black silently advanced and stood behind the chair on which Mazarin sat.
“Bernouin,” said the cardinal, not turning round, for having whistled, he knew that it was his valet-de-chambre who was behind him; “what musketeers are now within the palace?”
“The Black Musketeers, my lord.”
“What company?”
“Treville’s company.”
“Is there any officer belonging to this company in the ante-chamber?”
“Lieutenant d’Artagnan.”
“A man on whom we can depend, I hope.”
“Yes, my lord.”
“Give me a uniform of one of these musketeers and help me to put it on.”
The valet went out as silently as he had entered and appeared in a few minutes bringing the dress demanded.
The cardinal, in deep thought and in silence, began to take off the robes of state he had assumed in order to be present at the sitting of parliament, and to attire103 himself in the military coat, which he wore with a certain degree of easy grace, owing to his former campaigns in Italy. When he was completely dressed he said:
“Send hither Monsieur d’Artagnan.”
The valet went out of the room, this time by the centre door, but still as silently as before; one might have fancied him an apparition104.
When he was left alone the cardinal looked at himself in the glass with a feeling of self-satisfaction. Still young--for he was scarcely forty-six years of age--he possessed great elegance105 of form and was above the middle height; his complexion106 was brilliant and beautiful; his glance full of expression; his nose, though large, was well proportioned; his forehead broad and majestic107; his hair, of a chestnut108 color, was curled slightly; his beard, which was darker than his hair, was turned carefully with a curling iron, a practice that greatly improved it. After a short time the cardinal arranged his shoulder belt, then looked with great complacency at his hands, which were most elegant and of which he took the greatest care; and throwing on one side the large kid gloves tried on at first, as belonging to the uniform, he put on others of silk only. At this instant the door opened.
“Monsieur d’Artagnan,” said the valet-de-chambre.
An officer, as he spoke60, entered the apartment. He was a man between thirty-nine and forty years of age, of medium height but a very well proportioned figure; with an intellectual and animated109 physiognomy; his beard black, and his hair turning gray, as often happens when people have found life either too gay or too sad, more especially when they happen to be of swart complexion.
D’Artagnan advanced a few steps into the apartment.
How perfectly110 he remembered his former entrance into that very room! Seeing, however, no one there except a musketeer of his own troop, he fixed his eyes upon the supposed soldier, in whose dress, nevertheless, he recognized at the first glance the cardinal.
The lieutenant remained standing111 in a dignified112 but respectful posture113, such as became a man of good birth, who had in the course of his life been frequently in the society of the highest nobles.
The cardinal looked at him with a cunning rather than serious glance, yet he examined his countenance with attention and after a momentary114 silence said:
“You are Monsieur d’Artagnan?”
“I am that individual,” replied the officer.
Mazarin gazed once more at a countenance full of intelligence, the play of which had been, nevertheless, subdued115 by age and experience; and D’Artagnan received the penetrating116 glance like one who had formerly sustained many a searching look, very different, indeed, from those which were inquiringly directed on him at that instant.
“Sir,” resumed the cardinal, “you are to come with me, or rather, I am to go with you.”
“I am at your command, my lord,” returned D’Artagnan.
“I wish to visit in person the outposts which surround the Palais Royal; do you suppose that there is any danger in so doing?”
“Danger, my lord!” exclaimed D’Artagnan with a look of astonishment117, “what danger?”
“I am told that there is a general insurrection.”
“The uniform of the king’s musketeers carries a certain respect with it, and even if that were not the case I would engage with four of my men to put to flight a hundred of these clowns.”
“Did you witness the injury sustained by Comminges?”
“Monsieur de Comminges is in the guards and not in the musketeers----”
“Which means, I suppose, that the musketeers are better soldiers than the guards.” The cardinal smiled as he spoke.
“Every one likes his own uniform best, my lord.”
“Myself excepted,” and again Mazarin smiled; “for you perceive that I have left off mine and put on yours.”
“Lord bless us! this is modesty118 indeed!” cried D’Artagnan. “Had I such a uniform as your eminence119 possesses, I protest I should be mightily120 content, and I would take an oath never to wear any other costume----”
“Yes, but for to-night’s adventure I don’t suppose my dress would have been a very safe one. Give me my felt hat, Bernouin.”
The valet instantly brought to his master a regimental hat with a wide brim. The cardinal put it on in military style.
“Your horses are ready saddled in their stables, are they not?” he said, turning to D’Artagnan.
“Yes, my lord.”
“Well, let us set out.”
“How many men does your eminence wish to escort you?”
“You say that with four men you will undertake to disperse a hundred low fellows; as it may happen that we shall have to encounter two hundred, take eight----”
“As many as my lord wishes.”
“I will follow you. This way--light us downstairs Bernouin.”
The valet held a wax-light; the cardinal took a key from his bureau and opening the door of a secret stair descended121 into the court of the Palais Royal.
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