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<P>THE Beginning, Progre&s;&s;e, and Conclu&s;ion of the late Troubles in FRANCE &amp;c. Faithfully ob&s;erved, and written from a Gentleman now in <HI>PARIS,</HI> To a Per&s;on of Honour in this Kingdome.</P>
<P><HI>Dated at</HI> Paris <HI>March</HI> 23. 1649.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON</HI> Printed in the Year. 1649.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_THat you may be a little more a&s;&s;ured of the verity of what follows in this Paper: know, That the Gentleman that writ this, is a man of that quality, that as he hath been con&s;tantly in an eminent ci|vill imployment in <HI>Paris,</HI> &s;o he hath had (during the&s;e troubles) frequent acce&s;&s;e to the Court at St. <HI>Jermains,</HI> and beene conver&s;ant with mo&s;t of the Coun&s;ellors of State, both there, and the Parliament at <HI>Paris.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>THE <HI>Beginning, Progre&s;&s;e, and Conclu&s;ion of the late Troubles in</HI> FRANCE.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I Beleeve I have lo&s;t three or four letters that I &s;ent you in the beginning of the&s;e troubles and I am like to be at a greater lo&s;&s;e by not receiving your an&s;wers to them: But I &s;hall de&s;ire you by the next Po&s;t to &s;end me an ab&s;tract of yours, that I may under&s;tand whither they containe any thing &s;o nece&s;&s;ary, as will con&s;train me to inquire after them at St. <HI>Jermins.</HI> I will take no notice of the la&s;t acti|ons in <HI>England,</HI> nor tell you how impatiently they are &s;upported here, and every where, as farre as the corre&s;pondence of this place can reach: but you &s;hall ob&s;erve in <HI>France</HI> the greate&s;t cure of the mo&s;t de&s;pe|rate di&s;ea&s;es, that perhaps is mentioned in &s;tory.</P>
<P>The Prince of <HI>Condy</HI> had be&s;eidged this City with his owne Army, the chiefe of that drawn out of <HI>Ca|talonia,</HI> that out of <HI>Italy,</HI> and &s;ome Troopes out of <HI>Germainy.</HI> The Parliament of this City had rai&s;ed 14000 Mercinaries, and had 10000 Burgois, ever at|tending extraordinary Convoys. Duke <HI>Longivile</HI> was marching with 8000 Mercinaries from <HI>Rovin,</HI> an Ar|my in <HI>Britaine,</HI> and another (though very &s;mall) in Province: The Arch Duke <HI>Leopold,</HI> and Duke of <HI>Lo|raine</HI> entred into <HI>France,</HI> and Mar&s;hall <HI>de Turin</HI> come out of <HI>Germany,</HI> (and after many Letters of promi&s;ed Loyalty to the King, Cardinall and Prince of <HI>Condy</HI>) declared for the Parliament: This warre continued
<PB N="3" REF="3">very hot during this Seidge: wherein the <HI>Pari&s;ians</HI> were continually beaten from their Convoyes, by the P. of <HI>Condy,</HI> and D. <HI>Longevile</HI> as often defeated by the Count <HI>de Harcourt;</HI> and at la&s;t (which gives to be of grea|te&s;t importance) Count <HI>Erlock</HI> (<HI>Turin</HI> being declared Traytor at S. <HI>Germans</HI>) wrought &s;o with the Officers of that <HI>Germain</HI> Army, that the Mar&s;hal was glad to e&s;cape with fifty of his own Guard: The&s;e &s;ucce&s;&s;es you might imagine would humble the <HI>Pari&s;ians</HI> into a Treaty, but it was more occa&s;ioned by tho&s;e ob&s;ervations the Par|liament here, and el&s;ewhere made of the people and their Generalls: For three times they have been rea|dy to revolt, and teare them out of their Robes, the Burgois have been jealous, and both Burgois and Par|liament jealous of the Princes their Generalls; who now have onely the popular voyce. But tho&s;e Prin|ces, and Parliament, that began this War by the ex|ample of <HI>England,</HI> did mi&s;take the con&s;titution of their owne Nation, or did not ob&s;erve the con&s;titution of ours.</P>
<P>For ours are more open handed, and more apt to disbur&s;e franckly towards the maintenance of their wills, and (as they are more fluingly flegmatick) more con&s;tant to their affections, or hatred than the French, for here the people have &s;hifted four times their Favorites; and when they came to leavy mo|nies, (though in a &s;mall proportion) the Parliament found more Enemies, and fiercer within the walls, then abroad: Thus &s;everall cau&s;es hath begot this Treaty, &s;o much unexpected by the world, and fi|ni&s;hed by the Deputies in two daies, with all perfect|ings of hands, and Seals tho&s;e Deputies being Ple|nipotentiaries.</P>
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<P>But tho&s;e Articles they brought from Court were as honourable, and as &s;olidly e&s;&s;entiall for the Crown as could be wi&s;hed, and &s;uch as left the revolted Prin|ces, and Generalls in their fir&s;t condition, without a|ny reward for rai&s;ing this &s;torme; which they knew by &s;ecret intelligence from Court, before the Depu|ties brought them to the Se&s;&s;ions at the Pallace.</P>
<P>Therefore the Princes rai&s;ed the people into &s;uch a Fury as they a&s;&s;embled like a whole Nation about the <HI>Ho&s;tell Devile;</HI> and meeting the Parliament de|nied the peace, and were ready to &s;acrifice them, if the <HI>Burgois</HI> had not come in a &s;trong body to their re&s;cue; and all this Tumult was begotten by the &s;pe|cious advantages the Princes have again&s;t the Court for the protection of <HI>Mazarine,</HI> whom the Prince of <HI>Condy</HI> pre&s;erves and defends in his fir&s;t condition, and would not &s;uffer the Articles to pa&s;&s;e unle&s;&s;e the Car|dinall &s;igned them.</P>
<P><HI>Munday</HI> the 14. from 6. in the Morning, till 6. at Night, the debate held; the Princes and their Con|federates moved to have the Articles burnt by the hand of the Hangman, becau&s;e the Cardinalls hand was to them, but that would not be admitted; then it was propounded, not to accept of them, and to &s;end downe for new conditions; but at la&s;t it was concluded (the <HI>Burgois</HI> awing the people without, which fomented the choler within) that the Articles &s;hould be accepted, and onely by the &s;ame Deputies, the Queen &s;hould be humbly reque&s;ted to moderate two of them, one concerning the <HI>lict de Ju&s;tice</HI> to be kept at St. <HI>Germains;</HI> the other concerning the Par|liaments not a&s;&s;embling during this year 49. but it was
<PB N="5" REF="4">likewi&s;e concluded, that though the Queen did not con&s;ent to that moderation that they &s;hould &s;igne the peace, and the Princes and Generalls are obliged to accept of &s;uch Conditions as the &s;aid Deputies can procure for them: Duke <HI>Longivile</HI>) who hath al|ready united him&s;elfe by a civill Me&s;&s;age to the Prince of <HI>Condy</HI>) is included in this peace, and the City of <HI>Rovy,</HI> if they &s;igne it in ten dayes, and &s;o is Brittaine, and Provance, if they &s;igne it in twenty; and the chiefe of the Articles con&s;ented to by both &s;ides, is that &s;ome cho&s;en from the Deputies of <HI>Paris,</HI> &s;hall immediately accompany the Amba&s;&s;adours of the Court for the generall Peace.</P>
<P>Now, Sir, I mu&s;t tell you, my opinion is, that it is happy for the Crowne, that they had this Civill War, becau&s;e the Parliament and Princes have gained &s;o much experience from it, as gives them a perfect knowledge of the incon&s;tancy of the people, and of one another, and of &s;uch par&s;imony in the natures of all as cannot give them any courage to a new undertaking; and it is well their humours are found out, and purged, whil&s;t &s;o excellent a Phy&s;i|tian as the Prince of <HI>Condy</HI> was extant; who is a true State Phy&s;itian, and gives violent Medicines. I am weary, and</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your mo&s;t humble faithfull Servant, <HI>F. C.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Paris</HI>
<DATE>23. <HI>March,</HI> 1649.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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