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THE TIMES OF CHARLES THE SECOND.
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stronger army. Their money comes very slowly. The King hath spent ten millions on the Queen's entry. The troops begin now to be well paid in Flanders; that province pays two millions; Brabant, 1,200,000 livres. The Lunenburg Resident is waiting for orders to go into England. His name is Babiere; a man of good parts. He told me how Madame de Soissons[1] was used in the street and in the church—Monsieur Lessac with her, and that she is going into England. Monsieur de Villa Hermosa hated by eyerybody.
I was afterwards with Monsieur Van Beuninghen; I found him vext at the Duke's coming. He told me that the Nobles did not put off their hats when they spoke, but that the towns did.
- ↑ Olympia Mancini, niece of Cardinal Mazarin, and mother of Prince Eugene. She was compromised by the declarations of the famous poisoner La Voisin. Exiled from France, she went to Brussels, and afterwards to Spain, where, according to St. Simon (whose bad word, however, is no scandal,) she poisoned the Queen of Spain.
"Rien n'est pire," says Mademoiselle de Sevigné, "en verité, que d'étre en prison, si ce n'est d'être comme cette diablesse de Voisin, qui est, à l'heure que je vous parle, brulée à petit feu à la Grève. On assure qa'on à fetmé le portes de Namur et d'Anvers, et de plusieurs Villes de Flanders à Mademoiselle la Comtesse, disant: 'Nous ne voulons point de ces Empoisonneurs.' It does not appear that she ever went to England."—Sevigné, Lett, v. 328.
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