The making of a king by Taylor Ida Ashworth

Author:Taylor, Ida Ashworth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1643
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and company
Published: 1910-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

at this time entered into the heart of the Queen and her too-dear Concini ; and that the latter was already preparing that of which his contemporaries, the friends of the King, loudly accused him."

At Saint-Germain, meanwhile, the Dauphin was passing the last months of the period when, as a child, he would be left to the care of women. He had been provided with the companionship of a group of boys of his own age, the sons of nobles, who, with their respective tutors, were placed at the chateau. Of this little company Louis was the head, regulating the management of his household according to his own ideas of justice. " You are their master," Heroard told him. " When they do wrong you must rebuke them, and for their punishment tell them that, unless they are good, you will love them no longer. The King has placed them here with you in order that they may learn to love and serve you. They all belong to great and wealthy houses."

To threaten his companions with the loss of his affection did not appear, to the disciplinarian of seven, a sufficient penalty for their misdeeds. He had himself been trained by means of corporal punishment, and he was not disinclined to enforce the use of it in the case of lesser delinquents. Torigny, in the course of a game, had given a blow to a playmate. It was true, Torigny might plead that he had not done it intentionally ; but he must be taught to be more careful.

" Whip the Comte de Torigny," the Dauphin said, issuing his orders to the culprit's tutor. " You must have the whip, Comte de Torigny," he added, addressing him with the formality becoming the gravity

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