L'empereur, i. e., of Germany

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5. le comte de Soissons, one of the arch-conspirators against Richelieu.

6. Gondi (161 3-1 679), better known as the Cardinal de Retz, boisterous intriguer, author of famous memoirs.

Page 86. — i. Gustave-Adolphe, king of Sweden (1611-1632), killed at the battle of Lutzen, which he won from the Austrians.

2. Mirame. Richelieu was ambitions to be an author, and had himself helped in the composition of his plays by prominent writers.

Page 37« — i. Palais-Cardinal, now Palais-Royal.