The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-12-15

' are told on the bes, of anthorisy that, in company with his brother-in-law, King Charles K, he paid visit to Nsntouil- let, the Provost of Paris, in a way thai would have done credit to the late lamented Messrs. Irving and Walsh of eminent bank-robbing celebrity. Both the kings being hard up, they resolved themselves into committee of ways and means, in some sixteenth century Shang" prapers. and there determined to "crack " the provost's "cIib.' The story fthis particular plume in his hem let IS concluded The kings and their satellites laid violent hands upon the plate, and broke open the coffers of the unfortunate provost, whom they plunder- ed of so.ooo francs. This fiagran, crime. which ns authors regarded as a good oke. was known the next day to all Paris, and. urged by the general ciamor. the president of parliament waited upon King Charles. from whom he did not conceal the fact tha, public indignation pointed to him as the abet;or nay more. as an aceomplice IT the theft. The king flew into a passion i, ,,.c suspicion. and protested that he was an utter stranger to the whole proceeding. The pres ident, gratifed io hear tha, the repo,; was false. replied 10 tha, effect, and ad- ded that he would take immediate meas ures for the punishment, of the ealum- niators.
 "' No. no replied the king take no notice ef wha, Is past but !ct Nan touillet understand ,ha, If he s,irs in the business he will mee, more than his match.
 One of ,he alleged witty sayings of King Henry that has come to our days was relative to his tirst wife, Margaret of Nalois. When the beauty of his queen was suggested to him as an an,ido,e 10 his matrimonial intideliiies he remarked i: If she had not been my wife there was no woman in the world 1 would have more desired as a mistress The nude pictures of May de Medici. exhibited in the Luxembourg palace at Paris. painted by the immortal brush of Rubens. and of which Mir. Anthony Comstock would surely not allow photographic duplicates to be sold in New York. plainly show her to be fat. coarse and ugly old woman, not unlike the regal protec,ress of the late Mir. John Brown. whose s,ucoo pre- sentiment adorns the grounds of Bal moral. Take her all in all, Il is 10 be hoped the world will never sec the like again in corporoslty and conduct of King Henfys second queen. \ modern writer thus refers to her participation in her husbands murder: "On the I ,th of May, i6Io. Mary de Medici was solemnly crowned queen of France, and on the iiih Henry fell victim 10 the dagger Of the assassin Ravaillae. His death was very naturally attributed by those bes; acquainted with the oour, secrets of that dismal and dangerous period to the yin- diotive, ambitious and revengeful spiri; of the Italian queen
 The whi,e-plumed and erra,lc mon- arch $ assassination made her regent of France to her son. Louis NH. who. while a child, exhibited 10 others the savagery and heartlessness he bestowed on his vile mother. IL IS related that when quite young he exhibited such extremely cruel traits of character that his father. King i Henry, thrashed him with his royal hands Upon one occasion, when ex- postulated with by his wife. the monarch replied: You have need 10 pray 10 God for your husbands lie. seeing that your son will ill-treat you when you are no longer protected by me from his vio- ! ienoe.
 A prophecy that became only too true, for her fiendish and unnatural son per mlttcd his queeniy mother 10 die of starv- atlon and misery Tn the city of Cologne And she was the widow of king of France. the mother ot another French sovereign, of Il queen of spain. A queen of England. duchess oi savoy and of | duke of orleans. as we'll as desccnds1, of the house of De .ledici. which had produced Lorenzo the Magnificent, and Popes Leo N and Clement VII Her son. King Louis, previous to her terrible death, had her favorIie marshal. Concinl, assasslnated by his " mignon, the Count de Tuynes. and his widow. tleanora Gahgai, burnt alive a, the stake. This murdered pair had been the kIng's inti- mate associates and had taken charge of him while his mother the regent WIS pur- suing her career of unbridled lust. It IS claimed that Richelieu was the queen mothers paramour during the time her son had her incarcerated at Blois. as well as the lover still later of her sons wife, Anne of Austria. Queen May's favonte i Masoali, was with her when she died. He tells us how, Tn garret of the house m which Rebens was born at Cologne. she was sustained by the charity of shoe l maker, who occasionally gave her bowl of gruel-how for two years she existed on two hundred louis d'ors and how she died on the I,th of February, i6i.. after Mascali had begged for bread for them both without success
 This IS paragraph out of history as to the way in which the ancestress of ihe Coun; of Paris suffered or her dying day through the baFbarogs neglect of her re- gal blue-blood sons and daughters |" 4 low and moaning sound c; pam issued from tha; hard and humble couch. The faithful Mascaii entered he garret. es- claiming Nothing Nothing He had gone forth to procure food. and had os- ,ained none. The moaning sound con- tinued. II was then aga.n ~inter. ard the apartment was cold and Cheerless