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Story Of Urbain Grandier.
STORY OF URBAIN GRANDIER .
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WHILE things were in this train , an event as unexpected as _ t was decisive , drove the current of adversity with such fatal violence against the unhappy Grandier , that neither patronage , talents , nor the justice ofhis cause , could avail to protect him . It happened that just about this time there went an order from tiie Council to dismantle all the fortresses throug hout the interior of the kingdom , and that of Loudun
M . de Laubardemont was commissioned to destroy . This man was entirely devoted to Cardinal Richelieu , the ordinary instrument of ' his oppressions , and , when any subject was to be'sacrificed without the formalities of justice , the most dexterous agent on those sanguinary occasions . An old connexion had subsisted between him and the persecutors of Grandier ; and no sooner did he make his recovered their iritsand
appearance at Loudun , but the cabal sp , rallied round him with an exultation which they took but little pains to conceal . ' Some time before these events a woman named La Hamon , ^ belonging to the town of Loudun , had accidentally recommended herself to the notice of the queen , in whose service she now was emmuch above the
ployed . As she had manifested abilities common rate , and no despicable vein of wit and irony , a suspicion fell upon her , supported by other circumstances , of having written a most unmerciful satire upon the cardinal , entitled La belle Cordomuere . _ In this piece were contained reflections the most galling upon his birth , his and his characterbut more particularly aludicrous
person , , ^ account of his eminence ' s passion for a female cobler . The ruling propensity of Richelieu ' s heart was that of revenge ; and the smart that followed from this lampoon excited such a storm of this passion in his mind as the world saw plainly was not to be appeased without
some victim or other . As Grandier was well acquainted with La Hamon , who had been one of his parishioners , it occurred to the conspirators that they could riot by any contrivance more effectually promote their object , than by attributing to this unfortunate man a correspondence with the supposed authoress , and a particular concern in this perilous satire . Other schemes also adopted for exasperating the cardinal against the
were unhappy ecclesiastic , and things were in this posture when M . de Laubardemont returned to Paris . He there made the report of the condition of the nuns , whom he represented to he really possessed with devils , after having given them , as he declared , a full and unprejudiced examination . It is true , that since the arrival of Laubardemont , a numerous reinforcement had been added to the list of the
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Story Of Urbain Grandier.
STORY OF URBAIN GRANDIER .
Concluded from Page 239 .
WHILE things were in this train , an event as unexpected as _ t was decisive , drove the current of adversity with such fatal violence against the unhappy Grandier , that neither patronage , talents , nor the justice ofhis cause , could avail to protect him . It happened that just about this time there went an order from tiie Council to dismantle all the fortresses throug hout the interior of the kingdom , and that of Loudun
M . de Laubardemont was commissioned to destroy . This man was entirely devoted to Cardinal Richelieu , the ordinary instrument of ' his oppressions , and , when any subject was to be'sacrificed without the formalities of justice , the most dexterous agent on those sanguinary occasions . An old connexion had subsisted between him and the persecutors of Grandier ; and no sooner did he make his recovered their iritsand
appearance at Loudun , but the cabal sp , rallied round him with an exultation which they took but little pains to conceal . ' Some time before these events a woman named La Hamon , ^ belonging to the town of Loudun , had accidentally recommended herself to the notice of the queen , in whose service she now was emmuch above the
ployed . As she had manifested abilities common rate , and no despicable vein of wit and irony , a suspicion fell upon her , supported by other circumstances , of having written a most unmerciful satire upon the cardinal , entitled La belle Cordomuere . _ In this piece were contained reflections the most galling upon his birth , his and his characterbut more particularly aludicrous
person , , ^ account of his eminence ' s passion for a female cobler . The ruling propensity of Richelieu ' s heart was that of revenge ; and the smart that followed from this lampoon excited such a storm of this passion in his mind as the world saw plainly was not to be appeased without
some victim or other . As Grandier was well acquainted with La Hamon , who had been one of his parishioners , it occurred to the conspirators that they could riot by any contrivance more effectually promote their object , than by attributing to this unfortunate man a correspondence with the supposed authoress , and a particular concern in this perilous satire . Other schemes also adopted for exasperating the cardinal against the
were unhappy ecclesiastic , and things were in this posture when M . de Laubardemont returned to Paris . He there made the report of the condition of the nuns , whom he represented to he really possessed with devils , after having given them , as he declared , a full and unprejudiced examination . It is true , that since the arrival of Laubardemont , a numerous reinforcement had been added to the list of the