Memoirs of Maximilian De Bethune, Vol. 1 of 5

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Excerpt from Memoirs of Maximilian De Bethune, Vol. 1 of 5: Duke of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry the Great, Newly Translated From the French Edition of M. De L'ecluse, To Which Is Annexed, the Trial of Francis Ravaillac, for the Murder of Henry the Great The Memoirs of Sully have always been ranked among the best books we have. This truth being established long ago, by the judgment of all our good critics, and of all the lovers of literature, I may save myself the trouble of a discussion, useless to those who know the book. With regard to those who have never read these Memoirs, it is sufficient to give them an idea of the work, to say, that they comprehend the history of what passed from the peace in 1570, to the first year of Lewis XIII. that is to say, the space of more than forty years, a period that has furnished the most copious matter to the historians of our monarchy, and that they treat of the reign, or, to speak more property, of almost the whole life of Henry the Great. These Memoirs presuppose, indeed, some knowledge of the preceding troubles, which are only occasionally mentioned, but they display all the succeeding events in the most minute detail. Events equally numerous and diversified, wars, foreign and civil, interests of state and religion, masterpieces of state-administration, unexpected discoveries, efforts of ambition, stratagems of policy, embassies and negotiations, are all to be found here, and are but a part of what the book contains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.