Series 3 > Foreign correspondence with Marie de Lorraine, Queen of Scotland, from the originals in the Balcarres papers > Volume 7

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BALCARRES PAPERS
LXXII
From M. de la Brousse to the Queen Dowager,
then in France
(1551.) Vol. iii. 109.
After having heard the sad news of the death of the Duke of Longue-
ville, for whose sake he had given up all other hopes of advancement, he
set out to see the Queen’s brothers to find what they could do for him.
In Paris he met several of the late Duke’s servants and found what the
Queen had done for them, and that she had done nothing for him. He
was told that she had given to Puiguillon half of the Duke’s plate which,
by the ancient custom of the house of Longueville, should belong to the
writer. He begs the Queen not to wrong him, who loses so much and
who is not recompensed. He has refused a post of maitre d’hotel. He
begs the Queen to bestow on him some robes of cloth of gold which are
in Paris so that he may make something off them. He does not write
for the sake of avarice, but because he has been neglected undeservedly.
From Paris on the 13th October.
A LA ROYNE.
Madame, apres avoir seu la plus maleureuse nouvelle
qui me povet avenir, qui est la mort de feu Monseigneur
votre fiz, pour lequel j’avois abandonne toustes auctres
esperances, me suis mis en chemin pour m’an aler vers
Messieurs voz freres pour entendre se que dois devenir ;
et, passant par ceste ville, j’ai trouve pluzieurs serviteurs
de feu Monseigneur votre di fiz, qui m’ont conte le bien
qu’avez fet aulz ungs et la soutenance qu’aves heu des
aultres dont je me trouve hors, chose a moy presque
incroiable qu’aies hoblie mes services passes. Et daven-
tage, Madame, Ton m’a di qu’avez donne la moitie de la
veazelle de la chambre a Monsieur de Puiguillon, qui
m’apartient sellon les anciennes coutumes de votre maison,
car feu M. de Lemer l’a prist ungue fois et Monsieur de
[Gris—] ung aultre et en ne quactre cens livres de recom-
panse. Qui est I’occasion pour quoy vous escripes la
presente, vous suppliant tres humblement, Madame, ne
me fere tant de tor que de me frustrer de votra bonne
grasse, laquelle je cuides avoir justement acquisze. Vous
me en commanderes se qu’il vous plera et consideres sy