As we mentioned earlier, the Duke of Motmar fell in love at first sight with a potions master's wife, a witch, even if she had a husband and children, he could not quench his desire for love, he wanted not only her body, but also her love and loyalty, for this, he officially married her, but such a marriage, it is difficult to get the recognition of the main branch and the collateral, so he wanted to impress the king with a gift worth 100,000 livres, so that in the name of the king to persuade those who are unwilling.

But for Louis, although the arrival of 100,000 livres was timely, it was not enough for a duke, and the fact that d'Artagnan mentioned that the duke did not have an heir could not help but make him think further, he said that if the duke's infatuation with the witch continued until she gave birth to a son, then in order to allow his son to inherit the title and the domain, the duke should be able to pay more - no, it should be said, he should think about the future now.

The king was compelled to write to the bishop and ask him to remind the Duke of Motmar of the matter, and to inform him of the arrangements that had followed, and to ask him for guidance. The Bishop wrote quickly, correcting some of the errors in the king's plan that had arisen from a lack of knowledge of the present situation or traditions, and respectfully begged the king's forgiveness, for he had made some arrangements for the urgency of the matter, and the Duke of Motmar had been reminded that he had gone to Auvers.

Auvers is a small town on the banks of the Oise, about nine fats from Paris, where two hundred years later a depressed painter spent the last seventy days of his life and died after producing a large number of beautiful works during these seventy days, and the town is also famous, but at this time it was not famous, and the Prince of Condé only made a short stay here.

The king said to the queen mother that he would ask her to write a letter to the Prince of Condé, asking him to return to Paris in consideration of his relatives' affections, and that he would confide his grievances to the king, and that the king would do his best to meet his demands, and that if he could get his way, and not let France fall into the abyss of civil war, then there would be anything to talk about— It was a letter of peace, which astonished the Queen Mother, for her eldest son was not such a cowardly man, and they now had their own army, but the King pleaded repeatedly, and the Queen Mother wrote a letter to the messenger to take him to Orvers.

But the messenger left too late, and was confronted by robbers on the way, so that when he had made his way to Auvers, the Prince of Condé had already left, and the messenger finally learned from the soldiers left by the prince that the prince had gone to Angers, and he hurried to Angers again, and the prince read the letter, and expressed great regret, for if he had been in Auvers, he would have rushed to the king's side and accepted this sincere proposal, but now he was surrounded by many loyal men in Angers, and in order not to disappoint them, he could only regretfully refuse the king's offer, that is, he had to fight with the king。

Louis received a reply from the prince, not discouraged, he asked the queen mother to continue to write to the prince, while receiving the envoy of the Duke of Orleans, his cousin the Duchess of Montpensier, after the previous events, the Duke of Orleans may have thought that this daughter was really useful, after repeatedly asking Louis to enter Paris without success, he let his daughter out, completely ignoring the current royal family's disgust with her, slightly wrong, she will not only be humiliated, but perhaps killed.

But for the Duke of Orleans, this was nothing at all, and he had always been dissatisfied that his inheritance was still after his eldest daughter (the domain of the Duchess of Montpensier), and if the Duchess of Montpensier could succeed, it would certainly be good for him, but if he did not succeed, it would not hurt him. After all, it was learned from Louis that now in Paris, the Duchess of Montpensier was almost more famous than her father.

The Duchess of Montpensier, in appearance and imposing, seemed to have been reborn, and it seemed that the trip to Orleans had become an opportunity for her to climb the ladder, and the Queen Mother did not want to see her, so Louis told him bluntly that he was still waiting for a reply from the Prince of Condé, and that he was willing to take the Prince by the arm and enter Paris with him, if possible.

"As for the reason," said Louis, in a childish tone that could only belong to a child, "of course it is because I prefer to believe in the Prince." "And not your father.

As he said this, Louis stared closely at the face of the Duchess of Montpensier, they still did not know whether the Duchess of Montpensier's infatuation with the Prince of Condé was a disguise or sincere, but when he saw that the Duchess's face did not show any unusual expression, he was almost sure.

At this time the queen mother's maid appeared outside the door, as if the queen mother had some orders, so the king ran out, and the duchess noticed that one of the drawers of the desk was slightly open, and she looked left and right, and found that the attendants were all in the corridor, so she boldly walked over, opened the drawer, opened the letter, and looked at it. She read it so carefully that she almost imprinted every word in her heart, and when she heard footsteps in the hallway, she hurriedly folded the letter again, stuffed it into a drawer, and closed it.

The king didn't seem to notice the drawer, let alone the letter inside, he simply said a few words to the duchess, and sent her away, of course, when the duchess was still the darling of the royal family, even Versailles would have a room for her, but now the queen mother hated to hang her, how could she let her stay? The duchess had to take the maid guards and return to Paris overnight.

The Duke of Orléans was reluctant to believe the information brought back by his eldest daughter at first, but soon the king gave him conclusive evidence that the Prince of Condé had been canonized as Generalissimo and was about to return to Paris with his army.

It was in this way that after the queen mother repeatedly showed weakness, the prince of Condé, who had always been vacillating, finally made a decision, but there were also reasons why his thought career did not go smoothly - he was only popular in a few places, and most of the French still only recognized the king, although he had outstanding military talents, but his subordinates were not, and they were repeatedly frustrated under Tirrene and Schaumberg, and there was a lot of contradiction - This made the Prince of Condé tired and tired, and his vision of becoming king was no longer so determined, so that although his sister the Duchess of Longueville and his wife tried to dissuade him, he agreed to the king's offer, but he also had a request, that is, to enter Paris with his eight thousand soldiers.

The king agreed.

When the Prince of Condé returned to Paris in 1652, the Bishop of Mazarin, who had been recalled by the king at that time, immediately announced his retirement again, transferring a considerable part of his power to Condé, which made the Duke of Orleans uncontrollably red-eyed, after all, after the king's return, his acting king's side became very awkward, especially after the king's coming-of-age ceremony, he decided to move the Paris High Court to Pontoise, it stands to reason that the High Court, which had become the Duke of Orléans's pocket, should immediately refuse such an order, but to his anger, fourteen judges obeyed the king's will, and now there are two high courts, one for the Duke of Orleans, the other for the King, and it is no wonder that the Duke of Orleans went berserk at the power in the hands of Bishop Mazarin.

The Duke of Orleans's hostility to the Prince of Condé certainly did not feel it, and at a banquet invited to the palace of the Duke of Orleans, he slapped the Duke's supporters, and the son of a duke, who was also a strong and arrogant young man, so he immediately returned the color, and the two noble lords mingled, and in the end the Duke of Orleans had to put the brave young man in prison for several days.

But to say that the matter ended here, I am afraid that it may not be, just when the Prince of Condé temporarily left Paris for business, two of his subordinates, two prominent dukes, had a quarrel, and decided to decide the victory by duel, and the result was the death of one duke. Whether or not there was the handwriting of the Duke of Orleans, no one knows.

It was not at all surprising that the king was awakened one night by the roar of artillery and heard the shouts of the soldiers.

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"It's too dangerous, my lord. The Duke of La Rochefoucauld said that if the Duchess of Longueville were here, she would be jealous, for the concern in the mouth of the Duke of La Rochefoucauld was not hypocritical, but sincere.

Now the night was about to pass, and in addition to the red light from the torches, there was already a faint white morning light reflecting the gray woods and buildings, and the vampire Amon stood in front of the open window, studied his hand for a moment, and suddenly stretched it out, and the morning light immediately made his skin burn, and the Duke of La Rochefoucauld, who was watching in a panic, did not dare to say anything.

He was able to speak out and be self-righteous when he didn't know much about Amun and vampires, but since the Prince of Condé left Paris, the vampire's bond with them had become stronger, and the closer the Duke got to them, the quicker his courage faded like a stream of water caught in a net—it is said that the Prince of Condé wanted to return to Paris with this in mind, with the Inquisition, countless ascetics and paladins, and the vampire had to be more careful in whatever he had to do.

But what did Amon want to do? He watched the smoke rise on the back of his hand, and he felt bored when he felt the pain - a bat flew over and squeaked at him a few times, and the expression on Amon's face became even more rare.

"So ......," he whispered.

He withdrew his hand and returned to the duke, "Your master and Gaston, Prince of Orleans, are fighting. ”

Duke La Rochefoucauld was shocked when he heard this, and he immediately jumped up from his chair, "I must go at once!" and he said, "I beg your pardon, Your Highness, I ......"

Amon waved his hand, as if he didn't care at all.

"A word of advice for you," the vampire said with a cruel grin, "see the situation, duke, see the situation before making a decision." ”