Coeuvres

And when the Archduke declined with dignity to be guilty of any such breach of the law of nations, Henry dispatched Coeuvres secretly to Brussels to carry off thence the princess.

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Ambleny-Coeuvres, and had gained a footing on the plateau to the eastward, which stretches as far as the outskirts of Soissons.

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In the room were also assembled the Marquis de Coeuvres, [409] the Comte de Cramail, and MM. d'Elbene and de Lomenie, with whom he unscrupulously discussed, in the presence of his outraged wife, the readiest means of compelling the immediate return of the fugitives.

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Coeuvres saw Conde before presenting his credentials to the Archduke, and found him quite impracticable.

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Pecquius asked if his ears had not deceived him, and if the King had really said that de Coeuvres had made such a statement.

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Nevertheless, the effrontery and ingenuity of de Coeuvres became now sublime.

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The irrepressible de Coeuvres, even then hardly willing to give up the whole stratagem as lost, was at least determined to discover how and by whom the plot had been revealed.

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But de Coeuvres firmly replied that the King would make no terms with his vassal nor allow Conde to prescribe conditions to him.

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The King, having thus through the mouth of his secretary of state warmly protested against his supposed implication in the attempted abduction, began as furiously to rail at de Coeuvres for its failure; telling the

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The King's advices from de Coeuvres were however to the effect that the step would probably be taken, that the arrangements were making, and that

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