Hen-  The  affairs  of  Bretagne  were  now  in  fuch  confufion,  that

ry  VII.     thcre  waa  no  way  left  to  preferve  the  whole  country  from  be*
.intsrpofis,  jng  conquered,  but  to  apply  to  Henry  the  feventbof  Eng-
buteohttle  faj.    He  was  indeed  deeply  imerefted  in  the  prefervation  of
*1     #  '*  ^at  iroP01^1*  Sovereignty ;  but  his  politics  were  fo  refined,

of 'tint?  m  that  hc  dld  not  fcc  thc  *""  cxtcnt  rf  its  dao8cr-     Tht  P^P10

taene        °^  England  did,  and  how  much  it  imported  them  to  lave  it ;

•  and,  therefore,  they  forced  the  king  to  conclude  a  treaty

with  the  yonng  duchefi,  and  to  fend  over  fix  thoufand  men  to

♦  *  Memoires  de  Commiv.     Bkamt.  Eioge  de  Charles  VIIL

y  Annale*    de   France.      Le  Gend.  *  Du  Tillet,

*  Annates  de  France.  b  Haroeus  Annal  Brabant.    Du-

Tlbix".  *  Mez.    Chalons.
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her  a$ftance  <*.  But  the  main  point  of  all  was  the  marriage,
If er  father  had  made  very  ftrong  promifcs  to  die  Jord  of  Albteft
who  commanded  in  Nantes  with  a  peat  corps  of  troops,  and
the  marfhal  Rieux,  who  took  upon  him  to  aft-as  herguardian,
was,  in  fcarneft,  defiroys  that  it  fcoujd  take  place.  The  chan-
cellor of  Brftagnt,  who  was  againft  it,  had  her  confidence  *
and,  befidea,  the  princefs,  who  was  but  in  her  thirteenth  year,
had  the  utmoft  repugnance  to  a  marriage  with  a  man  of  forty*
five,  of  a  very  indifferent  perfon,  hafty  in  his  temper,  whofe
eftates  were  not  very  conuderable,  and  who  had  three  fons
jind  four  daughters  by  a  former  wife  •.  This  was  not  all,  the  A.  D.
