^promifed  to  be  good  fuhjecls  for  the  future  P.  Thus  ended  x
the  fourth  ciyil  war,  by  a  peace  which  the  court  did  not
intend  to  keep,  and  to  which  the  Protectants  never  trufted.
The  miferies  of  prance  were  daily  augmented  by  new  di-  Henry  D.
fturhances;  the  king  was  grown  exceffively  jealous  of  hxs  of  An]oxi
brother  the  duke  of  Anjou,  who  had  been  always  his  mother's  eU&ed  K.
.favourite,  and  who,  by  being  continually  at  the  htad  of  the  ^P°*ana«
army,  -had  at  Jeaft  as  much  authority  as  his  brother.     The
king  was  therefore  extremely  well  pleafed  at  hiseledion,  and
defired  nothing  So  much  as  to  fee  him  fairly  out  of  France.
On  the  other  hand,  the  duke  of  Anjouy  who  was  made  a  king
in  a  manner  againft  his  wtfl,  who  loved  an  indolent  and  lux-
urious life,  the  converfation  of  feveral  young  men,  whom  he
itiled  htsfrienda,  and  the  reft  of  the  world  his  flatterers,  till,
in  procefs  of  time,  they  fell  upon  a  worfe  appellation,  and
■who  was  alfo  vehemently  enamoureS  <of  the  princefs  of  Condi,
could  not  bear  the  thoughts  of  parting,  notwithftaoding  the
ambafladors  from  Poland  prefled  him  every  day ;  and  the  king

m  Matth.  Hiftoirede  France.    Popeliniere.  Mezbray.
*  Camden's  Annals  of  Queen  Elizabeth.  °  Jacob.
Thuani.     Dupl.     P.  Dar,                *  Serrei.  Mez.
