bis  arm*  againft  Sedan,  and  ordered  &*///  to  prepare  a  com-
petent train  of  artillery  for  that  enterprise*    It  was  four  years
iince  that  prince  had  been  at  court,  and  during  thb  time  he
bad  contracted  clofe  engagements  with  feveral  of  the  princes
of  Germany*  wbofe  interceffion,  he  hoped,  would  have  had
fome  weight  with  the  king  %  but  Henry  having  rejected  fome-
thingof  the  like  nature  from  the  Swifs  cantons,  the  duke  did
not  find  it  eafy  to  get  other  potentates  to  intcrpofc. He
wanted  not,  however,  mediators  at  court  ;  the  queen  and  Vil-
Uroy  interceded  for  him ;   and  when  the  king,  with  his  army
'of  twenty*  five  thoufand  men,  was  advanced  within  a  league
mi  Sedan,  the  duke  demanded  a  treaty,  which  was  concluded
on  the  laft  of  April *. By  this  the  duke  confented  that  the
king  (hould  put  a  garrifon  into  Sedan  for  four  years ;  and  on
the  other  hand,  the  king  granted  him  an  abolition  of  what-*
ever  he  might  have  faidordone,  which  was  to  be  verified  in
parliament  8. The  treaty  was  no  fooner  concluded  than  the
duke  came  to  pay  his  refpeds  to  the  king,  who  afterwards
made  his  public  entry  into  Sedan,  remained  there  a  few  days,
and  then  returned  in  triumph  to  Paris. The  duke  of  Bouil-
lon, ibon  after,  followed  him  thither,  and,  to  the  furprize  of
all  the  world,  was  not  only  very  kindly  received,  but  entered
fo  far  into  the  king's  good  graces,  that,  in  a  month's  time,
the  king  withdrew  his  garrifon  out  of  Sedan,  and  left  the
duke  in  the  very  fame  fituation  in,  which  he  found  himh«
He  runs  an     Queen  Margaret  inftituted  a  fuit  before  the  parliament  of
imminent    Paris  againft  the  count  £Auvergne>  who  was  ftill  a  prifoner,
hazard  of  as  he  continued  during  the  remainder  of  this  reign,  lor  that
Ins  life,     county  which  he  enjoyed  in  virtue  of  the  will  of  queen  Catht-
andfaMs    rine  de  Medieis;  but  queen  Margaret  infilled,  that,  by  the
into  new    queen's  contract  of  marriage  with  Henry  the  fecond,  the  lands
arnoun. fettled  upon  her,  upon  default  of  iffue  male,  were  to  pais  to
females. 