The Monsieurs return to France.
THe King went to Troys, and there rested some time as wel to satisfie the resoluti∣on which he had taken with the Cardinal of seeing his brother (who after the con∣clusion of the accommodation; about the end of the year last past, which we have al∣ready spoken of, retired to Nancy▪ and testifying to him his hearty affections, by all ways of lively demonstrations, and of which there could be no just cause of suspicion, seeing his Majesty had so frankly both pardoned him, and augmented his Pensions, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 we have already declared. The Monsieur arrived there the 18. of April, and in h••s Company (besides his own retinue) came divers Princes and Lords, who were th•••• at the Court, and had been sent by his Majesty two Leagues out of the Town to me•••• him. He alighted at the Queen Mothers lodgings, and the King stood expecting of him in the Court, and received him with so great a testimony of joy and friendship, that the Monsieur attempting to bend one of his knees to the ground, his Majesty would not in the least permit or give way to it, but imbraced him so long and ar∣dently, that one could not but conclude his Majesty loved him as his second self, and very passionate he was to find that they were united in their thoughts, in their wishes, in their wills, in their designs, and even in their very recreations; so that their faces seemed to be as it were glewed together. The Court was filled with joy, and these endearments continued all the while that the King continued at Tr••y•••• so that there was great reason to hope, that nothing would be ever able to separate 〈◊〉〈◊〉 make a breach between them, had not those who had rendred themselves masters of the Monsieurs inclinations and humour, rallied all their indeavours and artifices to confound and destroy it, thinking perhaps they should become the more con∣siderable, by keeping them at a greater distance, and raise more advantages to them∣selves by their divisions.