Charnas, the intelligence which the cardinal had also great confidence, was gone long before the other two must pass before arriving in Sweden, for Constantinople and Russia. M. Charnes, under the weight of great pain, having just lost a wife he adored, had asked the cardinal, the mission, which kept him away from Paris. He had passed through Constantinople, Russia, and arrived about Gustave.

The letter from the Baron was a long panegyric of the king of Sweden, which he presented to Richelieu as the only man capable of stopping the progress of the imperial arms in Germany, if the Protestants wanted to sign a league with him.

Richelieu thought for a moment, then as if it broke with a last scruple:

-Well, he said, the pope will say what he wants: in the end, I am a cardinal, and he can décardinaliser me, but the glory and greatness of France above all!

And taking a paper to him, he wrote:

-Urge the King Gustav soon as he finished with the Russians to go to Germany for help from those of religion, which Ferdinand meditated loss.

“Promising to King Gustav Richelieu will provide a large sum of money, if second policy, and offer hope that the King of France attack simultaneously Lorraine to make a diversion.”