Also, during the evening when Louis XIII had invited all his marshals, his generals and senior officers, he approached the king and asked him if he, the evening ended, the fatigue test was Crown not prevent the maintenance of a moment.

The king, who seemed almost as gay as the day he was killed Marshal d’Ancre, said:

-As always tells me that your Eminence is the good of the state and glory of my crown, I am and I am always ready to give him the hearing that it will ask me.

And indeed, when the evening was over, the king, though overwhelmed with praise, came to the Cardinal:

And now, my Eminence, the two of us, he said, sitting down and showing a seat to the cardinal.

The cardinal sat on the king’s order and after the king.

-Speak, I listen to you, says Louis XIII.

Sire, said the cardinal, I believe that Your Majesty has now been entirely satisfactory as a remedy to injury that had been made, and the desire for glory Do not push it useless to continue a war that can immediately conclude a glorious peace.