This province has already advanced 1,000,000 florins to the general government on the money still due from France, which will all be lost in case the subsidy should be withheld, besides other evils which cannot be trusted to the pen." On the same day on which it had been decided at the Hague to send the troops, a captain of guards came to the aid of the poor little king and shot Concini dead one fine spring morning on the bridge of the Louvre.
"By order of the King," said Vitry.

His body was burned before the statue of Henry IV.

by the people delirious with joy.

"L'hanno ammazzato" was shouted to his wife, Eleanora Galigai, the supposed sorceress.

They were the words in which Concini had communicated to the Queen the murder of her husband seven years before.