Representation du subject qui a porte Messieurs de Salles et de Fraville, de la Maison de Courtenay, a se retirer hors du Royaume, 1614.

It was a homicide, for which the Courtenays expected to be pardoned, or tried, as princes of the blood.] [Footnote 77: The sense of the parliaments is thus expressed by Thuanus Principis nomen nusquam in Gallia tributum, nisi iis qui per mares e regibus nostris originem repetunt; qui nunc tantum a Ludovico none beatae memoriae numerantur; nam _Cortini_ et Drocenses, a Ludovico crasso genus ducentes, hodie inter eos minime recensentur.

A distinction of expediency rather than justice.

The sanctity of Louis IX.

could not invest him with any special prerogative, and all the descendants of Hugh Capet must be included in his original compact with the French nation.] [Footnote 78: The last male of the Courtenays was Charles Roger, who died in the year 1730, without leaving any sons.