94, 95.
[245] Richelieu, _Hist.

de la Mere et du Fils_, vol.i.pp.

8-11.
[246] MSS.

Dupuy, vol.407.
[247] Andre Hurault, Seigneur de Maisse, had been ambassador to Venice under both Henri III and Henri IV, and in his official capacity had frequent disputes with the nuncios of Sixtus V and Clement VIII, in consequence of which those prelates exerted all their influence to injure his interests at the Court of Rome.

Andre Morosin mentions M.de Maisse as an able and far-seeing man, _sagaci admodum ingenio_.