He was staying near Bergerac, at the castle of the Lord of La Force, with whom he was so intimate that he took with him none of his household, as he preferred to be waited upon by M.de la Force's own staff.

"I was so grievously affected by it," said he himself at a later period to M.de la Force, "that, as I pondered deeply upon it and held my head supported upon my hand, my apprehensions of the woes I foresaw for my country were such as to whiten one half of my mustache." [_Memoires du Due de la Force,_ t.i.

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50.] Henry III., for his part, was but little touched by the shouts of Long live the king! that he heard as he left the palace; he was too much disquieted to be rejoiced at them.

He did not return the greeting of the municipal functionaries or of the mob that blocked his way.