Her Memoires concludes with this expression: "It is but reasonable that this my book should end with him, as it was only undertaken to describe to him our pilgrimage in this life.
And, since it hath pleased God, he hath sooner gone through, and more easily ended his own.

Wherefore, indeed, if I feared not to cause affliction to M.du Plessis, who, the more mine grows upon me, makes me the more clearly perceive his affection, it would vex me extremely to survive him." On learning by letter from Prince Maurice that the young man was dead, Henry IV.

said, with emotion, to those present, "I have lost the fairest hope of a gentleman in my kingdom.

I am grieved for the father.

I must send and comfort him.