So furious was the storm raised by this, that Marie declared her willingness to surrender the regency, and after summoning the States General she presented her son, Louis XIII., thirteen years of age, declaring that he was qualified to reign.
Only once again was this body to be called together.

That was in 1789, by Louis XVI., when it was transformed into a National Assembly.
But when it was discovered that the power of the detested pair was as great behind the boy king as it had been behind his mother, the storm gathered again from all parts of the kingdom.

It was France in struggle with Concini, the man who was audaciously sending princes of the blood and dukes to the Bastille.
But a counter-influence was weaving about Louis.

He was made to realize the indignity to himself in letting two vulgar Italians usurp his authority.

Thus Albert de Luynes, his adored friend, procured his signature to a paper ordering the immediate destruction of Concini and his wife.