Excerpt from Chantilly, Vol. 1 of 3 Among the latter was the brave Count d'es pignac, one of the personal friends and most zealous partisans of De Guise. Doubly formi dable, by his disinterested love for the house of Lorraine, and his never-wearying vigilance in its cause, De Valois had long felt that no plot against the former could succeed while d'espignac was reckoned among the Ligueur Chieftains. No sooner was this discovered, than it was deemed expedient to announce that he stood arraigned of treason; and shortly after no one was surprised to learn that the whole of his estates were confiscated, and that he had died, leaving to his only son the charge of his revenge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.