ty's apartments with Monsieur himself; and as to
the Duc de Bouillon, his examination is not unfav--"

"Silence!" cried M. de Seyton, the lieutenant of the Scotch guards;
and the commissioners entered and again arranged themselves in the
apartment.

M. de Thou, hearing them summon the criminal recorder of the presidial
of Lyons to pronounce the sentence, involuntarily launched out in one of
those transports of religious joy which are never displayed but by the
martyrs and saints at the approach of death; and, advancing toward this
man, he exclaimed:

"Quam speciosi pedes evangelizantium pacem, evangelizantium bona!"

Then, taking the hand of Cinq-Mars, he knelt down bareheaded to receive
the sentence, as was the custom. D'Effiat remained standing; and they
dared not compel him to kneel. The sentence was pronounced in these
words:

"The Attorney-General, prosecutor on the part of the State, on a
charge of high treason; and Messire Henri d'Effiat de Cinq-Mars,
master of the horse, aged twenty-two, and Francois Auguste de Thou,
aged thirty-five, of the King's privy council, prisoners in the
chateau of Pierre-Encise, at Lyons, accused and defendants on the
other part:

"Considered, the special trial commenced by the aforesaid attorney-
general against the said D'Efiiat and De Thou; informations,
interrogations, confessions, denegations, and confrontations, and
authenticated copies of the treaty with Spain, it is considered in
the delegated chamber:

"That he who conspires against the person of the ministers of
princes is considered by the ancient laws and constitutions of the
emperors to be guilty of high treason; (2) that the third ordinance
of the King Louis XI renders any one liable to the punishment of
death who does not reveal a conspiracy against the State.

"The commissioners deputed by his Majesty have declared the said
D'Effiat and De Thou guilty and convicted of the crime of high
treason:

"The said D'Effiat, for the conspiracies and enterprises, league,
and treaties, formed by him with the foreigner against the State;

"And the said De Thou, for having a thorough knowledge of this
conspiracy.

"In reparation of which crimes they have deprived them of all honors
and dignities, and condemned them to be deprived of their heads on a
scaffold, which is for this purpose erected in the Place des
Terreaux, in this city.