304 . COACHING. 



coaclimen, jostled against each other, and came 

 to blows between their followers, who, departing 

 in that fashion one from another, did, against 

 the next morning call and assemble together 

 such numbers of their followers, as that the 

 Duke de Guise joining his brother-in-law. Prince 

 de Conti, and the Prince de Conde with the 

 Comte de Soissons, his uncle, they came out 

 into the streets with at least three or four 

 hundred mounted men. 



In a record of that time, I find the 

 following : — 



" There do daily break forth new quarrels 

 between the nobility iu this town (Paris), who 

 are here in greater numbers than usually have 

 been heretofore, whereof one being between 

 Monsieur d'Andelot and Monsieur Balagny was 

 presently taken up ; and another fell out the 

 other day between Colonel d'Ornano and one 

 Monsieur St. Andre, who, fighting in the streets, 

 were both hurt, and to avoid the mischief 

 that might ensue from such meetings, the 

 gates of the town were for a time shut 

 up." 



How long the monopoly of jjoi^te-lanternes 

 continued a profitable concern I know not ; 

 but at the end of the reio^n of Louis XIV. 



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