Chapter One: scratch it and see how
has to be very elegant your name to go down the history books. Let me remind you the facts, whatever color they are. But at m enos you remember, and thereby to establish, in a sense, immortality. But it must be a bitch like a house that, if a bit delves in your history, you find that you're dead like a complete idiot, a stud at the end of a curriculum vitae quite interesting. For does r very long entry, which surely will be, and since that more than one in our heads, we will publish slowly so as not to overwhelm staff . We could start with, for example, Luis de Borbón, Comte de Soissons .
Good old Louis de Bourbon-Condé (1604 - 1641) had the misfortune to be born at a bad time for the French royal family. Cisco had barely exceeded the Wars of Religion (second half of XVI century), but the seed was present. And while the French king's power over his nation had been strengthened over the centuries (and thanks to the Hundred Years War), half a century of fighting had left the kingdom in a very delicate. It seemed that only now that Richelieu, Cardinal nemesis of our profession and Olivares, had come to power as minister of Louis XIII, France returned to surface. But Richelieu was not exactly popular at court, and even the king's favorite, Zinc-Marcs, sought by active and passive rid of it. And do not say more than five-Marcs where he was due to the cardinal. We are grateful, damn.
Let's talk about Luis. He was born in Bourbon branch "pro-Huguenot," and although in the end ruled one of their own, "Paris is worth a Mass" and changed his jacket. Surely it was some resentment among the Huguenots (® Travis, 2008), and the proof was that Henry IV, Louis XIII's father (who in turn was a second cousin of our Luis) was murdered in 1610 by François Ravaillac (who if you are interested we can talk later.) During the reign of Louis XIII were several conspiracies and plots against the king ... For example, her own mother, who held the regency during the minority of the monarch and then was rewarded with exile at Blois, which she thanked escaping and raising an army against his beloved son. Mother's love, they call it. And the presence of Richelieu was not liked by all, as stated above. Here comes in. our Luis, in 1638 participated in an attempted assassination of the Cardinal, along with other accomplices. But when the time came, he and Gaston, brother of the king, made the silly with the typical "you first", "no, you", "come on, you", etc. ad nauseam , and the attempt failed. None dared to take the plunge, and had to take refuge in Sedan ...
Here in Sedan, Luis has become increasingly prominent. Was a prominent military, and the Duke of Bouillon did not hesitate to put their troops under the command of his principality once declared in rebellion against the crown. Of course, between one thing and another, Luis did not waste time and Richelieu kept trying to retire for the fast track.
Of course, King would not tolerate independent Sedan as well, so they sent an army commanded no less than by the Marshal of Châtillon, Gaspard de Coligny, pair France, the house of Montmorency. Sound a little Chinese, but his "bistíoabuelo" was Anne de Montmorency, French general who brought the English head in Italy, but was captured along with his king, Francis I, at the Battle of Pavia (Suck that!). And yes, it was a boy and his name was Anne. Do I need to remember that it is French?
us not stray, back to Sedan. In particular the forested plateau of La Marfée, from what the city looked perfectly. There he faced the armies of the King of France, commanded by Marshal de Chatillon, a conglomerate mercanarios sedans and the service of Holy Roman Empire, named for the duke, who commanded Luis de Borbón. Some 13,000 to about 11,000. Mal painted the subject. Luis participated fully in the Thirty Years War.
A bit of luck (Bad road conditions caused the royalists arrived late for the appointment, finding the rebels in position and waiting) and military genius of Louis gave victory to the latter, and thus to Sedan. Summary: In a clever move by the flank, the cavalry sedans, led by Louis himself, sneaks into the kitchen of the realistic side, doing away with Gaspard and decapitating and command of the army. If the battle is said to have started around 11 am, noon was determined and could go to Sedan to eat croissants and baguettes. Paris might fall, because the Cardinal - Infante Don Fernando of Spain came with Over-drive position from Flanders, and so did the Germans in the east. All in favor for the cardinal to disappear, and with him, his influence over the king, as planting of new battle, Louis XIII should put forward a five-Marcs, a favorite of the king and political enemy of Richelieu. "Armando, John, date and fucked," I should think the good Cardinal.
But, oh friend, Here comes in the misfortune of our Louis. Imagine the frame of mind: you, Luis de Bourbon-Condé, at 37 years old, is uploaded to your horse, enjoying his victory, a victory that opened the door to his army to Paris, so we can hang Richelieu, to influence his cousin Louis XIII ... Tired and heated, the product of the battle. It would be a great picture, if not for that damn itchy head that note under the helmet. But you can not scratch because his hand does not fit with these gloves, between his helmet and his big head of Bourbon, so instead of removing one or the other has no better idea to pry his gun (a gun wheel muzzleloader). Need I say what happened? It is said, is discussed, it is rumored that when you raise the visor of his helmet and hit the canyon between the helmet and skull, had either accidentally hit the trigger, or just shoot it. And Luis shared the contents of his head with his squire, who said it was too late even charged. Well, not really burst the skull, Luis was located just to the bullet between his gray matter and there it was, which does not mean that you leave the pretty face.
The rebels lost their leader, as the Duc de Bouillon was a coward that he could give up and humbled himself before the king (and was pardoned through the intervention of Zinc-Marcs favortito) and another conspirator, the Archbishop of Rheims, Henry of Guise, was a john. Neither the one nor the another were soldiers, and less general. And if the first retained some dignity (and even thrived), the "religious" was sentenced to death, fled to Flanders, and returned to France five years later to lick his ass to Louis XIV, the Sun King
Richelieu happened in "cero_coma" to be fucking fucked up, a. .. a. .. Well, not to be. And all because Luis was itching her head.
Dedicated to Scare, thanks to those who knew this story, and all those who participated in that thread, because thanks to them I met so many characters that deserve a separate entry. And if you do not know that this endorsement, is it not addressed to you : p .
Hoooooola ones 
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