Note 2 — IV
Laura Ensor translation
The Comte de Horn, a connection of the Regent through his mother, the Princess-Palatine, was condemned to death for murder. The family implored his pardon, appealing to the Regent on the ground of relationship. “When I have bad blood,” the Regent coldly replied, “I have it drawn,” and the pardon was refused.
It is probable that they boasted to Hélène of the connection between the Horn and Orléans families without mentioning the Count’s crime.