Note 105 — Chapter IV
Henry Vizetelly translation
Richelieu left Ruel at the end of July, and went successively to Amiens, Abbeville, Ham, and Saint-Quentin. It was in this last town that he learnt the happy event and went at once to the church with a grand cortège. “He heard mass sung there by his chaplain, then the Te Deum and the Domine salvum.” He then wrote to the King and Queen to congratulate them.—Gazette de France, p. 535; Lettres et Papiers de Richelieu, vol. vi. p. 75, et seq. The 2nd October, Richelieu left the army to return to Saint-Germain. “The King arrived on Wednesday at Saint-Germain, whither the Cardinal-duke repaired from our armies the same day and almost the same hour as his Majesty, whom he found in the room of Monseigneur the Dauphin, where the Queen also was. It would be difficult to express with what transports of joy his eminence was seized on seeing between the father and the mother this admirable child, the object of his desires and the limit of his content.”—Gazette de France, p. 580.