Note 1666 — Chapter XVIII
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The duke and his fellow-captives made several efforts to escape, in one of which Alençon narrowly missed doing so (see the account in C. S. P. Ven., No. 600, July 26, 1574). In consequence, when Catherine started to meet her son at Lyons, leaving the government of Paris in care of the Parlement (ibid., No. 1,509, July 10, 1574), the young princes traveled in the coach with her. “Her chickens go in coach under her wing, and so she minds to bring them to the King.”—Ibid., For., No. 1,511, Dale to Walsingham, August 9, 1574.