The Strangled Queen
“Bring lights! Light up! And when his servants had come running, he descended the staircase surrounded by their, torches like a king.The courtyard was swarming with men-at-arms. In the doorway a tall figure in a coat of mail was etched sharply against the grey of early morning."How could you have consented to this, Pareilles? How could you have dared?" said Marigny, spreading wide his hands."I am not Alain de Pareilles," replied the officer. Messire de Pareilles is no longer in, command of the a...rchers.He moved aside to let a thin man in a dark cloak come forward. It was Chancellor Etienne de Mornay. As eight years earlier Nogaret had come in person to arrest the Grand Master of the Templars, Mornay - came in person today to arrest the Rector of the kingdom."Messire Enguerrand," he said "I pray you to follow me to the Louvre where I have orders to imprison you."At the same hour the majority of the great middle-class justiciars of the preceding reign, Raoul de Presles, Michel de Bourdenai, Guillaume Dubois, Geoffroy de Briancon, Nicole Le Loquetier, Pierre d'Orgemont, were arrested at their, houses and taken to various prisons some to be put totorture, while a detachment was sent to Chalons to arrest Bishop Pierre de Latille, the friend of Philip the Fair's youth, the man whom he had so much wished to see during his last hours.With them the Iron King's whole reign was put in thrall.4.MoreLess
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