Excerpt from A Princess of Intrigue, Vol. 1: Anne Genevi ve De Bourbon, Duchesse De Longueville, and Her Times The punishment of those who have loved women too well, is to love them always.1 This was the punishment of Henri IV. His Majesty was fifty - flve, and his hair and beard, whitened by a life of peril and hardship, made him appear considerably older. But his heart was still young, and he was as amorous as he had been at twenty. F rom the first, he took the keenest pleasure in Mlle. De Montmorency's society; soon he was hopelessly in love, although, for some time, he appears to have deluded himself into the belief that his interest in the damsel was of a paternal nature only. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.