resented so bitterly, that while the Emperor was at Chantilli, he
endeavoured to prevail with the Constable to arrest him without
waiting for the King's orders, but the Constable refused to do
it: however, the King afterwards blamed him for not following his
son's advice, and when he banished him the Court, that was one of
the principal reasons for it.

"The discord between the two brothers put Madam d'Etampes upon
the thought of strengthening herself with the Duke of Orleans, in
order to support her power with the King against the Duchess of
Valentinois; accordingly she succeeded in it, and that young
Prince, though he felt no emotions of love for her, entered no
less into her interest, than the Dauphin was in that of Madam de
Valentinois. Hence rose two factions at Court, of such a nature
as you may imagine, but the intrigues of them were not confined
to the quarrels of women.

The Emperor, who continued to have a great friendship for the
Duke of Orleans, had offered several times to make over to him
the Duchy of Milan. In the propositions which were since made
for the peace, he gave hopes of assigning him the seventeen
provinces, with his daughter in marriage. The Dauphin neither
approved of the peace or the marriage, and in order to defeat
both he made use of the Constable, for whom he always had an
affection, to remonstrate to the King of what importance it was
not to give his successor a brother so powerful as the Duke of
Orleans would be with the alliance of the Emperor and those
countries; the Constable came the more easily into the Dauphin's
sentiments, as they were opposite to those of Madam d'Etampes,
who was his declared enemy, and who vehemently wished for the