CHAPTER LXXXIII.

PRECAUTIONS. After having left Anne, Mazarin took the road to Rueil, where his mansion was; in those times of disturbance he went about with numerous followers, and often disguised himself. In the military dress he was indeed, as we have before stated, a very handsome man. In the court of the old château of Saint Germain, he entered his coach, and reached the Seine at Chalon. The prince had given him fifty light horse, not so much by way of a guard, as to show the deputies how readily the queen's generals dispersed…