The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Volume II.

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At length my brother returned to Court, accompanied by all the Catholic nobility who had followed his fortunes.  The King received him very graciously, and showed, by his reception of him, how much he was pleased at his return.  Bussi, who returned with my brother, met likewise with a gracious reception.  Le Guast was now no more, having died under the operation of a particular regimen ordered for him by his physician.  He had given himself up to every kind of debauchery; and his death seemed the judgment of the Almighty on one whose body had long been perishing, and whose soul had been made over to the prince of demons as the price of assistance through the means of diabolical magic, which he constantly practised.  The King, though now without this instrument of his malicious contrivances, turned his thoughts entirely upon the destruction of the Huguenots.  To effect this, he strove to engage my brother against them, and thereby make them his enemies and that I might be considered as another enemy, he used every means to prevent me from going to the King my husband.  Accordingly he showed every mark of attention to both of us, and manifested an inclination to gratify all our wishes.