CHAPTER X

The King of Navarre appoints a special commission for the trial of Brilland--Brilland is put to the question--His confessions under torture implicate the Princesse de Condé, but on the following day he disavows them--He is found guilty and condemned to be dismembered by horses--The princess denies the competency of the court and appeals to the Parlement of Paris--But the King of Navarre and the commissioners ignore the decrees of that body--The commission directs that the princess shall be brought to trial--She gives birth to a son--The prosecution is dropped, but the princess remains in captivity--The Président de Thou interests himself in her case--Means by which he obtains from Henri IV. the recognition of her son’s rights, and, with them, the acknowledgment of the princess’s innocence 139–148

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