Royal Rivalries Here “Above all a prince must endeavor”: Machiavelli, The Prince, 95. Here “I was received very graciously” Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, 172. Here “both of them approved”: Ibid., 173. Here “she recollected it well”: Ibid. Here “Instead of dispatch”: Ibid. Here “My brother met with”: Ibid., 173–74. Here “these licentious young courtiers”: Ibid., 175. Here “Bussy had a degree of courage”: Ibid. Here “some new dispute betwixt them”: Ibid. Here “to fight it out to the death”: Holt, The Duke of Anjou and the Politique Struggle During the Wars of Religion, 96. Here “well lectured my brother”: Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, 177.