Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas

Charles entered his room, smiling and joking. But after a conversation of ten minutes with his mother, one would have said that the latter had given him her pallor and anger in exchange for the light-heartedness of her son.

"Monsieur de la Mole," said Charles, "Monsieur de la Mole! Henry and the Duc d'Alencon must be sent for. Henry, because this young man was a Huguenot; the Duc d'Alencon, because he is in his service."