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[Footnote 76: Ibid., 36. It would appear that even this penalty did not deter them from the commission of their infamous crimes, for a fresh edict, in 1523 (Isambert, xii., 216), prescribes that for exemplary punishment ”lesdicts blasphemateurs execrables avant que souffrir mort, _ayent la gorge ouverte avec un fer chaud et la langue tiree ou coupee par les dessouz_; et ce faict penduz et attachez au gibet ou potence, et estranglez, selon leurs desmerites!”]
[Footnote 77: Journal d'un bourgeois, 327. The Marche-aux-pourceaux, or swine market, was a little west of the present Palais Royal, just outside of the walls of Paris, as they existed in the time of Francis I.
See the atlas accompanying Dulaure, Histoire de Paris. In December, 1581, the Parliament of Rouen sentenced one Salcede to this horrible death. b.a.s.t.a.r.d d'Estang, Les parlements de France, i. 428.]
[Footnote 78: Journal d'un bourgeois, 326.]
[Footnote 79: Ibid., 251.]
[Footnote 80: Ibid., 434. A somewhat similar instance is mentioned by the continuator of the Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet (anno 1503), l. iii. c. 220.]
[Footnote 81: See the vigorous treatise it called forth from the pen of the great Reformer of Geneva in 1549, under the t.i.tle of ”Advertiss.e.m.e.nt contre l'Astrologie qu'on appelle _judiciaire_, et autres curiositez qui regnent aujourd'huy dans le monde.” Paul L. Jacob, uvres francoises de Calvin, 107, etc.]
[Footnote 82: Despatch of La Mothe Fenelon, June 3, 1573, Corr. dipl., v. 345, 346.]
[Footnote 83: L'Heptameron dea Nouvelles de tres haute et tres ill.u.s.tre princesse Marguerite d'Angouleme, Reine de Navarre. Publie sur les MSS.
par la Soc. des Bibliophiles francais. Premiere Journee, Premiere Nouvelle.]
[Footnote 84: The practice of magic with small waxen images into which pins were thrust, impious words being uttered at the same time, was at least as old in France as the beginning of the fourteenth century. In 1330 Robert of Artois employed it to compa.s.s the death of Philip of Valois and his queen; just as two centuries and a half later the adherents of the League resorted to the same device to destroy Henry III. and Henry of Navarre. See note L to the Heptameron (edit. cit.), i.
170. Jean de Marcouville (Recueil memor. Paris, 1564, Cimber et Danjou, iii. 415) alludes to similar sorcery just after the death of Philip the Fair, in 1314. It was therefore no ”Italian sorcery” introduced into France by Catharine de' Medici, as M. De Felice seems to suppose (Hist.
des prot. de France, liv. ii. c. 17).]
[Footnote 85: ”Advertiss.e.m.e.nt tres-utile du grand profit qui reviendroit a la Chretiente, s'il se faisoit inventaire de tous les corps saints et reliques,” etc., 1543 (uvres francoises de Calvin). A racy treatise, which well exhibits the service done by the author to the French language.]
[Footnote 86: Ibid., 171.]
[Footnote 87: Ibid., 169.]
[Footnote 88: Ibid., 139.]
[Footnote 89: Ibid., 155.]
[Footnote 90: Ibid., 139.]
[Footnote 91: Ibid., 140.]
[Footnote 92: Ibid., 179, 180.]
[Footnote 93: Ibid., 172.]
[Footnote 94: Ibid., 156.]
[Footnote 95: ”Et lors faisoit beau voir mon fils porter honneur et reverence au saint sacrement, que chacun en le regardant se prenoit a pleurer de pitie et de joye.” Journal de Louise de Savoie, Collection de memoires (Pet.i.tot), xvi. 407.]
[Footnote 96: Gaillard, Hist. de Francois premier, vii. 45, etc.; Mezeray, Abrege chron. de l'hist. de France (Amst., 1682), iv. 644.]
[Footnote 97: Gaillard, _ubi supra_.]
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