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xli.) 755.

[457] Mem. de Fr. de la Noue, c. xiv. (Ancienne coll., xlvii. 189); Davila, bk. iv. 116; Agrippa d'Aubigne, Hist. universelle, i. 212, 213; De Thou, iv. 22; Martin, Hist. de France, x. 246. There is some discrepancy in numbers. There is, however, but little doubt that those given in the text are substantially correct. D'Aubigne blunders, and more than doubles the troops of the constable.

[458] Agrippa d'Aubigne relates an incident which has often been repeated.

Among the distinguished spectators gathered on the heights of Montmartre, overlooking the plain, was a chamberlain of the Turkish sultan, the same envoy who had been presented to the king at Bayonne. When he saw the three small bodies of Huguenots issue in the distance from Saint Denis, and the three charges, in which so insignificant a handful of men broke through heavy battalions and attacked the opposing general himself, the Moslem, in his admiration of their valor, twice cried out: ”Oh, that the grand seignior had a thousand such men as those soldiers in white, to put at the head of each of his armies! The world would hold out only two years against him.” Hist. univ., i. 217.

[459] ”Autant de volontaires Parisiens bien armez et _dorez comme calices_.” Agrippa d'Aubigne, l. iv., c. 8 (i. 213). ”Tenans la bataille desja achevee, tout ce gros si bien dore print la fuitte.” (Ibid., i.

215.)

[460] At Marignano, in 1515.

[461] He was taken prisoner by the Emperor Charles V. at Pavia, in company with Francis I.; at the battle of Saint Quentin, in 1557; and in 1562, at the battle of Dreux, by the Huguenots. It was rather hard that the story should have obtained currency, according to the cure of Meriot, that Constable Montmorency was shot by a royalist, who saw that he was purposely allowing himself to be enveloped by the troops of Conde, in order that he might be taken prisoner, ”comme telle avoit ja este sa coustume en deux batailles!” Mem. de Claude Haton, i. 458.

[462] Even Henry of Navarre, in a letter of July 12, 1569, published by Prince Galitzin (Lettres inedites de Henry IV., Paris, 1860, pp. 4-11) states that he is unable to say whether it was Stuart, ”pour n'en scavoir rien;” but a.s.serts that ”il est hors de doubte et a.s.sez commung qu'il fut blesse en pleine bataille et combattant, et non de sang froid.”

[463] Memoires de Fr. de la Noue, c. xiv.; Jean de Serres, iii. 137, 138; De Thou, iv. 22, etc.; Agrippa d'Aubigne, Hist. univ., i. 214-217; Castelnau, liv. vi., c. 7; Claude Haton, i. 457; Jean de la Fosse, 88, 89; Charles IX. to Gordes, Nov. 11, 1567, Conde MSS., D'Aumale, i. 564.

[464] ”La mort dudit connestable fut plaincte de peu de gens du party des catholicques, a cause de la huguenotterie de l'admiral, du card. de Chastillon, et d'Andelot, ses nepveux, qui estoient, apres le Prince de Conde, chefz des rebelles huguenotz francoys et des plus meschant; et avoient plusieurs personnes ceste oppinion du connestable, qu'il les eust bien retirez de ceste rebellion s'il eust voulu, attendu que tous avoient este avancez en leurs estatz par le feu roy Henry, par son moyen.” Claude Haton, i. 458.

[465] Charles IX. to Gordes, Nov. 17, 1567, Conde MSS., Duc d'Aumale, i.

565.

[466] This expose, committed to writing by the elector palatine's request, and translated for Frederick's convenience into German, is published by Prof. A. Kluckholn, in a monograph read before the Bavarian Academy of Sciences: ”Zur Geschichte des angeblichen Bundnisses von Bayonne, nebst einem Originalbericht uber die Ursachen des zweiten Religionskriegs in Frankreich.” (Abhandlungen, iii. Cl., xi. Bd., i. Abth.) Munich, 1868. The Huguenot envoys were Chastelier Pourtaut de Latour and Francour. The doc.u.ment is probably from the pen of the former (p. 13).

[467] De Thou, iv. 28, 29; Castelnau, liv. vi., c. 8; Jean de Serres, iii.

144, 146. Agrippa d'Aubigne, Hist. univ., i. 217, 218. Wenceslaus Zuleger's Report is printed in full by F. W. Ebeling, Archivalische Beitrage, 48-73, and by A. Kluckholn, Zwei pfalzische Gesandtschaftsberichte, etc. Abhandl.

der Bayer. Akad., 1868, 189-205.

[468] It is needless to say that no authentic coins or medals bearing Conde's head, with the designation of ”Louis XIII.,” have ever been found.

After the direct contradiction by Catharine de' Medici, no other testimony is necessary. The Jesuits, however, impudently continued to speak of Conde's treason as an undoubted truth, and even gave the legend of the supposed coin as ”Ludovicus XIII., Dei gratia, Francorum Rex primus Christia.n.u.s.” See ”Plaidoye de Maistre Antoine Arnauld, Advocat en Parlement, pour l'Universite de Paris ... contre les Jesuites, des 12 et 13 Juillet, 1594.” Memoires de la ligue, 6, 164. Arnauld stigmatizes the calumny as ”notoirement fausse.”

[469] Frederick, Elector Palatine, to Charles IX., Heidelberg, Jan. 19, 1568. Printed in full in F. W. Ebeling, Archivalische Beitrage, 74-82.

[470] Agrippa d'Aubigne, _ubi supra_.

[471] November 13th, ”Hier au soyr, vers les sept heures,” says Charles to Gordes, Nov. 14, 1567, MS. Conde Arch., D'Aumale, i. 565. The king naturally represents the movement as confused--”une bonne fuyte”--and confidently states that he will follow, and, by a _second_ victory, put a speedy end to the war.

[472] Agrippa d'Aubigne, liv. iv., c. 11 (i. 219).

[473] Ibid., i. 219, 220.

[474] La Noue, c. xiv.; De Thou, iv. 37; Jehan de la Fosse, 89, 90; Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 227. Davila, bk. iv., pp. 119, 120, represents Brissac's attack (which, according to him, was not made till after the expiration of the truce) as a part of a projected general a.s.sault. Anjou's main body failed to come up, and so Conde was saved. The blame was thrown on Marshal Gonnor (Cosse) and on M. de Carnavalet, the king's tutor, whom some suspected of unwillingness to allow so much n.o.ble blood to be shed.

Others accused the one of too much friends.h.i.+p with the Chatillons, the other of a leaning to heresy (”de sentir le f.a.got”) Agrippa d'Aubigne, i.

227. See also Cl. Haton, i. 503. These two n.o.blemen were accused of advocating other designs which were very obnoxious to the Roman Catholic party. ”La verite est,” says Jehan de la Fosse, in his journal, p. 90, under date of December, 1567, ”que aulcuns grands seigneurs entre lesquels on nomme Gonor [et] Carnavallet donnoient a entendre que si Monsieur, frere du roy, voloit prendre une partie de ces gens et les joindre avec le camp des huguenots, qui [qu'ils] le feroient comte de Flandre.”

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