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[764] Agrippa d'Aubigne, liv. v., c. 21 (i. 322).
[765] Gasparis Colinii Vita, 97, 98.
[766] Arnay-le-Duc, or Rene-le-Duc, as the place was indifferently called, is situated about thirty miles south-west of Dijon, on the road to Autun.
[767] De Thou, iv. (liv. xlvii.) 312-314; Agrippa d'Aubigne, liv. v., c.
22 (i. 321-325); Castelnau, liv. vii., c. 12; Davila, bk. v. 169.
[768] De Thou, iv. (liv. xlvii.) 315. Davila attributes to the connivance of Marshal Cosse the escape of the Protestants from Arnay-le-Duc. This is consistent with the same writer's statement that it was the marshal's intentional slowness that enabled Coligny to seize upon Arnay-le-Duc and post himself so advantageously.
[769] Castelnau, liv. vii., c. 10.
[770] De Thou, iv. (liv. xlvii.) 301.
[771] De Thou, iv. (liv. xlvii.) 302.
[772] The articles, a copy of which was sent to the amba.s.sador at the court of Elizabeth, in a letter from Angers, Feb. 6, 1570, are printed in La Mothe Fenelon, vii. 86-88. I omit reference in the text to the articles prohibiting foreign alliances and the levy of money, prescribing the dismissal of foreign troops, etc. The two cities referred to in the fifth article are rather to be regarded as places of wors.h.i.+p--the only places in the kingdom where Protestant wors.h.i.+p would be tolerated--than as pledges for the performance of the projected edict, as Prof. Soldan apparently regards them chiefly, if not exclusively. Geschichte des Prot. in Frankreich, ii. 379.
[773] Charles to amba.s.sador, Jan. 14th; letter of Catharine, same date; La Mothe Fenelon, vii. 77, 78.
[774] See Froude, History of England, x. 9. etc.
[775] De Thou, iv. (liv. xlvii.) 305. Cf. Soulier, Hist. des edits de pacification, 92.
[776] De Thou, iv. 311. It was at St. etienne in Forez, that the incident occurred.
[777] For a fuller discussion of these circ.u.mstances than the limits of this history will permit me to give, I must refer the reader to the work of Prof. Soldan, Geschichte des Protestantismus in Frankreich, ii. 385.
[778] La Noue was one of the most modest, as well as one of the most capable of generals. ”I have felt myself so much the more obliged to speak of it,” writes the historian De Thou respecting the battle of Sainte Gemme, ”as La Noue, the most generous of men, who has written on the civil wars with as much fidelity as judgment, always disposed to render conspicuous the merit of others, and very reserved respecting his own, has not said a word of this victory.” De Thou, iv. (liv. xlvii.) 320.
[779] Brantome has written the eulogy of this personage, whose true name was Antoine Escalin. He was first amba.s.sador at Constantinople, where his good services secured his appointment as general of the galleys. After undergoing the displeasure of the king, and a three years' imprisonment for his partic.i.p.ation in the ma.s.sacre of the Vaudois, he was reinstated in office. Subsequently he was temporarily displaced by the grand prior, and by the Marquis of Elbeuf. It is an odd mistake of Mr. Henry White (Ma.s.s.
of St. Bartholomew, p. 14, note) when he says: ”In the religious wars he sided with the Huguenots.” Brantome says: ”Il ha.s.soit mortellement ces gens-la.”
[780] De Thou, iv. 316-325; Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 325-335.
[781] Ibid., _ubi supra_.
[782] La Mothe Fenelon, iii. 210, 215. Despatch of June 21st.
[783] De Thou, iv. 287, 288; Kluckholn, Briefe Friedrich des Frommen, ii.
398.
[784] La Mothe Fenelon, iii. 256, 257.
[785] Letter of April 17, 1570, Rochambeau, Lettres d'Antoine de Bourbon et de Jehanne d'Albret (Paris, 1877), 299.
[786] Cha.s.sanee in his ”Consuetudines ducatus Burgundiae, fereque totius Galliae” (Lyons, 1552), 50, defines the ”haute justice” by the possession of the power of life and death: ”De secundo vero gradu meri imperii, seu altae justiciae, est habere gladii potestatem ad animadvertendum in facinorosos homines.”
[787] See the edict itself in Jean de Serres, iii. 375-390; summaries in De Thou, iv. (liv. xlvii.) 328, 329, and Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 364, 365.