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[1334] The correspondence of La Mothe Fenelon, as preserved, is not dest.i.tute of interest. See volumes v. and vi., _pa.s.sim_; as also Le Laboureur, Additions a Castelnau, vol. iii., pp. 350, _seq._

[1335] De Thou, v. 12.

[1336] ”Achten's dafur dieweil es den Franzosen gelungen das sie das Konigreich Polen ann sich practicirt, das sie darvon so hochmuthig wordenn das sie mussen nun Hern der ganze weltt werdenn.”

[1337] Letters of Landgrave William, Sept. 8th, Oct. 17th and Nov. 6th, 1573, Groen van Prinsterer, iv. 116*, 118*, 123*. See also Soldan, ii.

552-556, who, as usual, is very full and satisfactory in everything bearing upon the relations of France to Germany. Rudolph, Maximilian's son, who succeeded his father three years later, was unfortunately far from embodying the excellences desired by the landgrave. It may be questioned whether the Protestants of Germany would have fared worse even under a Valois than under this degenerate Hapsburger.

[1338] Louis of Na.s.sau to William of Orange, December, 1573. Groen van Prinsterer, iv. 278-281.

[1339] Motley, Rise of the Dutch Republic, ii. 534-538. J. de Serres, iv., fol. 134, gives the date as April 17th. This volume of Serres was published in the succeeding year, 1575.

[1340] The writer of an anonymous letter (now in the library of Prince Czartoryski), who saw Henry as he rode into Heidelberg, with Louis of Na.s.sau on his right hand, and Duke Christopher, the elector's son, on his left, thus describes his personal appearance: ”h.o.m.o procera statura, corpore gracili, facie oblonga pallida, oculis paululum prominentibus, vultu subtruculento, indutus pallio holoserico rubri coloris.” Heidelberg letter ”de transitu Henrici,” etc., Dec. 22, 1573, _apud_ Marquis de Noailles, Henri de Valois et la Pologne (Paris, 1867), iii. (Pieces justif.), 532.

[1341] Germany seems to have been full of blind rumors of treacherous designs on the part of its French neighbors. I have before me a pamphlet of little historical value, and evidently intended for popular circulation, ent.i.tled ”Entdeckung etlicher heimlichen Practicken, so jetzund vorhanden wider unser geliebtes Vatterland, die Teutsche Nation, was man gantzlich willens und ins werck zubringen, gegen den Evangelischen furgenommen habe, durch einen guthertzigen und getrewen Christen unserm Vatterland zu gutem an tag geben. M.D.LXXIII.”

[1342] De Thou, v. (liv. lvii.), 22; Mem. de Pierre de Lestoile (ed.

Michaud et Poujoulat), i. 27.

[1343] ”Was sich in Franckreich zugetragen, weiss man auch.”

[1344] The minute of the conversation drawn up by the elector palatine with his own hand, and printed by Lalanne in the appendix to the fourth volume of his edition of Brantome's Works (411-418), is by far the most trustworthy source of information we possess. On the last count of the elector's indictment, Anjou's defence was certainly very lame: ”Da.s.s ich selbst an seines Altvatters Hof gesehen _que c'a ete une Cour fort dissolue_, aber seines Brudern und Frau Mutter Hof demselbigen bey weitem nicht zu vergleichen.” Ibid., 414.

[1345] ”C'est ce qui fit croire a bien des gens, que l'Electeur n'avoit pas recu un hote comme Henri aussi poliment qu'il le devoit.” De Thou, v.

(liv. lvii.) 22.

[1346] Heidelberg letter of Dec. 22, 1573, Czartoryski MSS., De Noailles, Pieces justif., iii. 533. See _ante_, p. 485.

[1347] Heidelberg letter, _ubi supra_, iii. 534.

[1348] Jean de Serres (edit. 1571), iii. 284; A. d'Aubigne, i. 264, ”Pource que le Chancelier de l'Hospital ne pouvoit travailler de coeur en mesme temps aux violentes depesches de Thavanes, de Montluc et autres, et aux douceurs du Mareschal de Cosse, il ne fallut qu'un souspir de probite pour lui faire oster les sceaux; ce que fit la Roine en le relegant en sa maison pres Estampes jusques a la fin de ses jours.” See also Languet's letter of September 20, 1568.

[1349] Chancellor de l'Hospital to Charles IX., January 12, 1573, copy discovered in the MSS. of the National Library, Paris, by Prof. Soldan, and printed in Appendix XI. of his history.

[1350] _Ante_, chapter xv., p. 264, note.

[1351] ”M. le chancelier de l'Hospital qui avoit les fleurs de lys dans le coeur.” Journal de Lestoile, p. 16.

[1352] ”Politici (novum enim hoc nomen ex novo negotio sub hoc tempus natum).” Jean de Serres, iv., fol. 132.

[1353] Jean de Serres, iv., fols. 115-117. The dedication of Hotman's Franco-Gallia to the elector palatine is dated August 21, 1573.

[1354] Jean de Serres, iv., fol. 122. Serres gives an extended summary of the work, whose author is unknown to him, fols. 119-128.

[1355] Eusebii Philadelphi Dialog., ii. 117, _et pa.s.sim_. See also the Tocsain contre les ma.s.sacreurs, which, although published as late as 1579, was written before the death of Charles the Ninth (see the address of the printer, dated June 25, 1577), where the king is directly compared to the Emperor Nero. Archives curieuses, vii. 162.

[1356] They had, however, generally retracted their admissions of complicity made on the rack.

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