ion before the king and the princes and knights that were
present, on hearing that the ambassadors of several foreign princes had
named him in their despatches as the author of the enterprise.]

[Footnote 844: La Planche, 268, 269; La Place, 36; Hist. eccles., i.
171; De Thou, ii. 773, 774; Mem. de Castelnau, liv. i., c. 11. The
Cardinal of Lorraine, however, was deeply mortified and vexed. "El
cardenal estava presente teniendo los ojos en tierra, sin hablar
palabra, mostrando solamente descontentemiento de lo que passava." MSS.
Simancas, _apud_ Mignet, Journal des Savants, 1857, 479.]

[Footnote 845: The accusation referred to occurs, for instance, in a
private diary, part of which has recently come to light, begun by one
Friar Symeon Vinot, Sept. 10, 1563. He notes: "L'an 1561 "--an error for
1560--"commenca a, s'elever en France la secte des Hugguenotz, ou (a
mieulx dire) Eygnossen, pour ce qu'il [ils] vouloient fayre les villes
franches, et s'allier ensemble, comme les villes des Schwysses, qu'on
dict en allemand Egnossen, cest a dire Aliez," etc. Bulletin de l'hist.
du prot. fr., xxv. (1876) 380.]

[Footnote 846: Histoire du parlement de Bordeaux, depuis sa creation
jusqu'a sa suppression (1541-1790), oeuvre posthume de C. B. F.
Boscheron des Portes, president honoraire de la cour d'appel de
Bordeaux, etc. (Bordeaux, 1877), i. 130.]

CHAPTER X.

THE ASSEMBLY OF NOTABLES AT FONTAINEBLEAU, AND THE CLOSE OF THE REIGN OF
FRANCIS THE SECOND.

[Sidenote: Rise of the name "Huguenots."]

[Sidenote: Various explanations given.]

The tempest which had threatened to overwhelm the Guises at Amboise had
been successfully withstood; but quiet had not returned to the minds of
those whose vices were its principal cause. The air was still thick with
noxious vapors, and none could tell how soon or in what quarter the
elements of a new and more terrible convulsion would gather.[847] The
recent commotion had disclosed the existence of a body of malcontents,
in part religious, in part also political, scattered over the whole
kingdom and of unascertained numbers. To its adherents the name of
_Huguenots_ was now for the first time given.[848] What the origin of
this celebrated appellation was, it is now perhaps impossible to
discover. Although a number of plausible derivations have been given, it
is not unlikely that all are equally far removed from the truth, and
that the word arose from some trivial circumstance that h