red and
pronounced by the said Dehors against the honor of God and of the
glorious Virgin Mary, wherewith the said prisoner induced the
people to sedition and public scandals." (See Registres du
parlement, July 13, 15, and 19, 1560, reprinted by Read in "Le
Tigre.")

It is not, perhaps, very much to be wondered at that a pamphlet so
dangerous to have in one's possession should have so thoroughly
disappeared that a few years since not a copy was known to be in
existence. It doubtless fared with the "Tigre" much as it did with
another outspoken libel--"Taxe des parties casuelles de la boutique
du Pape"--published a few years later, of which Lestoile (Read, p.
21) tells us that he was for a long time unsuccessful in the search
for a copy, to replace that which, to use his own words, "I burned
at the St. Bartholomew, _fearing that it might burn me_!"

By a happy accident, M. Louis Paris, in 1834, discovered a solitary
copy that had apparently been saved from destruction by being
buried in some provincial library. The discovery, however, was of
little avail to the literary world, as the pamphlet was eagerly
bought by the famous collector Brunet, only to find a place in his
jealously guarded cases, where, after a fashion only too common in
these days, a few privileged persons were permitted to inspect it
under glass, but not a soul was allowed to copy it. Fortunately,
after M. Brunet's death, the city of Paris succeeded in purchasing
the _seven printed leaves_, of which the precious book was
composed, for 1,400 francs! Even then the singular fortunes of the
book did not end. Placed in the Hotel-de-Ville, this insignificant
pamphlet, almost alone of all the untold wealth of antiquarian lore
in the library, escaped the flames kindled by the insane Commune.
M. Charles Read, the librarian, had taken it to his own house for
the purpose of copying it and giving it to the world. This design
has now been happily executed, in an exquisite edition (Paris,
1875), containing not only the text, illustrated by copious notes,
but a photographic fac-simile. M. Read has also appended a poem
entitled "Le Tigre, Satire sur les Gestes Memorables des Guisards
(1561), "for the recovery of which we are indebted to M. Charles
Nodier. Although some have imagined this to be