affiche devant S. Hilaire un papier
estant imprime d'autre impression de Paris, et y avoit a l'intitulation:
Les Estats opprimez par la tyrannie de MM. de Guise au roy salut."
Journal de Jehan de la Fosse, 37. The piece referred to is inserted in
the Memoires de Conde, i. 405-410.]

[Footnote 869: La Planche, 299-302. The remonstrance, signed
_Theophilus_, which they addressed her, insisted on the ill-success of
the persecutions to which for forty years they had been subjected; for
one killed, two hundred had joined their assemblies; for ten thousand
open adherents, the Reformation had one hundred thousand secret
upholders. The Edict of Forgiveness answered no good purpose: "_c'estoit
bien peu d'oster pour un instant la douleur d'une maladie, si quant et
quant la cause et la racine n'en estoit ostee_."]

[Footnote 870: La Place, 41-45; La Planche, 316, 317; Mem. de Castelnau,
l. ii., c. 7; De Thou, ii., liv. xxv. 788-791. I confess, however, that
the careful perusal of La Planche's bold speech has nearly convinced me
that the ascription of the anonymous "Hist. de l'estat de Fr. sous
Francois II." to his pen is erroneous. I shall not insist upon the fact
that the description of La Planche as "homme politique plustost que
religieux" is inappropriate to the author of this history. But I can
scarcely conceive of La Planche correcting errors in his own speech, and
not only expressing an utter dissent from the account which he himself
gave the queen of the motives that led La Renaudie to engage in the
enterprise that had for its object the overthrow of the Guises, but even
accusing himself of falling into a grave mistake with regard to the
importance of the differences of creed between the Protestants and the
Roman Church: "s'abusant en ce qu'il meit en avant des differends de la
religion." La Planche had suggested a conference of
theologians--ostensibly to make a faithful translation of the Bible, in
reality to compare differences--and had expressed the opinion that there
would be found less discord than there appeared to be. The condemnation
of this view certainly does not mark a man of political rather than
religious tendencies! I fear that we must look elsewhere for the author
of this excellent history.]

[Footnote 871: It has been ascribed to the virtuous and tolerant
Chancellor L'Hospital, who, it is said, drew it up in order to defeat
the project of the Guises to introduce the Spanish Inquisition. (La
Planche, 305;