.]

[Footnote 897: La Place, 64; La Planche, 359. Both historians give the
speech _verbatim_. J. de Serres, i. 106-126; Letter of Calvin to
Bullinger, Oct. 1, 1560, _ubi supra_; Hist. eccles., i. 174-178. Would
that these words of wholesome advice and sound philosophy had not been
left unheeded by royalty and _noblesse_! The course of politic humanity
to which they pointed might have saved a monarch his head, the noblesse
countless lives and the loss of large possessions, and France a bloody
revolution.]

[Footnote 898: La Planche, 361; La Place, 66; De Thou, ii. 802; Mem. de
Castelnau, liv. ii. c. 8; Hist. eccles., i. 178; Jean de Serres, i.
127.]

[Footnote 899: La Planche, 361, 362; La Place, 67. The latter and J. de
Serres, i. 129, are certainly wrong in attributing this passionate
menace to the Cardinal of Lorraine. De Thou, ii. 802; Castelnau, 1. ii.,
c. 8.]

[Footnote 900: La Planche, etc., _ubi supra_. Calvin to Bullinger, Oct.
1, 1560 (Bonnet, iv. 136).]

[Footnote 901: La Planche, 362, 363; La Place, 67; J. de Serres, De
statu rel. et reip., i. 128-131; De Thou, ii. 802, 803. After seeing the
head instigator of persecution, still gory with the blood of the recent
slaughter, assume with such effrontery the language of pity and
toleration, we may be prepared for his duplicity at the interview of
Saverne. The compiler of the Hist. eccles. (i, 179) explains the consent
of the Guises to the convocation of the estates by supposing them to
have hoped by this measure not merely to take away the excuse of their
opponents, but, by obtaining a majority, to secure the declaration of
Navarre and Conde as rebels, whether they came or declined to appear.
Calvin (letter to Bullinger, _ubi supra_, p. 137) gives the same view.
So does Barbaro: "Forse non tanto per volonta che s'avesse d'esseguirle
quanto per adomentare gli risvegliati, et guadagnar, come si fece." The
Pope and Philip violently opposed the plan "perche ne l'uno ne l'altro
sapeva il secreto." "By the plan of the council, ... they succeeded in
feeding with vain hopes (dar pasto) those who sought to make innovations
in the faith." Rel. des Amb. Ven., i. 524, etc.]

[Footnote 902: La Planche, 363, 364; La Place, 68; De Thou, ii. 803
(liv. xxv). Cf. the edict in full _apud_ Negociations sous Francois II.,
486-490; also a letter of Francis in which he explains his course to
Philip II., ib. 490-497.]

[Footnote 903: The cardinal had, however, made a somewhat s