e
dernier de ces deux prelats avoit eu beaucoup de part aux bonnes graces
de Francois I^er, _sans autre merite que de s'etre rendu utile a ses
plaisirs_ et d'avoir su se distinguer par une liberalite folle et
indiscrete, deux moyens par lesquels il avoit ete assez heureux pour
adoucir la juste indignation de ce prince contre son frere, Claude duc
de Guise." Hist. univ., i. 523.]

[Footnote 539: Soldan, Gesch. des Protestantismus in Frankreich, i. 214.
A still longer list is given by Dom Calmet, Hist. de Lorraine, v. 482.]

[Footnote 540: In 1518. Abbe Migne, Dictionnaire des Cardinaux; table
chronologique.]

[Footnote 541: Sir John Mason to Council, Feb. 23, 1551. State Paper
Office.]

[Footnote 542: Memoires de Castlenau, liv. i., c. 1; Migne, _ubi
supra_.]

[Footnote 543: Pasquier, an impartial writer, but somewhat given to
panegyric, paints a very flattering portrait of Guise, in a letter
written after the death of the duke: "Il fut seigneur fort debonnaire,
bien emparle tant en particulier qu'en public, vaillant et magnanime,
prompt a la main," etc. Oeuvres choisies, ii. 258.]

[Footnote 544: "Le due de Guyse, grand chef de guerre, et capitaine
capable de servir sa patrie, si l'ambition de son frere ne l'eust
prevenu et empoisonne. Aussi a-il dict plusieurs fois de luy: Cest homme
enfin nous perdra." De l'Aubespine, Hist. part., iii. 286.]

[Footnote 545: "Di dir poche volte il vero. Poco veredico, di natura
duplice ed avara, non meno nel suo particolare che nelle cose del re."
Suriano regards the cardinal as without a rival in this particular: "Che
di saper dissimulare non ha pari al mondo." Tommaseo, i. 526.]

[Footnote 546: Not to speak of the property he obtained by dispossessing
the rightful owners, he received, by favor of Diana, on the death of his
uncle, Cardinal John, the benefices the latter had enjoyed, with all his
personal wealth. Charles now had 300,000 livres of income; but he never
thought of paying off his uncle's enormous debts: "Laissa toutes les
debtes d'iceluy, qui estoyent immenses, a ses creanciers, _pour y
succeder par droit de bangueroute!_" De l'Aubespine, iii. 281. The papal
envoy, Cardinal Prospero di Santa Croce, combines the traits of
ambition, avarice, and hypocrisy in his portrait of his colleague in the
sacred consistory, and makes little of his learning: "Carolus a
Lotharingia ... juvenis _non illiteratus_, ac ingenio versuto et
callido, _maxime ambitioni et avaritiae dedi