wrote Throkmorton to Queen Elizabeth, "the
Kinge's presence is very rare, and hathe seldome happened but upon somme
great occasion; so I endevored myself (as much as I could) to learne the
cause of their assemble." Forbes, State Papers, i. 126.]

[Footnote 705: Strangely enough, Mr. Smedley, History of the Reformed
Religion in France, i. 87, note, following a careless annotator of De
Thou, discovers an inaccuracy in the allusion where no inaccuracy
exists. It was not to Ahab's _question_, but to Elijah's _retort_, that
Du Faur made reference. See La Place, p. 13.]

[Footnote 706: La Place, Comm. de l'estat, etc., p. 13; Hist. eccles.,
i. 122; (Crespin, Gal. chret., ii. 303); De Thou, ii. 670. Felibien,
Hist. de Paris, ii. 1066.]

[Footnote 707: La Place, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 708: Among them Paul de Foix, "who is cousin to the King of
Navarre." Throkmorton to Queen Elizabeth, June 23, 1559, Forbes i. 126.]

[Footnote 709: La Place, Com. de l'estat, etc., p. 14; Discours de la
mort du Roy Henry II.; De Thou, ii. 671; Felibien, Hist. de Paris, ii.
1067; Vieilleville, ii. 405-406; Hist. eccles. i., 122-123. Even Anne de
Montmorency was struck with Du Bourg's boldness, and exclaimed, "Vous
faictes la bravade." Forbes, State Papers, i. 126.]

[Footnote 710: The date is variously given as the 25th or 26th of May.
The latter, adopted by the Histoire ecclesiastique, is probably correct.
See Triqueti, Premiers jours du protestantisme en France (Paris, 1859),
253, 254.]

[Footnote 711: "Confession de Foy faite d'un commun accord par les
Francoys, qui desirent vivre selon la purite de l'Evangile," etc. In the
Recueil des choses memorables (1565) this document is published with the
preface and the supplicatory letter addressed to the king (Francis II.)
after the "Tumulte d'Amboise."]

[Footnote 712: The proceedings of the first French National Synod are
best given in Aymon, Tous les synodes nationaux des eglises ref. de
France (La Haye, 1710), i. 1-12; Hist. univ. du sieur d'Aubigne, liv.
ii., c. iii., t. i., pp. 56-64. They are faithfully, although not always
literally, translated in Quick's Synodicon in Gallia Reformata (London,
1692), i., viii.-xv., 2-7. See also Histoire ecclesiastique, i. 108-121;
La Place, Com. de l'estat de la religion, et republique soubs les roys
Henry et Francois Seconds, etc., 14-16.]

[Footnote 713: See the history of the Hotel des Tournelles and the plan
of Paris in the reign of Francis I