_dernier
passe_"), makes Jeanne to have died in consequence of a drink (un boucon)
given her at a festival at which Anjou was present. So in the Eusebii
Philadelphi Dialogi, 1574 (the same book virtually), Jeanne dies, "veneno
in quibusdam epulis propinato, quibus Dux Andegavensis intererat, ut
quidem mihi a domestico ipsius aliquo narratum est," i. 25, 26. The
testimony of the physicians, who seem to have been unprejudiced, is given
in a note in Cimber et Danjou, Archives curieuses, vii. 170, 171.

[890] It is said that Charles IX. suggested to him the propriety of this
visit, accompanying the suggestion by the words: "I know that you are fond
of gardening"--a sly reference to the occasion when Coligny, just before
the explosion of the second civil war, was found by the royal spies busily
engaged in his vineyards, pruning-hook in hand, and, by his apparent
engrossment in the labors of the field, dispelled the suspicions of a
Huguenot rising. It was ominous, according to these writers, that Charles
should at this moment recall the circumstances of that narrow escape at
Meaux from falling into the hands of the Huguenots. Agrippa d'Aubigne,
Hist. univ., ii. 6.

[891] "Estant nostre vouloir et intention le retenir pres de nous pour
nous servir de luy en nos plus graves et importans affaires, comme
ministre digne, la vertu duquel est assez cogneue et experimentee." MS.
passport dated September 24, 1571, Biblioth. nat., _apud_ Bulletin de la
Soc. de l'hist. du prot. francais, xvi. (1867) 220.

[892] Le Tocsain contre les massacreurs (orig. ed., Rheims, 1579), 77.

[893] Le Reveille-Matin des Francois et de leurs voisins. Compose par
Eusebe Philadelphe Cosmopolite, en forme de Dialogues. A Edinbourg, de
l'imprimerie de Jaques James. Avec permission. 1574. _Apud_ Cimber et
Danjou, Archives curieuses, vii. 171. Dialogi Euseb. Philadelphi.
Edimburgi, 1574, i. 26.

[894] Le Tocsain contre les massacreurs, 40 (Archives curieuses). So Jean
de Tavannes--a writer certainly not prejudiced in Coligny's favor--gives
him credit for preferring to hazard his life rather than renew the civil
war. Yet he adds: "Il ne voyoit ny ne prevoyoit ce qui n'estoit pour lors,
d'autant plus qu'il n'y avoit encor rien de resolu contre luy, quoy que
les ignorans des affaires d'estat ayent escrit ou dit." Memoires de
Gaspard de Tavannes (Ed. Petitot), iii. 257.

[895] These were four in number: that Navarre should make a secret
profession of the Cat