In like manner the "Memoires,"
which are in great part a mere compilation, take page after page from the
"Reveille-Matin."

[946] "Ainsi qu'il sortoit presentement du Louvre, pour aller disner en
son logis." Charles's letter of the same day to La Mothe Fenelon, Corresp.
dipl., vii. 322.

[947] It is of little moment whether the assassin at his window was
screened by a lattice, or by a curtain, as De Thou says, or by bundles of
straw, as Capilupi states. I prefer the account of the "Reveille-Matin,"
as the author tells us that he was one of the twelve or fifteen gentlemen
in Coligny's suite--"entre lesquels j'estoy" (p. 174). So the Latin ed.,
Euseb. Philad. Dialogi, i. 34.

[948] The Rue de Bethisy was the continuation of the Rue des Fosses Saint
Germain l'Auxerrois, through which he was walking when he was shot. In the
sixteenth century the street bore the former name, beginning at the Rue de
l'Arbre Sec, at the corner of which Coligny appears to have lodged. In
later times the name was confined to the part east of Rue de Roule.
Dulaure, Histoire de Paris, iv. 259. The extension of the Rue de Rivoli,
under the auspices of Napoleon III., has not only destroyed the house in
which Coligny was murdered, but obliterated the Rue de Bethisy itself.

[949] "Qu'il n'aviendroit que ce qu'il plairoit a Dieu." Reveille-Matin,
175; Euseb. Philad. Dialogi (1574), i. 35; Memoires de l'estat, 94.

[950] See _ante_, chapter xvi.

[951] Reveille-Matin, _ubi sup._, 175; and Euseb. Philad. Dialogi. i. 34,
35; Memoires de l'estat, _ubi sup._, 93, etc.; Jean de Serres (1575), iv.
fol. 25; Tocsain contre les Massacreurs (orig. ed.), 113, etc.; Registres
du Bureau de la ville de Paris (Archives curieuses, vii. 211); despatch of
Salviati of Aug. 22. App. F to Mackintosh, Hist. of England, iii. 354; De
Thou, iv. (liv. lii.) 574; Jehan de la Fosse, 147, 148; Baschet. La
diplomatie venit., 548.

[952] Memoires de l'estat, _ubi sup._, 94; Jean de Serres (1575), iv.,
fols. 25, 26; Reveille-Matin, 176; Euseb. Philad. Dial., i. 35; De Thou,
iv. (liv. lii.) 574.

[953] Tocsain contre les massacreurs, Archives cur., vii. 45;
Reveille-Matin, 177; Memoires de l'estat, 98.

[954] Gasparis Colinii Vita (1574), 108-110; Memoires de l'estat de
Charles IX., _ubi supra_, 94-98. The two accounts are evidently from the
same hand.

[955] Memoires de l'estat, _ubi supra_, 98.

[956] Damville, Meru and Thore, were sons of the constable. Their eldest
b