par une grace de Dieu speciale" (p. 155).

[1036] Memoires de Sully (London, 1748), i. pp. 29, 30.

[1037] Tocsain contre les massacreurs, 131; Mem. de l'estat, _ubi supra_,
142, etc. De Thou, iv. (liv. lii.) 592, 593. Strange to say, Von Botzheim
was so far misinformed, that he makes Charpentier _weep_ for the fate of
Ramus! Archival. Beitraege, p. 117.

[1038] De Thou, iv. (liv. lii.) 596; Memoires de l'estat de France sous
Charles IX. (Cimber et Danjou, vii. 137-142, and in M. Buchon's
biographical notice prefixed to the "Commentaires"). An appreciative
chapter on Pierre de la Place and his works may be read in Victor Bujeaud,
Chronique protestante de l'Angoumois (Angouleme, 1860), 50-66.

[1039] Cahors is over 300 miles in a straight line from Paris, more than
400 miles--153 leagues--by the roads.

[1040] De Thou, iv. (liv. lii.) 594, 595; Agrippa d'Aubigne, Hist. univ.,
ii. 23.

[1041] The incident of Charles IX.'s firing upon the Huguenots has been of
late the subject of much discussion. M. Fournier and M. Mery have denied
the existence, in 1572, of the pavilion at which tradition makes the king
to have stationed himself. See Bulletin de la Soc. de l'hist. du prot.
francais, v. (1857) 332, etc. It has, I think, been conclusively shown
that they are mistaken. The pavilion _was_ in existence. But, besides,
there is no reason why an incident should be deemed apocryphal because of
a popular mistake in assigning the spot of its occurrence. The
"Reveille-Matin" and the Eusebii Philadelphi Dialogi, published in 1574,
are the earliest documents that refer to it. They place Charles at the
window of his own room. So does Brantome, writing considerably later. Jean
de Serres (in the fourth vol. of his Commentaria de statu, etc. (fol. 37),
published in 1575) says: "Regem quoque ex hypaethrio (_i.e._, from a
covered gallery) aiunt, adhibitis, ut solebat, diris contenta voce
conclamare, et tormento etiam ipsum ejaculari." Agrippa d'Aubigne alludes
to it not only in his Histoire universelle (ii. 19, 21), but in his
Tragiques (Bulletin, vii. 185), a poem which he commenced as early as in
1577 (See Bulletin, x. 202). M. Henri Bordier has been so fortunate as to
discover and has reprinted a contemporary engraving of the massacre, in
which Charles is represented as excitedly looking on the slaughter from a
window in the Louvre, while behind him stand two halberdiers and several
noblemen (Bulletin, x. 106, 107). The question is d