1849) 254.

[1060] De Thou, Tocsain, etc., _ubi supra_.

[1061] Returning to the unpleasant theme in a subsequent book of his noble
history (iv. (liv. liii.) 644), Jacques Auguste de Thou remarks, with an
integrity which cannot swerve even out of consideration for filial
respect: "Ce qu'il y avoit de deplorable, etoit de voir des personnes
respectables par leur piete, leur science, et leur integrite, revetues des
premieres charges du Royaume, ennemies d'ailleurs de tout deguisement et
de tout artifice, tels que Morvilliers, de Thou, Pibrac, Montluc et
Bellievre, louer contre leurs sentimens, ou excuser par complaisance une
action qu'ils detestoient dans le coeur, sans y etre engages par aucun
motif de crainte ou d'esperance; mais dans la fausse persuasion ou ils
etoient que les circonstances presentes et le bien de l'Etat demandoient
qu'ils tinssent ce langage."

[1062] The case stands much worse if we accept the statement of the author
of the Memoires de l'estat de France sous Charles IX., who, after
contrasting the honorable conduct of President La Vaquerie, in the time of
Louis XI., with that of Christopher de Thou, adds: "Mais cestui-ci n'avoit
garde de faire le semblable; il prend trop de plaisir a toute sorte
d'injustice pour s'y vouloir opposer." (_Ubi supra_, pp. 156, 157.) So,
also, Euseb. Philad. Dial., i. 50: "Nam quomodo sese injustitiae viriliter
opponeret, qui ex ea tam uberes fructus colligit?" The Mem. de l'estat
accuse him of having instigated the murder of Rouillard--a counsellor of
parliament and canon of Notre Dame, and one of a very few Roman Catholics
that were assassinated--because the latter loved justice, and had
prosecuted one of the first president's friends (p. 148). According to the
historian De Thou, on the other hand (iv. 593), Rouillard was "homme
inquiet, querelleux, et ennemi des officiers des compagnies de ville."

[1063] The passage is not in the will in the admiral's own handwriting,
dated Archiac, June 5, 1569, a facsimile of which has been accurately
lithographed by the French Protestant Historical Society, and which has
also been printed in the Bulletin, i. (1852) 263-268. See _ante_, p. 461,
462.

[1064] Memoires de l'estat, _ubi supra_, 153; Gasparis Colinii Vita
(1575), 131.

[1065] "The said discourse was all written with his own hand." Walsingham
to Smith, Sept. 14, 1572; Digges, 241, 242; Mem. de l'estat, _ubi supra_,
153; Gasparis Colinii Vita, 131, 132.

[1066] Jea