n de Serres (1575), iv., fols. 57, 58; Eusebii Philadelphi Dial.
(1574), i. 82, 83; Reveille-Matin, 203-205; De Thou, iv. (liv. liii.) 645,
646. For many years the disgraceful commemorative procession was
faithfully observed.
[1067] The slight eminence of Montfaucon, the Tyburn of Paris, was between
the Faubourg St. Martin and the Faubourg du Temple, near the site of the
Hopital St. Louis. See Dulaure, Atlas de Paris.
[1068] "Il les en reprit et leur dist: 'Je ne bousche comme vous autres,
car l'odeur de son ennemy est tres-bonne'--odeur certes point bonne et la
parolle aussi mauvaise." Brantome, Le Roy Charles IX., edit. Lalanne, v.
258. The original authority for this odious remark is Papyrius Masson
(1575) in his life of Charles IX., which Brantome had under his eyes:
"Servis foetorem non ferentibus, hostis mortui odor bonus est inquit." Le
Laboureur, iii. 16.
[1069] Le deluge des Huguenots avec leur Tumbeau, 1572. Reprinted in
Archives curieuses, vii. 251-259.
[1070] Tocsain contre les massacreurs, Rheims, 1579, p. 143. It has been
well remarked by a writer in the Bulletin de la Soc. de l'hist. du prot.
francais (iii. 346) as one of the paradoxes of history, that Coligny's
mangled remains, "after being carefully subjected to the most ignominious
treatment, were saved from the annihilation to which they appeared to be
infallibly condemned, and have been transmitted from place to place, and
from hand to hand, until our own days, and better preserved for three
centuries than many other illustrious corpses carefully laid up in costly
mausoleums!" Marshal Montmorency placed the admiral's body in a lead
coffin in his castle of Chantilly, whence he sent it to Montauban.
Francois de Coligny brought it back to Chatillon-sur-Loing, when, in 1599,
the sentence of parliament was formally rescinded. In 1786 it was taken to
Maupertuis and placed in a black marble sarcophagus. Since 1851 it has
been resting in its new tomb under the ruins of that part of the castle of
Chatillon where Coligny was probably born. Bulletin, iii. 346-351.
[1071] Tocsain contre les Massacreurs, 146; Reveille-Matin, 195; Euseb.
Philadelphi Dial., i. 51; Mem. de l'estat, 161; Jean de Serres, iv., fol.
44 _verso_.
[1072] The text of the declaration is to be found in the Memoires de
Claude Haton, ii. 683-685, in the Recueil des anciennes lois francaises
(Isambert), xiv. 257, etc., and in the Memoires de l'estat, _ubi supra_,
162-164. See De Thou
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