298] "Discours de l'extreme famine, cherte de vivre, chairs, et autres
choses non acoustumees pour la nourriture de l'homme, dont les assiegez
dans la ville de Sancerre ont ete affligez." 1574. Reprinted in Archives
curieuses, viii. 19-82.

[1299] Edward Smedley, History of the Reformed Religion in France (London,
1834), ii. 88.

[1300] "Fade et douceastre," p. 24.

[1301] De Thou, iv. (liv. lvi.) 796. As early as on the twelfth of April,
such was the discouragement felt in Paris, that orders were published to
make "Paradises" in each parish, and to institute processions, to
supplicate the favor of heaven, in view of the repulses experienced by the
Roman Catholics before La Rochelle. Journal d'un cure ligueur (Jehan de la
Fosse), p. 158.

[1302] Histoire du siege de La Rochelle par le duc d'Anjou en 1573, par A.
Genet, capitaine du genie; _apud_ Bulletin de la Societe de l'histoire du
prot. francais, ii. (1854) 96, 190.

[1303] Memoires de Claude Haton, ii. 722.

[1304] At Troyes, for instance, where the poor who had flocked to the city
were invited to meet at one of the gates, to receive each a loaf of bread
and a piece of money. This done, they saw the gates closed upon them, and
were informed from the ramparts that they must go elsewhere to find their
living until the next harvest. Claude Haton, ii. 729.

[1305] _Ante_, chapter xix., p. 552.

[1306] Here is his letter to Henry: "Mon frere. Dieu nous a fait la grasse
que vous estes ellu roy de Poulogne. J'en suis si ayse que je ne scay que
vous mander. Je loue Dieu de bon coeur; pardonnes moy, l'ayse me garde
d'escrire. Je ne sceay que dire. Mon frere, je avons receu vostre lestre.
Je suis vostre bien bon frere et amy, CHARLES." MS. Bibliotheque
nationale, _apud_ Haton, ii. 733.

[1307] The edict says expressly (Art. 5th): "Et y faire seulement les
baptesmes et mariages a leur facon accoustumee sans plus grande assemblee,
outre les parens, parrins et marrines, jusques au nombre de dix." Text in
Agrippa d'Aubigne, ii. 98, etc., and Haag, France protestante, x.
(Documents) 110-114. Jean de Serres (iv., fol. 107, etc.) and Von Polenz
(Gesch. des Franz. Calvinismus, ii. 632) give a correct synopsis; but
Soldan is wrong in including among the concessions "den Hausgottesdienst"
(ii. 536), and De Thou still more incorrect when he speaks of "les preches
et la Cene" (iv., liv. lvi. 796).

[1308] According to Davila, Sancerre was _not comprehended_ in the terms
made