The interesting particulars of the conference we obtain from two
long and very important despatches of Biron to Charles IX., dated, the
one, Ernandes, April 24th, the other, April 26th and 27th, 1574, MSS.
Imperial Lib. of St. Petersburg, communicated to the Bulletin de la Soc.
de l'hist. du prot. fr., xxii. (1873) 401-413, by M. Jean Loutchitzki.

[1370] Agrippa d'Aubigne, ii. 117. Shrove Tuesday fell, in 1574, on March
9th.

[1371] Ten miles from the chateau de St. Germain, and about the same
distance from the palace of the Louvre. A part of the old forest yet
remains.

[1372] I follow Agrippa d'Aubigne, who here must be regarded as excellent
authority, for not only was he present, but it was by his means ("par ma
conduitte") that Guitry was introduced into Navarre's chamber. Hist.
univ., ii. 119.

[1373] Jean de Serres (iv., fol. 138) and the Memoires de l'estat
(Archives curieuses, "Discours de l'entreprise de St. Germain," viii.
107-118) give the last of February for the date of the discovery of the
undertaking of Alencon; but, from a comparison of letters, Prof. Soldan
has shown (ii. 580) that it really was March 1st.

[1374] It is Agrippa d'Aubigne (Hist. univ., ii. 119) who depicts the
scene. As he seems to have been present on the occasion, we may rely upon
the truthfulness of the groundwork of his sketch, while ascribing a little
of the coloring to the free hand of the artist.

[1375] The testimony of Navarre and others is preserved, and has been
published, together with the interrogatories, in the Archives curieuses,
viii. 127-221.

[1376] Pierre de Lestoile, Memoires (ed. Michaud et Poujoulat), 30.
Languet, letter of May 11, 1574, ii. 7, 8.

[1377] Jean de Serres, iv. 136; Languet, letter of May 11, 1574, ii. 8.

[1378] "Je scais bien que ce sont des chats que vos huguenots, qui se
retrouvent tousjours sur leurs pieds." Mem. de Pierre de Lestoile (ed.
Michaud et Poujoulat), 53.

[1379] "Ains les laissant en paix comme ministres de l'utilite commune, et
peres nourriciers des autres estats."

[1380] P. Brisson, Hist. et vray discours des guerres civiles es pays de
Poictou, _apud_ Histoire des protestants et des eglises ref. du Poitou,
par Auguste Lievre (Poitiers, 1856), i. 189, 190.

[1381] De Thou, v. (liv. lvii.) 33.

[1382] De Thou, v. 44; Olhagaray, Hist. de Foix, etc., 638. Miss Freer
("Henry III., King of France, His Court and Times," i. 366) accepts the
statement without question, while