Prof. Soldan, ii. 587, rejects it,
basing his action upon a passage in another treatise of D'Aubigne than
that referred to below, viz.: "Choses notables et qui semblent dignes de
l'histoire," in Archives curieuses, viii. 411.

[1383] Hist. univ., ii. 126. See a contemporary account: "La Prinse du
Comte de Montgommery dedans le Chasteau de Donfron ... le Jeudy xxvii. de
May, mil cinq cens soixante et quatorze. A Paris, 1574. Avec Privilege."
Archives curieuses, viii. 223-238.

[1384] Aug. 13, 1569; see Olhagaray, Histoire de Foix, Bearn, et Navarre
(Paris, 1609), pp. 616, 617. According to this author, "le voyage de
Bearn, et le coup de Navarreux sur la noblesse du pais luy cousta cela,"
_i.e._, his execution. Ib., p. 639.

[1385] Memoires d'un cure ligueur (Jehan de la Fosse), pp. 168, 169. See
_ante_, chapter xiii., p. 78. Chantonnay (despatch of May 6, 1562) speaks
of Montgomery as "se ventant que la plus belle et digne oeuvre que se soit
jamais faicte en France, fut le coup de lance dont il tua le roy Henry. Je
m'esbayhis comme la royne le peult dissimuler." Mem. de Conde, ii. 37.

[1386] "Discours de la Mort et Execution de Gabriel Comte de Montgommery,
par Arrest de la Court, pour les conspirations et menees par luy commises,
contre le Roy et son estat. Qui fut a Paris, le vingtsixiesme de Iuing,
1574. A Paris, 1574. Avec priv." (Archives cur., viii. 239-253.)

[1387] Doubtless repeating the words of the Confession of Sins, beginning:
"Seigneur Dieu, Pere Eternel et Tout-puissant," etc., a form loved by the
Huguenots, and often on the lips of martyrs for the faith.

[1388] Memoires de Lestoile, i. 38. Agrippa d'Aubigne gives us (ii. 131) a
full account of Montgomery's address, which he himself heard, mounted, as
he informs us, "en croupe" behind M. de Fervaques, to whom Montgomery bade
farewell just before his death. The Huguenot captain made but two requests
of the bystanders: "the first, that they would tell his children, whom the
judges had declared to be degraded to the rank of 'roturiers,' that, if
they had not virtue of nobility enough to reassert their position, their
father consented to the act; as for the other request, he conjured them,
by the respect due to the words of a dying man, not to represent him to
others as beheaded for any of the reasons assigned in his judicial
condemnation--his wars, expeditions, and ensigns won--subjects of
frivolous praise to vain men--but to make him the companion in