cause and
in death of so many simple persons according to the world--old men, young
men, and poor women--who in that same place (the Place de Greve) had
endured fire and knife." D'Aubigne's narrative, as usual, is vivid, and
mentions somewhat trivial details, which, however, are additional pledges
of its accuracy; _e.g._, he alludes to the fact that, having spoken as
above to those who stood on the side toward the river, he repeated his
remarks to those on the other side of the Place de Greve, beginning with
the words, "I was saying to the men yonder," etc.

[1389] De Thou, v. (liv. lvii.) 48.

[1390] Hist. univ., ii. (liv. ii.) 129.

[1391] Memoires de Pierre de Lestoile (ed. Michaud et Poujoulat), i. 31.

[1392] De Thou, v. 48; text in Isambert, Recueil des anc. lois fr., xiv.
262.

[1393] Memoires de Claude Haton, ii. 764

[1394] North British Review, Oct., 1869, p. 27.

[1395] Or, as Sorbin expressed it, "qu'il voyoit l'idole Calvinesque
n'estre encores du tout chassee." Le vray resveille-matin des Calvinistes,
88, ibid., _ubi supra_. The expression, it will be noticed, contains a
distinct reference to the anagram upon the name of "Charles de
Valois"--"va chasser l'idole," upon which the Huguenots had founded
brilliant hopes. See _ante_, chapter xiii., p. 123. On the other hand,
since the massacre, some Huguenot had discovered that from the same name
could be obtained the appropriate words "_chasseur deloyal_." Recueil des
choses memorables (1598), 506.

[1396] Languet, ii. 16.

[1397] Agrippa D'Aubigne, ii. 129; De Thou, v. (liv. lvii.) 50. Charles
left but one legitimate child, a daughter, born Oct. 27, 1572, who died in
her sixth year.

[1398] Claude Haton, never more himself than when recounting the
circumstances of a case of murder, whether by sword or by poison, fully
credits the story; but the letter of Catharine to M. de Matignon, written
on the 31st of May, gives an intelligible account of the results of the
medical examination establishing the pulmonary nature of the king's
disease.

[1399] Jean de Serres, Comment de statu, etc., iv., fol. 137.

[1400] See examples given by White (Massacre of St. Bartholomew, 480) and
others.

[1401] De Thou and others ascribe to Albert de Gondy, Count of Retz, one
of Charles's early instructors and a creature of Catharine de' Medici, the
unenviable credit of having taught the young monarch never to tell the
truth, and to use those horrible imprecations wh