41;
looks with suspicion on the private conference of Charles and
Coligny, ii. 443;
she cuts it short, and on the way to the Louvre discovers the advice
of Coligny, ii. 444;
learning that Coligny's wound will not prove fatal, she adopts extreme
measures, ii. 446;
she plies Charles with arguments to terrify him into authorizing a
massacre of the Huguenots, ii. 447, 448;
he yields reluctantly, ii. 449;
Catharine takes the responsibility upon herself for only six
deaths, ii. 450;
goes down to the square in front of the Louvre, with her ladies,
to view the naked corpses of the Huguenot leaders, ii. 476;
persuades Charles to assume the responsibility of the
massacre, ii. 491;
her unsuccessful attempt to alienate the sympathy of Queen Elizabeth
from Coligny, ii. 547;
her lying representation of the massacre in the provinces as having
been contrary to the king's will, ib., note;
not influenced by religious motives, ii. 563;
spurious letter of, to Philip Strozzi, ii. 577;
her anxiety for the safety of Henry of Anjou, ii. 586;
her flight from St. Germain, ii. 626;
her delight at the capture of Count Montgomery, ii. 631, 632;
she obtains from Charles IX. the regency until the return of Henry
of Anjou from Poland, ii. 636.

Caturce, Jean de, executed at Toulouse, i. 150.

Caumont, Viscount of, ii. 230, note.

Cavaignes, his execution, Oct. 27, 1572, for alleged complicity in a
Huguenot conspiracy, ii. 548;
his magnanimity, ii. 549, note.

Cavalry, French, i. 10.

Caylus, Chevalier de, ii. 604.

Cecil urges Elizabeth to aid the Huguenots, and plans for this
effect, ii. 56;
on siege of Poitiers, ii. 325.
See Burleigh.

Cental, Vaudois villages belonging to the noble house of, i. 230, 246.

Chailly, M. de, ii. 439.

Chalons-sur-Marne, the call for Protestant ministers in the vicinity
of, i. 562.

"Chambre ardente," a separate and special chamber of parliament, to
try heresy, established first at Rouen, by Francis I., i. 274;
afterward at Paris, by Henry II., i. 275;
under Francis II., i. 366.

Champeaux, M. de, ii. 509.

Chancellor of France, his oath, i. 18.

Chancellor of the university, i. 22.

"Change of religion involves change of government," accepted as an
aphorism, i. 104