hat he will maintain the edict of pacification, ii. 498;
change in his character after the massacre, ii. 499;
his letter of Aug. 26, 1572, to Mondoucet, predicting the massacre in
the provinces, ii. 502;
the verbal orders, ib.;
his declaration of Aug. 28, ib.;
his letter to Mandelot of Aug. 28, ii. 502, 503;
the double set of letters, ii. 504;
instigates the murder of French prisoners by the Duke of Alva, ii. 539;
his letters to La Mothe Fenelon, ii. 542, 543;
he profanes the day of his daughter's birth by witnessing the execution
of Briquemault and Cavaignes, ii. 549;
plots the destruction of Geneva, ii. 557;
his guilt in the eyes of the world, ii. 559;
disastrous effects of the massacre on the king himself, ii. 560, 561;
sends La Noue to treat with the Rochellois, ii. 579;
his joy at the election of Anjou as King of Poland, ii. 593;
issues his edict of pacification, Boulogne, July, 1573, terminating the
fourth civil war, ii. 593, 594;
takes part in the disgraceful "affair of Nantouillet," ii. 598, 599;
decline of his health, ii. 605;
his illness at Vitry le-Francais, ii. 606;
his last days, ii. 638;
distress of his young queen, ii. 636;
representations of Sorbin his confessor, ii. 637;
his death, May 30, 1574, ii. 637, 638;
his funeral rites, ii. 638, 639.

Charles, Duke of Orleans, youngest son of Francis I, represents himself
to the German princes as favoring the Reformation, i. 227, 228;
his death, i. 259.

Charlesfort, ii. 199.

Charpentier, Jacques, instigates the murder of his rival professor,
Pierre de la Ramee, or Ramus, ii. 478.

Charpentier, Pierre, a Protestant jurist, who escapes from the
Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, bribed by the king to write a
justification of the massacre for circulation abroad, ii. 553, 593.

Chartres, besieged by the Huguenots under the Prince of Conde, ii. 231.

Chartres, Francois de Vendome, Vidame of, thrown into the
Bastile, i. 425.

Chartres, Jean de Ferrieres, Vidame of, ii. 220, 377;
advises the Huguenots to leave Paris, ii. 445, 451, 453;
escapes from the massacre, ii. 481-483.

Chartreuse, La Grande, ii. 621.

Chassanee, Barth. de, on church of the Virgin "pariturae," i. 59;
he declares "Lutheranism" in France suppressed, i. 137;
his defence of the "mice of Autu