e le
proces meu entre les maisons de Guyse et de Chastillon, etc. Mem. de
Conde, iv. 495.

[290] "Ne parlez encore a personne," writes Catharine to M. de Gonnor
(March 12, 1563), "des conditions, car j'ay toujours peur qu'ils ne nous
trompent; encore que le Prince de Conde leur a declare que s'ils
n'acceptent ces conditions et s'ils ne veulent la paix, qu'il s'en viendra
avec le Roy mon fils, et se declarera leur ennemy, chose que je trouve
tres-bonne." Le Laboureur, ii. 241.

[291] Not September 15th, as Davila states, nor September 24th, as
D'Aubigne seems to assert; but his narrative is confused.

[292] The two documents--address and edict--in Mem. de Conde, iv. 574-581.

[293] Floquet, Hist. du parlement de Normandie, ii. 584. The entire scene
is very vividly portrayed, ibid., ii. 561-586. Bruslart, Mem. de Conde, i.
132; De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxv.) 421-424; Jean de Serres, iii. 32; Mem. de
Castelnau, liv. v., c. iv., etc.; Agrippa d'Aubigne, Hist. univ., liv.
iv., c. iii. (i. 200-202); Davila, bk. iii. 90.

[294] "Les Parisiens furent fort presses qu'ils eussent a mettres les
armes bas," says the metropolitan curate, Jean de la Fosse, under date of
May, 1563, "mais ils n'en volurent jamais rien faire." Mem. d'un cure
ligueur, 63, 64.

[295] A town on the left bank of the Seine, four leagues beyond Meulan.

[296] Mem. de Conde (Bruslart), Sept., 1563, i. 133-135.

[297] Ibid., _ubi supra_. "Ces parolles la sont venues de la boutique de
Monsieur le Chancellier et non du Roy."

[298] Ibid., i. 136. Even after Charles's lecture and a still more
intemperate address of Montluc, Bishop of Valence, when parliament came to
a vote there was a tie. To please Catharine, whose entire authority was at
stake, the royal council of state gave the extraordinary command that the
minute of this vote should be erased from the records of parliament, and
the edict instantly registered. This last was forthwith done. De Thou,
iii. (liv. xxxv.) 426, 427. Bruslart (_ubi supra_, i. 136) denies that the
erasure was actually made as Charles had commanded.

[299] De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxv.) 441, etc.

[300] Letter of Card. de la Bourdaisiere, Rome, Oct. 23, 1563, in which
sentence is said to have been pronounced, the day before, on the
Archbishop of Aix, and the bishops of Uzes, Valence, Oleron, Lescar,
Chartres, and Troyes. Le Laboureur, i. 863, 864.

[301] Monitorium et citatio officii sanctae Inquisitionis contra
illustrissimam et