'ils ont un pied en l'air et l'oeil
en la campagne."

[502] The whole of this remarkable memorial is inserted in the older
Collection universelle de memoires, xlv. 224-260. Its importance is so
great, as reflecting the views of a mind so impartial and liberal as that
of Chancellor L'Hospital, that I make no apology for the prominence I have
given to it. Besides the omission of much that might be interesting, I
have in places rather recapitulated than translated literally the striking
remarks of the original.

[503] La Noue, c. xviii.

[504] Castelnau, who was behind the scenes, assures us that had "the
Huguenots insisted upon keeping some places in their own hands, for the
performance of what was promised, it would have been granted, and, in all
probability, have prevented the war from breaking out so soon again," etc.
Mem., liv. vi., c. 11.

[505] Jean de Serres, iii. 149-154; De Thou, iv. 54, 55; Davila, bk. iv.
124; Castelnau, _ubi supra_; Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 260, etc.

[506] "L'Amiral maintenoit et remonstroit que cette paix n'estoit que pour
sauver Chartres, et puis pour assommer separez ceux qu'on ne pourroit
vaincre unis." Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 232.

[507] "Le Prince de Conde plus facile, desireux de la cour, ou il avoit
laisse quelque semence d'amourettes, se servit de ce que plusieurs
quittoient l'armee," etc. Ibid., _ubi supra_.

[508] La Noue, c. xviii.

[509] La Noue, c. xix.

[510] "La paix fourree," Soulier, Histoire des edits de pacification, 73.
"Ceste meschante petite paix," La Noue, c. xix. Agrippa d'Aubigne, Hist.
universelle, i. 260, and, following him, Browning, Hist. of the Huguenots,
i. 220, and De Felice, Hist. of the Protestants of France, 190, say that
this peace was wittily christened "La paix boiteuse et mal-assise;" but,
as we shall see, this designation belongs to the peace of Saint
Germain-en-Laye, in 1570, concluding the third religious war.

[511] Leopold Ranke, Civil Wars and Monarchy in France in the Sixteenth
and Seventeenth Centuries (New York, 1853), 234.

[512] Norris to Cecil, Paris, March 30, 1568, State Paper Office.

[513] La Noue, c. xviii. (Anc. coll., 214).

[514] A fortnight had not elapsed since the date of the Edict of
Pacification when Conde was compelled to call the king's attention to a
flagrant outrage committed by Foissy, a royalist, against the Sieur
d'Esternay. After having burned Esternay's residence at Lamothe during the
preliminary truce, Foiss