e en Bretagne." Vie de Coligny,
350. D'Andelot was in Brittany at the outbreak of the third war. His
adventures in escaping to La Rochelle will be narrated in the next
chapter. Mr. Henry White is, of course, equally wrong when he says
(Massacre of St. Bartholomew, New York, 1868, p. 291): "The admiral had
gone to this charming retreat [Tanlay], to consult with his brother, to
whom it belonged, _and who had joined him there_," and when he mentions
D'Andelot as in the suite of Conde and Coligny in their celebrated flight
(p. 292); "besides which, he (the prince) was accompanied by the admiral
and his family, _by Andelot_ and his wife," etc.

[553] Lettre de Francois d'Andelot a la Royne mere du Roy, de Tanlay, co
8me juillet, 1568. MS. Library of Berne. This letter has been twice
printed in the Bulletin de la Soc. de l'hist. du prot. francais, iv.
(1856) 329-331, and vii. (1858) 121-123. The first reproduction is in one
important part more correct than the second. It is not impossible, after
all, that the author of the letter was not D'Andelot, but his brother,
Admiral Coligny himself; for M. J. Tessier mentions (Bulletin, xxii.
(1873) 47), that it exists in manuscript in the Paris National Library
(MSS. Vc. Colbert, 24, f. 161), in the admiral's own handwriting, and
signed with his usual signature, _Chastillon_. The whole tone, I must
confess, seems rather to be his.

[554] Journal d'un cure ligueur (Jehan de la Fosse), 96.

[555] Norris to Queen Elizabeth, May 12, 1568, State Paper Office.

[556] Jean de Serres, iii. 170; Davila, bk. iv. 128; Conde to the king,
Noyers, June 11, 1568, MS. Paris Lib., _apud_ D'Aumale, ii. 351-353.

[557] As the prince had described the state of affairs in a letter to the
king, of July 22, 1568: "Nous nous voions tuez, pillez, saccagez, les
femmes forcees, les filles ravies des mains de leurs peres et meres, les
grands mis hors de leurs charges," etc. All this injustice had been
committed with complete impunity. In fact, to use his own forcible words,
were the king to attempt to punish the outrages done to the Protestants,
"the trees in France would have more men than leaves upon them"--"tous les
arbres seroient plus couvertz d'hommes que de feuilles." MS. Paris Lib.,
_apud_ D'Aumale, ii. 355, 356.

[558] J. de Serres, iii. 171-173; Davila, bk. iv. 128.

[559] The Bulletin de la Soc. de l'hist. du prot. francais, ix. (1860)
217-219, published from MSS. in the Library of the British M