Que Dieu s'est acquis un renom;
C'est en Israel voirement
Qu'on voit la force de son Nom:
En Salem est son tabernacle,
En Sion son sainct habitacle."

I quote from an edition of the unaltered Huguenot psalter (1638).

[605] Jean de Serres, iii. 270; De Thou, iv. (liv. xliv.) 144, 145;
Agrippa d'Aubigne, Hist. univ. liv. v., c. 4 (i. 269) states the
circumstance that the river fell a foot and a half during the four hours
consumed in the crossing, and then rose again as opportunely: "Mais il
s'en fust perdu la pluspart sans un heur nompareil; ce fut que la riviere
s'estant diminuee d'un pied et demi durant le passage de quatre heures, se
r'enfla sur la fin;" adding in one of those nervous sentences which
constitute a principal charm of his writings: "Nous dirions avec crainte
_ces courtoisies de Loire_, si nous n'avions tous ceux qui ont escrit pour
gariment."

[606] Jean de Serres, iii. 270, 271; De Thou, iv. (liv. xliv.) 147;
Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 269.

[607] La Noue, c. xx.

[608] Ibid., _ubi supra_; De Thou, iv. (liv. xliv.) 150.

[609] Jacques de Crussol, Baron d'Acier (or, Assier), afterwards Duke
d'Uzes, lieutenant-general of the royal armies in Languedoc, etc.
According to the Abbe Le Laboureur (iii. 56-60), it was interest that
induced him, a few years later, to become a Roman Catholic.

[610] Le Laboureur, Add. aux Mem. de Castelnau, ii. 588. The same author
elsewhere (ii. 56-60) states the army as only 20,000. Jean de Serres, iii.
284, 285, and De Thou, iv. (liv. xliv.) 150-152, give an account of the
difficulties encountered in bringing these troops to the place of
rendezvous, and enumerate the leaders and contingents of the three
provinces. According to the latter, the total was 23,000 men. See Agrippa
d'Aubigne, liv. v., c. 5 (i. 271).

[611] Jean de Serres, iii. 286, 291, 292; De Thou, iv. (liv. xliv.), 153,
154; Agrippa d'Aubigne, _ubi supra_; Davila, bk. iv., p. 132, 133; Le
Laboureur, ii. 588, 589. It is more than usually difficult to ascertain
the loss of the Huguenots at Messignac. Jean de Serres, who states it at
600, and Davila, who says that it amounted to 2,000 foot and more than
4,000 horse, are the extremes. De Thou sets it down at more than 1,000;
D'Aubigne at 1,000 or 1,200; Castelnau at 3,000 foot and 300 horse; and Le
Laboureur, following him, at over 3,000 men.

[612] Hist. univ., liv. v., c. 6 (i. 273).

[613] "Discours envoye de la Rochelle," accompanying La