f et Jarnac, etc., avec privilege (Cimber et Danjou,
Archives curieuses, vi. 365, etc.); Discours de la bataille donnee par
Monseigneur, Duc d'Anjou et de Bourbonnoys, ... contre les rebelles ...
entre la ville d'Angoulesme et Jarnac, pres d'une maison nommee Vibrac
appartenant a la Dame de Mezieres; an inaccurate official account, drawn
up at Metz by Neufville on the first reception of the news, and sent by
the Spanish ambassador, Alava, to Philip II.; La Mothe Fenelon, Corr.
dip., vii. 3-11; Davila, bk. iv.; the "Relation originale" in Documents
inedits tires des coll. MSS. de la bibliotheque royale (Fr. gov.), iv.
483, etc. Compare the excellent narratives of the Duc d'Aumale and Prof.
Soldan. The Bulletin de la Soc. de l'hist. du prot. fr., i. (1853) 429,
gives a representation of a monument, in the form of an obelisk, about
eleven feet in height, erected by the Department of the Charente, in 1818,
on the spot where Conde fell. A somewhat similar monument, raised in 1770
by the Count de Jarnac, was destroyed during the first French revolution.

[667] Anjou to Charles IX., March 17, 1569, Duc d'Aumale, Les Princes de
Conde, ii. 399.

[668] Apostolicarum Pii Quinti, P. M., Epistolarum libri quinque.
Antverpiae, 1640, 152.

[669] Pii Quinti Epist., 157-166.

[670] Ibid., 160, 161.

[671] Boscheron des Portes, Hist. du Parlement de Bordeaux (Bordeaux,
1877), i. 214, 216. As the Huguenots were condemned, not for heresy, but
for rebellion, sacrilege, etc., the learned author finds no mention of
fagot and flame.

[672] La Mothe Fenelon. i. 288-294.

[673] Despatch of April 12, 1569, ibid., i. 303.

[674] It is evident that the results of the battle were designedly
exaggerated by the Roman Catholics at the time, and have been overrated
ever since. Agrippa d'Aubigne alleges that, out of 128 cornets of cavalry
in the Huguenot army, only fifteen were engaged; and that of over 200
ensigns of infantry, barely _six_--those under Pluviaut--came within a
league of the battle-field. Hist. univ., _ubi supra_.

[675] Jean de Serres, iii. 317, 318; De Thou, iv. (liv. xlv.) 178, 179. De
Thou reckons the losses of the Roman Catholics before Cognac at more than
300 men.

[676] De Thou, iv. 180, 181; Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 282; J. de Serres, iii.
318, 319.

[677] La Mothe Fenelon, i. 367. And now, to the insulting _quatrain_
already quoted a propos of Conde's death, the Huguenot soldiers of
Angoumois replied in rough verses of