stelnau, liv. vii., c. 9; Agrippa d'Aubigne, liv. v.,
c. 17; a Roman Catholic relation in Groen van Prinsterer, Archives de la
Maison d'Orange Nassau, iii. 324-326.

[727] "Nihil est enim ea pietate misericordiaque crudelius, quae in impios
et ultima supplicia meritos confertur." Pius V. to Charles IX., Oct. 20,
1569. Pii V. Epistolae (Antwerp, 1640), 242. The French victories of Jarnac
and Moncontour were celebrated by a medal struck at Rome, with the legend,
"_Fecit potentiam in bracchio suo, dispersit superbos_," and a
representation of Pius kneeling and invoking the aid of heaven against the
heretics. In the distance is seen a combat, and above it appears the
Divine Being directing the issue. Figured in "Le Tresor de Numismatique et
de Glyptique, par Paul Delaroche" (Medailles des Papes, plate 15, No. 5),
Paris, 1839.

[728] La Mothe Fenelon, vii. 65, etc., from Simancas MSS. So Claude Haton,
who is rarely behindhand in such matters, makes the Protestants lose
fifteen thousand or sixteen thousand men. Memoires, ii. 582. Admiral
Coligny was for a time believed by the court to be dead or mortally
wounded, "mais ne fut rien." Ibid., _ubi supra_.

[729] If we may credit the curate Claude, Catharine de' Medici alone was
vexed at the completeness of the rout and the number of Huguenots slain,
"inasmuch as she gave them as much support as possible, and encouraged
them in rebellion, that the civil wars might continue, in which she took
pleasure because of the management of affairs they threw into her
hands"--"pour le maniment des affaires qu'elle entreprenoit et manioit."
Memoires, ii. 583.

[730] Journal d'un cure ligueur (Jehan de la Fosse), 110.

[731] Jehan de la Fosse, 112. The date is stated as "about Oct. 17th."

[732] Ranke, Civil Wars and Monarchy in France, i. 241.

[733] De Thou, iv. 230; Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 310. The murderer's name is
variously written Maurevel, Moureveil, Montrevel, etc.

[734] This letter, respecting which I confess that I find some
difficulties, possesses a history of its own. On the 13th of Ventose, in
the second year of the republic, the original was sent to the national
convention, which, the next day, ordered its insertion in the official
bulletin, and its preservation in the national library, as emanating "from
one of the Neros of France." See App. to Journal de Lestoile, ed. Michaud,
pt. i., p. 307, 308, and the revolutionary bulletins.

[735] "Ut sese Montalbani cum Vicecomi