tibus conjungerent, et sperantes
Andium, dum se persequeretur, ab San-Jani oppugnandae instituto
destiturum." De statu rel. et reip., iii. 365.

[736] See Soldan, iii. 372, 373; Anquetil, Esprit de la ligue, i. 317,
etc.

[737] With his usual inaccuracy, Davila speaks of Saint Jean d'Angely as
"excellently fortified" (Eng. trans., p. 166).

[738] This number, given by Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 313, and by De Thou, iv.
(liv. xlv.) 242, seems the most probable. La Popeliniere swells it to near
10,000 (Soldan, ii. 375), while Castelnau, liv. vii., c. 10, reduces it to
"over 8,000." Strange to say, Jean de Serres, who, writing and publishing
this portion of his history within a year after the conclusion of the
third civil war, almost uniformly gives the highest estimates of the Roman
Catholic losses, here makes them about 2,000, or lower than any one else.

[739] Agrippa d'Aubigne, who was generous enough to appreciate valor even
in an enemy, calls him "celui qui entamoit toutes les parties difficiles,
a qui rien n'estoit dur ny hazardeux, qui en tous les exploits de son
temps avoit fait les coups de partie" (i. 312). Lestoile in his journal
(p. 22, Ed. Mich.) affirms that he was killed just as he had uttered a
blasphemous inquiry of the Huguenots, where was now their "Dieu le Fort,"
and taunted them with his having become "a ceste heure leur Dieu le
Faible." "Le Dieu, le Fort, l'Eternel parlera," was the first line of a
favorite Huguenot psalm.

[740] On the siege of Saint Jean d'Angely, see J. de Serres, iii. 369,
370; Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 311-313; De Thou, iv. 238-242; Castelnau, liv.
vii., c. 10. It scarcely needs to be mentioned that Davila, bk. v., p.
166, knows nothing of any treachery on the part of the Roman Catholics,
but duly mentions that De Piles did not observe his promise.

[741] Davila, bk. v. (Eng. tr., p. 163 and 167); De Thou, iv. (liv. xlvi.)
250. Gabutius, in his life of Pius V., transcribes the exultant
inscription, dictated by the pontiff himself (Sec. 126, p. 648), and claims
for the canonized subject of his panegyric the chief credit of the
victory. According to him the Italians were the first to engage with the
heretics, and the last to desist from the pursuit.

[742] Davila, bk. 5th (Eng. tr., p. 167); Mem. de Claude Haton, ii. 591.

[743] "L'hiver arriva, il fallut mettre les troupes en quartier; et le
fruit d'une victoire si complette, l'effort d'une armee royale si
formidable, fut la prise