ed their king without stain
of treachery or act unworthy of a gentleman." Inedited letter, _apud_
Bulletin, _ubi supra_, 28, 29. M. de la Chastre became one of the marshals
of France. He conducted, three years later, the terrible siege of
Sancerre, famous in history. He had the reputation among the Huguenots of
being very severe, if not bloodthirsty--a reputation which he deserved, if
he was, as Henry of Navarre styles him, "un des principaux executeurs de
la Sainct Barthelemy." (Deposition in the trial of La Mole, Coconnas, etc.
Archives curieuses, viii. 150.) La Chastre tried to clear himself of the
imputation, by recalling the events of 1569. To Jean de Lery he maintained
"qu'il n'est point sanguinaire, ainsi qu'on a opinion, comme aussi il
l'avoit desja bien monstre aux autres troubles, lorsqu'il avoit en sa
puissance les sieurs d'Espeau, baron de Renty, et le capitaine Fontaine,
qui est en son armee: car encores que la cour du parlement de Paris luy
fist commandement de les representer, a peine de 2,000 marcs d'or, il ne
le voulut faire." Jean de Lery, "Discours de l'extreme famine ... dans la
ville de Sancerre," Archives curieuses, viii. 67.

[746] De Thou, iv. (liv. xlvi.) 235-237; Agrippa d'Aubigne, liv. v., c. 19
(i. 316, 317); Jean de Serres, iii. 368, 369.

[747] "Si est-ce que Dieu est tres-doux."

[748] Agrippa d'Aubigne, l. v., c. 18 (i. 309). The words were, as M.
Douen reminds us (Clement Marot et le Psautier huguenot, 1878, 13) the
first line of the seventy-third psalm of the Huguenot psalter.

[749] De Thou, iv. (liv. xlvi.) 232; Jean de Serres, iii. 366.

[750] Ibid., iii. 372, etc.

[751] Even in December, Languet could scarcely imagine that Coligny would
not return and winter at La Rochelle. Letter of Dec. 12, 1569, Epist.
secr., i. 130.

[752] Mem. de Castelnau, liv. vii., c. 12.

[753] At least, so says Agrippa d'Aubigne, liv. v., c. 18 (i. 309).

[754] De Thou, iv. (liv. xlvi.) 233; Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 309, 318 (liv.
v., cs. 18 and 20). The two authorities are not in exact agreement, De
Thou stating that Coligny went to Montauban before his march to meet
Montgomery, while D'Aubigne makes him follow the left bank of the Dordogne
down to Aiguillon. Gasparis Colinii Vita (1575), 91, 92, supports De Thou.

[755] De Thou, iv. (liv. xlvi.) 249; Agrippa d'Aubigne, liv. v., c. 20 (i.
318); Gasparis Colinii Vita (1575), 94. The author of this valuable and
authentic life of the admiral gives a