(liv. xlvii.) 312-314; Agrippa d'Aubigne, liv. v., c.
22 (i. 321-325); Castelnau, liv. vii., c. 12; Davila, bk. v. 169.

[768] De Thou, iv. (liv. xlvii.) 315. Davila attributes to the connivance
of Marshal Cosse the escape of the Protestants from Arnay-le-Duc. This is
consistent with the same writer's statement that it was the marshal's
intentional slowness that enabled Coligny to seize upon Arnay-le-Duc and
post himself so advantageously.

[769] Castelnau, liv. vii., c. 10.

[770] De Thou, iv. (liv. xlvii.) 301.

[771] De Thou, iv. (liv. xlvii.) 302.

[772] The articles, a copy of which was sent to the ambassador at the
court of Elizabeth, in a letter from Angers, Feb. 6, 1570, are printed in
La Mothe Fenelon, vii. 86-88. I omit reference in the text to the articles
prohibiting foreign alliances and the levy of money, prescribing the
dismissal of foreign troops, etc. The two cities referred to in the fifth
article are rather to be regarded as places of worship--the only places in
the kingdom where Protestant worship would be tolerated--than as pledges
for the performance of the projected edict, as Prof. Soldan apparently
regards them chiefly, if not exclusively. Geschichte des Prot. in
Frankreich, ii. 379.

[773] Charles to ambassador, Jan. 14th; letter of Catharine, same date; La
Mothe Fenelon, vii. 77, 78.

[774] See Froude, History of England, x. 9. etc.

[775] De Thou, iv. (liv. xlvii.) 305. Cf. Soulier, Hist. des edits de
pacification, 92.

[776] De Thou, iv. 311. It was at St. Etienne in Forez, that the incident
occurred.

[777] For a fuller discussion of these circumstances than the limits of
this history will permit me to give, I must refer the reader to the work
of Prof. Soldan, Geschichte des Protestantismus in Frankreich, ii. 385.

[778] La Noue was one of the most modest, as well as one of the most
capable of generals. "I have felt myself so much the more obliged to speak
of it," writes the historian De Thou respecting the battle of Sainte
Gemme, "as La Noue, the most generous of men, who has written on the civil
wars with as much fidelity as judgment, always disposed to render
conspicuous the merit of others, and very reserved respecting his own, has
not said a word of this victory." De Thou, iv. (liv. xlvii.) 320.

[779] Brantome has written the eulogy of this personage, whose true name
was Antoine Escalin. He was first ambassador at Constantinople, where his
good services secured his appoi