ntment as general of the galleys. After
undergoing the displeasure of the king, and a three years' imprisonment
for his participation in the massacre of the Vaudois, he was reinstated in
office. Subsequently he was temporarily displaced by the grand prior, and
by the Marquis of Elbeuf. It is an odd mistake of Mr. Henry White (Mass.
of St. Bartholomew, p. 14, note) when he says: "In the religious wars he
sided with the Huguenots." Brantome says: "Il haissoit mortellement ces
gens-la."

[780] De Thou, iv. 316-325; Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 325-335.

[781] Ibid., _ubi supra_.

[782] La Mothe Fenelon, iii. 210, 215. Despatch of June 21st.

[783] De Thou, iv. 287, 288; Kluckholn, Briefe Friedrich des Frommen, ii.
398.

[784] La Mothe Fenelon, iii. 256, 257.

[785] Letter of April 17, 1570, Rochambeau, Lettres d'Antoine de Bourbon
et de Jehanne d'Albret (Paris, 1877), 299.

[786] Chassanee in his "Consuetudines ducatus Burgundiae, fereque totius
Galliae" (Lyons, 1552), 50, defines the "haute justice" by the possession
of the power of life and death: "De secundo vero gradu meri imperii, seu
altae justiciae, est habere gladii potestatem ad animadvertendum in
facinorosos homines."

[787] See the edict itself in Jean de Serres, iii. 375-390; summaries in
De Thou, iv. (liv. xlvii.) 328, 329, and Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 364, 365.

[788] Journal d'un cure ligueur, 120.

[789] Ibid., _ubi supra_.

[790] Castelnau, liv. vii., c. 12. The work of this very fair-minded
historian terminates with the conclusion of the peace. De Thou, iv. (liv.
xlvii.) 327.

[791] "On la disoit boiteuse et mal-assise," says Henri de Mesmes himself
in his account of these transactions, adding with a delicate touch of
sarcasm: "Je n'en ay point vu depuis vingt-cinq ans qui ait guere dure."
Le Laboureur, Add. aux Mem. de Castelnau, ii. 776. Prof. Soldan has
already exposed the mistake of Sismondi and others, who apply the popular
nickname to the preceding peace of Longjumeau. See _ante_, chap. xv.

CHAPTER XVII.

THE PEACE OF SAINT GERMAIN.

[Sidenote: Sincerity of the peace.]

A problem of cardinal importance here confronts us, in the inquiry whether
the peace which had at length dawned upon France was or was not concluded
in good faith by the young king and his advisers. Was the treaty a
necessity forced upon the court by the losses of men and treasure
sustained during three years of almost continual civil conflict? Were the
queen moth