body of
Conde to the Duke of Longueville, his brother-in-law, who had it interred
with due respect at Vendome in the burial-place of his ancestors."

When in 1569 he thus testified, from a mixture of hatred and fear, an
ignoble joy at the death of Louis de Conde, the valiant chief of
Protestantism, the Duke of Anjou did not foresee that, nearly twenty
years later, in 1588, when he had become Henry III., King of France, he
would also testify, still from a mixture of hatred and fear, the same
ignoble joy at sight of the corpse of Henry de Guise, the valiant chief
of Catholicism, murdered by his order and in his palace.

As soon as Conde's death was known at La Rochelle, the Queen of Navarre,
Jeanne d'Albret, hurried to Tonnay-Charente, whither the Protestant army
had fallen back; she took with her her own son Henry, fifteen years old,
and Henry de Bourbon, the late Prince of Conde's son, who was seventeen;
and she presented both of them to the army. The younger, the future
Henry IV., stepped forward briskly. "Your cause," said he, "is mine;
your interests are mine; I swear on my soul, honor, and life, to be
wholly yours." The young Conde took the same oath. The two princes were
associated in the command, under the authority of Coligny, who was
immediately appointed lieutenant-general of the army. For two years
their double signature figured at the bottom of the principal official
acts of the Reformed party; and they were called "the admiral's pages."
On both of them Jeanne passionately enjoined union between themselves,
and equal submission on their part to Coligny, their model and their
master in war and in devotion to the common cause. Queen, princes,
admiral, and military leaders of all ranks stripped themselves of all the
diamonds, jewels, and precious stones which they possessed, and which
Elizabeth, the Queen of England, took in pledge for the twenty thousand
pounds sterling she lent him. The Queen of Navarre reviewed the army,
which received her with bursts of pious and warlike enthusiasm; and
leaving to Coligny her two sons, as she called them, she returned alone
to La Rochelle, where she received a like reception from the inhabitants,
"rough and loyal people," says La Noue, "and as warlike as mercantile."
After her departure, a body of German horse, commanded by Count Mansfeld,
joined Coligny in the neighborhood of Limoges. Their arrival was an
unhoped-for aid. Coligny distributed amongst them a medal be