[55] Sismondi, Hist. des Français, tome xix. p. 2.
[56] Recueil des Choses mémorables, p. 417.
[57] A writer of the present day, M. Capefigue, carrying the ideas and the passions of the nineteenth into the sixteenth century, insists that Charles IX. and his court were coerced by the people of the markets, and that the masses were moved by hatred against the gentry, or the Huguenot aristocracy. Then applying to these allegations the system of revolutionary fatality, he concludes that no one is to be blamed. (La Réforme et la Ligue, pp. 341, 346, 361, 373, et passim.) Such dreams are pointed out to the reader; they are unworthy of refutation!
[58] Read again the note upon the Italians of the sixteenth century, p. 89.
[59] Journal de Henri III. tome i. p. 45.
[60] This Besme received the reward of his crime from the Cardinal de Lorraine, who permitted him to marry one of his natural daughters: a double disgrace for a priest to recompense such a man, and to have such a reward to bestow.
[61] Maimbourg, Hist. du Calvinisme, p. 486.
[62] Aignan, Biblioth. étrangère, tome i. p. 229.
[63] Le Stratagème de Charles IX. p. 178.
[64] Hist. d’Angleterre, vol. vii. p. 201.