[44] François Billon, “le Fort inexpugnable de l’honneur féminin.” Paris, 1555.
[45] La Rochefoucauld had married Catherine de Roye, younger sister of the Princesse de Condé.
[46] Comte Jules Delaborde, “Éléonore de Roye, Princesse de Condé.”
[47] Bèze. But other writers assert that the princess’s attendants had provoked the attack by insulting the priests.
[48] Comte Jules Delaborde, “Éléonore de Roye, Princesse de Condé.”
[49] Letter of Almerigo Bor Fadino to Pierre du Bois, merchant of Antwerp, 13 November, 1563, State Papers (Elizabeth), Foreign Series.
[50] F. Decrue, “Anne, duc de Montmorency, connétable et pair de France.”
[51] Smith to Cecil, 14 April, 1563, State Papers (Elizabeth), Foreign Series.
[52] Letter of 6 May, 1564, published by the Comte Jules Delaborde.
[53] “Which was a great infamy for the so-called Reformed Religion.”—“Journal de Bruslard.”