[80] D’Aubigné.
[81] It was a perilous journey, for they were hotly pursued, and had not the Loire risen in sudden flood just after they had forded it near Sancerre, and arrested the pursuit, they would certainly have been captured. The fugitives saw in this event the direct interposition of Providence in their favour, and falling on their knees, sang the Psalm: In exitu Israel.
[82] D’Aubigné, “Histoire universelle.”
[83] Brantôme.
[84] By the orders of his master, it was generally believed. “He (Condé),” writes Brantôme, “had been very earnestly recommended to several of the favourites of the said Monseigneur (Anjou) whom I knew.”
[85] Davila, cited by Mr. A. W. Whitehead, “Gaspard de Coligny.”
[86] Duc d’Aumale, “Histoire des Princes de Condé.”
[87] The surviving children by his marriage with Éléonore de Roye were:
- (1) Henri de Bourbon, Prince de Condé; born 27 December, 1552; died 5 March, 1588.
- (2) François de Bourbon, Prince de Conti, born 18 August, 1558.
- (3) Catherine de Bourbon.
- (4) Charles de Bourbon, afterwards the third Cardinal de Bourbon, born 30 March, 1562.
Those by his marriage with Françoise d’Orléans were: