[537] ‘Te perinde ac filium et fratrem, imo si vis patrem habituri.’—Ibid.

[538] ‘Quæ res sic animum meum exhilaravit, ut nulla magis... Perinde advola.’—Tossanus Farello, Neufchatel MSS.

[539] Marguerites de la Marguerite, i. p. 333.

[540] Les Guerres de la Religion dans les Hautes Alpes, par M. Charronnet, archiviste de la préfecture: Gap, 1861, p. 17. M. Charronnet discovered this ‘unexpected fact,’ as he calls it, in the municipal archives of Manosque (procès d’Aloat). The family name of Mirabeau was Riquetti.

[541] Les Guerres de la Religion dans les Hautes Alpes, par M. Charronnet, pp. 19-22.

[542] Hist. of the Ref. of the Sixteenth Century, vol. iv. bk. xv. ch. i.

[543] Lettres de la Reine de Navarre, i. p. 219.

[544] Lettres de la Reine de Navarre, ii. p. 77. The editor thinks that this letter was sent to Madrid; but in my opinion it is an error.

[545] Dames Illustres, by H. de Coste, ii. p. 271.

[546] Béthune MSS. no 8546, fo 107.