[243] Ibid., No. 716, § 18, November 17, 1560.
[244] Castelnau, Book II, chap. ix; La Planche, 318-38, gives the text of one, which is significant because it is almost wholly a political indictment of the Guises; next to nothing is said touching religion, conclusive evidence that the Huguenot party was much more political than religious.
[245] La Planche, 375, 376.
[246] Ibid., 318.
[247] “Qu’il seroit meilleur pour elle d’entretenir les choses en l’estat qu’elles estoyent, sans rien innover.”—Ibid., 313.
[248] Ibid., 316, 317.
[249] Baschet, La diplomatie vénitienne, 499.
[250] Rel. vén., II, 65.
[251] The more one considers the arrest of the prince of Condé, the more certain it seems that Catherine de Medici inspired it. The Venetian ambassador believed Catherine was at the bottom of his arrest; see Baschet, 500, 501.
[252] “The bishop of Valence says ... that the meeting of Fontainebleau would turn into a general assembly of the three estates of France.”—C. S. P. For., No. 445, August 22, 1560.