The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 / The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II

by James Westfall Thompson

[508] Correspondance de Chantonnay, April 2-4, K. 1,497, No. 18; April 11, ibid., No. 22.

[509] La Noue, Mémoires, chap. ii, has described this march.

[510] Correspondance de Chantonnay, April 8 and 11, 1562, K. 1,497, Nos. 21, 22.

[511] C. S. P. Ven., No. 283.

[512] According to Hotman who had left Orleans on May 29, the Huguenot forces consisted of 15,000 foot and 5,000 horse.—Letter to the landgrave, June 7, 1562, in Rev. hist., XCVII March-April, 1908, p. 304.

[513] Condé had entered Orleans on April 2. On the 7th he wrote to the Reformed churches of France, requiring men and money in the interest of the deliverance of the King and the queen mother and the freedom of the Christian religion (Mémoires de Condé, II, 212).

[514] Correspondance de Chantonnay, April 11 1562, K. 1,497, No. 22.

[515] Ibid., No. 21, April 8, 1562; De Ruble’s edition of D’Aubigné, II, 18-20; C. S. P. For., No. 997, April 10, 1562; No. 1,043, §2, April 24, 1562. Cf. Boulanger, “La réforme dans la province du Maine,” Revue des Soc. savant. des départ., 2^e sér., VII (1862), 548.

[516] “Leurs desseins cachés ont autre racine que celle de la religion, encores qu’ils le veuillant couvrir de ce manteau.”—Catherine de Medici to St. Sulpice, L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 59, August 9, 1562.

[517] “Déclaration faicte par monsieur le prince de Condé, pour monstrer les raisons qui l’ont contrainct d’entreprendre la défense de l’authorité du roy, du gouvernement de la royne, et du repos de çe royaume” (Orleans, 1562); cf. C. S. P. For., No. 1,003, Orleans, April 1, 1562.