[567] La Noue admits that the boasted discipline of the Huguenots was disgraced by their atrocities here (Mém. milit., chap. xvi; cf. C. S. P. Ven., No. 288, July 16, 1562).
[568] On the war in Lyonnais, Dauphiné, Provence, and Languedoc, see D’Aubigné, Book III, chap. vii. The notes are valuable. Des Adresse proclaimed all Catholics in Lyonnais, Burgundy, Dauphiné, and Limousin rebels to the King (C. S. P. For., 340). He was not a Huguenot in the proper sense, but rebelled against the King, and sided with the Huguenots because he was jealous of La Mothe Gondrin, who was made lieutenant du roi instead of himself in Dauphiné (see D’Aubigné, II, 49, n. 5).
[569] D’Aubigné, II, 48. He recovered Châlons-sur-Marne in June and Macon in August (Tavannes, 339, 343).
[570] It was at this moment that D’Andelot was sent to Germany for succor (C. S. P. For., No. 374, §7, July 27, 1562).
[571] At Pont Audemer the duke caused a preacher to be hanged, and afterward some of the best citizens and even boys (C. S. P. Ven., 355, July 23, 1562). There was also fear lest the English would land troops in Guyenne (Archives de la Gironde, XVII, 284).
[572] C. S. P. Ven., No. 354, July 23, 1562; Claude Haton, I, 301; C. S. P. For., 185, June 13, 1562; cf. 246, §24; but see the duke of Aumale’s disclaimer to the queen mother, of July 9, asserting that those of Rouen, Dieppe, and Havre were plundering indiscriminately (Appendix IV).
[573] D’Aubigné, II, 52-73. The prince of Orange found himself in a very difficult position. His principality was continually exposed to the attacks of the king of France and those of the Pope from Avignon. Moreover, the conduct of the Huguenots compromised him on account of their violence toward the priests in the sanctuaries (Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, I, 71, 72; Raumer, II, 2111561).
[574] Forneron, Histoire de Philippe II, I, 294. Montluc is unequaled in the keenness of his political penetration. The baron de Ruble says with truth that the old soldier rivals Hotman and Bodin in this respect. Witness the paragraph written in December, 1563, to be found in the memoir he sent to Damville justifying his resignation of the lieutenancy of Guyenne (Commentaires et lettres de Montluc, IV, 297, 298 and note).
[575] There are few more interesting annals in the history of war than the racy, egotistical, garrulous, yet sometimes pithy narrative of this veteran leader. The fifth book of Montluc’s Commentaires is wholly taken up with the war in Guyenne in 1562-63. His correspondence during the same period is in IV, 111-225; add Beza, Histoire des églises réformées, which is remarkably accurate and impartial.
[576] Coll. Trémont, No. 51.—Antoine de Bourbon to M. de Jarnac, from the camp at Gien, September 12, 1562, relative to sending forces into the south to join those of Burie and Montluc.