[816] C. S. P. For., No. 43, March 7, 1574.
[817] “Entrée du roy Charles IX et de la reyne-mère Catherine de Médicis en la ville de Sens, le 15 mars 1563,” Relation extraite du MSS d’Eracle Cartault, chanoine, et des déliberations de l’Hôtel-de-Ville. Préface de M. H. Monceaux, 1882.
[818] Coutant, “Dépenses du roi Charles IX à Troyes le mercredi 5 avril 1564 après Pâques,” Annuaire admin., etc., pour 1860 (Troyes); “Depenses du roi Charles IX à Troyes le samedi 8 avril 1564,” Annuaire admin., etc., pour 1859 (Troyes).
[819] Claude Haton, I, 364.
[820] The visit of the King to Bar-le-Duc (to attend the baptism of the child-prince Henry of Lorraine) profoundly stirred the Calvinists of France and Switzerland. Charles IX in person, Ernest of Mansfeldt, governor of Luxembourg, representing Philip II, and the dowager-duchess of Lorraine, Christine of Denmark, acted as god-parents.
[821] Fourquevaux to St. Sulpice, May 19, 1564, L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 266.
[822] Armstrong, French Wars of Religion, 22, admirably observes: “Geneva was practically a French republic, constantly recruited by raw refugee material, and circulating in return trained ministers and money, giving unity to measures which local separation was likely to dissolve. Hence came the propagandism, the organization for victory, the reorganization after defeat, the esprit de corps, the religious zeal which whipped up flagging political or military energies.”
[823] See a letter of Alva in K. 1,502. Montluc later informed Philip II of it (Commentaires et lettres, V, 25, letter of June, 1565). The rumor seems not to have passed unheeded, for the marshal Vieilleville cautioned the King and his mother to be moderate in their course, saying that the Huguenots were many and the soldiers few (Papiers d’état du cardinal de Granvelle, VIII, 632). On the state of Geneva at this time see Roget, L’église et l’état à Genève du vivant de Calvin; étude d’histoire politico-ecclésiastique, 1867.
[824] The constable to St. Sulpice, June 21, 1564, in L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 273.
[825] L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 275, 276; Nég. Tosc., III, 515, 516; Nyd (l’abbé) “Notes écrites en 1566, à la fin d’un missel de l’abbaye de Malgrivier (evénements rel. à Lyon, 1562-66),” Bull. du Com. de la langue, de l’hist. et des arts de la France, IV, 300 (1857). The copper and lead mines of the Lyonnais had been profitable in the Middle Ages, but the wars of the English in France and the Black Death ruined the industry. See Jars, “Notice historique des mines du Lyonnais, Forez et Beaujolais,” MS, Bibliothéque de Lyons, No. 1,470.