[914] Forneron, I, 330. D’Aubigné, II, 294, wrongly ascribes this plot to the Jesuits. The traditional Protestant account, attributed to Calignon, chancellor of Navarre, is printed in Mém. du duc de Nevers, II, 579; also in Mém. de Villeroy. The account in Arch. cur., VI, 281, is much colored. Catholic historians have denied the existence of such a plot, e. g., the abbé Garnier in Mém. de l’Acad. des inscrip. (1787), Vol. L, 722. But since the publication of Montluc’s Correspondance there is no doubt of it.
[915] Forneron, I, 303-6. Cabie, L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 483, gives the text of the ambassador’s letter to Catherine, and his note of thanks to the queen’s embroiderer who divulged the plot.
[916] D’Aubigné, II, 204, 205; Mém. de Condé, IV, 669. Charles IX’s letter of November 30, 1563, to St. Sulpice gives some details of the process (L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 186, 187).
[917] Correspondance de Catherine de Médicis, II, 119, 120. Her letter to her daughter in Spain, not in the correspondence, which M. Cabie cites in L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 208, displays real courage. Charles IX said he could not abandon Jeanne d’Albret “sans être vu déserter de ses plus proches parents” (ibid., 247). The instructions to Lansac, who was sent to Spain to protest in the name of France against the papal action, show fine scorn (ibid., 224).
[918] Commentaires et lettres de Montluc, IV, 327, note.
[919] L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 228: “Réponse de Philippe II au sr. de Lansac en sa première audience, 18 fev. 1565.”
[920] Ibid., 247.
[921] L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 5.
[922] Letter to St. Sulpice, February 10, 1563, ibid., 115.
[923] Ibid., 135.