[976] On Cardinal Pacheco see Poulet, I, 7, note and Index.
[977] Correspondance de Catherine de Médicis, II, Introd., lxxxiii, lxxxiv.
[978] The key to it was discovered in 1885. Suriano had been Venetian envoy at Trent. He was not the regular ambassador of the senate in France and his dispatches seem to have been in another key from that of Marc Antonio Barbaro the accredited ambassador.
[979] Correspondance de Catherine de Médicis, II, Introd., lxxxv.
[980] Combes, 47.
[981] “For a whole fortnight Catherine resisted the pressure of her daughter and the Spanish envoys, who found support in the drastic proposals of the leaders of the French Catholics. Within the last three days of the interview, however, concessions were made which satisfied Alva and his master, though Granvella and Alva exhibited some skepticism. The queen was prompted, ... not by Alva’s alleged threat that the King must lose his crown, or his brother Henry his head, but merely by her fear that the total failure of the interview would hinder the attainment of her ends. These concessions consisted in the engagement to accept the decrees of the Council of Trent and in an enigmatical promise of punishment or remedial measures. The latter, however, probably did not refer to the judicial murder or assassination of the Huguenot leaders—a scheme suggested by Montpensier’s confessor and welcomed by Alva—but to the expulsion of the ministers and subsequent enforcement of orthodoxy. The execution of these measures was postponed until the conclusion of the journey, but it seems probable that Catherine never seriously intended an act which would have been the inevitable sign of civil war.”—Armstrong in English Historical Review, VI, 578, 579 (review of Marcks, Die Zusammenkunft von Bayonne, Strasburg, 1889).
[982] For example La Noue, chap. xii (1567).
[983] Correspondance de Catherine de Médicis, II, 509, 510; R. Q. H., XXXIV.
[984] “Tous les bruis que l’on fayst courer ne sont pas vray.... Et y a tent de noblèse au demeurant que tou les souir à la sale du bal je panserès aystre à Baionne si j’y voyais reine ma fille,” writes Catherine to the duke of Guise (Correspondance de Catherine de Médicis, II, 315).
[985] Fourquevaux, I, 6, November 3, 1565. Cf. Correspondance de Catherine de Médicis, II, 326—Catherine to Fourquevaux, November 28, 1565.