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

by James Westfall Thompson

[1360] Catherine de Medici to the duke of Anjou: approving of his false attack upon Châtellerault (see Appendix XVIII), not published in the Correspondance.

[1361] Nég. Tosc., III, 595.

[1362] Both La Noue, chap, xxvi, and D’Aubigné, III, 119, emphasize the condition of the army.

[1363] The custom of kissing the ground at the moment of charging the enemy seems to have been peculiar to the Swiss and the Germans (D’Aubigné, Book V, chap. xvii, 120; Brantôme, VI, 221 and 522).

[1364] Claude Haton, II, 581.

[1365] Claude Haton, II, 585.

[1366] Ibid., 582.

[1367] La Noue, chap. xxvi. Both Henry and Louis of Nassau were in this engagement, the latter having quitted his university studies for war.—Languet, Epist. secr., I, 117; Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, III, 323.

[1368] Jean de Serres, 526, 527. See the letter of Norris, December 19, 1569, Appendix XIX.

[1369] Delaborde, III, 162.