[1370] Mém. de Condé, I, 207; D’Aubigné, III, 113, 114; Arch. cur., séries I, VI, 875. Pius V’s letter of felicitation to the queen mother, October 17, 1569, characterizes Coligny as “hominem unum omnium fallacissimum, execrandaeque memoriae, Gasparem de Coligny, qui se pro istius regni admirante gerit.”—Potter, Pie V, 67, ed. Gouban, Book III, letter 43, p. 236. The admiral’s office had been declared vacant on July 15, 1569 (Coll. Godefroy, CCLVII, No. 69).
[1371] C.S.P. For., Nos. 456, 459, 464, 486, October 5, 6, 10, 27, 1569. This was far from paying the reiters what the government owed them. They had been serving for thirteen months and received pay but for three; 2,000,000 crowns were still owing (ibid., No. 543, December 19, 1569).
[1372] On the resistance of St. Jean-d’Angély see D’Aubigné, Book V, chap. xix; La Noue, chap. xxvii; La Popelinière, Book XX.
[1373] Ibid., No. 511, November 21, 1569. Both the duke of Alençon and the princess Marguerite, Henry IV’s future wife, were among the number. The disease was smallpox (ibid., No. 502, November 3, No. 543, December 19, 1569).
[1374] Delaborde, III, 72; Nég. Tosc., III, 608.
[1375] C. S. P. For., Nos. 514, 515, 576, November 24, 25, 1569.
[1376] C. S. P., For., November 24, 1569, Jeanne d’Albret to the princes of Navarre and Condé. Not in Rochambeau, Lettres d’Antoine de Bourbon et de Jehanne d’Albret.
[1377] An awkward delay occurred at this time owing to the fact that Teligny’s safe-conduct provided for his coming to the King, but made no statement as to his departure. On December 14 the queen of Navarre and her son demanded “un passeport plus ample” from the King. When it came with a revised form, negotiations were resumed (Commentaires et lettres de Montluc, III, 263, note; C. S. P. For., No. 643, January, 1570. For details of these protracted negotiations see La Popelinière, Book XXII; Delaborde, III, 176 ff.). In Appendix XX will be found a long document consisting of a great number of articles proposed by the queen of Navarre, the princes of Navarre and Condé, and the other chiefs of the Huguenot party, for the pacification of France, and divided under the heads of religion, restitution of goods and estates, council and justice, arms, and finances, together with measures to be taken to insure the performance of the edict (February 4, 1570).
[1378] C. S. P. For., No. 644, January 1570, articles sent by the queen of Navarre to the King.
[1379] Hist. du Lang., V, 508, note. The parlement of Toulouse was a special object of criticism by the Huguenots. In the act of peace they were exempted from its jurisdiction.