[1380] C. S. P. For., No. 672, February 3, 1570; cf. R. Q. H., XLII, 112-15, copied from Record Office; Delaborde, Coligny, III, 180.
[1381] C. S. P. For., No. 682, February 10, 1570. Not in Rochambeau.
[1382] Ibid., No. 674, February 5, 1570. This information had been conveyed to Jeanne d’Albret by a packet which had been intercepted (ibid., No. 689, February 17, 1570).
[1383] Waddington, “La France et les Protestants allemands sous Charles IX et Henri III,” Revue Hist., XLII, 256 ff.
[1384] The queen of Navarre to Charles IX. Has received his letter and communicated his reply to her son and nephew, and the noblemen who are with them. Assures him that it is impossible for them to live without the free exercise of their religion, which in the end he will be constrained to grant, and declares that all those who advise him otherwise are no true subjects to him (C. S. P. Spain, No. 683, February 11, 1570). Not in Rochambeau.
[1385] De Thou definitely says Paris and the court were indifferent as to the fate of the remoter provinces so long as the war did not touch them too (Vol. VI, Book XLVII, p. 37).
[1386] “Compertum nobis est nullam esse Satanae cum filiis lucis communionem; ita inter catholicos quidem et haereticos nullam compositionem, nisi fictam fallaciisque plenissimam, fieri posse pro certo habemus.”—Potter, Pie V, 86 (ed. Gouban), Book 4, letter I, p. 269; Pius V to Charles IX, January 29, 1570. At p. 272 is a letter in a similar vein to the duke of Anjou, written on the same day.
[1387] De Ruble, Commentaires et lettres de Montluc, VII, 184, note; V, 135; letter of Montluc, October 31, 1568.
[1388] Ibid., IV, 335.
[1389] It is to be regretted that there is no monograph upon the history of these viscounts. It would be quite worth doing. Communay, Les Huguenots dans le Béarn et la Navarre, and Durier, Les Huguenots en Bigorre, 1884, are valuable collections of documents. The sources are largely in the local archives of Upper Languedoc, Guyenne, Quercy, the Agenois, and Rouergue. My information is gathered entirely from the two works named above and Montluc; D’Aubigné; Hist. du Languedoc, V; Courteault, Blaise de Montluc, Paris, 1908; and Marlet, Le comte de Montgomery, Paris, 1890.