[1465] L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 261, 267.
[1466] Dépêches de M. Fourquevaux, II, 28; III, 41.
[1467] Sir Thomas Smith, the English ambassador in France, described her in January, 1571 as “a pretty little lady, but fair and well-favored.”—C. S. P. For., No. 8.
[1468] Even at the official ceremony (Godefroi, Ceremonial français, II, 20) of betrothal in the cathedral at Speyer the latent hostility of France and Spain was manifested. The Spanish ambassador refused to give precedence to the ambassador of Charles IX, and so absented himself, the Venetian envoy being compelled to do the same, because of the alliance between these two powers (C. S. P. For., No. 1,355, Cobham to Cecil, October 22, 1570). For other details cf. Nos. 1,267, 1,275, 1,377, 1,430. On the negotiations see Mém. de Castelnau (ed. Le Laboureur), II, Book VI, 467.
[1469] Rel. vén., II, 255. Killigrew in a letter to Lord Burghley, December 29, 1571, shrewdly observed, à propos of the change, that “divers of the followers of Guise have not letted to say that the duke of Alva knew the way to Paris’ gates.”—C. S. P. For., No. 2,196. For an example of Biragues’ intriguing, and this of the most shameful sort, in connection with the proposed marriage of Henry of Navarre and Marguerite of Valois see La Ferrière, Rapport, 43. The Huguenots had hoped for L’Hôpital’s recall.—Nég. Tosc., III, 641.
[1470] Janssen, History of the German People, VIII, 117 ff.
[1471] C. S. P. For., No. 1,590, March 5, 1571.
[1472] This is the keen observation of the Venetian ambassador (cf. C. S. P. Ven., 515, August 1, 1571).
[1473] The duke of Montmorency to Lord Burghley, May 20, 1571, see Appendix XXVIII. On the whole negotiation see La Ferrière, “Elisabeth et le duc d’Anjou,” Revue des deux mondes, August 15, 1881, p. 857; September 15, 1881, p. 307.
[1474] The words were used to De Foix (C. S. P. For., No. 1,632, April 1, 1571, Walsingham to Burghley).