[191]. Bibliothèque Nationale, Colbert, vol. 140. ‘Bref discours de l’arrivée de la Reine d’Espagne à St. Jehan de Luz.’
[192]. It is usually assumed (and amongst others by Father Florez in ‘Reinas Catolicas’) that the massacre of St. Bartholomew seven years later (1572) in Paris was arranged at this meeting. There is, however, no proof that such was the case. Philip and the Spanish party, it is true, were loud in their praises of this enormity, but much happened between Bayonne and Bartholomew.
[193]. Isabel herself ascribed the blessing to her prayers to the body of St. Eugène, which she had with great difficulty persuaded the French to surrender to Spain. It was carried with great pomp from St. Denis to Toledo, and Isabel was constant in her adoration of it.
[194]. French ambassador Fourquevault to Catharine, June 1567. Bibliothèque Nationale, No. 220 (Du Prat).
[195]. Ibid., No. 8.
[196]. Fourquevault to Catharine, 3rd October 1568. Du Prat.
[197]. Fourquevault to Catharine, 3rd October 1568. Du Prat.
[198]. Father Florez tells of her that on one occasion she was brought to death’s door by her loathing her food; and as all mundane remedies had been tried in vain, the King sent for the blessed friar Orozco. The friar told the Queen he had a remedy recommended by his grandmother which would cure her if she would take it. The Queen consented, and the friar cooked a partridge and bacon before her, reciting verses of the Magnificat at each turn of the spit. When the dish was ready he took it to the Queen and said, ‘Eat, my lady, in the name of God, for the mere smell of this would make a dead man hungry.’ Needless to say, Anna ate and was cured.
[199]. She was much beloved, especially in Madrid, and died in childbed at the Escorial in 1611.
[200]. An interminable account of the splendours of the occasion, for which the favourite Duke of Lerma was mainly responsible, will be found in ‘Documentos Ineditos,’ lxi.