[73] Richelieu, La Mère et le Fils, vol. i. p. 91.
[74] Mercure Français, 1610, p. 505.
[75] L'Etoile, vol. iv. pp. 191, 192.
[76] Mézeray, vol. xi. pp. 10, 11. D'Estrées, Mém. p. 379.
[77] Mercure Français, 1610, pp. 510, 511.
[78] Matthieu, Hist, des Derniers Troubles, book iii. p. 455.
[79] Sully, Mém. vol. viii. pp. 81-84.
[80] Mercure Français, 1610, p. 505.
[81] Mézeray, vol. xi. p. 11. L'Etoile, on the contrary (vol. iv. p. 132), asserts that the command was offered to Bouillon, but that he wisely declined it.
[82] Claude de la Châtre was originally one of the pages of the Duc de Montmorency, who continued to protect him throughout his whole career. He distinguished himself in several battles and sieges, and having embraced the party of the League possessed himself of Berry, which he subsequently surrendered to Henri IV. At the period of his death, which occurred on the 18th of December 1614, at the advanced age of seventy-eight years, he was Marshal of France, Knight of the King's Orders, and Governor of Berry and Orleans.