[201] The Consistories sometimes condescended to details. In the calmer days after the Edict of Nantes, the pastor and Consistory of Montauban thought that the arrangement of Madame de Mornay’s hair was trop mondaine: Madame argued with them in a spirited way; cf. Mémoires de Madame du Plessis-Mornay (Société de l’Histoire de France, Paris, 1868-69), i. 270-310.
[202] Bulletin de la Société de l’hist. du protestantisme français, 1854, p. 24.
[203] Hauser, “La Réforme et les classes populaires en France au XVIe siècle” in the Revue d’hist. mod. et contemp. i. (1899-1900).
[204] The best book on Renée is Rodocanchi, Renée de France, duchesse de Ferrare (1896).
[205] For the Chatillou brothers, see Whitehead, Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France (London, 1905).
[206] The singing of Clement Marot’s version of the Psalms was not distinctively Protestant. The first edition of the translation, including thirty Psalms, appeared in Paris in 1541 and in Geneva in 1542. The Geneva edition had an appendix, entitled La maniére d’administrer les sacrements selon la coutume de l’Église ancienne et comme on l’observe à Genève, and was undoubtedly a Protestant book; but the Paris edition contained instead rhymed versions of the Lord’s Prayer, of the Apostles’ Creed, and of the angel’s salutation to the Virgin. The book was a great favourite with Francis I., who is said to have sung some of the Psalms on his deathbed. It was very popular at the Court of Henri II., where it became fashionable for the courtiers to select a favourite Psalm, which the King permitted them to call “their own.” Henri’s “own” was Ps. xlii., Comme un cerf altéré bramc après l’eau courante. He was a great huntsman. Catherine de Medici’s was Ps. vi. The Psalm-singing at the Pré-aux-Clercs, however, was regarded as a manifestation against the Court, and d’Andelot was imprisoned for his persistent attendance.
[207] The family of Guise, who played such a leading part in French history from the reign of Henry II. on to the downfall of the League, became French in the person of Claude, the fifth son of René, Duke of Lorraine, who inherited the lands of his father which were situated in France. Francis I. had loaded him with honours and lands. The family had always been devoted to the Papacy, and had profited by their devotion. The brother of Claude, Jean, had been made a Cardinal when he was twenty, and had accumulated in his own person an immense number of benefices. These descended to his nephews, Charles, who was first Cardinal of Guise and then Cardinal of Lorraine, and Louis, who was Cardinal of Guise. The accumulated benefices enjoyed by Charles amounted to over 300,000 livres. The Guises did not serve the Roman Church for nothing.
[208] The street Marais-Saint-Germain was called petite Genève, because it was supposed to be largely inhabited by Protestants. It was selected because of its remoteness from the centre of Paris, and because it was partly under the jurisdiction of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and of the University—two corporations excessively jealous of the infringements of their rights of police. Cf. Athanase Cocquerel fils, “Histoire d’une rue de Paris,” in the Bulletin historique et littéraire de la Société de l’histoire du protestantisme français for 1866, pp. 185, 208.
[209] Les Mémoires du prince de Condé (The Hague,1743); Duc d’Aumale, Histoire des Princes de Condé pendant les xvime et xviime siècles, i. 57 (Paris, 1863-64; Eng. trans., London, 1872); Armstrong, The French Wars of Religion (London, 1892).
[210] Le Chansounier Huguenot du xvie siècle (Paris, 1871), pp. 204, 245.