A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2)

by Thomas M. Lindsay

[211] Buchot, Catherine de Médicis (Paris, 1899); Edith Sichel, Catherine de’ Medici and the French Reformation (London, 1905).

[212] Catherine’s children were—Francis II., 1544-60; Elizabeth (married to Philip II. of Spain in 1559), 1545-68; Claude (m. to Charles III.), Duke of Lorraine (1558), 1547-75; Louis, Duke of Orléans, 1548-50; Charles IX., 1550-74; Henri III. (first Duke of Orléans, then Duke of Anjou), 1551-89; Francis (Duke of Alençon, then Duke of Anjou), 1554-84; Marguerite (married Henri IV.), 1552-1615; and twins who died in the year of their birth, Victorie and Jeanne, b. 1556.

[213] Some say that Catherine either invented or made fashionable the modern ladies’ side-saddle; during the Middle Ages ladies rode astride, or on pillion, or seated sideways on horseback with their feet on a board which was suspended from the front and rear of the saddle.

[214] G. Picot, Histoire des États Généraux, ii. (Paris, 1872).

[215] Jeanne d’Albret wrote remonstrating strongly; cf. Lettres d’Antoine de Bourbon et de Jeanne d’Albret, pp. 233 f.

[216] For the Colloquy of Poissy, cf. Ruble, “Le Colloque de Poissy” (in Mémoires de la Société de l’histoire de Paris et de l’Ile de France), vol. xvi., (Paris, 1889); Kliptfel, Le Collogue de Poissy (Paris and Metz, 1867).

[217] Lavisse, “Le Massacre, fait à Vassy” in Grandes Scènes historiques du xvi^e siècle (Paris, 1886).

[218] Lettres d’Antoine de Bourbon et de Jeanne d’Albret (Paris, 1877), pp. 305 ff. (Letter to Catherine de’ Medici); pp. 322 ff. (letters to Protestants outside La Rochelle). In her letter to Catherine Jeanne demands for the Protestants liberty of worship and all the rights and privileges of ordinary citizens: if these are not granted there must be war.

[219] For the attempted assassination of Coligny, cf. Whitehead, Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France (London, 1905), pp. 258, ff.; Bulletin de l’histoire du Protestantisme Français, xxxvi. 105; Bulletin de la Société de l’histoire de Paris, etc. xiv. 38.

[220] For the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, cf. Bonnardot, Registres des Délibérations du Bureau de la Ville de Paris (1568-1572), vii. (Paris, 1893); Mémoires de Madame du Plessis-Mornay, publ. by the Société de l’histoire de la France (1868); Mémoires et Correspondance de Du Plessis-Mornay (1824), ii.; Bordier, Saint Barthélemy et la critique moderne; Whitehead, Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France (London, 1905), pp. 253, ff.; Froude, History of England (London, 1887), ix.-x.; Mariéjol, Histoire de France, etc., VI. i. 114, ff.