[111] Félibien and Lobïneau, 1725.
[112] “That to show pity was to be cruel to them: to be cruel to them was to show pity.”
[113] The municipality gave presents of money to the archers who had taken part in the massacre, to the watermen who prevented the Huguenots from crossing the Seine, and to grave-diggers for having buried in eight days about 1,100 bodies.
[114] Now known as the Galerie d’Apollon.
[115] Ugonottorum strages. Inscription on the obverse of the medal.
[116] Examples of magnificent costumes of the order may be seen in the Cluny Museum.
[117] The Duke of Guise was so called from his face being scarred by a wound received at the battle of Dolmans.
[118] The king had premonitions of a violent end. One day, after keeping Easter at Negeon with great devotion, he suddenly returned to the Louvre and ordered all the lions, bears, bulls, and other wild animals he kept there for baiting by dogs, to be shot. He had dreamt that he was set upon and eaten by wild beasts.
[119] So called derisively, because he was born and brought up in the poor province of Bearn, in the Pyrenees.
[120] Her majesty, we learn from the Mémoires of L’Estoile, was of a rich figure, stout, fine eyes and complexion. She used no paint, powder or other vilanie.