[114] Suspicions of poison were entertained by the Huguenots. Jeanne, in a letter to the Marquis de Beauvais, complained that holes were made in her rooms and wardrobes that she might be spied upon.
[115] Félibien and Lobineau, 1725.
[116] Catherine was accustomed to treat of important state matters requiring absolute secrecy in her new garden. The pourparlers between her and Lord Buckhurst, relative to the proposed marriage of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Anjou, took place under the trees in the Tuileries garden.
[117] "That to show pity was to be cruel to them: to be cruel to them was to show pity."
[118] 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.
[119] Now known as the Galerie d'Apollon.
[120] Ugonottorum strages. Inscription on the obverse of the medal.
[121] Examples of magnificent costumes of the order may be seen in the Cluny Museum.
[122] The Duke of Guise was so called from his face being scarred by a wound received at the battle of Dolmans.
[123] 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 kept in the Hôtel des Lions, reconstructed in 1570 for Charles IX., for baiting by dogs, to be shot. He had dreamt that he was set upon and eaten by wild beasts.