Who, at the sweet name of Marie, to her mother ran—
To the daughter of the fields, the deliverer of her country,
Lends her own piety, modesty, and grace.”
[161] The writer is indebted to M. l’Abbé Huot for portions of the foregoing.
[162] By the help of God and S. Peter, I swear to be good and loyal to the town; to seek its welfare and avert all evil; to take counsel in doubt, do justice to the small as well as the great; as former mayors have done, and better if I know. So help me God and S. Peter.
[163] Article—“Dominique de Gourgues.”
[164] This church was sacked and burned by the Huguenots. De Gourgues can hardly have sympathized with the destroyers of his mother’s tomb, to say nothing of several generations of ancestors.
[165] See Letters of Charles IX., Catherine de Médicis, and M. de Fourquevaulx ambassador at Madrid, published by the Marquis Duprat.
[166] Evidently for ship provisions.
[167] “Letter of the Bishop of Orleans to the Catholic Committee.”—Univers, January 7, 1872.