Volume 2 / Book 2 — INDEX.

A.

Abasement of the people, fruits of the, i. 15.

"Accommodating" the Huguenots of Rouen, ii. 521.

"Accord," the Protestants of Cateau-Cambrésis claim the benefit of the, ii. 190.

Acier, Baron d' (Jacques de Crussol), ii. 283, 335.

Acier, D', younger brother of Crussol, ii. 230, note.

Adrets, François de Beaumont, Baron des, a merciless general of the Huguenots, ii. 49;

his vindication of his course, ii. 50, note; his cruelty, ii. 50, 51; deserts the Huguenots, ii. 102.

Adriani, Giovambatista, the historian, his assertion that a plan for "Sicilian Vespers" was to have been executed at Moulins, ii. 183;

on the rejoicing in Italy over the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, ii. 534.

Agen, in Guyenne, persecution at, i. 217.

Agenois, Protestantism in, i. 428.

"Agimus a gagné Père Eternel," meaning of the expression, i. 345.

Aiguillon, ii. 350.

Airvault, ii. 336.

Aix, Parliament of, i. 19;

iniquitous order respecting the Waldenses or Vaudois, i. 235. See Vaudois of Provence.

Alava, Frances de, Spanish ambassador at Paris, ii. 181.

Albi, refuses to admit a garrison, ii. 250.

Albigenses, i. 61;

accused of Manichæism, i. 62.

Albret, Jeanne d'. See Navarre, Queen of.

Aleander, papal nuncio, his hopes respecting Lefèvre d'Étaples, i. 94.

Alençon, city of, saved from becoming a scene of massacre by M. de Matignon, ii. 526.

Alençon, Francis of, fourth son of Henry II., baptized Hercules, i. 415;

to be substituted for Anjou, as a suitor for the hand of Queen Elizabeth, ii. 380; his praise, ii. 398; he takes no part in the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, and is threatened by his mother, ii. 476, 477; his reply to her attempt to estrange him from the admiral, ii. 495; La Mothe Fénélon instructed to press his suit with Queen Elizabeth, ii. 606; his disfigurement, ii. 607; he is offered as candidate for election as King of the Romans, ii. 608; the proposal is declined, ii. 609; chosen by the party of the "Politiques" as their head, ii. 619; his untrustworthy character, ii. 619, 620; his irresolution, ii. 625.

Alessandria, the Cardinal of, despatched as legate to Paris, ii. 400;

Charles IX.'s assurances to him, ii. 400-403, 531.

Alexander III. dedicates the abbey of St. Germain-des-Prés, ii. 483, note.

Alienor, or Éléonore, last Duchess of Aquitaine, her charter given to La Rochelle in 1199, ii. 270.

Allens, M. d', i. 238.

Alva, Duke of, is one of the ambassadors of Philip II., and a hostage for the execution of the treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis, i. 325;

declines the joint expedition proposed by Henry II. for the destruction of Geneva, i. 327; is suspicious of the proposed conference at Bayonne, ii. 168 (see Bayonne, Conference of); sent to Netherlands, ii. 195; alarm caused by his march, ii. 196; he is invited by Cardinal Lorraine to enter France, ii. 208; he procrastinates, ib.; insincerity of his offers, ii. 212; sends a few troops under Count Aremberg, ii. 213; is again called upon for aid, ii. 221; his view of accommodations with heretics, ii. 222; opposes the peace of Saint Germain, ii. 368; he receives a signal rebuff from Charles IX., ii. 390, 391; exults over the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, but hesitates from policy to put the Huguenot prisoners to death, ii. 540; earns the approval of Pius V. by his butcheries, ii. 564, 565.

Amboise, the peace of, March 19, 1563, terminating the first civil war, ii. 115;

its terms condemned, ii. 116, 128; Coligny's disappointment at, ii. 116, 117; the terms in many places not observed, ii. 128; commissioners sent out to enforce the execution of the edict, ii. 132; the Parliament of Paris sternly reproved by the king for its failure to record the edict, ii. 139, 140; the edict infringed upon by interpretative declarations, ii. 160.

Amboise, the Tumult of, causes of, i. 375, seq.;

Assembly of Nantes, i. 300; chronology of the Tumult, i. 381; the plot betrayed, i. 382; dismay of the royal court, i. 387; bloody executions following, i. 391.

"Amende honorable," i. 172.

Amiens, one hundred and fifty Huguenots murdered at, ii. 249.

Amnesty, the Edict of, March, 1560, i. 385;

its terms ostensibly extended, but explained away, i. 390, 391.

Anagram of Charles de Valois (Charles IX.), ii. 123.

Andelot, François d', younger brother of Admiral Coligny, favors the Reformation, i. 313;

denounced as a heretic by Cardinal Granvelle, i. 316; his visit to Brittany, ib.; he is summoned by Henry II., before whom he makes a manly defence of his faith, i. 317, 318; is imprisoned, i. 318; his temporary weakness, i. 319; disappointment of the Pope at his escape from the stake, i. 320, note; is consulted by Catharine de' Medici, i. 383; throws himself into Orleans, ii. 39; returns with reinforcements from Germany, ii. 84; is left in Orleans by Condé, ii. 85; his warlike counsels at the outbreak of the second civil war prevail, ii. 204; sent to intercept Count of Aremberg, ii. 214; spirited remonstrance (ascribed to him) addressed to Catharine de' Medici, ii. 252, 253; his escape from Brittany to La Rochelle, ii. 281; his death ii. 312; his character and exploits, ii. 313, 314.

Ange, L', orator for the tiers état in the States General of Orleans, i. 458.

Angers, massacre of, ii. 512, 513.

Anglois, Jacques l', a Protestant minister, murdered at Rouen, ii. 515.

Angoulême, ii. 283.

Angoulême, Bastard of, ii. 456, 459, 483.

Angoulême, Margaret of, afterward Queen of Navarre, sister of Francis I., i. 74, 86;

birth and studies, i. 104; personal appearance, i. 105; political influence, i. 106; married first to Duke of Alençon, ib.; goes to Spain to visit her captive brother, ib.; marriage to Henry, King of Navarre, i. 107; corresponds with Bishop Briçonnet, i. 108; her Heptameron, i. 119; her sanguine hopes, i. 133; her correspondence with Count von Hohenlohe, ib.; favors Protestant preachers, i. 151; attacked in the College of Navarre, i. 152; her "Miroir de l'âme pécheresse," ib.; fruitless intercessions in the matter of the placards of 1534, i. 168; she yields to the influence of the "Libertines," i. 195, 226; her address to the Parliament of Bordeaux, i. 226.

"Annats," i. 25.

Anjou, Henry, Duke of (afterward Henry III., see Henry of Valois);

he is appointed by Charles IX. lieutenant-general, and placed in supreme command of the army, ii. 217; endeavors to prevent the junction of Condé and the Germans, ii. 220; his forces at the beginning of the third civil war, ii. 285; his army goes into winter quarters, ii. 286; his growing superiority in numbers, ii. 298; endeavors to prevent the southern Huguenots from reinforcing Condé, ii. 299; throws his troops in front of Condé, ii. 300; obtains a victory at Jarnac, March 13, 1569, ii. 301,302; sends off exaggerated bulletins from the battle-field, ii. 307,308; receives congratulations and sanguinary injunctions from Pius V., ii. 309; he furloughs his troops, ii. 320; relieves Poitiers, ii. 325; his army strengthened, ii. 332; defeats the Huguenots at Moncontour, ii. 332-336; loses the advantages gained, through the mistake committed at St. Jean d'Angely, ii. 340, seq.; disbands a great part of his army, ii. 343; leaves the remainder in the prince dauphin's hands, ib.; his projected marriage to Queen Elizabeth, ii. 377, seq.; machinations to dissuade him, ii. 379; indignation of Charles at, ib.; his new ardor, ii. 381; papal and Spanish efforts, ii. 382; the match abandoned, ii. 396; his confession respecting the origin of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day ii. 433; his jealousy of Coligny's influence, ib.; he and his mother resolve upon the death of the admiral, ii. 434; they call in the help of the Duchess of Nemours and Henry of Guise, ib.; he visits the wounded admiral, ii. 441; plies Charles IX. with arguments to frighten him into authorizing a massacre of the Huguenots, ii. 447, 448; he rides through the streets of Paris encouraging the assassins, ii. 472; enriches himself from the plunder of the jeweller Baduère, ii. 485; helps to persuade Charles IX. to assume the responsibility of the massacre, ii. 491; his letter to Montsoreau, Governor of Saumur, ii. 503; sent to assume command of the army besieging La Rochelle, ii. 585; issues stringent ordinances after the example of the Huguenots, ib.; he is elected King of Poland, ii. 593; his reception at Heidelberg by the Elector Palatine, Frederick the Pious, ii. 610, seq.; his personal appearance, ii. 610, note; his lying assertions and the elector's frank remonstrance, ii. 611, 612.

Antoine de Bourbon-Vendôme, King of Navarre. See Navarre, Antoine, King of.

Aosta, story of Calvin's labors at, i. 207.

Arande, Michel d', i. 74, 96;

his reply to Farel, i. 97.

Aremberg Count, sent by Alva to France, ii. 213, 214.

Arnay-le-Duc, battle of, June 25, 1570, ii. 354, seq.

Arras, Bishop of. See Granvelle, Cardinal.

Arras, execution of Vaudois at, i. 63.

Artois and Flanders, i. 66;

ii.186.

Assembly, a political, of the Huguenots, held in Nismes, Nov., 1562, ii. 86;

a military organization of the Huguenots provided for by the assembly of Montauban, Aug., 1573, ii. 600; previous assemblies, ii. 601, note; the organization perfected in the assembly of Milhau, Dec. 17, 1573, ii. 617-619.

Astrology, popular belief in, i. 47.

Aubenas, a Huguenot place of refuge, ii. 280.

Aubigné, Agrippa d', at Amboise, i. 392;

his father's exclamation, i. 393; his testimony as to Chancellor L'Hospital's complicity with the conspirators of Amboise, i. 412; his father appointed a commissioner for the execution of the edict of pacification of Amboise, ii. 132; his enlistment in the Huguenot army, ii. 275; on the firing of Charles IX. on the Huguenots at the massacre, ii. 483; on the magnanimous reply of the Viscount D'Orthez to the king, ii. 528, note; on the effect of the massacre on the king himself, ii. 560, 561; his account of Regnier's deliverance of Montauban, ii. 575; of the death of Count Montgomery, ii. 634, 635, note.

Aubigné, Merle d'. See Merle.

Audeberte, Anne her martyrdom, i,278.

Auger, or Augier, Edmond, his violent sermons at Bordeaux, ii. 523.

Aumale, Claude, Duke of, i. 269;

marries a daughter of Diana of Poitiers, i. 273; his jealousy of the Duke of Nemours, ii. 317; pursues the Huguenots, ii. 336; helps arrange the plan for assassinating Coligny, ii. 435; receives a rough answer from Charles IX., ii. 446; pursues Montgomery, ii. 482; is killed before La Rochelle, March 3, 1573, ii. 585.

Aurillac, ii. 348.

Autun, the "mice" of, i. 238.

Auxerre, assassination of Huguenots at, ii. 249.

Avenelles, Des, betrays the designs of La Renaudie to the Guises, i. 382.

"Aventuriers," i. 44.

Avignon, i. 4;

popes at, i. 28.

Ayamonte, Marquis d', sent by Philip II. to congratulate Charles IX. on the massacre of the Huguenots, ii. 540.

"Aygnos," for Huguenots, ii. 180, note.

B.

"Babylonish captivity," i. 28.

Baden, Marquis of, ii. 298, 334.

Baden, the Swiss Diet of, ii. 558.

Baduère, a rich jeweller in Paris and a Huguenot, great plunder obtained by the Duke of Anjou from his shop, ii. 485, 613.

Ballads, Huguenot, ii. 120-125.

Balue, Cardinal, i. 34.

Barbaro, a Venetian ambassador, regards the conference of Saint Germain as an efficient means of spreading heresy, ii. 9;

on Catharine de' Medici, ii. 370.

Barrier, a Franciscan monk and curate at Provins, his remarks to the people when ordered to make proclamation of the king's tolerant order, i. 477, note;

his seditious sermon on the edict of January, ii. 5, 6; at the beginning of the third civil war, ii. 279.

Bassompierre, ii. 298.

Battle of Pavia, Feb 24, 1525, i. 122;

of Saint Quentin, Aug. 10, 1557, i. 302; of Dreux, Dec. 19, 1562, ii. 93; of Saint Denis, Nov. 10, 1567, ii. 213-215; of Jarnac, March 13, 1569, ii. 301, 302; of La Roche Abeille, ii. 319; of Moncontour, Oct. 3, 1569, ii. 332-336; of Arnay-le-Duc, June 25 and 26, 1570, ii. 354.

Baum, Professor, on the reply of Condé to the "petition" of the Triumvirs, ii. 61.

Bayonne, Conference of, June, 1565, ii. 167, seq.;

proposed by Catharine de' Medici, ib.; looked upon with suspicion by Philip II. and Alva, ii. 167, 168; current misapprehensions respecting its object, ii. 168, 169; what was actually proposed, ii. 171; Charles declares himself against war, ii. 172; the discussion between Alva, Catharine, and Isabella, ii. 172-175; no plan of extermination adopted or even proposed, ii. 176; festivities and pageantry, ii. 176-179; the assertion of Adriani that the "Sicilian Vespers" projected at Bayonne were to have been executed at Moulins, ii. 183; some of the appointed victims, ii. 198, note.

Béarn, i. 108;

establishment of the Reformation in, ii. 148, seq.; Montgomery takes a great part of, ii. 323.

Beaudiné, ii. 352, 475.

Beaugency "loaned" by Condé to the King of Navarre, ii. 63;

retaken by the Huguenots, ii. 66.

Beauvais, riot at, occasioned by the suspected Protestantism of Cardinal Châtillon, bishop of the city, i. 474, seq.

Beauvoir la Nocle, a Huguenot negotiator, ii. 357, 359, 363;

escapes from the massacre, ii. 481-483, 625.

Bécanis, Vidal de, an inquisitor, i. 289.

Beda, or Bédier, Natalis, i. 23, 71, 151.

Belin, an agent in the massacre of Troyes, ii. 507, 508.

Bellay, Guillaume du, i. 150;

labors for conciliation, i. 160; his representations at Smalcald to the German princes, i. 188; makes in the name of Francis I., a Protestant confession, i. 189; is instructed to investigate the history and character of the Waldenses of Mérindol, i. 239; his favorable report, i. 240.

Bellay, Jean du, Bishop of Paris, leans to the reformed doctrine, i. 156.

Bellièvre, his lying representations to the Swiss respecting the admiral, the massacre, etc., ii. 558, 559.

Berchon, Governor of Orange, expelled, ii. 620.

Berne, canton of, intercedes for the relatives of Farel, but receives a rough answer from Francis I., i. 156;

again applies to him, with similar results, i. 192; intercedes for the Five Scholars of Lausanne, i. 284; other intercessions, i. 286, 309, 310; sends troops to the aid of the Huguenots, but afterward recalls them, ii. 56.

Berquin, Louis de, i. 44;

his character, i. 128; becomes a reformer, i. 129; prosecuted and imprisoned but released by order of the king, i. 130; becomes acquainted with Erasmus, ib.; his second imprisonment, i. 131; and release, i. 132; intercessions of Margaret of Angoulême, i. 132; his third arrest, i. 143, seq.; his execution, i. 145; elegies on, i. 157.

Berthault, an evangelical preacher, i. 151.

Béthisy, rue de, ii. 438, note.

Beza, or De Bèze, Theodore, efforts in behalf of the persecuted Protestants of Paris, i. 309;

consulted as to revolution, i. 377; dissuades the French Protestants from armed resistance, i. 378; his comment upon the edict of amnesty, i. 386; invited by Antoine of Bourbon to Nérac, i. 431; he returns to Geneva, i. 435; he is invited to the Colloquy of Poissy, i. 494; urged by the Protestants of Paris to come, i. 496; his hesitation, but final consent, i. 497; he reaches St. Germain, ib.; his previous history, i. 497, 498; he has a flattering reception, i. 502; distrusts Chancellor L'Hospital, ib.; has a discussion with Cardinal Lorraine, who professes to be satisfied, i. 503, 504; his diffidence, i. 512; his retort to the sneer of a cardinal, i. 514; his prayer and address, i. 514-521; he is interrupted by an outcry of the theologians of the Sorbonne, i. 519; his brilliant success, i. 523; his frankness justified, i. 524; he asks a hearing to answer Cardinal Lorraine, i. 529; his reply, i. 532, 533; he skilfully parries the cardinal's demand that he should subscribe to the Augsburg Confession, ib.; his remarks on Romish "vocation," i. 534; and a proper and amicable conference, i. 535; he excites the anger of the prelates, i. 536; replies to Lainez, i. 537; at the conference of Saint Germain, i. 539, seq.; is begged by Catharine de' Medici, Condé and Coligny to remain in France, i. 559; his anxiety to restrain the Protestants from violence, i. 565; urges the Huguenots to obey the edict of January, ii. 4; he demands the punishment of the authors of the massacre of Vassy, ii. 27; his noble answer to the King of Navarre, ii. 28; he is the probable author of Condé's reply to the "petition" of the Triumvirs, ii. 61; his view of the practicability of taking Paris, ii. 88; he is accused by Poltrot of having instigated the murder of the Duke of Guise, ii. 105; he vindicates his innocence, ii. 106; he is moderator of the seventh national synod, ii. 388, note; a price set on his head by the Duchess of Parma, ib.; his remarks on Coligny's death, ii. 554; his sermon on the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, ii. 555; his lively sympathy with the persecuted Huguenots, ii. 556, note.

Bible, old translations of, unfaithful, i. 77, 78;

translation of Lefèvre, i. 78; eagerly bought, i. 79; sale of French translations, i. 219; translated by Olivetanus, i. 233.

Birague at the blood council, ii. 447.

Biron pursues the Huguenots after the battle of Moncontour, ii. 336;

negotiates with Coligny, ii. 359, 363; carries to the Queen of Navarre the proposal of the marriage of Henry of Navarre to Margaret of Valois, ii. 394; in the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, ii. 473; sent to La Rochelle as governor, ii. 578; is not received, ib.; ii.581, 582, 616, 617; his new negotiations before La Rochelle ii. 621, 622.

Blamont, ii. 609.

Blasphemous taunts addressed to the Huguenots at Orleans in the massacre, ii. 509;

See also, ii. 570, 571.

Blaye, ii. 283.

Blondel, executed at Toulouse, for singing a profane hymn of Marot at Corpus Christi, i. 297.

Bochetel, Bishop of Rennes, his false representations to the German princes respecting the Huguenots, ii. 217.

Boissière, Claude de la, a minister at the Colloquy of Poissy, i. 509.

Bombs, used by the Protestant garrison of Orleans, ii. 101.

Boniface VIII., Pope, i. 27.

Book-pedlers from Switzerland, i. 281.

Books, war upon, i. 280; not to be sold by pedlers, i. 281.

Bordeaux, Parliament of, i. 19;

sanguinary action of, after the battle of Jarnac, ii. 310.

Bordeaux, the boldness of the "Lutherans" of, according to the archbishop of the city, i. 221;

oppression to which the Protestants were subjected, ii. 164; massacre of, Oct., 1572, ii. 522-524.

Boscheron des Portes, President, gives credit to an alleged admission of disloyal intentions on the part of La Renaudie, i. 394-396.

Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux his admiration of the sagacity of the Cardinal of Lorraine, i. 546.

Botzheim, Johann Wilhelm von his account of the massacre at Orleans, ii. 569, seq.

Bouchavannes, ii. 453.

Bouchet, Jean, his "Deploration," i. 65.

Bouillon, Duc de, ii. 625.

Boulogne, edict of pacification of, July, 1573, ii. 593.

Bouquin, Jean, a minister at the Colloquy of Poissy, i. 509.

Bourbon, Antoine of. See Antoine, King of Navarre.

Bourbon, Cardinal his speech to the notables i. 136;

exhorts Francis to prove himself "Very Christian," i. 137; he is made governor of Paris in place of Marshal Montmorency, ii. 33; his anger at L'Hospital's action in behalf of the scattered Protestants, ii. 186.

Bourg, Anne du, a learned and upright member of the Parliament of Paris, makes an eloquent plea for religious liberty in the "mercuriale," i. 334;

his arrest, i. 335; his trial and successive appeals, i. 368; his officious advocate, i. 369; his message to the Protestants of Paris, ib.; his deportment in the Bastile, i. 370; intercession of the Elector Palatine in his behalf, ib.; his pathetic and eloquent speech i. 371; his death, i. 372; a disastrous blow to the established church, i. 373; account of Florimond de Ræmond, i. 373, 374.

Bourg, Jean du, a wealthy draper, executed, i. 172.

Bourges, captured by Marshal Saint André, ii. 71, 72;

violence at, ii. 249; unsuccessful attempt upon, ii. 344; massacre of Protestants at, ii. 511, 512.

Bourges, council of, i. 29;

provincial council of, i. 139.

Bourniquet, Viscount of, ii. 230, note.

Bourry, a Protestant captain, ii. 329.

Bouteiller, Abbé, confers with the Protestants at Poissy, i. 538;

his doctrinal views, i. 548.

Brandenburg, the Elector of, declines to help the Huguenots, ii. 217.

Brantôme, the Abbé de, his eulogy of Renée de France, i. 206;

on the massacre of Vassy, ii. 24; on the firing of Charles IX. on the Huguenots, ii. 482, note; on the chief actors in the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, ii. 562.

Brazil, a Protestant colony sent to, under Villegagnon, i. 291;

fails through Villegagnon's hostility to Protestantism, i. 294.

Bresse, i. 3, 66.

Bretagne, Jacques, "vierg" of Autun, his able speech for the "tiers état" at the States General of Pontoise, i. 489.

Briçonnet, Guillaume, Bishop of Meaux, i. 72;

invites Lefèvre and Farel, i. 73; his warning, i. 77; his weakness, i. 79, 80, 81; his synodal decree, i. 80; cited before parliament, i. 82; becomes the jailer of the "Lutherans," i. 92; his correspondence with Margaret of Angoulême, i. 108.

Briquemault, execution of, Oct. 27, 1573, for alleged complicity in a Huguenot conspiracy against the king, ii. 548, 549.

Brouage, ii. 576.

Browning, W. S., his error as to the authorship of the "Vie de Coligny," i. 418, note.

Brugière, execution of, i. 276.

Budé, Guillaume, i. 144.

Burgundians, their intolerance of the Reformation, ii. 185.

Burleigh, Lord (see also Cecil), promotes the match between the Duke of Anjou and Queen Elizabeth, ii. 381.

Busbec, his delineation of the character of the Duke of Alençon, ii. 620.

Bussy, or Bucy, Porte de, ii. 483.

Bussy d'Amboise murders the Marquis de Renel, ii. 472.

C.

Cabrières, destruction of i. 248.

Caen, in Normandy, Protestant assemblies in, i. 408;

iconoclasm at, ii. 44; saved from becoming a scene of massacre, by M. de Matignon, ii. 526.

Caillaud, President, exceptional fairness of, i. 219.

Calais, captured by Francis, Duke of Guise, i. 312.

Calvin, John, the real author of Rector Cop's address, i. 154;

his flight from Paris, i. 155; his language respecting Francis I. and Charles V., i. 195; becomes the apologist of the Protestants, i. 198; his birth and training, ib.; studies at Paris, Orleans, and Bourges, i. 199; is a pupil of Melchior Wolmar, ib.; translates Seneca "De Clementia," i. 200; his flight to Angoulême, i. 201; traditions respecting his preaching, ib.; he resigns his benefices, ib.; reaches Basle, i. 201; writes his "Christian Institutes," i. 202; the original edition in Latin, ib.; the preface, i. 203, 204; it has no effect in allaying persecution, but achieves distinction for its author, i. 204; he revises the Bible of Olivetanus, i. 205; he visits Italy, ib.; said to have labored at Aosta, i. 207; passing through Geneva, is detained by the urgency of Farel, i. 208; becomes the head of the commonwealth, i. 210; his views respecting church and state, ib.; respecting the punishment of heresy, i. 211; approves of the execution, but not the burning of Servetus, i. 212; his fault the fault of the age, ib.; he shuns notoriety, i. 213; his character and natural endowments, i. 214; he is consulted by Protestants in every quarter of Europe, ib.; his constant toils, ib.; he encounters bitter opposition, but obtains the support of the people, i. 215; estimate of his character by Étienne Pasquier, i. 216; his great influence, according to the Venetian Michiel, ib.; writes against the Nicodemites and Libertines, i. 225; consoles Protestant Church of Paris, i. 308; and writes to stir up intercession in behalf of the prisoners, ib.; his liturgy, i. 342, seq.; pseudo-Roman edition of, i. 275, 344; consulted as to revolution, i. 377; dissuades from armed resistance, foreseeing civil war, i. 378; endeavors to repress the tendency to iconoclasm, i. 487; why he was not invited to the Colloquy of Poissy, i. 494; his letter to Renée de France respecting the Duke of Guise, ii. 110.

Cambray, the Archbishop of, ii. 187, 189, 190;

his vengeance upon Cateau-Cambrésis, ii. 191.

"Camisade," attempted, ii. 65.

Capilupi, author of "Lo stratagema," ii. 436, etc.

Caraffa, Cardinal, nephew of Paul IV., negotiates the breaking of the truce of Vaucelles, i. 298;

his character, ib.

Carnavalet, M. de, ii. 220.

Caroli, Pierre, wearies out Beda, i. 118.

Caroline, a strong earthwork thrown up by the Huguenots in Florida, ii. 200.

Carouge, M. de, at Rouen, ii. 519, seq.

Cartier, ii. 328.

Castelnau, Baron de, treacherous capture of, i. 388.

Castelnau, Michel de, Sieur de Mauvissière, the historian, sent by the Triumvirs to Catharine before the battle of Dreux, ii. 92;

sent by Charles IX. to congratulate Alva, ii. 206, note; ii.212, 213; his sketch of Coligny's plan of march, ii. 348, 356.

Castel-Sarrasin, ii. 575.

Castres refuses to admit a garrison, in 1568, ii. 250;

a Huguenot place of refuge, ii. 280, 578.

Cateau-Cambrésis, the peace of, April 3, 1559, i. 322;

its disgraceful and disastrous conditions, i. 323; a secret treaty for the extermination of the Protestants supposed, without sufficient reason, to have been drawn up at the same time, i. 324-326; the Reformation in, ii. 187-191; iconoclasm at, ii. 190; the Protestants claim the benefit of the "Accord," ib.

Cathari, i. 61, 62.

Catharine de' Medici, i. 41;

credits the predictions of Nostradamus, i. 47; her marriage to Henry of Orleans, afterward Henry II, i. 148; dissatisfaction of French people, ib.; her dream the night before Henry II is mortally wounded, i. 339; assumes an important part in the government, i. 348; her timidity and dissimulation, i. 349; she dismisses Diana of Poitiers, ib.; her alliance with the Guises, i. 350; asks aid of Philip II, and receives promises, i. 358; is appealed to by the persecuted Protestants, i. 362; she encourages them, i. 363; her favorite psalm, ib.; she receives a second and more urgent appeal, i. 364; her indignation at the stories of the orgies in "la petite Genève," i. 365; she declares that the Protestants are men of their word, i. 383; she consults Coligny at the time of the Tumult of Amboise and receives good advice, i. 383, 384; receives a letter from the Huguenots signed Theophilus, i. 409; consults Regnier de la Planche, i. 410; rejects the advances of the Guises, just before the death of Francis II, i. 443; and makes terms with Navarre who yields the regency without a struggle, i. 444; her adroitness in the management of Navarre, i. 452; the difficulties confronting her, i. 453; her letter to her daughter Isabella, i. 454; her determination to hold the Colloquy of Poissy, i. 499; her excuses to the Pope and Philip II., i. 500; warns her son Charles against gross superstition and against innovation, ib., note; her letter to Pius IV., i. 500, 501; its effect at Rome, i. 501; she is much pleased with the results of the first interview between Beza and Cardinal Lorraine, i. 504; she consents that the prelates shall not act as judges in the colloquy at Poissy, but will not have the decree put in writing, i. 507; she is resolute that the colloquy should be held, i. 508; refuses Cardinal Tournon's request to interrupt it, i. 522; her premature delight at the reported accord in the Conference of Saint Germain, i. 541; her financial success with the prelates, i. 543; her crude notion of a conference, i. 547; is compared by Roman Catholic preachers to Jezebel, ii. 5; causes the retirement of Constable Montmorency, ii. 18; sends for the Guises, ib.; after the massacre of Vassy, orders the Duke of Guise to enter Paris, but invites him to come to court with a small suite, ii. 27; her anxiety, ii. 29; she removes with the king from Monceaux to Melun, ii. 30; and thence to Fontainebleau, ii. 31; Soubise's account of her painful indecision, ib.; her letters to Condé imploring his help, ii.,31, 32; is brought back to Paris, ii. 36; Tavannes's view of her inclination to the Huguenots, ii. 39; her terror, ii. 47; unites in a declaration that the king is not in duress, ii. 54; confers with Condé, with a view to peace, ii. 62; her crafty negotiations, ii. 64; her speech to Throkmorton respecting the English in Normandy, ii. 75; delays Condé by negotiations before Paris, ii. 89; her reply when consulted by the Triumvirs as to the propriety of engaging the Huguenots, ii. 92, 93; her exclamation on receiving false tidings from the battle of Dreux, ii. 96; her promises to Condé at the peace of Amboise, ii. 117; Huguenot songs respecting, ii. 124; her embarrassment in respect to the fulfilment of her promises, ii. 137; resolves to declare the majority of Charles IX., ii. 138; she endeavors to seduce Condé from the Huguenots, ii. 144; her alienation from the Huguenots, ii. 159, 160; commands her maids of honor to go to mass, ii. 160; her regulation respecting the deportment of gentlemen, ii. 160, note; proposes the conference at Bayonne, ii. 167 (see Bayonne, Conference of); she opposes violent measures, ii. 172-176; forbids Cardinal Lorraine to hold communication with Granvelle and Chantonnay, ii. 181; she gives assurances to Condé just before the outbreak of the second civil war, ii. 198; she favors the colonization of Florida by the Huguenots, ii. 199; her resolute demands for satisfaction for the murder of the colonists, ii. 201, 202; she exonerates the Huguenots from disloyal acts and intentions, ii. 219; her treacherous diplomacy, ii. 220, 221; again invokes Alva's help, ii. 222; Cardinal Santa Croce, the papal nuncio, claims the fulfilment of her promise to surrender Cardinal Châtillon to the Pope, ii. 228, 229; she inclines toward peace, ii. 232; she is never sincere, ii. 237; her short-sightedness, ii. 238; sides with L'Hospital's enemies, ii. 254; her intrigues, ii. 255; entreated by Charles IX. to avoid war, ii. 262; her animosity against L'Hospital, whom she suspects of having prompted her son, ii. 263; she receives congratulations and sanguinary recommendations from Pope Pius V., after the battle of Jarnac, ii. 308; negotiates for peace, ii. 356; her duplicity, ii. 358; inclines to peace, ii. 360; was she sincere in concluding the peace of Saint Germain? ii. 369; her study of the example of Queen Blanche, ii. 370; her character, according to Barbaro, ib.; she is warned by the Queen of Navarre, ii. 373; she proposes to substitute Alençon for Anjou, as suitor for the hand of Queen Elizabeth, ii. 380; her vexation at the fresh scruples of Anjou, ii. 383; she treats the Queen of Navarre with tantalizing insincerity, ii. 404, 405; she awaits Queen Elizabeth's decision, ii. 413; the rout of Genlis determines her to take the Spanish side, ii. 416; she follows Charles IX. to Montpipeau and breaks down her son's resolution, ii. 418, 420; she is terrified by rumors of Elizabeth's desertion of her allies, ii. 419; her jealousy of Coligny's influence, ii. 433; she and Anjou resolve to put him out of the way, ii. 434; declares to the Huguenots that the attack on Coligny must be punished, ii. 440; she visits the wounded admiral, ii. 441; looks with suspicion on the private conference of Charles and Coligny, ii. 443; she cuts it short, and on the way to the Louvre discovers the advice of Coligny, ii. 444; learning that Coligny's wound will not prove fatal, she adopts extreme measures, ii. 446; she plies Charles with arguments to terrify him into authorizing a massacre of the Huguenots, ii. 447, 448; he yields reluctantly, ii. 449; Catharine takes the responsibility upon herself for only six deaths, ii. 450; goes down to the square in front of the Louvre, with her ladies, to view the naked corpses of the Huguenot leaders, ii. 476; persuades Charles to assume the responsibility of the massacre, ii. 491; her unsuccessful attempt to alienate the sympathy of Queen Elizabeth from Coligny, ii. 547; her lying representation of the massacre in the provinces as having been contrary to the king's will, ib., note; not influenced by religious motives, ii. 563; spurious letter of, to Philip Strozzi, ii. 577; her anxiety for the safety of Henry of Anjou, ii. 586; her flight from St. Germain, ii. 626; her delight at the capture of Count Montgomery, ii. 631, 632; she obtains from Charles IX. the regency until the return of Henry of Anjou from Poland, ii. 636.

Caturce, Jean de, executed at Toulouse, i. 150.

Caumont, Viscount of, ii. 230, note.

Cavaignes, his execution, Oct. 27, 1572, for alleged complicity in a Huguenot conspiracy, ii. 548;

his magnanimity, ii. 549, note.

Cavalry, French, i. 10.

Caylus, Chevalier de, ii. 604.

Cecil urges Elizabeth to aid the Huguenots, and plans for this effect, ii. 56;

on siege of Poitiers, ii. 325. See Burleigh.

Cental, Vaudois villages belonging to the noble house of, i. 230, 246.

Chailly, M. de, ii. 439.

Châlons-sur-Marne, the call for Protestant ministers in the vicinity of, i. 562.

"Chambre ardente," a separate and special chamber of parliament, to try heresy, established first at Rouen, by Francis I., i. 274;

afterward at Paris, by Henry II., i. 275; under Francis II., i. 366.

Champeaux, M. de, ii. 509.

Chancellor of France, his oath, i. 18.

Chancellor of the university, i. 22.

"Change of religion involves change of government," accepted as an aphorism, i. 104, 126.

Chantonnay, ambassador of Philip II., alarmed at the violence of the proscriptive plans formed before the death of Francis II., i. 441;

his insolent threats, ii. 29; his boast that, with Throkmorton, he could overturn the state, ii. 181.

Chapot, John, a printer from Dauphiny, executed at Paris, i. 256.

Charente, the river, ii. 299.

Charité, La, on the Loire, ii. 324;

siege of,325, 355.

Charles VII. publishes the Pragmatic Sanction, i. 29.

Charles VIII. confirms the privileges of La Rochelle, ii. 271.

Charles Maximilian, second son of Henry II., afterward king as Charles IX., i. 415;

his accession, Dec. 5, 1560, i. 449; transfer of power consequent upon, i. 450; financial embarrassment and religious dissension, i. 453; he writes to the magistrates of Geneva to stop the coming of Protestant ministers, i. 463; their prompt and complete vindication, i. 464; he issues a new and tolerant order, i. 476; which is opposed by parliament, i. 477; publishes the "Edict of July," by which all Protestant conventicles are still prohibited, i. 488; his conversation with his mother about superstition and innovation, i. 500, note; orders the restitution of churches, i. 544; hopes entertained by the Protestants respecting him, i. 557; his curiosity as to the mass, i. 558; his health, ib., note; issues an order favorable to the Huguenots, i. 560; publishes the "Edict of January," in accordance with which the Huguenots cease to be outlaws, i. 576, 577; retires from Monceaux to Melun, ii. 30; and thence to Fontainebleau, ii. 31; is hurried back to Paris by Navarre and Guise, ii. 36; his declaration that he is not held in duress, ii. 54; his edict of April 11, 1562, ostensibly re-enacting, but really annulling the edict of January, ii. 57; receives reinforcements from Germany and Switzerland, ii. 70, 71; issues his edict of pacification, Amboise, March 19, 1563, terminating the first civil war, ii. 115; demands of Queen Elizabeth the restoration of Havre, ii. 126; he proclaims his own majority, Rouen, Aug. 17, 1563, ii. 138; he sternly reproves the refractory Parliament of Paris, ii. 139, 140; his "progress" through France, ii. 157, seq.; his interpretative edicts and declarations infringe upon the edict of pacification, ii. 161, 162; to Condé's appeal, ii. 162; he makes a conciliatory reply, ii. 164; he reconciles the inhabitants of Orange and the Comtât Venaissin, ii. 165; he reaches Bayonne, ii. 167 (see Bayonne, Conference of); forbids the formation of confraternities, ii. 180; his edict obtained by Chancellor L'Hospital, for the relief of the scattered Huguenots, ii. 184, 185; he is reported to have been threatened by Philip II. and the Pope, ii. 195; his flight from Meaux to Paris, at the outbreak of the second civil war, ii. 207; his sanguinary injunctions to Gordes, ii. 209, note; he is alienated from the Huguenots by the attempt of Meaux, ii. 210; is moved by Spain, Rome, and the Sorbonne, to decline further negotiations with Condé, ii. 228; he issues the edict of pacification, Longjumeau, March 23, 1568, terminating the second civil war, ii. 234; his indignation at a treacherous plan formed to violate the peace, ii. 237; his proclamation that he had not, in the edict of Longjumeau, intended to include Auvergne, etc., ii. 244; entreats his mother to avoid war, ii. 262; his edicts of Sept., 1568, proscribing the reformed religion, ii. 275, 276; impolicy of this action, ii. 277; attempt to make capital out of them, ib.; receives congratulations and sanguinary injunctions from Pope Pius V., after the battle of Jarnac, ii. 308; treats the Duke of Deux-Ponts' declaration with contempt, ii. 316; rewards Maurevel for the murder of De Mouy with the collar of the order, ii. 338; his letter, ib.; offers the Huguenots impossible terms, ii. 357, 358; becomes strongly inclined to peace, ii. 360; he issues the edict of pacification, Saint Germain, Aug. 2, 1570, terminating the third civil war, ii. 363, seq.; his earnestness as to the peace, ii. 370; he tears out the record of proceedings against Cardinal Châtillon from the parliamentary registers, ii. 371; his assurances to Walsingham, ib.; his gracious answer to the German princes, ii. 372; he orders the "Croix de Gastines" to be taken down, ii. 375, 376; indignant at the attempts to dissuade Anjou from marrying Queen Elizabeth, ii. 379; and at the affront received from Sebastian of Portugal, ib.; his gracious reception of Coligny at Blois, ii. 389; he intercedes with the Duke of Savoy in behalf of the Waldenses of Piedmont, ii. 390; he denies that he has seen Louis of Nassau at all, ii. 391; expresses gratification at the progress of conciliation in his dominions, ii. 392; enters into a treaty of amity with Queen Elizabeth, April 18, 1572, ii. 398; his assurances to the Cardinal of Alessandria, ii. 400-403; he expresses to Téligny his disgust with his present counsellors, ii. 409; his earnestness respecting the Navarre marriage, ii. 411; publishes anew the edict of pacification, ib.; the Flemish project inflames his imagination, ii. 411, 412; the more after the capture of Valenciennes and Mons, ii. 412; his mother, following him to Montpipeau, by her tears succeeds in breaking down his resolution, ii. 418-420; he is thoroughly cast down, ii. 420; Coligny partially succeeds in reassuring him, ii. 421; his anger at hearing that Alva had put some French soldiers to the torture, ii. 433; his menacing deportment toward Anjou, ii. 434; he gives Coligny assurances that he will soon attend to Protestant grievances, ii. 437; his agitation on learning of Coligny's wound, ii. 439; his promise of punishment, ii. 440; he visits Admiral Coligny, ii. 441; his private conference, ii. 443; he reveals its character to the queen mother, ii. 444; he writes to his governors and ambassadors expressing his extreme displeasure at the infraction of his edict, ii. 445; he is plied with arguments to frighten him into authorizing the massacre of the Huguenots, ii. 447, 448; he reluctantly consents, ii. 449; but stipulates that not one Huguenot shall be spared to reproach him, ib.; sends Cosseins to guard Coligny, ii. 452; issues orders to the prévôt des marchands to seize the keys of the gates, and the boats upon the Seine, ii. 454; he commands Navarre and Condé to abjure Protestantism, ii. 468; fires an arquebuse at the fleeing Huguenots, ii. 482; he is waited upon by the municipal officers, ii. 486; his first letter to Mandelot throwing the blame for the massacre upon the Guises, ii. 490; assumes the responsibility for the massacre, ii. 492; his speech at the "lit de justice," ib.; his words at Montfaucon, ii. 497; he declares that he will maintain the edict of pacification, ii. 498; change in his character after the massacre, ii. 499; his letter of Aug. 26, 1572, to Mondoucet, predicting the massacre in the provinces, ii. 502; the verbal orders, ib.; his declaration of Aug. 28, ib.; his letter to Mandelot of Aug. 28, ii. 502, 503; the double set of letters, ii. 504; instigates the murder of French prisoners by the Duke of Alva, ii. 539; his letters to La Mothe Fénélon, ii. 542, 543; he profanes the day of his daughter's birth by witnessing the execution of Briquemault and Cavaignes, ii. 549; plots the destruction of Geneva, ii. 557; his guilt in the eyes of the world, ii. 559; disastrous effects of the massacre on the king himself, ii. 560, 561; sends La Noue to treat with the Rochellois, ii. 579; his joy at the election of Anjou as King of Poland, ii. 593; issues his edict of pacification, Boulogne, July, 1573, terminating the fourth civil war, ii. 593, 594; takes part in the disgraceful "affair of Nantouillet," ii. 598, 599; decline of his health, ii. 605; his illness at Vitry le-Français, ii. 606; his last days, ii. 638; distress of his young queen, ii. 636; representations of Sorbin his confessor, ii. 637; his death, May 30, 1574, ii. 637, 638; his funeral rites, ii. 638, 639.

Charles, Duke of Orleans, youngest son of Francis I, represents himself to the German princes as favoring the Reformation, i. 227, 228;

his death, i. 259.

Charlesfort, ii. 199.

Charpentier, Jacques, instigates the murder of his rival professor, Pierre de la Ramée, or Ramus, ii. 478.

Charpentier, Pierre, a Protestant jurist, who escapes from the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, bribed by the king to write a justification of the massacre for circulation abroad, ii. 553, 593.

Chartres, besieged by the Huguenots under the Prince of Condé, ii. 231.

Chartres, François de Vendôme, Vidame of, thrown into the Bastile, i. 425.

Chartres, Jean de Ferrières, Vidame of, ii. 220, 377;

advises the Huguenots to leave Paris, ii. 445, 451, 453; escapes from the massacre, ii. 481-483.

Chartreuse, La Grande, ii. 621.

Chassanée, Barth. de, on church of the Virgin "parituræ," i. 59;

he declares "Lutheranism" in France suppressed, i. 137; his defence of the "mice of Autun," i. 238; his clemency to the Waldenses, ib.; his definition of "haute justice," ii. 364, note.

Chassetière, La, ii. 359.

Chastelier-Pourtaut de Latour, ii. 218, 292;

treacherously murdered at Jarnac,304.

Chastre, M. de la, Governor of Berry, his noble letter to the king refusing to put to death some captured Huguenots, ii. 344, 345, note;

ii.597, note; lays siege to Sancerre, ii. 590; his character, ii. 597, note.

Châtaigneraie, Madame de la, ii. 472, 474, note.

Châteaubriand, edict of, June 27, 1551, i. 279;

its effects, i. 282.

Châtellain, Jean, of Metz, i. 114;

his trial and execution, i. 115, 116.

Châtellerault taken by the Huguenots, ii. 323.

Châtillon, Odet de, Cardinal, elder brother of Admiral Coligny, appointed by Paul IV. one of the three inquisitors-general, i. 299;

his Protestant proclivities, ib.; riot at Beauvais in consequence of the suspicion that he is a Protestant, i. 474, seq.; his communion under both forms, i. 499; he is cited by the Pope, ii. 141; the papal nuncio demands that the red cap be taken from him, ii. 182; the constable assumes his defence, ii. 182, 183; treats with Catharine, ii. 221; Cardinal Santa Croce, the papal nuncio, claims the fulfilment of Catharine de' Medici's promise to surrender him to the Pope, ii. 229; his escort of twenty horse, ib., note; his reception by Queen Elizabeth, ii. 291; his anxiety respecting the peace, ii. 363; Charles IX tears out the record against him from the parliamentary registers, ii. 371, 377; death of, ii. 389.

Châtillon-sur-Loire, ii. 328.

Chavagnac, ii. 603.

Christaudins, a nickname for the French Protestants i. 330.

Christopher, Duke, younger son of the elector palatine, ii. 609, 610.

Churches, order for the restitution of the, i. 544;

the surrender of, urged by Beza, ii. 4.

Cipierre (René of Savoy, son of the Count of Tende), ii. 225;

murder of, ii. 248, 249.

Cities, privileges of, i. 9.

Clemangis, Nicholas de, i. 23, 63.

Clemency, spurious account of, ii. 525.

Clement VII., Pope, his brief and bull indorsing the Inquisitorial Commission, i. 126, seq.;

gives lands of heretics to first comer, i. 128; meets Francis I. at Marseilles, i148; proposes to him a crusade, i. 149.

Clergy, wealth and power of, i. 51;

plurality of benefices, ib.; non-residence, i. 52; revenues, ib.; morals of, i. 53; have no regard for the spiritual wants of the people, i. 53; before the concordat, i. 54, 55; aversion to use of the French language, i. 56; ignorance of the Bible, i. 57; sad straits of, i. 459; alone, make no progress, i. 460.

Clerici, Nicholas, Dean of the Sorbonne, i. 256.

Clermont, murder at, ii. 249.

Cléry, violence of the iconoclasts at, ii. 44.

Cleves, Marie of, daughter of the Duke of Nevers, marries Henry of Condé, ii. 432, note;

permits the Protestants of Troyes to worship at Isle-au-Mont, ib.

Coconnas, a leading actor in the Massacre of St Bartholomew's Day, his fate, ii. 562;

he is executed on the Place de Grève, ii. 628, 629.

Cocqueville, expedition of, into Flanders, and its fate, ii. 242, 243.

Coct, Anemond de, i. 83.

Cognac, ii. 283, 299, 300.

Cognat, or Cognac, village in Auvergne, near which the "Viscounts" defeat the forces collected to oppose them, ii. 230.

Coin, a strange, i. 59.

Coligny, Gaspard de, Admiral of France, sends a Protestant colony to Brazil, i. 291;

when converted to Protestantism, i. 292; opposes the breaking of the truce of Vaucelles i. 297; is consulted by Catharine de' Medici at the time of the Tumult of Amboise, and gives her sound advice, i. 383, 384; presents two Huguenot petitions at Fontainebleau, i. 416, 417; his speech, i. 421; Quintin forced to apologize to, i. 460; he presents a Huguenot petition to the States General of Orleans, i. 461; declares that the "Edict of July" can never be executed, i. 484; his reluctance to take up arms, ii. 34; his wife's remonstrance, ii. 35; his aversion to calling in foreign assistance, ii. 57; his remarks on the discipline of the Huguenot army, ii. 67; on the practicability of capturing Paris, ii. 88; his success with the Huguenot right at Dreux, ii. 93, 94; draws off the army after the defeat, to Orleans, ii. 95; takes a number of places in Sologne, ii. 98; returns to Normandy, ib.; his successes, ii. 99; he is accused by Poltrot of having instigated the murder of Guise, ii. 105; he vindicates his innocence, ii. 107; his manly frankness, ib.; his innocence established, ii. 108; his defence espoused by Condé and the Montmorencies, ii. 135; the petition of the Guises aimed at him, ii. 136; the settlement of the feud delayed, ii. 137; he comes to Paris, on Marshal Montmorency's invitation, ii. 167; is likened by parliament to Pompey the Great, ib.; is reconciled to the Guises at Moulins, ii. 184; attempt to assassinate, ii. 194; remonstrates with Catharine de' Medici, before the outbreak of the second civil war, ii. 197; projects the Huguenot colonization of Florida, ii. 199; opposes taking up arms at the outbreak of the second civil war, ii. 203; at the battle of St. Denis, ii. 214; opposes the peace of Longjumeau, ii. 235; death of his wife, Charlotte de Laval, ii. 251; he retires to Tanlay, ii. 252; he is possibly the author of the spirited remonstrance attributed to D'Andelot, ii. 252, 253; attempt of court to ruin, ii. 256; plot to seize, ii. 265; his flight to La Rochelle, ii. 268; his exclamation at the great success of the Huguenots at the beginning of the third civil war, ii. 283; his relations with the Prince of Condé, ii. 304; after the death of Condé at Jarnac, draws off the cavalry to Saintes, ii. 306; his new responsibility, ii. 314; his greatness, ii. 315; success of a part of his army at La Roche Abeille, ii. 319; his castle plundered, ii. 321; wishes to lay siege to Saumur, ii. 324; reluctantly consents to lay siege to Poitiers, ib.; declared infamous by parliament, and a price set on his head, ii. 330, 331; his remarks upon the injuries done to him, ii. 331, note; his army weakened, ii. 332; starts to meet Montgomery, ib.; wounded and defeated at Moncontour, ii. 332-336; encouraged by L'Estrange, ii. 347; his bold plan of march, ii. 348; he sweeps through Guyenne, ii. 349; his wonderful success, ii. 352; turns toward Paris, ii. 353; his illness interrupts negotiations, ib.; he engages Marshal Cossé at Arnay-le-Duc, ii. 354; approaches Paris, ii. 355, 356; he is consulted respecting the Flemish project, ii. 386; he marries his second wife, Jacqueline d'Entremont, ib.; marriage of his daughter Louise de Châtillon to Téligny, ii. 387; he accepts an invitation to come to court at Blois, ib.; his honorable reception, ii. 389; he receives a present of one hundred thousand livres from the king, ib.; revisits Châtillon-sur-Loing, ii. 408; accepts the king's invitation to Paris, ii. 409; he is remonstrated with as to his imprudence, but replies magnanimously, ii. 409, 410; he retains his courage after the rout of Genlis, ii. 417; the memorial on the advantages of a Flemish war, ib.; his magnanimity under discouragement, ii. 420; he is partially successful in reassuring the king, ii. 421; at the marriage of Henry of Navarre, ii. 428; his last letter to his wife, ii. 430; Catharine and Anjou resolve to despatch him, ii. 434; they call in the Duchess of Nemours and Henry of Guise, ib.; Coligny receives assurances from the king that he will soon pay attention to the Huguenot complaints, ii. 447; he is wounded by Maurevel, Aug. 22, 1572, ii. 438; his intrepidity, ii. 440; he is visited by Charles and Catharine, ii. 441-444; he dictates letters to his friends, requesting them to remain quiet, ii. 453; his house is entered by Cosseins and his band, ii. 457; he is stabbed by Besme and despatched by others, ii. 458; his body is thrown into the court, where Henry of Guise recognizes and kicks it, ii. 459; his body is ignominiously treated, ib.; the head is sent on to Rome, ii. 460; his character and work, ib.; his reluctance to resort to arms, ii. 461; destruction of his papers, ib., note; his will, ii. 462, note; his ability as a general, ib.; a remark ascribed to him by Lord Macaulay, ii. 463, note; his daily life, ii. 463; a patron of learning, ii. 464; his integrity, ii. 465; the attempt of Catharine to inculpate him, ii. 495; his memory declared infamous, his castle razed, etc., ii. 496; indignities to his remains,496, 497; his burial-place, ii. 497, note; Walsingham defends his memory, ii. 547.

Collége Royal, founded, i. 43;

opposed by the Sorbonne, i. 44.

Colloquy of Poissy. See Poissy, Colloquy of.

Commission to try Lutherans, i. 124;

a new form of inquisition, i. 125; its powers, i. 126; indorsed and enlarged by the Pope, ib.

Compiègne, edict of July 24, 1557, i. 301.

Comtât Venaissin, i. 4;

history of, i. 231; Montbrun in, i. 414; the inhabitants of, reconciled by Charles IX. to those of Orange, ii. 165; included in the Huguenot scheme of organization, ii. 618.

Concordat of Leo X. and Francis I., i. 35, 36;

excites dissatisfaction, i. 37; opposed by parliament, ib.; reluctantly registered, i. 39; opposed by the university, ib.; advantageous to the crown, i. 41.

Condé, Henry, Prince of, son of Louis: he and his cousin, Henry of Navarre, are recognized as generals-in-chief of the Huguenots, ii. 314;

nicknamed "one of the admiral's pages," ib.; at Moncontour, ii. 334; at Paris, ii. 428, 439; he is commanded by the king to abjure Protestantism, and threatened, ii. 468; his brave reply, ii. 469; his forced conversion, ii. 498, 499; he escapes to Germany, ii. 629, 630.

Condé, Louis de Bourbon, Prince of, favors the Reformation, i. 313;

his peril after the Tumult of Amboise, i. 393; he is summoned by Francis II., ib.; his defiance and Guise's offer, i. 394; pressure upon him to come to Orleans, i. 432; his infatuation, i. 435; is arrested on his reaching court, i. 436; his remark to his brother the Cardinal of Bourbon, ib.; his courage, i. 437; his wife repulsed, i. 438; he is tried by a commission and is sentenced to death, i. 439, 440; he is cleared by parliament, i. 465; and reconciled to Guise, i. 466; revives the courage of the Protestants at court, ii. 18; he demands the punishment of the author of the massacre of Vassy, ii. 26, 27; meets Guise entering Paris, ii. 29; receives letters from Catharine imploring his help, ii. 31, 32; retires from Paris to Meaux, ii. 33; his course justified by La Noue, ib.; he is too weak to anticipate the Triumvirs at Fontainebleau, ii. 36; throws himself into Orleans, ii. 38, 39; publishes a justification of his assumption of arms, ii. 40; his measures to repress iconoclasm, ii. 43, 45; replies to the petition of the Triumvirs, ii. 59-61; eloquence of the reply, ii. 61; holds an interview with Catharine de' Medici, ii. 62; "loans" Beaugency to the King of Navarre, ii. 63; he retakes it, and furloughs a part of his army, ii. 66; he takes the field, ii. 85; is urged by the Protestant ministers to enforce morality in the army, ii. 86; captures Pithiviers, ii. 87; appears before Paris, ib.; his delay, ii. 89; suffers himself to be amused with fruitless conferences, ii. 90, 91; engages the enemy at Dreux, ii. 93; is taken prisoner, ii. 94; settles with the constable the terms of peace, ii. 113; is deceived by the assurances of Catharine de' Medici, ii. 117; he complains of the insolent speech of Damours, ii. 131; he espouses the defence of Coligny against the Guises, ii. 135; he is enticed by Catharine de' Medici, ii. 144; his amorous intrigue with Isabeau de Limueil, ii. 145; death of his wife, Éléonore de Roye, ib.; he disappoints Catharine by remaining steadfast to the Huguenot cause, ii. 146; remonstrates with the government just before the outbreak of the second civil war, ii. 197; at St. Denis, ii. 209; gives the battle of St. Denis, Nov. 10, 1567, ii. 213; he is exonerated by Catharine de' Medici from the charge of disloyal acts and intentions, ii. 219; goes to meet the Germans, ii. 219, 220; meets John Casimir and his army, ii. 222; marches towards Orleans, ii. 223; favors the peace of Longjumeau, ii. 235; retires to Noyers, ii. 251; attempt of court to ruin, ii. 256; his answer, ii. 257; plot to seize, ii. 265; his last appeal, ii. 267; his flight to La Rochelle, ii. 268; his forces, ii. 285; goes into winter quarters, ii. 286; endeavors to join the auxiliaries from the south, ii. 299; is wounded and treacherously killed in the battle of Jarnac, March 13, 1569, ii. 301, 302; his character, ii. 303, 304; his body treated with ignominy, ii. 306, 307.

Conference, rumored, between Roman Catholic princes, for the extirpation of heresy, ii. 156.

Confession of faith of the French Protestant churches, i. 335.

Confraternities, institution of, ii. 179;

forbidden by Charles IX., ii. 180; Tavannes favors the revival of, ii. 246; the "Christian and Royal League" formed at Troyes, ib.

Contarini, a Venetian ambassador, his estimate of Admiral Coligny as a general, ii. 462, 463.

Controversial pamphlets against the Protestants, i. 311, 312.

Conty, ii. 428.

Cop, Rector, his extraordinary address before the university, i. 153;

his threatened arrest and flight, i. 154.

Coras, Jean, a Protestant member of the Parliament of Toulouse, put to death, ii. 522.

Cornu, Pierre, his remark on Pauvan's speech, i. 92.

Correro, Venetian ambassador, on the number of Huguenots murdered during the short peace, ii. 250;

on Catharine de' Medici, ii. 370.

Cossé, Marshal, ii. 220, 289, 334;

engages Coligny at Arnay-le-Duc, ii. 354; negotiates for peace, ii. 356; the king's estimate of, ii. 409; thrown into the Bastile, ii. 628.

Cosseins sent with fifty guards ostensibly for Coligny's protection, ii. 452.

Cosset, an agent in the massacre at Meaux, ii. 505-507.

Coucy, declaration of, July 16, 1535, extends a partial forgiveness, i. 179.

Coudray, M. de, his courageous and pious death, ii. 510.

Courault, an evangelical preacher, i. 151.

Court of France, change in its sentiments respecting the Reformation, i. 195;

fatal error of, ii. 339; flight from Saint Germain, ii. 626.

Courtenay, the Sieur de, ii. 192.

Courtène, Baron de, decapitated, ii. 330.

Courteville, or Courtewille, secretary of Philip II., sent on a secret mission, i. 568.

"Cramp-rings," their use, i. 100.

Crevant, the Protestants of, attacked, ii. 162.

Croc, Du, French ambassador in Scotland, ii. 550.

Croquet, Nicholas, put to death at Paris, for celebrating the Lord's Supper, ii. 329.

Crusade, a, preached at Toulouse, ii. 278;

is indorsed by a papal bull, ii. 279.

Crussol, Antoine de, Count, appointed by a political assembly at Nismes, head and conservator of the reformed party in Languedoc, ii. 86;

cf. ii. 283.

Crussol, Madame de, her remark to Cardinal Lorraine, i. 505.

Cuñiga, Don Juan de, Spanish envoy at Rome, denies the premeditation of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, ii. 535.

Curée, royal governor of Vendôme, killed by the Roman Catholic noblesse, ii. 162.

D.

Damours, advocate-general in the Parliament of Rouen, makes a violent and seditious speech before Charles IX. at Gaillon, ii. 131;

on Condé's complaint he is arrested, ib.

Damville, Marshal, ii. 255, 428, 441, 599, 604, 628.

Dauphin, Prince, name given to the son of the Duke of Montpensier, ii. 343.

Dauphiny, orders for the extermination of the Huguenots in, sent out in the name of Francis II., i. 406;

disorders and bloodshed in, ii. 47; troops of, withdraw from the west, ii. 348; Gordes refuses to massacre the Protestants of, ii. 526; demands of the tiers état of, ii. 603; exploits of Montbrun in, ii621, 622.

Dax, massacre in the prisons of, ii. 528, note.

Decemvirate, the bloody, i. 321.

Declarations, royal. See Edicts.

Dehors, a merchant of Rouen, hung for reproving the seditious populace, i. 445.

Demochares, or De Mouchy, a doctor of the Sorbonne and an inquisitor of the faith, his controversial pamphlet, i. 311.

Désiré, Artus, despatched by the Sorbonne to invoke the aid of Philip II., i. 467, 468.

Deux Ponts, reinforcements to the Huguenots from, ii. 71;

the Duke of, comes with German auxiliaries, ii. 315; his declaration treated with contempt by Charles IX., ii. 316; succeeds in penetrating France, and bringing to Coligny reinforcements, ii. 317; his death, ii. 318, 364.

Diana of Poitiers, Duchess of Valentinois, i. 261, 262;

the infatuation of Henry II. for her,262; undertakes to silence a poor tailor arrested as a Protestant, i. 277; instigates persecution in order to secure the confiscated property of the Protestants, i. 282; is dismissed from court on the accession of Francis II., i. 349.

Dieppe, Protestant assemblies in, i. 408;

great Protestant "temple" destroyed, ib.

"Dieu de Pâte," an opprobrious designation of the Roman Catholic host, ii. 121.

Domfront, ii. 632.

Douen, O., author of Clément Marot et le Psautier huguenot, ii. 347.

"Dragonnades," ii. 244.

Dreux, the battle of, Dec. 19, 1562, ii. 93, seq.;

mistakes of both sides at,95, note.

Du Chesne, or Quercu, i. 23, 50.

Duprat, Cardinal, i. 109, 123.

E.

Ebeling, F. W., ii. 569.

Ecclesiastical discipline adopted by the French Protestant churches, i. 336.

Écouen, the magnificent seat of the Montmorency family, i. 353.

Edicts, Declarations, and Ordinances, Royal:

Edict of Francis I., January 13, 1535, abolishing the art of printing, i. 169; declaration of Coucy, July 16, 1535, extending partial forgiveness, i. 179; edict of Lyons, May 31, 1536, i. 192; edict of Fontainebleau, June 1, 1540, cutting off appeal, i. 218; letters patent of Lyons, August 30, 1542, enjoining vigilance, i. 220; ordinance of Paris, July 23, 1543, defining the provinces of the lay and ecclesiastical judges, and making heresy punishable as sedition, i. 221, 222; Henry II.'s edict of Fontainebleau, Dec. 11, 1547, against books from Geneva, i. 275; edict of Paris, Nov. 19, 1549, conferring power of arrest for heresy upon the ecclesiastical judges, i. 278; edict of Châteaubriand, June 27, 1551, removing appeal from the presidial judges, i. 279; edicts establishing the Spanish Inquisition in France, 1555, i. 287, 288; edict of Compiègne, July 24, 1557, confirming the papal appointment of three inquisitors-general, i. 300, 312; Francis II.'s edict of amnesty, Amboise, March, 1560, i. 385; restrictive edict of March 22, 1560, i. 390; edict of Romorantin, May, 1560, continuing the persecution, i. 410, 411; Charles IX.'s letters-patent, Fontainebleau, April 19, 1561, enjoining toleration and permitting the return of exiles, i. 476, 477; "Edict of July," July 11, 1561, forbidding conventicles, etc., i. 483; edict for the restitution of the churches, Oct. 18, 1561, i. 544; royal letters interpreting previous edicts, i. 561; "Edict of January," January 17, 1562, recognizing Huguenot rights, i. 576, 577; declaration of the king that he is not in duress, ii. 54; edict of April 11, 1562, ostensibly re-enacting, but really annulling the edict of January, ii. 57; edict of pacification, Amboise, March 19, 1563, terminating the first civil war, ii. 115; restrictive declarations infringing upon the edict of Amboise, ii. 160, 161; declaration of Roussillon, Aug. 4, 1564, ii. 161,162; other declarations, ii. 162, note; edict, in 1566, for the relief of the scattered Huguenots, ii. 184, 185; edict of pacification, Longjumeau, March 23, 1568, terminating the second civil war, ii. 234; Charles IX. throws the edicts of pacification into the fire, ii. 276; proscriptive edicts of Sept., 1568, ib.; edict of pacification, Saint Germain, Aug. 8, 1570, terminating the third civil war, ii. 363-365; edict of pacification, Boulogne, July, 1573, terminating the fourth civil war, ii. 593, 594.

Edward III., of England, confirms the privileges of La Rochelle, ii. 271.

Eidgenossen, explanation of name of Huguenots, i. 397.

Elbeuf, Marquis of, i. 269.

Elector Palatine, Frederick III., the Pious, intercedes for Anne du Bourg, and desires to make him professor of law in the University of Heidelberg, i. 371;

sends theologians to France, who come too late for the Colloquy of Poissy, i. 544; sends his son, John Casimir, to help the Huguenots in the second civil war, ii. 218; he previously sends Zuleger to see the state of affairs in France, ii. 218, 219; receives Henry of Anjou, king elect of Poland, at Heidelberg, ii. 610.

Elizabeth, Queen, of England, her help invoked, ii. 55, 71;

her hard conditions, ii. 73; her declaration, Sept. 20, 1562, ii. 74; her aid rather damages than furthers the Protestant cause, ib.; her letter to Mary of Scots, ii. 76; her tardy recognition of the importance of the Huguenot struggle, ii. 117; she is summoned to restore Havre, ii. 126; her misgivings as to helping the Huguenots in the third civil war, ii. 294; her double-dealing and effrontery, ii. 295-297; her coldness after the Huguenot defeat at Jarnac, ii. 310; projected marriage with the Duke of Anjou, ii. 377, seq.; proposition to substitute Alençon, ii. 380; Anjou's new ardor, ib.; she interposes obstacles, ib.; the Anjou match abandoned,396; Alençon suggested in his place and duly lauded, ii. 398; enters into a treaty of amity with France, April 18, 1572, ii. 398; her perversity, ib., note; she inspires the French with no confidence, ii. 414; rumors that she means to desert her allies, ii. 419, 420; she toys with dishonorable proposals from the Netherlands, ii. 422; her cold reception of La Mothe Fénélon after the massacre, ii. 543; declaration of her council, ii. 544; she censures Charles IX. for profaning the day of his daughter's birth by witnessing the execution of Briquemault and Cavaignes, ii. 549, 550; she secretly sends assistance to La Rochelle, ii. 588; she disowns the enterprise of Montgomery after its failure, ib.; she refuses to become executioner for the King of France, ii. 589.

England, divided sympathies of the English, ii. 56;

generous response of the English people, ii. 292; its horror at the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, ii. 541; great irritation in, ii. 545.

English rebellion, the, encourages the French court in the war against the Huguenots, ii. 358.

Entremont, Jacqueline d', marries Admiral Coligny, ii. 386.

Epilepsy cured by kings and queens of England, i. 100.

Escars, D', a treacherous servant of Antoine, King of Navarre, ii. 9.

Esnay, the inhumanity of the monks of, ii. 517.

Espense, Claude d', speech of, at the Colloquy of Poissy, i. 532;

confers with the Protestants, i. 538.

Espine, Jean de l', a converted Carmelite monk, and a minister at the Colloquy of Poissy i. 509, 510;

in the Conference of Saint Germain,539; his escape on St. Bartholomew's Day, ii. 477.

Essarts, in Poitou, persecution at, i. 216.

Este, Anne d', daughter of Renée de France, married successively to the Duke of Guise and the Duke of Nemours, at the hollow reconciliation at Moulins, ii. 184;

she enters readily into the plan for assassinating Admiral Coligny, ii. 434, 435.

Esternay, M. d', his residence burned, ii. 239;

comes to the help of the Huguenots, ii. 315.

Estrange, L', encourages Coligny, ii. 347.

Estrapade, an ingenious contrivance for prolonging the torture of Protestant martyrs, i. 177, 178.

Étampes captured by Condé, ii. 87;

retaken by Guise, ii. 97.

Étienne, or Stephens, Robert, on the ignorance of the Bible on the part of the clergy, i. 57.

Expiatory procession, the great, of January 21, 1535, i. 173-176.

F.

Faculty of Arts, its displeasure at the proceedings against the rector, Nicholas Cop, i. 154.

Farel, Guillaume, i. 68;

his devotion, i. 69; invited to Meaux, i. 73; goes to Dauphiny, i. 83; at Montbéliard, i. 117; intercession of Berne for his relatives, i. 156; probably not the author of the placard of 1534, i. 164; labors in Geneva, i. 197; urges Calvin to remain at Geneva, i. 208; his recollections, i. 209; his efforts for the persecuted at Paris, i. 309; his liturgy, i. 342.

"Fashion of Geneva," the, i. 341, seq.

Fat, human, put to a new use by an apothecary of Lyons, ii. 517.

Faur, Du, his speech in the "mercuriale" of 1559, i. 334;

his arrest, i. 335.

Ferralz, M. de, ii. 534.

Ferrara, Duchess of. See Renée de France.

Ferrara, Ippolito d'Este, Cardinal of, sent as legate to France, i. 548;

his character, i. 550; his reception by the French people, i. 550, 551; Chancellor L'Hospital opposes his recognition, i. 551, 552; his intrigues and success, i. 552, 553; ii.17.

Feudal system, decline of, i. 5.

Fiefs, absorbed in royal domain, i. 8.

Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, writes against Lefèvre, i. 71.

Five scholars of Lausanne, the, martyrdom of, i. 283, seq.

Florida, the Huguenot attempts to colonize, ii. 199;

the first expedition, 1562, ii. 199; the second expedition, 1564, ii. 199, 200; the third expedition and its disastrous close, ii. 200; efforts of the French government to obtain satisfaction from Philip II., ii. 201, 202; sanguinary revenge of Dominique de Gourgues, ii. 202.

Florimond de Ræmond, his remarks on the effects of the execution of Du Bourg and others, i. 373, 374.

Foix, Catharine de, her remark to John d'Albret, i. 107.

Foix, M. de, ii. 398.

Foix, progress of Protestantism in, i. 562.

Folion, Nicholas, a minister at the Colloquy of Poissy, i. 509.

Fontaine, M. de la, writes a lying account of the French massacre, in order to deceive the Swiss, ii. 558.

Fontainebleau, the assembly of notables, August 21, 1560, i. 415;

speech of Chancellor L'Hospital, i. 416; Admiral Coligny presents two petitions for the Huguenots, i. 416, 417; speeches of Montluc, i. 418; of Marillac, i. 420; of Coligny, i. 421; rejoinder of Guise, i. 422; speech of Cardinal Lorraine, i. 423; the results, i. 424; the States General to be convened, and, meantime, all punishment for the matter of religion to cease, ib.

Fontainebleau, edict of, given by Francis I., June 1, 1540, i. 218;

by Henry II., Dec. 11, 1547, i. 275; letters-patent of, by Charles IX., April 19, 1561, i. 477.

Fontenay, ii. 361.

Fontenille, ii. 575.

Fool, court, sensible remark of the, i. 351.

Forquevaulx, French ambassador at Madrid, insists upon satisfaction for the murder of the Huguenot colonists in Florida, ii. 201.

Fosse, Voré de la, sent on a mission to Melanchthon, i. 182.

France, at accession of Francis I., i. 3;

territorial development, i. 4; subdivision in tenth century, i. 5; foremost kingdom of Christendom, i. 6; contrast with England, i. 7; assimilation of language, etc., i. 8; military resources, i. 10; infested by highwaymen, i. 44; changes in boundaries during the sixteenth century, i. 66; population of in the sixteenth century, ii. 159.

Francis I., his reply to Charles V., i. 14;

and to Montmorency, i. 15; his concordat with the Pope, i. 35; haughty demeanor toward the parliament, i. 38; and university, i. 39; his acquirements overrated, i. 42; patronage of art, ib.; founds the Collége Royal, i. 43; interferes for Lefèvre, i. 72; his personal appearance, i. 99; character and tastes, i. 100, 101; he is said miraculously to cure the king's evil, ib.; contrasted with Charles V., i. 101; his religious convictions, and fear of innovation, i. 102; loose morals, i. 103, 104; anxiety for papal support, i. 104; at Madrid, abdicates in favor of the dauphin, i. 107; his captivity, i. 122; he violates his pledges to Charles V., i. 134; his pecuniary straits, i. 135; assembles the notables ib.; promises to prove himself "Very Christian," i. 137; treats with the Germans, i. 147; and with Henry VIII., i. 148; his interview with Clement VII., ib.; declines the Pope's proposal of a crusade, i. 149; rejects the intercession of the Bernese, i. 155; his letter to the Bishop of Paris ordering him to authorize two counsellors of parliament to proceed against the "Lutherans,", i. 156; favorably impressed by Melanchthon's plan of reconciliation, i. 162; his anger when a copy of the placard of 1534 is posted on his bedchamber door, i. 167; which is enhanced by political considerations, i. 168; his disgraceful edict abolishing the art of printing i. 169; the edict suspended, i. 170; orders an expiatory procession, i. 173; he takes part in it with great apparent devoutness, i. 175; his memorable speech in the episcopal palace, i. 176; his declaration of Coucy, July 16, 1535, extending a partial forgiveness, i. 179; is said to have been begged by Paul III. to moderate his cruelty, i. 180; his clemency dictated by policy, i. 181; his letter to the German princes in extenuation of his conduct, i. 182; formally invites Melanchthon, i. 184; acquiesces in the Sorbonne's condemnation of Melanchthon's articles, i. 188; his representations through Du Bellay to the German princes at Smalcald, i. 188; Du Bellay makes, in his name, a Protestant confession, i. 189; he does not deceive the Germans, i. 190; his edict of Lyons, May 31, 1536, i. 192; rejects the intercession of Strasbourg, Zurich, and Berne, ib.; his orthodoxy no longer questioned, i. 194; how viewed by the reformers in his later days, i. 195; issues the edict of Fontainebleau, June 1, 1540, cutting off appeal, i. 218; his letters-patent from Lyons, August 30, 1542, i. 220; his declaration at Angoulême, respecting "sacramentarians," i. 221; his ordinance of Paris, July 23, 1543, making heresy punishable as treason, i. 221; gives force of law to the Sorbonne's Twenty-five Articles, i. 224; sends a letter of pardon to the Waldenses of Provence, i. 241; delays the execution of the Arrêt de Mérindol, i. 243; is led by calumnious accusations to revoke his order, i. 244; his death, i. 258; impartial estimates of his character, ib.; his three sons, i. 259; confirms the privileges of La Rochelle, ii. 271.

Francis, the dauphin, son of Francis I., his death, i. 259.

Francis II., eldest son of Henry II., and husband of Mary, Queen of Scots: his accession, i. 347;

his edict of amnesty, i. 385; makes the Duke of Guise his lieutenant-general, with absolute power, i. 389, 390; extends the terms of the amnesty, i. 390; but explains it away by another edict, i. 390, 391; he is visibly affected by the executions of Amboise, i. 392; he is made to order the extermination of the Huguenots of Dauphiny, i. 406; issues the edict of Romorantin, i. 410; universal commotion in his kingdom, i. 413, 414; he convokes the notables at Fontainebleau, i. 415; declares that he takes Coligny's presentation of the Huguenot petition in good part, i. 417; is urged to stab Antoine, King of Navarre, but cannot muster courage to do it, i. 440, 441; sends for Navarre and Condé, i. 425; orders the arrest and trial of Condé, i. 436; further designs for the extermination of the Huguenots before the termination of his reign, i. 444, 442; his failing health, i. 442; his death, i. 444; saves the Huguenots, i. 449; recognized as a direct answer to their prayers, i. 450; his mean funeral obsequies, "the enemy of the Huguenots being buried like a Huguenot," ib.

"Franco-Gallia," by François Hotman, a book touching on the royal authority, ii. 615.

Francour, Francœur, or Francourt, goes with Beza to demand punishment for the massacre of Vassy, ii. 27, 218.

Frederick III., the Pious. See Elector Palatine.

Freer, Miss, on Coligny's reception at Blois, and his alleged alarm, ii. 389, note.

French language, aversion of clergy for, i. 56.

Fribourg, the canton of, ii. 557.

"Fribours," a nickname for the Protestants, i. 398.

Froissy, his outrageous conduct toward M d'Esternay, ii. 239.

Froment, the reformer, labors in Geneva, i. 197.

Frontenay, or Fontenay, M. de, escapes from the massacre, ii. 481-483;

negotiates with Biron, ii. 623.

"Fronts d'airain," ii. 603.

Froude, James Anthony, mistakes in his account of the Colloquy of Poissy, i. 497, note;

his singularly inaccurate account of French affairs about the time of the massacre of Vassy, ii. 25, 26; his error respecting Cardinal Châtillon, ii. 291, note; his remarks on the fatal policy of Queen Elizabeth, ii. 423.

G.

Gaillard, Captain, his blasphemy and fury at the massacre in Orleans, ii. 570, 571.

Gallars, Nicholas des, a minister at the Colloquy of Poissy, i. 509;

takes part in the Conference of Saint Germain, i. 539.

Gallican liberties, the, i. 25.

Garde, Baron de la. See Poulain.

Garnier, M., incorrectly estimates the Huguenots as constituting nearly one-third of the population of France, ii. 159.

Garrisons in Huguenot towns, ii. 244.

Gastines, Abbé de, executed by order of Condé, by way of retaliation, ii. 80.

"Gastines, Croix de," ii. 329;

erected on the site of the house of the Gastines, put to death for having celebrated the Lord's Supper, ib.; character of the elder Gastines, ii. 330; the cross taken down by order of the king, ii. 375, 376.

Geneva becomes the centre of Protestant activity, i. 196;

secures its independence with the assistance of Francis I. and the Bernese, i. 197; according to the Venetian Suriano "the mine from which the ore of heresy is extracted," i. 214; war upon books from, i. 280; the "Five from Geneva" executed at Chambéry, i. 297; danger menacing the city, i. 326; a joint expedition against it proposed by Henry II., but declined by the Duke of Alva, i. 327; character and influence of the ministers from, i. 402; their numbers, i. 403; books from, destroyed, i. 428; the children in Languedoc, according to Villars, all know the Geneva catechism by heart, i. 429; Charles IX. writes to the magistrates of Geneva to stop the coming of Protestant ministers, i. 463; their answer, i. 464; sympathy of the citizens for the Huguenots escaped from the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, ii. 554, seq.; a fast appointed at ii. 555; its hospitality and danger, ii. 557; good advice given to Nismes, ib.; the city saved by the illness of Charles IX., ib.

Geneva, Little, a part of Paris so called from the number of Protestants inhabiting it, i. 361;

pretended orgies in, i. 365.

Genlis, a knight of the Order, forsakes Condé and goes over to the enemy, ii. 90, 91.

Genlis, Jean de Hangest, Seigneur de, ii. 384;

rout of July 19, 1572, ii. 415; he is taken prisoner, ib.; his death, ib., note.

German Protestant princes are not deceived by Du Bellay's representations in the name of Francis I., i. 190;

nor by those of the Duke of Orleans, i. 228; intercede for the Vaudois of Provence, i. 242; for the persecuted Protestants, i. 313, 314; their aid invoked by the Huguenots in the second civil war, ii. 217; intercession of the, ii. 362; after the massacre, ii. 551, seq.

German troops, insubordination of, ii. 332.

Germany, rumors of treacherous designs on the part of France after the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, ii. 611, note.

Gerson, John, i. 23, 64.

Giustiniano, Marino, the Venetian ambassador reports the reasons Francis I. had assigned to him for abating the severity of the persecution of the Protestants, i. 181.

Glandage, M. de, plunders the city of Orange, ii. 620;

declares that only the point of his sword is Huguenot, ii. 621.

Gondy, Albert de. See Retz.

Gordes, Governor of Dauphiny, refuses to allow the Protestants to be massacred, ii. 526.

Goudimel, an excellent musician, sets the psalms of Marot and Beza to music in several parts, ii. 517, note;

he is murdered, ib.

Governors, royal, oppression of Protestants by, ii. 245.

Grandfief, M. de, ii. 617.

Grand Marché, a part of Meaux inhabited by Huguenots, massacre at, ii. 505-507.

Granvelle, Cardinal, his conference with the Cardinal of Lorraine, i. 315.

Gravelines, the rout of, i. 321.

Gregory XIII., Pope, receives the submission of the King of Navarre and the Prince of Condé, recognizes the validity of their marriages, and admits them to his favor, by a bull of Oct. 27, 1572, ii. 500;

his incredulity as to the "pious" intentions of Charles IX. and Catharine de' Medici, ii. 530, 564; orders public rejoicings at Rome over the news of the massacre of the Protestants, ii. 531, 532; commemorative medals, ii. 532; commemorative paintings by Vasari, ii. 533; his extravagant expressions of joy, ii. 534; gives audience to Maurevel, ib.

Grignan, Count de, Governor of Provence, i. 245.

Grimaudet, François, representative of the tiers état of Anjou, his scathing exposure of the morals of the clergy, i. 430.

Gualtieri, Sebastiano, Bishop of Viterbo, nuncio to France, i. 548;

his despondency and recall, i. 548, 549; hated by Catharine de' Medici, on account of his boorish ways, i. 552.

Guerchy, ii. 317,438;

he defends himself on St. Bartholomew's Day, but is overpowered and killed, ii. 472, 475.

Guilloche Jean de, a Protestant member of the Parliament of Bordeaux, killed, ii. 524.

Guillotière, Faubourg de la, at Lyons, ii. 516.

Guise, the family of, i. 266;

warning of Francis I. against, ib.

Guise, Claude, Duke of, i. 266;

his six sons, i268.

Guise, Francis, Duke of, i. 261;

his great credit with Henry II., i. 268, 269; his character, i. 269; captures the city of Calais, i. 312; his great power on the accession of Francis II., i. 351, 352; indignation against him and his brother, i. 375; their confidence before the Tumult of Amboise, i. 382; the Duke is made lieutenant-general of the kingdom, i. 389, 390; his perplexity, i. 413; his angry rejoinder to Coligny at the assembly of Fontainebleau, i. 422; he and Lorraine make advances to Catharine de' Medici, which she refuses, i. 443; their alarm on the accession of Charles IX., i. 450; with Montmorency and St. André forms the Triumvirate, i. 470, 471; his exultation over the "Edict of July," i. 484; goes with his brothers to meet the Duke of Würtemberg at Saverne, ii. 13; his lying assurances, ii. 15; he proceeds to Vassy, ii. 21; where a bloody massacre takes place, ii. 22; pamphlets respecting the massacre, ii. 22, 23; he attempts to vindicate himself from being the author of the massacre, ii. 24; is forbidden by Catharine de' Medici to enter Paris, but is invited to come with a small suite to court, ii. 27; makes a triumphal entry into Paris, ii. 28; meets Condé and the Protestants going to a "prêche," ii. 29; brings Charles IX. and Catharine de' Medici back to Paris, ii. 36; sends for foreign aid, ii. 54; reply of his adherents to Condé's declaration, ii. 58; an intercepted letter of, ii. 65, note; his good generalship at Dreux, ii. 94; retakes Pithiviers and Étampes, ii. 97; lays siege to Orleans, ii. 99; captures the Portereau, ii. 100; is shot by Poltrot, Feb 18, 1563, ii. 103; Beza and Coligny, accused of having instigated the murder, vindicate themselves, ii. 105, seq.; his character, ii. 109, 110, 112; The petition of his family aimed at Coligny, ii. 136; the settlement of the feud delayed, ii. 137; the hollow reconciliation at Moulins, ii. 184. See Triumvirs.

Guise, Henry, Duke of, son of Francis, throws himself into Poitiers, ii. 324;

marries Catharine of Cleves, widow of Prince Porcien, ii. 432; his aid called in by Catharine de' Medici and Anjou in the assassination of Coligny, ii. 434; he comes to take leave of Charles, and receives a rough answer, ii. 446; goes with a band to assassinate Coligny, ii. 456; kicks the dead body of the admiral, ii. 459; pursues Montgomery and his companions, ii. 483; throws the responsibility of the massacre upon the king, ii. 491; policy of, in rescuing a few Huguenots, ii. 491, note; in making his province of Champagne an exception to the massacre, ii. 525.

Guise, Louis, Cardinal of, younger brother of the Cardinal of Lorraine, i269;

at Saverne, ii. 13; author of the massacre of Sens, ii. 46; at the Bayonne conference, ii. 170; tries a heretical curate, ii. 192.

Guitry, M. de, ii. 625.

H.

Hans, Jean de, a seditious preacher, i. 567.

Haton, Claude, on morals of clergy, i. 53, 54;

on their non-residence and plurality, i. 457; complains of Huguenot boldness, i. 570; his singular account of the massacre of Vassy, ii. 23; on the miracle of the Cimetière des Innocents, ii. 488; on the rosaries in the hands of Huguenot ladies, ii. 525.

"Haute justice" ii. 364, note.

Havre, the English in, ii. 84;

surrender of, demanded of Queen Elizabeth, ii. 126; fall of, July 29, 1563, ii. 127.

Heidelberg, reception of Henry of Anjou at, ii. 610.

Hennuyer, Le, Bishop of Lisieux, apocryphal speech ascribed to, ii. 525.

Henry of Orleans, afterwards Henry II., married to Catharine de' Medici, i. 148;

ascends the throne, March 31, 1547, i. 258; his insubordination, i. 259; his great bodily vigor, ib.; his character, i. 260; his inordinate love of pleasure, ib.; is ruled by Diana of Poitiers, Constable Montmorency, and Cardinal Lorraine, ib.; his court, according to Dr. Wotton, i. 261; rapacity of the courtiers, i. 272, 273; is persuaded to persecute the Protestants to atone for his immoral life. i. 274; publishes an edict, Fontainebleau, Dec. 11, 1547, against books from Geneva, etc., i. 275; witnesses the execution of a poor tailor of the Rue St. Antoine, i. 277; his edict conferring power of arrest for heresy upon ecclesiastical judges, Paris, Nov. 19, 1549, i. 278; he issues the edict of Châteaubriand, June 27, 1551, removing appeal from the decisions of presidial judges, i. 279; his more than papal strictness, i. 286; makes repeated attempts to introduce the Spanish Inquisition, i. 287, 288, 289; he breaks the truce of Vaucelles at the solicitation of Pope Paul IV., and renews war with Philip II., i. 297; issues the edict of Compiègne, July 24, 1557, i. 300; rejects the Swiss intercession after the affair of the Rue St. Jacques, i. 310; compels parliament to register the inquisition edict, i. 312; his indignation at the psalm-singing on the Pré aux Clercs, i. 315; summons François d'Andelot, whom he orders to be imprisoned, i. 317, 318; desperate schemes to obtain money, i. 321; makes the treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis with Philip of Spain and Mary of England, i. 322; communicates to William, Prince of Orange, his own designs and those of Philip II. against the Protestants, i. 325; proposes a joint French and Spanish expedition against Geneva, i. 327; attends a mercuriale of the Parliament of Paris, i. 332; orders the arrest of Du Bourg and other counsellors, i. 335; marriage festivities for his daughter, i. 338; is mortally wounded by Montgomery in the tournament, June 30, 1559, i. 339; his death, July 10, 1559, i. 340; epigrams upon the event, i. 346.

Henry of Valois, third son of Henry II., afterward king of France as Henry III., baptized first Edward Alexander, i. 415;

is made Duke of Anjou. See Anjou, Duke of.

Heptameron of the Queen of Navarre, i. 119, seq.

Heresy, views of Calvin respecting the punishment of, i. 211;

made punishable as treason by Francis I., i. 222.

Herminjard, M., on Briçonnet's defection, i. 81.

Hesse, the Landgrave of, his opinion of the representations of the Guises, ii. 17;

declines to help the Huguenots, ii. 217; his distrust after the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, ii. 552; will have nothing to do with the candidature of Alençon for King of the Romans, ii. 609.

Heu, Gaspard de, his judicial assassination, i. 379, 380.

Hospital, Michel de l', Chancellor, i. 13;

rebukes Parliament of Bordeaux, i. 19; his character, i. 412; little good expected of him, ib.; one of the original conspirators of Amboise, ib.; speech at the Assembly of Fontainebleau, i. 416; refuses to sign the sentence of the Prince of Condé, i. 440; his address at the opening of the States General of Orleans, i. 455; declares the co-existence of two religions impossible, ib.; and that names of factions must be abolished, i. 456; his strange representation of the character of previous persecutions, ib., note; he is distrusted by Beza, i. 502; his speech at the opening of the Colloquy of Poissy, i. 512; he opposes the ratification of the plenary powers of the papal legate, i. 552; his speech to the notables at Saint Germain, i. 574; entreats Catharine to throw herself into the arms of the Huguenots, ii. 31; his danger from the fury of the Paris populace, ii. 69; his censure of the Norman parliament, ii. 130, note; his language to Santa Croce respecting the lives of French priests, ii. 153, note; he is attacked by Cardinal Lorraine in the royal council at Melun, Feb., 1564, ii. 154, 155; sends out, without the authority of the council, an edict for the relief of the scattered Huguenots, ii. 184, 185; his altercation at Moulins with Cardinal Lorraine, ii. 186; envoy to the Huguenots, ii. 210; his striking memorial counselling just and pacific treatment of the Huguenots, ii. 232, 233; Catharine de' Medici sides with his enemies, ii. 254; her animosity against him, because she suspects him of having prompted Charles IX. to entreat her to avoid war, ii. 263; another quarrel of L'Hospital and Lorraine respecting the chancellor's refusal to affix his signature to a papal bull, ii. 263, 264; his fall from power, ii. 264; he retires to Vignai, ii. 264, 265; his last days, ii. 613; his farewell letter to the king, ii. 614; his death, ii. 615.

Host, reverence for, i. 50.

Hotman, François, author of the "Vita Gasparis Colinii," i. 418;

also of the "Epistre au Tigre de la France," i. 446; his escape from the massacre of Bourges, ii. 511; his "Franco-Gallia," ii. 615.

Hugh Capet, Count of Paris, i. 4.

Hugonis, a violent Roman Catholic preacher, ii. 254.

Huguenots, various explanations of the origin of the designation, i. 397-399;

message of the escaped prisoners of Tours, i. 399; they petition Francis II. at Fontainebleau for liberty of worship, i. 417; general plans of extermination formed by their enemies before the death of Francis, i. 441, 442; the Spanish ambassador, Chantonnay, alarmed at the intemperance and violence of the scheme, i. 441, note; return of Huguenot exiles, i. 463; popular curiosity to hear their psalms and sermons, i. 468; their growing boldness, i. 478; they are said to have 2,150 churches, i. 560; difficulty of restraining their impetuosity, i. 561; Romish complaints of their boldness, i. 570; immense crowds at the prêches, ii. 11; massacred at Vassy, ii. 22; summoned to Meaux, ii. 34; they seize Orleans, which becomes their centre during the first civil war, ii. 39; they justify their assumption of arms, ii. 40; their stringent articles of association, ii. 40, 41; nobles and cities that espouse their cause, ii. 41; their strict discipline, ii. 66; cruelty at Pithiviers, ii. 87; reverses of, ii. 101, 102; their ballads and songs, ii. 120-125; they lose favor at court, ii. 132, 133, 158; progress of, ii. 146; they are accused of poisoning the wells in Lyons, ii. 159; number of Huguenots in France, ib.; assaults upon unoffending Huguenots at Crevant, Tours, Mans, and Vendôme, ii. 162; no redress obtained, ib.; various acts of oppression, ii. 163; excluded from judicial posts, ii. 165; progress of, ii. 181; Huguenot pleasantries, ii. 192; they suspect treacherous designs, ii. 193; alarmed by the march of Alva and the Swiss levy, ii. 196, 203; they plan to seize Cardinal Lorraine and liberate Charles IX., ii. 205; the sudden rising, ii. 206; they abate their demands at the outbreak of the second civil war, ii. 210; admiration of the sultan's envoy for their bravery at the battle of St. Denis, ii. 214, note; they solicit the help of the German princes, ii. 217; they are exonerated by Catharine de' Medici from the charge of disloyalty, ii. 219; their generous sacrifices, ii. 223; their imprudence in concluding the peace of Longjumeau without guarantees, ii. 238; treatment of returning Huguenots, ii. 241; deprived of their rights by interpretative ordinances, etc., ii. 244; admirable organization of, ii. 247; oath to be exacted of, ii. 257; the plot against them disclosed by an intercepted letter, ii. 259; advantages at the beginning of the third civil war, ii. 274; enthusiasm of their youth, ib.; the Protestant religion proscribed, ii. 275; their places of refuge, ii. 280; great successes in Poitou, Angoumois, etc., ii. 282; the great army collected in southern France joins Condé, ii. 284; negotiations and reprisals, ii. 287; they suffer defeat at Jarnac, ii. 301, seq.; they recover strength, ii. 312; their success at La Roche Abeille, ii. 319; they send a petition to the king, ii. 320, 322, 323; their single purpose, ii. 321, 322; they commit a serious blunder in laying siege to Poitiers, ii. 324; flight of refugees from Montargis, ii. 328; defeated at Moncontour, ii. 332-334; their heavy losses, ii. 335; their terms of peace, ii. 357; their successes compensate for their defeats, ii. 361; the Huguenot nobles flock to Paris to attend the marriage of Henry of Navarre, ii. 426; many alarmed by the king's cordiality, ii. 436; their constancy in the massacre at Orleans, ii. 510, 511, etc.; return of many who had apostatized, ii. 573, note; discontent of the Huguenots of the south with the terms on the edict of pacification of Boulogne, ii. 599; they obtain a truce from Marshal Damville, ib.; military organization of, provided for in the political assembly of Milhau and Montauban, ii. 600; their bold demands contained in a petition to the king, ii. 601, 602; demands of Lower Languedoc and Nismes, ii. 603; those of the tiers état of Provence and Dauphiny, ib.; indignation of Catharine de' Medici at their boldness, ii. 604; they remain firm, ib.; they reassemble at Milhau, and perfect their organization, Dec. 17, 1573, ii. 617-619; injury to their cause, arising from their alliance with the "Politiques," or Malcontents, ii. 620; the Huguenots resume arms, 1574, undertaking the fifth civil war, ii. 622; failure of the conferences between Biron and the Huguenots, ii. 623, 624; their stout demands, ii. 624; some reasons of their military successes, ii. 630, 631; failure of persecution, war, and treachery, of which they had been the victims, ii. 639. See Coligny, Condé, etc.

Huguerye, Michel de la, his Mémoires inédits, ii. 423;

his assertions as to the premeditation of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, ib.; his misrepresentation of the character of Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre, ii. 424.

I.

Iconoclasm at Paris, i. 141, 143;

by a monk at Troyes, for a "pious" object, i. 169; in various parts of France, i. 479; at Montauban, i. 485, 486; can it be repressed? ii. 42; stringent but ineffectual measures against, ii. 43; at Caen, ii. 44; at Orleans, ii. 45; at Valenciennes, etc., ii. 189; at Cateau-Cambrésis, ii. 190.

Images, whimsical defence of, ii. 43.

Impatience with "public idols," i. 487;

repressed by Calvin, ib.

Inconsistency of the laws and practice of the courts, i. 481.

Indiscreet partisans of reform, i. 162.

Informers against the Protestants, i. 361.

Inquisition, the, is jealously watched in France, i. 125 (see Commission to try Lutherans);

also, i. 288.

Inquisition, Spanish, proposition to introduce into France, i. 287;

opposed by parliament and withdrawn, i. 288; a second attempt ib.; manly speech of President Séguier against it, i. 289; a third attempt, i. 298, 299; the Pope appoints three inquisitors-general, i. 299; the papal bull confirmed by Henry II., i. 300; the inquisition edict registered by Henry in a "lit de justice," i. 312.

Insubordination to royal authority, ii. 247.

Interpretative ordinances, ii. 244.

Isabella, or Elizabeth, daughter of Henry II. of France and Catharine de' Medici, born April 2, 1545, married to Philip II. of Spain, June, 1559, i. 338;

discloses the plot to kidnap Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre, ii. 151; her discussion with her mother in the Bayonne conference, ii. 172-175; again her husband's mouthpiece, ii. 261.

"Italian Bible," the, Macchiavelli's Il Principe, ii. 552, note.

Ivoy, M. d', surrenders Bourges, ii. 72;

treachery of his brother before Paris, ii. 90.

J.

January, the Edict of, by Charles IX. (January 17, 1562), a celebrated ordinance, i. 576;

marks the termination of the period of persecution according to the forms of law, i. 577; inconsistencies of, ii. 3; the Huguenot leaders urge its observance, ib.; opposition of the papal party, ii. 4.

Jarnac, battle of, March 13, 1569, ii. 301, 302;

the loss small in numbers, ii. 306; exaggerated bulletins of, ii. 307, 308.

"Jerusalem," temple de, one of the Protestant places of worship at Paris, destroyed by Constable Montmorency, ii. 37.

Jewel, Bishop, on the French Protestant refugees, ii. 293.

John Casimir, son of the elector palatine, comes to the assistance of the Huguenots, and meets Condé in Lorraine, ii. 222;

letter of the princes assembled at his marriage, ii. 362.

John Lackland, King of England, confers upon the inhabitants of La Rochelle exemption from the duty of marching elsewhere or receiving a garrison from abroad, ii. 270.

Joupitre, Jean, mayor of Bourges, ii. 511.

Joyeuse, Viscount of, ii. 574.

Julius II., Pope, his bull giving Navarre to the first comer, believed to be a forgery, i. 107.

Julius III., Pope, his bull permitting the use of eggs, butter, and cheese, to be eaten during Lent, condemned and burned by order of Henry II. and parliament, i. 286.

July, the Edict of, by Charles IX. (July 11, 1561), a severe measure, prohibiting conventicles for preaching or celebrating the sacraments, i. 483;

exultation of Guise, i. 484; Admiral Coligny declares that it cannot be executed, ib.; disappointment of Protestants, ib.

Jumièges, at the fair of, a friar pulled from the pulpit, and another preacher put in his place, i. 430.