Note 545 — Chapter XI · THE MARRIAGE AND THE PLOT. [August, 1572.]

Mdlle. Vauvilliers, whose conscientious biography of Joan of Navarre is marred by the absence of dates and authorities, says that an autopsy was several times ordered, but never made (iii. p. 194). On the other hand, the Chronologie Novennaire expressly states that Caillard, her physician, and Desnœuds, her surgeon, dissected the queen’s brain, which they found in a sound state. On her death, see Villegomblain: Mém. des Troubles, i. 259; Bury: Hist. Henri IV. (4to. Paris, 1765); Favyn: Hist. Navarre, p. 863 (fol. Paris, 1612).