Note 55 — Chapter II · HENRY II. [1547–1559.]
Reading edition
Pasquier: Lettres, p. 195 (ed. Arras. 1598) says it happened in August, three days after the battle of St. Laurent, before the walls of St. Quentin, which was taken six weeks later. But these letters were written for effect—many of them some time after the events they record. Drion (Chronol.) says “May.”