Note 917 — Chapter X
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Correspondance de Catherine de Médicis, II, 119, 120. Her letter to her daughter in Spain, not in the correspondence, which M. Cabie cites in L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 208, displays real courage. Charles IX said he could not abandon Jeanne d’Albret “sans être vu déserter de ses plus proches parents” (ibid., 247). The instructions to Lansac, who was sent to Spain to protest in the name of France against the papal action, show fine scorn (ibid., 224).