Note 1320 — Chapter XIII

For contemporary accounts of the battle of Jarnac see La Popelinière, Book XV; Jean de Serres, 315 ff; D’Aubigné, Book V, chap. viii; Claude Haton, II, 548 and notes. The best modern accounts are Gigon, La bataille de Jarnac et la campagne de 1569 en Angoumois, Angoulême, impr. Chasseignac (Extrait du Bulletin de la Société archéologique et historique de la Charente), 1896; Patry, in Bull. Soc. protest. franç., LIII, March 1902; Duc d’Aumale, Histoire des princes de Condé, II, Book I, chap. i; Whitehead, Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France, 204-9, an extremely lucid account. The evidence upon the assassination of the prince is sifted by Denys d’Aussy, “L’assassin du prince de Condé à Jarnac (1569),” R. Q. H., XLIX, 573, and summarized (with some new additions) in Whitehead, 206, note 2. The text of the famous dispatches, which were found in the gauntlet of the prince of Condé are printed in full in Duc d’Aumale, Histoire des princes de Condé, II, App. iii.