Note 1423 — Chapter XIV

All this happened on the night of December 15 and 16 (Commentaires et lettres de Montluc, III, 384, 385). De Thou, V, Book XLV, 666-68, and Popelinière, Book XXII, both tell the tale. A learned dissertation in Hist. du Lang., XII, note 5, clears up a number of obscure points in these accounts.