Note 1359 — Chapter XIV

All the historians narrate the history of the siege of Poitiers (see Claude Haton, II, 375 ff.; La Popelinière, Book XVII; D’Aubigné, Book V, chap, v; Claude Haton, II, 534; De Thou, Book XLV; Liberge, Ample discourse de ce qui s’est fait au siège de Poitiers, 1569, new ed., 1846, by Beauchet-Felleau; Mém., de Jean d’Antras, ed. Cansalade and Tamizey de Larroque, 1880; see also Whitehead, Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France, 215, 216; Babinet, Mém. de la Soc. des antiq. de l’ouest, séries II, Vol. XI). The story of the siege is also related in an unpublished letter of Charles IX to the duke of Nevers, September 10, 1569, F. Fr., 3,159, No. 195.