Note 1584 — Chapter XVI

See the account of the election in C. S. P. For., No. 1,082, June 5, 1573; cf. Languet, Epist. secr., I, 189; Castelnau, ed. Le Laboureur, III, 298. The news of the duke of Anjou’s success was naturally received with greater pleasure in Paris than anywhere else in Europe. Bonfires were lighted and the Te Deum sung in honor of his election (C. S. P. For., No. 1,027, June 9, 1573). The clergy, in the assembly of the clergy which took place soon after the news arrived, voted the duke a subsidy of 300,000 crowns (ibid., No. 992).