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 The story of the siege is also related in an unpublished letter of Charles IX to the duke of Nevers, September 10, 1569, F. Fr., 3,159, No. 195.

[1360] Catherine de Medici to the duke of Anjou: approving of his false attack upon Châtellerault (see Appendix XVIII), not published in the _Correspondance_.

[1361] _Nég. Tosc._, III, 595.

[1362] Both La Noue, chap, xxvi, and D’Aubigné, III, 119, emphasize the condition of the army.

[1363] The custom of kissing the ground at the moment of charging the enemy seems to have been peculiar to the Swiss and the Germans (D’Aubigné, Book V, chap. xvii, 120; Brantôme, VI, 221 and 522).

[1364] Claude Haton, II, 581.

[1365] Claude Haton, II, 585.

[1366] _Ibid._, 582.

[1367] La Noue, chap. xxvi. Both Henry and Louis of Nassau were in this engagement, the latter having quitted his university studies for war.—Languet, _Epist. secr._, I, 117; _Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau_, III, 323.

[1368] Jean de Serres, 526, 527. See the letter of Norris, December 19, 1569, Appendix XIX.

[1369] Delaborde, III, 162.

[1370] _Mém. de Condé_, I, 207; D’Aubigné, III, 113, 114; _Arch. cur._, séries I, VI, 875. Pius V’s letter of felicitation to the queen mother, October 17, 1569, characterizes Coligny as “hominem unum omnium fallacissimum, execrandaeque memoriae, Gasparem de Coligny, qui se pro istius regni admirante gerit.”—Potter, _Pie V_, 67, ed. Gouban, Book III, letter 43, p. 236. The admiral’s office had been declared vacant on July 15, 1569 (Coll. Godefroy, CCLVII, No. 69).

[1371] _C.S.P. For._, Nos. 456, 459, 464, 486, October 5, 6, 10, 27, 1569. This was far from paying the reiters what the government owed them. They had been serving for thirteen months and received pay but for three; 2,000,000 crowns were still owing (_ibid._, No. 543, December 19, 1569).

[1372] On the resistance of St. Jean-d’Angély see D’Aubigné, Book V, chap. xix; La Noue, chap. xxvii; La Popelinière, Book XX.

[1373] _Ibid._, No. 511, November 21, 1569. Both the duke of Alençon and the princess Marguerite, Henry IV’s future wife, were among the number. The disease was smallpox (_ibid._, No. 502, November 3, No. 543, December 19, 1569).

[1374] Delaborde, III, 72; _Nég. Tosc._, III, 608.

[1375] _C. S. P. For._, Nos. 514, 515, 576, November 24, 25, 1569.

[1376] _C. S. P., For._, November 24, 1569, Jeanne d’Albret to the princes of Navarre and Condé. Not in Rochambeau, _Lettres d’Antoine de Bourbon et de Jehanne d’Albret_.

[1377] An awkward delay occurred at this time owing to the fact that Teligny’s safe-conduct provided for his coming to the King, but made no statement as to his departure. On December 14 the queen of Navarre and her son demanded “un passeport plus ample” from the King. When it came with a revised form, negotiations were resumed (_Commentaires et lettres de Montluc_, III, 263, note; _C. S. P. For._, No. 643, January, 1570. For details of these protracted negotiations see La Popelinière,